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Giuseppe Cannella had a big surprise for his mother-in-law when he put a jet engine on the back of her wheelchair. Mr Cannella says the chair can now do top speeds of more than 60mph and has proved the star of a model plane championship during the Bank Holiday. A model plane enthusiast himself, Mr Cannella has been putting on shows at Barkston Heath near Grantham, Lincs. "It is just the wheelchair with the engine bolted on the back and steering on the front," he said. Holiday surprise "Originally it was a gimmick. I had a jet engine and I...

THE Italian Supreme Court has dealt a blow to one of the country's most revered - and feared - institutions by ruling that interference in a marriage by an "overbearing and intrusive mother-in-law" is reasonable grounds for divorce. The Court of Cassation, Italy's highest appeal court, yesterday found that a woman, named as Tiziana, from the Adriatic resort of Vasto, near Pescara, was justified in seeking a divorce from her husband, Luzio, because his mother had "persecuted" her. It is the latest in a series of controversial rulings by the court's judges on sensitive Italian social and sexual issues. Luzio,...

ROME (Reuters) - The mother-in-law from hell is the butt of jokes and comedies the world over. In Italy, she is officially a cause for divorce. The country's highest appeals court on Thursday upheld a ruling that granted a woman from Vasto in southern Italy divorce on the grounds of "excessive and inappropriate interference of the husband's parents in the private life of the couple." "My husband was his mother's slave. He would hang on her every word while she criticized everything about me, my make-up, my diet, the way I was bringing up my daughter," the woman told the...

Dear Mrs. Web, My wife states she is dissatisfied with our marital relations. She says that I am less equipped than most men and that I need to find ways to compensate. She controls me and goes off to have relations with other men whom she says are more satisfying. She constantly degrades me. I really want to please her, but she just laughs. What can I do? Sir, If your wife is controlling you and having sex with other men …you have a much bigger problem than equipment size. The kind of disrespect and dishonor that is occurring in...

Woman sentenced to 15 years for killing husband 4 days after wedding By Rana Husseini AMMAN — A 22-year-old Ramtha woman was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Sunday on conviction of killing her husband four days after their wedding in Oct. 2001. The tribunal reduced the premeditated murder charge against Thraa Abdullah to manslaughter and handed her the maximum penalty for strangling her husband, Ahmad Hussein, with an electric cord in their house in Ramtha on Oct. 15 last year. The defendant's family had forced her to marry the victim, and the marriage took place on Oct. 12,...

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We need some advice from any money experts. My mother-in-law, an 86 year old widow who has lived alone for 25+ years, just received a check for $41,000 from the estate of her departed sister.My MIL receives a small social security check, a small pension from her husband's employer, and some aid from the state (PA) in the way of food stamps and heating assistance. Through the years, she has flat refused to let us help her with any expenses. We have tried to pay her electric bill, property taxes, phone, you name it. I have to admire her independence.Here's...