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POPSGirl, 17, found murdered in field lured to her death by Facebook predator Checks carried out after his arrest, however, revealed he had moved from his registered home without notifying the authorities. Ashleigh, who was studying childcare at Darlington College, left her house at 7pm on Sunday, telling her mother she was going to stay at a friend's house and would be back the following afternoon.
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POPS The Object at Hand: His Majesty King Mongkut of Siam
It was there that royal emissaries found him one steamy April morning in 1851, when they brought the news that his half brother, King Rama III, was dead. Within days, the 47-year-old monk stepped from monastic life into the rich temptations and intricacies of the palace, with its inner city thronging with hundreds of women, its precincts patrolled by female guards and its life revolving entirely around his royal person. The holy man was now officially the "Lord of Life," the fourth ruler in Siam's Chakri dynasty, able to exert life-or-death control over some 5.5 million subjects. (As king, he banned the death penalty for monks who broke their vows of celibacy, putting them to work, instead, cutting grass for the royal elephants.) A spectacular coronation inaugurated the reign with great pomp. Brahmin priests sounded ceremonial conch shells. The new monarch, clad in golden robes, was carried off in a gilded palanquin. Even in that moment of glory, though,
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POPSA Tale of Two Joe Wilsons, a Tale of Two Americas Note that the first Joe Wilson was dead wrong, but that the Obama administration responded in a gentlemanly way to his charge. The Bush-Cheney administration, in contrast, attempted to besmirch the reputation and the life of a dedicated lifetime civil servant because he spoke the truth to the president. The story of the two Joe Wilsons and how they were treated is the story of two visions of America. The Bush-Cheney vision is a nightmarish landscape of blighted lives and cruel indifference to basic human decency. The Obama vision is just the Golden Rule, with which the people who vote for the evil Joe Wilson typically profess acquaintance.
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POPSTuring: Campaigners demand pardon for mathematics genius full at source: A month later, after Turing, a veteran of the then still secret Bletchley Park code-cracking team, had been giving a talk to the BBC on his pioneering work on artificial intelligence, he returned home to find his house burgled. Related articles * More UK News The culprit was an acquaintance of Murray's, who would prey on Murray's lovers, thinking they would be so afraid of being outed that they would not report the thefts to the police. But Turing defied this convention and went straight to the police, where he admitted his affair – a "crime" for which he was spared the normal two-year jail term in favour of a hormonal treatment designed to beef up his masculine urges and suppress his homosexuality. The resulting publicity was to prove too much to bear and in June 1954, the 41-year-old was found dead in bed by his housekeeper. He had eaten an apple he had laced with poison.
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POPSPhotos: Buried Alive - Hundreds trapped as mudslide obliterates villages in Taiwan Others were not as fortunate, but rescuers are thankful after about 700 people from the remote mountains of southern Taiwan were found alive overnight after it was feared they may have been buried by landslides caused by Typhoon Morakot. The survivors from four villages made it to higher ground before walls of mud and rock submerged their homes, said Hu Jui-chou, an army official involved in the rescue effort.
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POPSScientists discover intelligent American politician
'I've found an intelligent American politician!', he explained to us excitedly, and we gathered around him like the chorus in a Broadway musical, ready for him to burst into song about his girl, but he merely put a newspaper onto the table with a picture of a man with a beard in a suit in it, looking particularly stern and moralistic, like a preacher about to ask you if you're saved. 'This guy is amazing', the researcher said, 'he stood up for what he believed in, he was smart and respected, he even fought a whole war to bring about justice for millions of American people, not just to play war games in the Middle East for control of oil supplies.' 'We have finally found an intelligent American politician!' But there was an awkward silence around the room, and it fell to me to point out the slight snag about this amazing discovery. 'Er, that man is Abraham Lincoln', I told him, 'you've found an 1800s copy of the New York Post. And I'm afraid he's long dead, so ...' 'So we've fa
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POPSCab Driver Beheads Self in Bizarre Suicide A taxi driver has decapitated himself in his black cab in what appears to have been a gruesome suicide. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Cab-Driver-Suicide-London-Cabbie-Severs-His-Own-Head-Off-In-Southwark-South-East-London/Article/200907215335735?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_3&lid=ARTICLE_15335735_Cab_Driver_Suicide%3A_London_Cabbie_Severs_His_Own_Head_Off_In_Southwark%2C_South_East_London
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POPSMurdered at 5 months old......Little life Lost
Long gone is the Norman Rockwell kind of world I was raised in. Back when life help meaning. Families were families with a true unshakable bond. Parents and Cops were respected, and it wasn't an act to try to reflect the warmth you held for humanity. Then the government stepped in. We could no longer have prayer in school...might offend a minority of people. No longer stood to do the pledge of allegiance.....that offended some that were not from this country. Even though child abuse may have been less then 1% children were taught if your parents spank you or correct you tell your teacher or somebody. So kids gained rights and the parents were left to have to deal with them telling to go f____ themselves. And now we sit back and wonder what happened. Why is society the way it is without a clue and looking dumbfounded. I am a very simple man, no more education then the average collage grad but don't have to be a brain surgeon for me to figure it out. Thanks Government.....
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POPSSuspected Cat Killer Makes Bail Let's hope it wasn't this kid. But if it was, he will need watching - torturing and killing animals is the first sign of someone who will move on to humans.
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POPSsilent and violent epidemic doesn't look to me as if the rich are taking care of the many poor- they just keep propping themselves up on the lost lives of others- more at source- a good article.....
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POPSSevere storms leave four dead in Missouri, Kentucky on Friday Glenn Bryan, 68, was watching weather reports on television while taking shelter in the basement of his Pomona, Missouri, home when the power went out. He went upstairs to find a radio just as a tornado came through. Bryan grabbed a door handle "and hunkered down," he told CNN affiliate KYTV. "Couldn't hold on much longer," he said. "I thought I'd be gone to the woods." The back of the house blew away, a tree shattered a large window in front, and his friend's pickup truck flipped upside down, KYTV reported. "I was stupid" for leaving the basement, Bryan told the station, "but I wanted to know where the storm was ... and I found it. I found it."
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