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WHO Release New Life Expectancy Data

A boy born in San Marino, a tiny republic surrounded by Italy, will likely live to age 80, the world's longest male life expectancy, but newborn girls in Japan and 30 other countries have even better prospects, the World Health Organization said.

Sierra Leone registered the shortest male life expectancy at 37 years -- the same as that of girls in Swaziland, who were at the bottom of the female list, WHO's "World Health Statistics 2007" show.

Females in Japan, who traditionally lead the world tables, have a life expectancy of 86 years, the same as last year's statistics. San Marino men, who tied with Japanese men last year at 79, added a year to get ahead.

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/W...d=111002CJG0EL

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LONDON

The first regular season NFL game outside North America is shaping up as a hot ticket.

The first 40,000 tickets for the Oct. 28 game between the Miami Dolphins and New York Giants at the new Wembley Stadium sold in 90 minutes Wednesday.

''The speed in which such a large number of tickets were snapped up ... demonstrates the great excitement and appetite for the game in this country,'' said Alistair Kirkwood, managing director of NFL UK. ''We know that the last few tickets available in this first batch will be gone very soon.''

The first batch of tickets went to fans in Britain and the rest of Europe selected randomly from registered ticket requests.

Sales in the United States to Giants and Dolphins fans are expected to begin within a week. Further tickets will be released to fans in Britain next month.

About 10,000 fans are expected to travel from the United States, a fraction of the anticipated sellout crowd of 90,000.

Prices range from about US$90 (?66.50) to US$180

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This stuff just makes me cry....because we are so limited to what we can do but it is good to know that our prayers do go a long way because we just don't know were or how she is but our
Heavenly Father do Please Lord we hope she is still Alive .!!
so will you please take a good look at this child just incase someone have taken her out of the country .and please pray for a safe return .thank you prayer warrior's .



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Subject: MADELEINE McCANN


Such a sad story... what a sweet little girl...


This is the little girl who went missing in Portugal..... pass it on to everyone, maybe someone will reconize her, check out her eye.......Please pass this on ...for little Madeleine.
http://www.howgreatthouart.co.uk/maddie.htm

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Cops & robbery caught on vid

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John Wayne Celebrated on 100th Birthday

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Originally Posted by franca

Cops & robbery caught on vid

Wow............


That's pathetic.

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• Patrick Kennedy, 42, convicted of raping relative as she sorted Girl Scout cookies
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Court upholds death sentence for child rape

POSTED: 10:58 a.m. EDT, May 23, 2007
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• Louisiana Supreme Court rules in favor of death penalty for child rape
• Lawyers say test case could go to U.S. Supreme Court
• 1977 ruling says execution is cruel and unusual punishment in sex cases
• Patrick Kennedy, 42, convicted of raping relative as she sorted Girl Scout cookies


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NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (AP) -- Louisiana's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a man may be executed for raping an 8-year-old girl, and lawyers say his case may become the test for whether the nation's highest court upholds the death penalty for someone who rapes a child.

Both sides say the sentence for Patrick Kennedy, 42, could expand a 1977 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that held the death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. The high court said then that its ruling applied only to adult victims.

Attorney Jelpi Picou, director of the New Orleans-based Capital Appeals Project, said he will ask the Louisiana Supreme Court for a rehearing and, if rejected, will go to the U.S. Supreme Court.

"As horrid as (rape) is and as harshly as we believe it should be condemned, death is inappropriate in this case," Picou said.

Louisiana law allows the death penalty for the aggravated rape of someone less than 12 years old.

"He's the only person in the United States on death row for non-homicide rape," Picou said.

Kennedy was convicted in 2003 of raping a relative as she sorted Girl Scout cookies in the garage of her home in suburban New Orleans. He bragged to one man that the girl "became a lady today," deputies said.

His defense attorney at the time argued that blood testing was inconclusive and that the victim -- who didn't report that Kennedy was her rapist until 21 months later -- was pressured to change her story.

