September, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Japan reporter tricked captors into using Twitter

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TOKYO—A Japanese journalist held hostage in Afghanistan for five months managed to send out a message via Twitter that he was alive when his captors asked him how to use a cell phone. Just days […] […]

News – UK police likely to quiz PM’s aide over hacking

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LONDON—Police will likely interview the prime minister’s communications chief over allegations that a major British tabloid illegally eavesdropped on politicians and celebrities, a senior Scotland Yard officer said Tuesday. Assistant Commissioner John Yates told Parliament’s […] […]

John Lennon’s killer up for parole again in NY

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BUFFALO, N.Y.—John Lennon’s killer is again up for parole in New York. Mark David Chapman is scheduled to be interviewed at the Attica Correctional Facility this week. The interview could be as early as Tuesday. […] […]

New pacemaker safe for MRI scans

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THOUSANDS more people may be able to have high-tech MRI scans in coming years following the release of a new type of pacemaker that will not go haywire and kill the recipient when the scanner […] […]

Nicolas Sarkozy defies outcry over moves against foreigners with planned new crackdown

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FRENCH nationality will be stripped from immigrants if they kill or try to kill police or public officials, in a controversial law and order drive. Defying both an international outcry over his targeting of foreigners […] […]

News – EU calls Iranian stoning law ‘barbaric’

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THE European Union has condemned the stoning to death sentence passed against an Iranian woman convicted for adultery, saying it was “barbaric beyond words”. In his first State of the Union address to parliament, European […] […]

News – Finland court hears nipple-sucking case

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A FINNISH court is to hear a sexual molestation case against a doctor who says he sucked a patient’s nipple to diagnose a medical problem in accordance with an old midwives’ trick. ower courts earlier […] […]

Ellie: After the affair, it’s time for the cleanup

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Question: I’m 39, married, with two sons. I’m having an affair (eight months) with a married man, 55, with two daughters. We were happy with our relationship, but recently, he changed — I feel he […] […]

News – Did nine other inmates die like Ashley Smith?

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Since Ashley Smith’s disturbing death inside a Kitchener segregation cell, Canada’s prison watchdog told the Star he has discovered nine similar fatalities that question the correctional service’s willingness to stop jailhouse suicides. “They reflect many […] […]

News – John Travolta’s extortion case is dropped

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John Travolta’s extortion case has been dropped. The actor – whose 16-year-old son Jett died during a family holiday to the Bahamas in January 2009 after suffering a seizure – decided against pursing action against […] […]