In a tribute to Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power, a Nepalese festival began today with the mass sacrifice of 20,000 buffalo in the village of Bariyapur. Shortly after, 300,000 birds, sheep and goats were similarly ritually slaughtered. It is estimated as many as 750,000 people travelled from India, which recently banned similar mass-sacrifices, to make up the majority of the festival's estimated one million attendees. Member of Parliament Shiv Chandra Kushwaha skipped Tuesday's legislative meeting, saying that the festival had more importance as a religious celebration.
In a tribute to Gadhimai, a Hindu goddess of power, a Nepalese festival began today with the mass sacrifice of 20,000 buffalo in the village of Bariyapur. Shortly after, 300,000 birds, sheep and goats were similarly ritually slaughtered.
It is estimated as many as 750,000 people travelled from India, which recently banned similar mass-sacrifices, to make up the majority of the festival's estimated one million attendees. Member of Parliament Shiv Chandra Kushwaha skipped Tuesday's legislative meeting, saying that the festival had more importance as a religious celebration.
Footage of a steam train, which was derailed for the 1928 silent movie The Wrecker, has been restored after 80 years with a new musical score. The steam train was derailed on the Basingstoke to Alton line, in Hampshire.
Footage of a steam train, which was derailed for the 1928 silent movie The Wrecker, has been restored after 80 years with a new musical score.
The steam train was derailed on the Basingstoke to Alton line, in Hampshire.
You may not know it but today is a good news day for women - 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which launches the 16 days of activism against gender violence. Sixteen days of women and men all over the world tackling a global - but largely secret - scandal. Where's the good news? After years of lobbying, the UK government has delivered what we've all been asking for - a cross-governmental violence against women strategy.The scale of the problem facing the government should not be underestimated. Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread abuses of human rights both here and abroad. It affects one in three women globally and is a major cause of death and disability. As ActionAid's work on violence against women reveals, it is also a leading factor in global poverty and a driver of conflict and the spread of HIV and Aids. Within the UK alone, violence against women costs about £40bn every year.
You may not know it but today is a good news day for women - 25 November is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, which launches the 16 days of activism against gender violence. Sixteen days of women and men all over the world tackling a global - but largely secret - scandal. Where's the good news? After years of lobbying, the UK government has delivered what we've all been asking for - a cross-governmental violence against women strategy.
The scale of the problem facing the government should not be underestimated. Violence against women and girls is one of the most widespread abuses of human rights both here and abroad. It affects one in three women globally and is a major cause of death and disability. As ActionAid's work on violence against women reveals, it is also a leading factor in global poverty and a driver of conflict and the spread of HIV and Aids. Within the UK alone, violence against women costs about £40bn every year.
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 25 (IPS) - Marking the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on Nov. 25, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon launched a Network of Men Leaders to battle violence against women and girls here Tuesday."These men will add their voices to the growing global chorus for action," Ban said. The Network of Men Leaders consists of current and former politicians, activists, religious and community figures who will work together to support the efforts of women around the world to defy destructive stereotypes, embrace equality, and inspire men and boys around the globe to speak out against violence. Seventy percent of women have experienced some sort of physical or sexual violence from men, mainly from husbands, intimate partners or relatives, Ban noted. Therefore "men have a crucial role to play in ending such violence, as fathers, friends, decision makers, and community and opinion leaders", he said.
PARIS, Nov 25 (IPS) - Several people are gathered outside a window, staring wide-eyed at a scene within. They watch as a man brutally beats a woman, pounding her face with his fists, kicking her. No one says anything, until an onlooker screams agonisingly: "stop". This is a short black-and-white film made by French director Olivier Dahan that has been showing on television and in theatres here ahead of the Nov. 25 International Day to Eliminate Violence Against Women. Created for Amnesty International (AI), the film highlights the increase in reported cases of domestic violence in France over the past years and is being used to raise awareness of the issue. Its message: "Don't remain silent in the face of conjugal violence". According to the interior ministry, one woman is killed every three days in France as a consequence of such violence. The problem is "major because of the impact on the foundations of society", the ministry says. In 2008, a national police study showed that 156 women were murdered by their partner or ex-partner, while 27 men were killed in comparable circumstances. Eleven of the women who killed their partners had themselves been victims of domestic violence, the authorities say. In addition, nine children were also murdered by their fathers.
Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside Volvo Information Technology - the outfit that operates the Swedish auto maker's IT infrastructure - after someone in the organization vandalized the free encyclopedia with a pair of profanity-laden racist rants. Yesterday, an anonymous Wikifiddler sitting behind the IP address 192.138.116.230 suddenly unloaded a stream of egregious Wikiracism onto a pair of articles dedicated to Pakistani cricketers Wasim Akram and Inzamam-ul-Haq. According to an IP lookup, the address maps back to Volvo IT.
Wikipedia has banned editing from machines inside Volvo Information Technology - the outfit that operates the Swedish auto maker's IT infrastructure - after someone in the organization vandalized the free encyclopedia with a pair of profanity-laden racist rants.
Yesterday, an anonymous Wikifiddler sitting behind the IP address 192.138.116.230 suddenly unloaded a stream of egregious Wikiracism onto a pair of articles dedicated to Pakistani cricketers Wasim Akram and Inzamam-ul-Haq. According to an IP lookup, the address maps back to Volvo IT.