In Tuesday's opinion, Justice Jeffrey Victory wrote, "Our state Legislature and this court have determined this category of aggravated rapist to be among those deserving of the death penalty, and, short of a first-degree murderer, we can think of no other non-homicide crime more deserving."

Victory wrote that the Louisiana law meets the U.S. Supreme Court test requiring an aggravating circumstance -- in this case the age of the victim -- to justify the death penalty.

The governors of South Carolina and Oklahoma signed laws last year allowing the death penalty for people who repeatedly rape children. Richard Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, D.C., said he doesn't know of any successful prosecution under either of those laws.

A bill that would allow the death penalty for a second offense of child rape is awaiting the governor's decision in Texas.

Georgia law allows death as a penalty for rape. Dieter said Florida and Montana also have such laws, but authorities have said the penalty would be invoked only for rape of a child.

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Birth was an express delivery

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Mayday 23: World Population Becomes More Urban Than Rural

There’s no big countdown billboard or sign in Times Square to denote it, but Wednesday, May 23, 2007, represents a major demographic shift, according to scientists from North Carolina State University and the University of Georgia: For the first time in human history, the earth’s population will be more urban than rural.

Working with United Nations estimates that predict the world will be 51.3 percent urban by 2010, the researchers projected the May 23, 2007, transition day based on the average daily rural and urban population increases from 2005 to 2010. On that day, a predicted global urban population of 3,303,992,253 will exceed that of 3,303,866,404 rural people.

http://news.ncsu.edu/releases/2007/may/104.html

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Sheryl Crow Adopts a Baby Boy

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POLICE will patrol schools to tackle bullying, under plans floated by Gordon Brown.

Officers would act as back-up for teachers dealing with rowdy pupils.

Extra powers for heads to handle troublemakers outside school will also be considered.

The PM-in-waiting wants to beat the “You Can’t Touch Me” rights culture which has developed among youngsters.

Teaching unions also want police protection to cut assaults on staff.

Mr Brown made it clear school discipline would be a central plank of his Premiership at an anti-bullying event in Croydon, South London.

He said: “Every child must know we will clamp down very hard on bullying.

“Teachers will have the powers to take action and we’ll back this with resources. It is not just about bullying in the playground or the school but on the streets.

“We want to bring the police into this as well, so that from an early age children know it is completely unacceptable.”

Community Police units could be linked to schools, patrolling corridors, playgrounds and streets to beat shoplifting, truanting and bullying.

The move widens Labour’s existing Safer Schools initiative.

But Shadow education secretary David Willetts said: “Instead of reheated announcements, we need effective measures to tackle bad behaviour, such as giving heads more power to exclude pupils.”

The move comes as teachers’ leaders said staff may consider wearing stab-proof vests.

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SKY-HIGH international mobile phone charges can make it cheaper to FLY abroad for a chat with a pal than to call them up.

Industry insiders have told the News of the World that UK customers are charged up to 50 TIMES what the networks actually pay for international mobile-to-mobile call time.

On average the mark-up is a whopping 1,174 per cent.

The revelation comes in the week the EU pledged to cut the costs of using mobiles abroad.

You could fly to Vitoria, near Bilbao, in Spain, for just £10 all-in with Ryanair—£8 CHEAPER than a one-hour call with ‘3' at 30p a minute. It also costs a tenner to fly to Wroclaw in Poland, but a one-hour Orange call would again cost £18.

Add that kind of mark-up to a £2.50 pint of lager and it would cost you £29.35. The mark-up is calculated by comparing what it costs networks to buy minutes with the amount customers are charged.

A minute of mobile-to-mobile calling from the UK to places like Spain and Portugal costs networks between 7 and 8p a minute to buy. But ‘3' charge 30p a minute and 02 charge 17p. It's a similar story for other countries.

A minute's call time from the UK to the US can cost networks just 0.6p, but ‘3' will charge 30p—a mark up of 5,000 PER CENT.

