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EU mandates all new cars be outfitted with device to call in case of crash
The EU wants all new passenger cars fitted out by October 2015 with a life-saving automatic dial-up system so emergency workers can speed to the site of a crash as swiftly as possible. “When an accident happens, every minute counts,” the bloc’s Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas said Thursday on proposing…
Dubai unveils world’s tallest twisted tower
Dubai has inaugurated the world’s tallest twisted tower built at a cost of $272 million, setting a yet another record for skyscrapers and other engineering marvels. The 310-metre (1,017-foot), 75-storey residential Cayan Tower is twisted at 90 degrees from top to bottom and was inaugurated earlier this week in Dubai…
Anti-immigrant lawmaker on first black Italian minister: ‘Won’t someone rape her?’
A councillor belonging to Italy’s anti-immigrant Northern League party called Thursday for the country’s first black minister to be raped, sparking an outcry and her expulsion from the party. “Won’t someone rape her, just to make her understand what victims of this terrible crime feel? For shame!” Dolores Valandro, a…
Australian military embroiled in fresh sexual harassment scandal
SYDNEY — The Australian military was embroiled in a new sex scandal Thursday with 17 personnel, including officers, under investigation after hundreds of “explicit and repugnant” emails and images demeaning women were uncovered. Army chief, Lieutenant-General David Morrison, said he was appalled at the revelations, which follow a government report…
News Corp.’s Murdoch and wife file for divorce
News Corporation boss cites irretrievable breakdown in marriage in divorce filing from woman seen as key player in media empire News Corporation boss Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from wife Wendi Deng Murdoch, the mother of his two youngest children and a woman seen as a key player in…
Irish prime minister gets letters written in blood as bill seeks greater abortion access
Ireland published a draft new abortion bill on Thursday after Prime Minister Enda Kenny said he had received plastic foetuses and letters written in blood claiming he is a murderer. The parliamentary bill was published ahead of the release later in the day of a long-awaited report into why an…
Sweden to ban bestiality which was previously legal for some reason
Sweden will next year introduce a total ban on bestiality, which until now has only been illegal if cruelty to the animal could be proven, the government said Thursday. “The government is now tightening the rules surrounding bestiality so there will be no doubt about the fact that it is…
UN: Children being used as human shields in Syrian war
Children are being used as sniper targets and human shields in the Syria war, the United Nations said Wednesday, in a report that added Mali to its child soldier list of shame. UN leader Ban Ki-moon said in the report the 26-month-old war in Syria is taking an “unacceptable and…
China skirts Snowdon’s claims the U.S. is spying on China
By Ben Blanchard and Benjamin Kang Lim BEIJING (Reuters) – China refused to be drawn on Thursday on revelations of U.S. electronic surveillance and on the American in Hong Kong who leaked the information, and a senior source said Beijing does not want to jeopardize recently improved ties with Washington.…
U.K. child obesity hospital admissions soar
The number of children admitted to hospital for obesity-related problems in England and Wales quadrupled over a ten-year period, new research showed Thursday. Admissions rocketed to 3,806 youngsters in 2009 from 872 in 2000, a study by Imperial College in London has discovered, with teenage girls accounting for the biggest…
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