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Detroit's city's top lawyer has resigned and drawn outrage after describing one of the city's courts as a "ghetto court." Mayor Ken Cockrel Jr. said Kathleen Leavey resigned Thursday after a complaint from the 36th District Court's chief judge, Marylin Atkins. He said Leavey's comments were "unacceptable and do not reflect the values" of his administration. Leavey, who is white, said remarks she made during a meeting Wednesday with senior staff at the court have been taken out of context. She told the Detroit Free Press that she told a court administrator that "people regard this as a ghetto court...

Men Jailed in Sudan for Selling Book on Mohammed's Child-Bride By Patrick Goodenough CNSNews.com International Editor December 18, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - A Sudanese court reportedly has sentenced two Egyptian men to six months' imprisonment for harming Islam after they marketed a book deemed critical of one of Mohammed's wives. The men, who work for an Egyptian publishing house, were arrested at an international book fair in Khartoum while promoting a book on Aisha, who Muslim historians record as one of Mohammed's 12 wives and concubines. According to an authoritative Hadith -- the traditions and sayings of Mohammed -- the middle-aged...