The figures have been revealed by Rebtel, an internet mobile phone firm. Industry expert Colin Duffy, a former BT manager with his own mobile firm Voipfone, said: "The prices they charge are a rip-off."

A spokesman for ‘3' did not deny the figures but insisted they had worked to bring down the cost of international calls. An O2 spokesman said lower rates for international calls were available. Orange said: "These details are commercially sensitive."

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TELL COPS YOUR NAME OR FACE £5K FINE
Tough anti-terror plan sparks 'police state' row
By Bob Roberts, Deputy Political Editor 28/05/2007

A FURIOUS row broke out last night over plans to let police stop and question anybody without reason.

Officers will be able to demand anyone's identity and have the power to charge them with obstruction if they refuse to give it - which could lead to a £5,000 fine.

A cabinet minister warned the tough anti-terror proposals would mark a return to 1970s-style "sus laws" which sparked race riots.
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And there were accusations that the government was creating a police state by using powers normally reserved for war.

In an article, Tony Blair insisted the UK must drop some civil liberties if it wants to take on al-Qaeda.

He said: "We have chosen as a society to put the civil liberties of the suspect, even if a foreign national, first. I happen to believe this is misguided and wrong."

Deputy leadership candidate Hazel Blears said the proposed "stop and question" power was "reasonable" and "less bureaucratic" than stop-and-search. She claimed Peter Hain's Northern Ireland Office had asked for the powers to be extended across the UK so they could carry on being used in Ulster, where the authorities "find them useful".

But Hain - Blears' rival for the deputy job - urged caution. He said: "We cannot have a reincarnation of the old 'sus' laws under which mostly black people, ethnic minorities, were literally stopped on sight. That created a bad atmosphere and an erosion of civil liberties."

"We've got to be very careful that we don't create the domestic equivalent of Guantanamo Bay, which was an international abuse of human rights, acted as a recruiting sergeant for dissidents and alienated Muslims and many other people across the world." Shami Chakrabarti of civil rights group Liberty said: "The police should not have powers to run around questioning people willynilly, otherwise people feel hunted."

Inayat Bunglawala, spokesman for the Muslim Council of Britain, argued that the new powers would lead to young Muslim men being "disproportionately targeted".

He said of 22,700 stop and searches carried out by the Met police last year, only 27 led to terrorism-related arrests.

He added: "It will only succeed in driving a further wedge between the police and sections of the Muslim community."

At present, police can only stop and question someone if they suspect the person is involved in a criminal activity.

The new laws are set to form part of a package being put together by outgoing Home Secretary John Reid, who will quit the cabinet next month when Tony Blair steps down on June 27.

The Home Office would not comment on suggestions the laws were to be rushed through before then.

Shadow home secretary David Davis said: "The driving imperative of these draconian announcements appears to be more of a wish to project the reputation of Mr Reid and Mr Blair in their last weeks in office, rather than a need to protect the British public.

"We will consider carefully every proposal the government comes up with. But this cannot, and will not, be concluded in four weeks."

Liberal Democrat spokesman Nick Clegg said: "A police state is probably the best guarantee for increased radicalism in those communities where we need cooperation to defeat terrorism.

A senior government source claimed no decision had yet been made to implement the proposal, adding: "It is part of review of anti-terror legislation."

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Manual Lawn Mowers Are Making a Comeback

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A HUMAN rights group plans a legal challenge to Madonna’s adoption of a Malawian boy.

It claims the pop star’s custody of 18-month-old David Banda is illegal.

Leader Justin Dzonzi said he would tell the country’s high court no laws exist in Malawi permitting international adoptions.

Madonna and her husband Guy Ritchie were granted an interim order last October letting them take custody of David for 18 to 24 months.

Critics said Madonna used her wealth to side-step the southern African country’s adoption laws.

The toddler’s father Yohane Banda said: “He is happy and healthy. I wish they would leave my son alone.”