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Teenage abortions hit all-time high By Caroline Davies  Last Updated: 5:37pm BST 19/06/2007 Q&A: When can women have abortions? NHS launches one-stop-shop websiteMore teenagers are having abortions than ever before, fuelling a significant rise in the number of terminations in England and Wales.   The total number of abortions was 193,700 in 2006   Despite huge Government spending on contraception education, 19-year-olds are now the most likely of any age group to have an abortion, with 35 in every 1,000 undergoing the procedure, according to official Department of Health figures. Previously the highest rate was among women aged 20-24 years.The...

Father found guilty of honour killing By Paul Willis  Last Updated: 5:39pm BST 11/06/2007       Boyfriend left heartbroken by deathA father of a 20-year-old woman who was killed and buried in a suitcase under a patio was today found guilty of her murder. Banaz Mahmod was strangled in a so-called "honour" killing after her family disapproved of her relationship with her boyfriend.   Banaz Mahmod had told police she feared for her life Her father Mahmod Mahmod and his brother Ari Mahmod ordered the murder because they believed she had shamed the family. A number of police officers...

School hands out 345 morning-after pills to students - without telling parentsBy DANIEL MARTIN and ANDY DOLAN -Last updated at 23:34pm on 29th April 2007  Critics of the policy argue it is promoting unsafe sex A school has admitted handing out 345 morning-after pills to teenage girls without telling their parents. The figure for contraceptives distributed at Lutterworth Grammar School and Community College over four years is believed to be the highest in England and Wales. Parents and family groups were outraged at the "disgusting" and "wicked" scheme which they say encourages promiscuity and could put children at risk...

The Iranian Supreme Court has vacated the murder convictions of a group of serial killers because their victims were engaging in un-Islamic activities, the British Broadcasting Corp. reports.The men were convicted for a series of grisly killings in the southeastern city of in 2002. The vigilantes were said to believe that Islam condoned the killing of anyone engaged in illicit activities if they issued two warnings to the victims, the BBC reports.

Group Launches Post-Abortion E-Cards   Nonprofit's E-Cards Aim to Let Friends and Family Show Support After an Abortion   By LISA LEFF  SAN FRANCISCO Mar 13, 2007 (AP)— A nonprofit organization has unveiled a series of electronic greeting cards that concerned friends and relatives can send to a woman after she chooses to have an abortion. Like Exhale's confidential talk line for women who have had abortions, the six e-cards available on the group's Web site were designed to be nonpartisan and encompass the range of someone's potential responses to going through an abortion. "Women having abortions are calling our line because...

Anna Nicole Smith collapsed in her hotel room at the Hard Rock Cafe and Casino in Hollywood, Fla., and was rushed to a hospital on Thursday. A Hollywood, Fla., fire department spokesman told MSNBC TV that the actress was unresponsive when the rescue unit arrived on the scene. Sources confirmed to Access Hollywood that Smith was transported to Memorial Regional Hospital shortly after 2 p.m. EST on Thursday. Access Hollywood also is reporting that Smith was intubated at the scene. Officials told the Miami Herald, "it does not look good."

   EXCLUSIVE    Strangler suspect was a cop      Victims ... vice girls Gemma Adams and Paula Clennell     ››    By ANTHONY FRANCE MIKE SULLIVAN and JOHN TROUP DECEMBER 19, 2006   THE loner being quizzed last night over the Suffolk Strangler killings is a former COP who knew all five victims.  Tom Stephens, 37, was a Special PC for five years.He now works as a humble trolley pusher at Tesco — and bizarrely dubs himself The Bishop after a character from comic book strip The X-Men.And a hooker told last night how Stephens begged her for sex...

Indian politician's son guilty of model's murderMon Dec 18, 2006 10:41 AM GMT   By Samanwaya RautrayNEW DELHI (Reuters) - The son of an influential member of India's ruling Congress party was found guilty on Monday of murdering a model in 1999, in a retrial of a controversial case which has transfixed the country.Jessica Lall, 34, was tending the bar at an exclusive party in New Delhi when she was shot dead by Manu Sharma, the son of a Congress party politician, apparently for refusing to serve him a drink after the bar had closed.Sharma had been acquitted in February,...

Howard K. Stern just announced on Larry King that he's the Dad of Anna Nicole's Baby and that they're in love. That's all.

BREAKING NEWS Axe killer escapes jail By SUN ONLINE REPORTER A WOMAN who killed her husband with an axe walked free from court today.Wadanahalugeder Chandrasekera, 59, of Port Close, Bearsted, Kent, instead received a three-year community order at Woolwich Crown Court.The court heard she killed her husband Sarath Chandrasekera, 57, with 11 blows of an axe to his head on October 23 last year after discovering he had fathered a child with her niece. He had moved out of the family home six years earlier and returned that night to visit his son.The couple’s relationship deteriorated when Mr Chandrasekera moved into...

A minister's wife charged with murdering her husband told police she shot him after they argued over family finances and then told him ''I'm sorry'' as he lay dying in their bedroom, according to testimony at a bond hearing Friday

  Murdered by sex beast ... Naomi befriended her killer   Murdered by human rights By MICHAEL LEA Political Correspondent A MOTHER was murdered by a serial sex beast freed from a “life” sentence to protect HIS human rights, a damning report revealed yesterday.  Watchdogs found that Anthony Rice, 49, was “too dangerous to be released in the first place”.But lawyers won his freedom on human rights grounds — then got release terms relaxed with the same tactic.It left him able to stab and strangle 40-year-old Naomi Bryant in a “truly hideous crime” nine months later.The report also found “substantial...

TORONTO, March 24, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The World Federation of Right to Die Societies is having its 16th biennial conference in Toronto and is featuring George Felos as a keynote speaker. Felos was the “right to die” activist lawyer that propelled Michael Schiavo’s case through the courts to have his disabled wife Terri starved and dehydrated to death. Calling him “a nationally recognized expert in right-to die cases, and lawyer for Terri Schiavo, the Canadian euthanasia and assisted suicide group, Dying with Dignity, has booked Felos to speak at the conference opening in Toronto September 7. Speaker topics will include,...

Doctors at the Austrian clinic that treated Ukraine’s opposition leader confirm there was a plot to kill him MEDICAL experts have confirmed that Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine’s opposition leader, was poisoned in an attempt on his life during election campaigning, the doctor who supervised his treatment at an Austrian clinic said yesterday. Doctors at Vienna’s exclusive Rudolfinerhaus clinic are within days of identifying the substance that left Mr Yushchenko’s face disfigured with cysts and lesions, Nikolai Korpan told The Times in a telephone interview. Specialists in Britain, the United States and France had helped to establish that it was a biological...