The U.S. Navy plans to give away the retired aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy for a museum or memorial. The ship is docked in Philadelphia with other retired warships. The Navy says the deadline for submitting initial applications is Jan. 22. Bidders have to be a government or nonprofit group that pledges to use the ship as a museum or memorial. The winner gets the ship for free, but will be responsible for moving the 1,050-foot vessel from Philadelphia to its new home. Known as "Big John," the ship was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the Navy. It once carried a crew of about 4,600 and 70 combat aircraft. It entered Navy service in September 1968 and was decommissioned in 2007.
The Navy says the deadline for submitting initial applications is Jan. 22. Bidders have to be a government or nonprofit group that pledges to use the ship as a museum or memorial. The winner gets the ship for free, but will be responsible for moving the 1,050-foot vessel from Philadelphia to its new home.
Known as "Big John," the ship was the last conventionally powered aircraft carrier built by the Navy. It once carried a crew of about 4,600 and 70 combat aircraft. It entered Navy service in September 1968 and was decommissioned in 2007.
At least four redhaired girls and three boys are believed to have been victims of the so-called ginger attacks at a Calabasas middle school that authorities say were inspired by a Facebook message, a Los Angeles County sheriff's investigation has revealed. The seven victims were targeted in a series of assaults at or near A.E. Wright Middle School that began early Friday after the perpetrators acted on a Facebook message that informed them it was "Kick a Ginger Day," authorities said. Ginger is a label given to people with red hair, freckles and fair skin. Detectives have identified eight boys at the school as formal subjects of the investigation, said Steve Whitmore, a sheriff's spokesman. No arrests have been made. The investigation began after a 12-year-old redheaded boy was assaulted by his classmates at the school, authorities said. His cuts and bruises were treated by a school nurse, who reported the incident to the principal. "This was the most serious of the assaults," Whitmore said. "The other incidents tended to be pushing, shoving and intimation. More of an aggressive bullying."
The seven victims were targeted in a series of assaults at or near A.E. Wright Middle School that began early Friday after the perpetrators acted on a Facebook message that informed them it was "Kick a Ginger Day," authorities said. Ginger is a label given to people with red hair, freckles and fair skin.
Detectives have identified eight boys at the school as formal subjects of the investigation, said Steve Whitmore, a sheriff's spokesman. No arrests have been made.
The investigation began after a 12-year-old redheaded boy was assaulted by his classmates at the school, authorities said. His cuts and bruises were treated by a school nurse, who reported the incident to the principal.
"This was the most serious of the assaults," Whitmore said. "The other incidents tended to be pushing, shoving and intimation. More of an aggressive bullying."
In the discussion I refer to above, de Gondi suggested Berlusconi might put pressure on Telefonica through political meddling in Telecom Italia, where Telefónica has business interests, as a way to leverage himself into PRISA. It appears Telefónica has blunted Berlusconi's scheming, if there was any substance to the earlier rumours. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
Hernandez's mother, Marisela Garcia, 38, spent nearly two weeks in a panic over her missing son mainly because the boy has Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder affecting his ability to socialize or communicate. Garcia said her son disappeared after he thought he would get in trouble for something that happened at school. Garcia said she is disappointed about how little help she got from the police department when she contacted them about her son. She said she and her husband finally took matters into their own hands by passing out fliers around the area before eventually seeking the help of the Mexican consulate in New York.A transit police officer saw Hernandez at the final stop of one of the trains on Coney Island. He was returned home a little skinnier, but unharmed. Garcia said her son has not opened up about what went on in the 11 days he was missing, but he did tell her he survived off of $11 and lollipops and potato chips, slept on the train and used public restrooms within the system. Hernandez wore the same clothes for the duration of his time on the subway.Garcia said her son did not ask for help or communicate with anyone. Experts said that it is not uncommon for individuals with Asperger's not to communicate with others.
Hernandez's mother, Marisela Garcia, 38, spent nearly two weeks in a panic over her missing son mainly because the boy has Asperger's syndrome, a developmental disorder affecting his ability to socialize or communicate. Garcia said her son disappeared after he thought he would get in trouble for something that happened at school. Garcia said she is disappointed about how little help she got from the police department when she contacted them about her son. She said she and her husband finally took matters into their own hands by passing out fliers around the area before eventually seeking the help of the Mexican consulate in New York.
A transit police officer saw Hernandez at the final stop of one of the trains on Coney Island. He was returned home a little skinnier, but unharmed. Garcia said her son has not opened up about what went on in the 11 days he was missing, but he did tell her he survived off of $11 and lollipops and potato chips, slept on the train and used public restrooms within the system. Hernandez wore the same clothes for the duration of his time on the subway.
Garcia said her son did not ask for help or communicate with anyone. Experts said that it is not uncommon for individuals with Asperger's not to communicate with others.
Just what propelled Francisco to take flight on Oct. 15 is unclear. Administrators at his school, Intermediate School 281, would not comment. But Francisco said he had failed to complete an assignment for an eighth-grade class, and was scolded for not concentrating.After school, he phoned his mother to say he was heading home. She told him the school had called and she wanted a serious talk with him.His first impulse was to flee. He walked eight blocks to the Bay Parkway station and boarded a D train. It seemed a safe place to hide, he said.
After school, he phoned his mother to say he was heading home. She told him the school had called and she wanted a serious talk with him.
His first impulse was to flee. He walked eight blocks to the Bay Parkway station and boarded a D train. It seemed a safe place to hide, he said.
