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Almost half of married Egyptian women have been physically abused by their husbands, a study by the government statistics centre said on Wednesday. The study by CAPMAS said that 47 percent of women between the ages of 15 and 49 reported being victims of domestic violence and seven percent said a spouse raped them, state news agency MENA reported. Domestic violence is punishable under Egyptian law, but police are reluctant to intervene in something that is considered a private matter, said an Egyptian women's rights activist.

Desperate German 'Harry Potter' fan runs amok 4 October 2005 HANOVER, GERMANY - The stress of standing in line to buy the German edition of 'Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince' proved too much for a man in Germany, who ran amok and threatened to kill people unless he got a book, police said Tuesday. The unnamed 24-year-old man stormed into a book shop in the Hanover railway station and absconded with six copies of the German-language edition, which went on sale nationwide on Saturday. Finding it hard to carry the books while running, he dashed into another shop on...

On the eve of the case going to the jury, someone had to do this. MIDI - GO AWAY, LITTLE GIRL Go away, little boy...go away, little boy You're not supposed to be in bed with me Alright, well, if you insist...you know I cannot resist I have porno movies here, which one shall we see? Go away, little boy...go away, little boy I don't think that I would like it too much in jail Some day I know I'll be caught...some parents cannot be bought So go away, little boy, or I might be posting bail Go away, little...

He is a charmer. Bright, articulate and handsome. But authorities say he's also a deadly predator with a penchant for slender brunettes. His girlfriend, Vicki Freeman, 45, says police have falsely tagged Jeremy Bryan Jones a serial killer and that authorities are piling on, trying to clear their books of unsolved murders "for brownie points." "He's a wonderful man," she said. "He's caring, considerate, loving. He's gentle." She recalls the first time she saw him, almost two years ago at Gipson's Restaurant and Lounge in Douglasville. She said she noticed his good looks as soon as she and her friend...

AMERICA was reintroduced this week to one of its most charming, gifted, relaxed, wily, plainspoken and ruthless politicians: George W Bush, the candidate. If the US president loses his re-election bid on November 2 - a fate that is a real possibility - it will not be because he lacks the skills needed on the stump. Love him or loathe him, the past ten days have reminded voters and political journalists just what an effective campaigner Mr Bush is. As he and John Kerry, his Democratic opponent, have engaged in the first intensive round of election-year combat, sparring with each...