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Yes that's madness. Not sure the legality of it these days.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-26286264

An Ethiopian woman who says she was gang-raped in Sudan has been convicted of "indecent acts".

mind boggling!

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13760895

"For the moment pregnancies can be disguised, but not for much longer. Many fathers will kill their own daughters if they find out they have been raped."

"It is killing done with love," says Ms Elgadi. "They believe they are saving the girl."

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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-26346472

"Put a pig's head in the window and all of a sudden we've got nationwide uproar.

"It's no different to a fishmonger's having fish."

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http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-f...where-26353893

"Red and blue lights are a pretty universal signal," says Highway Patrol commander Brad Horne. "Regardless of nationality and language, when we put lights on, people pull over and stop."

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Yup, that's stupid. Whether the diagnosis is being over-used or mistakenly applied in some cases doesn't mean it isn't a real condition. I know dyslexics who aren't slow or stupid, bur have this cognitive impairment. It can be improved or compensated for and doesn't necessarily preclude someone being successful or having a career, but it still exists.

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http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/language-...osts-1.1706151

She has been given until March 10 to come up with ways to address the complaint or face a fine

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montre...ment-1.2553268

since when is cash no good?

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That is stupid! Do they have authority to regulate Facebook?

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a lot of things this govt. does are idiotic and that is putting is nicely ;)

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http://ca.reuters.com/article/busine...140227?sp=true

But she said, again and again, that she was simply following Madoff's orders, knew next to nothing about Wall Street and had "no clue" that anything she had done was illegal.

"All the trades were backdated," she said. "I did what I was told."

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...y-9153098.html

A man in the US accidentally shot himself in the head and died on Monday as he was trying to persuade his girlfriend that guns are safe.

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Sorry ... I laughed at that !

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don't be

I feel sure many others felt the same way;)