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by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 31, 2007London, England (LifeNews.com) -- British abortion practitioner Andrew Gbinigie nearly killed a woman in a botched abortion and was the subject of charges of sexual harassment from 35 women. He has been unable to find a job since multiple hearings were held on the cases and has now lost an appeal to get his medical license reinstated.In May 2006, the British General Medical Council determined that Gbinigie, a 51-year-old, could practice medicine again if he underwent retraining to update his medical skills.He also faced restrictions including only working at hospitals with intensive care facilities and...

Lahoud says would name Suleiman as provisional successor if camps fail to agree on permanent one. BEIRUT - Lebanese President Emile Lahoud said Thursday he would name army chief General Michel Suleiman as his provisional successor if the country's competing political camps fail to agree on a permanent one. He was speaking ahead of a planned parliamentary vote this autumn to elect a new president, with the country's pro- and anti-Syrian blocs in a deadlock that threatens to exacerbate ongoing political paralysis. A successful vote requires the 128-seat house to muster a quorum of 86 MPs but this will require...

Park a VW Beetle next to a Smart car, and it's not the Volkswagen you'll want to call a bug. Alongside a Smart, a Mini Cooper looks like a Maxi Cooper. Don't like to parallel park? Pull your Smart straight up to the curb. The Smart isn't much longer than some SUVs are wide. If that last point is a wee bit exaggerated, maybe a little hype is understandable. After all, this is a car some Americans have been awaiting for years after seeing them navigate the narrow byways of France, parked nose-in against a Roman curb, or serving as...

RAWALPINDI: The Customs Collectorate, Rawalpindi, has recovered huge quantity of heroin and hashish, concealed in the Holy Quran and religious books being parcelled to United Kingdom (UK) through International Mail office, Customs sources told The News. Collector Customs Muhammad Ashraf Khan and Additional Collector Dr Arsalaan, received information that a drug mafia active in Pakistan, was sending huge consignments through mail for a long time, the sources said adding, the authorities constituted a raiding party comprising deputy collector, Naveed Iqbal, superintendent Wasim Ahmad and inspectors Afaan Younas, Muhammad Ismail and Imtiaz Bhatti to conduct raids at International Mail offices in...

In a frontpage article in the Outlook section of Sunday's Washington Post entitled "Drinking. Brawling. Hurting.", a leftist anti-Bush Yale anthropologist graduate, Sarah Stillman, paints a picture of wounded soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center abusing alcohol at Washington, D.C. area nightclubs to indict the Bush administration and the war on terror.Readers would not know Stillman is a Bush-hating leftist by reading The Post's description of her: Sarah Stillman, a 2006 Yale graduate, is a Marshall Scholar writing a doctoral thesis on gender, violence and the media.However, her 2005 Huffington Post profile describers her thusly: Sarah Stillman is a...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 30, 2007Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Actor and attorney Fred Thompson announced Thursday that he will make the formal declaration next week that he is officially a candidate for the Republican nomination for president. The former Tennessee senator has said repeatedly in recent months that he opposes abortion and embryonic stem cell research.In a statement he released today, Thompson said, "I believe that there are millions of Americans who know that our security and prosperity are at risk if we don't address the challenges of our time."The official announcement will come in a video broadcast on his...

ILLEGAL: The substance is often added to commercial ponds to protect fish from micro-organisms, but food production use is banned because of possible side effects. Five batches of frozen shrimp from China tested positive for the banned antibiotic nitrofuran, Department of Health (DOH) officials said yesterday. "Further importation of shrimp from China will be suspended until we are convinced that the situation has been remedied," Bureau of Food Sanitation director Cheng Huei-wen told a news conference. Nitrofuran is sometimes added to aquaculture ponds to protect fish from harmful microorganisms. However, the use of nitrofuran in food production is banned in...

by Steven ErteltLifeNews.com EditorAugust 30, 2007London, England (LifeNews.com) -- The London Guardian caused an international sensation last week when it reported that a leading pro-life advocate who monitors music group and artists indicated singers Christina Aguilera and Avril Lavigne were pro-life. However, LifeNews.com has learned the activist never told the newspaper that.The singers were in the news because Erik Whittington, director of Rock for Life, was upset that Amnesty International put out a CD featuring them and other artists.The album's purpose was purportedly to raise funds for the victims of Darfur but money going to Amnesty International would now fund...

