Friday, June 28, 2013

Daily News: Odd News - California woman gets life for chopping off husband's penis

Friday, Jun 28, 2013 06:33 PM PDT

California woman gets life for chopping off husband's penis 
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 06:33 PM PDT
(Reuters) - A judge sentenced a Southern California woman who cut off her estranged husband's penis and tossed it in the garbage disposal to life in prison with the possibility of parole. Catherine Kieu, 50, was convicted by an Orange County jury in April of aggravated mayhem and torture following the July 2011 assault on her ex-husband. Kieu drugged her former spouse before tying him up and severing his penis with a knife. She then threw it into the garbage disposal unit. ...
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Not a vulture but a drone: South Africa police detain cameraman 
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 12:08 PM PDT
A journalist reaches up to catch a remote aerial camera that flew above crowds gathered outside the hospital where former South African President Nelson Mandela is being treated in PretoriaPRETORIA (Reuters) - South African police on Friday detained the owner of a radio-controlled helicopter drone carrying a camera that was filming scenes around the Pretoria hospital where ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is being treated. F.C. Hamman, a South African freelance film-maker, was escorted away by police along with the helicopter camera he was flying with his 21-year-old son Timothy outside the clinic where Mandela, 94, has spent three weeks with a lung infection. After nearly four hours of questioning by police, Hamman was released but the drone camera was confiscated. ...
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Two bronze animal heads, stolen 153 years ago, returned to China 
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 08:23 AM PDT
To match feature CHINA/BRONZESBy Terril Yue Jones BEIJING (Reuters) - The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago. The sculptures, of a rabbit and a rat, are among 12 animal heads representing the Chinese zodiac that were looted from Beijing's Old Summer Palace in 1860 by Anglo-French troops during the Second Opium War. ...
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Singapore 'Hello Kitty' fanciers bare claws in quest for toy 
Friday, Jun 28, 2013 01:49 AM PDT
By Eveline Danubrata SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore residents braved hazardous air, bid hundreds of dollars and queued for hours to lay their hands on a special Hello Kitty stuffed toy, swept up in a craze for the mouthless Japanese cat that peaked this week in the city-state. The frenzy began at the end of May, when U.S. fast food giant McDonald's began selling the toys in outfits inspired by fairy tales, such as "The Ugly Duckling". The six toys were released in phases, at S$4.60 ($3.63) each with a meal, or S$10 on their own. ...
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Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app 
Thursday, Jun 27, 2013 10:33 PM PDT
Hirai, Director of Internet Media Division of Japan's ruling LDP, poses with an iPad displaying "Abe Pyon", LDP's official game app featuring Japan's PM Abe, in TokyoTOKYO (Reuters) - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election. A growing number of Japanese politicians are venturing into the cyber world after a legal change allowed the use of social media in campaigns, setting up Facebook pages and twitter accounts to woo voters before a July upper house election. ...
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