Here’s the $64,000 question: Under what circumstances would the White House send the U.S. military in to defend Taiwan? I’m going to wade into a minefield today. Bear with me. You may see me get blown up. It’s an eternally pertinent question, one on which East Asian stability may depend. Chinese ask it of me all the time. Taiwan’s leader, Chen Shui-bian, revived the question this week in Anchorage, of all places, a venue that holds meaning. Chen couldn’t win permission from Washington to refuel his plane in sunny California, where he likes to stop, getting the tundra instead, as...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne has a few more days to sign a plea agreement with federal prosecutors or face an indictment by a federal grand jury of allegations that he used his position for personal gain, Local 10's Rad Berky reported. A deadline of 5 p.m. Friday has now been extended until Tuesday at 5 p.m. The grand jury has uncovered evidence that Jenne took as much as $100,000 in loans and payments from companies doing business with the Broward Sheriff's Office and then did not report the income on financial disclosure forms or his...

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y_TjO44Rx0&mode=related&search= Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBs8WFNdSdQ&mode=related&search= In 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSm24lSrvNA Anybody want to make a prediction?

Quality control. TStem cells (color enhanced) somehow keep their chromosomes in good shape. Credit: Andrew Paul Leonard/Photo Researchers Inc. A long-standing belief in stem cell biology is that stem cells circumvent classic cell division to keep their daughter cells healthy. But new results show that this isnt true after all; stem cells divide just like any other cell, parsing their chromosomes randomly between the progeny. To keep organisms running smoothly, stem cells rejuvenate tissues by providing a constant supply of fresh cells. But every time a stem cell copies its chromosomes, it puts itself at risk of generating mutations in...

Rookie Clay Buchholz throws a no-hitter in his second major league start. Defeats Baltimore Orioles 10-0.

The piles of pills scattered across the desk of Wang Hai, China's leading consumer rights champion, look like painkillers and aspirin and come with convincing packaging. But appearances can be deceptive in China. "They're all fake. They don't contain anything dangerous, but they're all completely useless and just designed to rip off the consumer," said Mr Wang. There have long been cases of such phoney pills being exported to Africa. But the most recent spate of product and food quality scandals have left the "Made in China" label in tatters around the world. Since March, exports ranging from contaminated pet...

9/11 conspiracy theorists multiplyMany Americans suspect U.S. government involvement or complicity By Michael Powell Updated: 7:11 a.m. PT Sept 8, 2006 NEW YORK - He felt no shiver of doubt in those first terrible hours. **SNIP** "To me, the report read as a cartoon." White-haired and courtly, Griffin sits on a couch in a hotel lobby in Manhattan, unspooling words in that reasonable Presbyterian minister's voice. **SNIP** Thomas Eager, a professor of materials science at MIT, has studied the collapse of the twin towers. "At first, I thought it was amazing that the buildings would come down in their own...

Eventually it will become completely clear that each and every judge appointed by a Democrat will just have to be given the boot - it is all too often that it is precisely these liberal judges who throw up roadblocks to, well, common sense: A federal judge has put a halt on a planned White House crackdown on employers who hire illegal immigrants while she considers a lawsuit filed by the AFL-CIO claiming the move would harm citizens and those working in the U.S. legally, the Washington Post reported on Saturday. The ruling, issued by U.S. District Judge Maxine M....

German town wants its own Great Pyramid By Bojan Pancevski in Berlin, Sunday Telegraph Last Updated: 12:17am BST 02/09/2007 The pharaohs may have set the standard, but German entrepreneurs are hoping to challenge Egypt's pre-eminence in monumental self-indulgence by building the world's largest pyramid. The pyramid of tombstones planned at Dessau They have secured €90,000 (£61,000) in state funding to assess the feasibility of building a 1,600ft tall "Great Pyramid" near the town of Dessau, in the impoverished east German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Like the original Great Pyramid at Giza in Egypt, this would be a place of burial. But...

(BEIJING) - The trade war between China and the US over the quality of their products continued to simmer with Beijing today claiming that two brands of vitamin pills and children's oil made in America were found substandard. Officials in the eastern Zhejiang province's industry and commerce bureau said that vitamin and mineral pills under the brand of K Max had the contents of manganese, vitamine A, vitamin D and zinc below its own specifications. The other product under scrutiny was Alaska New Life children's fish oil, Xinhua news agency reported from Hangzhou, the provincial capital. The vitamin and mineral...

Where the heck is our nation headed with the present health care reform proposals being touted? There are two basic forms being proposed. One would have the government subsidize health insurance premiums directly. The other would give tax credits to individuals and businesses (which deplete government revenues), to purchase health insurance premiums. Both cost the government money, only the details are changed. I don't like either remedy as they have government in control, and never address the real issue, high medical costs. I am firm in my belief that the real solution will be found when we have enough medical...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Increasing female feticide in India could spark a demographic crisis where fewer women in society will result in a rise in sexual violence and child abuse as well as wife-sharing, the United Nations warned. Despite laws banning tests to determine the sex of an unborn child, the killing of female fetuses is common in some regions of India where a preference for sons runs deep. As a result, the United Nations says an estimated 2,000 unborn girls are illegally aborted every day in India. This has led to skewed sex ratios in regions like Punjab, Haryana,...