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Oscar Pistorius May Avoid Jail After Convicted of Manslaughter
Full Article Bloomberg
12 Sep 2014

Oscar Pistorius may not go to jail after he was convicted of manslaughter for the killing of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine’s Day last year. His sentence could range from a fine to more than a decade in prison, according to Stephen Tuson, an adjunct professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. Judge Thokozile...

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Oscar Pistorius, right, accompanied by a relative, arrives at the high court in Pretoria, South Africa, Thursday, April 10, 2014. Pistorius is charged with murder for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, on Valentines Day in 2013.
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe

updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Oscar Pistorius's Next Battle, Avoiding South Africa's Most Brutal Jail
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Pistorius found guilty of culpable homicide; awaits sentencing
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Oscar Pistorius: Reeva Steenkamp's Parents Say 'Justice Was Not Served'
updated 11 Sep 2014; published 11 Sep 2014
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Will Oscar Pistorius Spend 25 Years in Jail Verdict Today
updated 10 Sep 2014; published 10 Sep 2014
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Oscar Pistorius Could Face Solitary Confinement If Convicted in South Africa - LoneWolf Sager
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Oscar Pistorius guilty: listen to the judge's verdict
Four on trial in China for Kunming station attack
Full Article BBC News
12 Sep 2014

Four people accused of participating in a deadly mass knife attack in China have gone on trial in Kunming. The group are alleged to have led the March attack at a Kunming station that killed 31 people and injured 141. The trial opened as Beijing vowed to fast-track prosecution of terror suspects and extremists, especially in the far-western...

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File - Armed policemen guard their positions in front of Kunming Railway Station in Kunming, in western China's Yunnan province, Sunday, March 2, 2014.
photo: AP / Alexander F. Yuan

updated 02 Apr 2014; published 02 Apr 2014
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Train station attack: 33 dead, China blames Xinjiang militants
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Four sentenced in China over Kunming station attack.
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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China Puts Four on Trial for Train Station Attack
updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Three Get Death for China Train Station Attack
updated 02 Mar 2014; published 02 Mar 2014
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33 people stabbed to death in militant attack at China train station
updated 03 Mar 2014; published 03 Mar 2014
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Kunming knife attack: Deadly rampage in Chinese train station leaves 30 dead, more than 130 injured
Blockaded Gaza faces huge challenges to rebuild after war
Full Article Reuters
12 Sep 2014

GAZA/NAHAL OZ Israel (Reuters) - Fifty days of war in one of the most densely populated parts of the world have left swathes of Gaza in ruins. With the economy reeling under an Israeli-Egyptian blockade, the enclave now faces an almost impossible task of rebuilding. To do it, Gaza will have to find billions of foreign dollars, contend with Israeli...

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Palestinians return to their houses which were destroyed during fighting between Hamas militants and Israel in Absan near the border between Israel and east of the town of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip September 2, 2014.
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb

updated 12 Sep 2014; published 12 Sep 2014
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Blockaded Gaza Faces Huge Challenges to Rebuild After War
updated 06 Aug 2014; published 06 Aug 2014
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Lasting Gaza truce tops Cairo talks agenda.
updated 16 Aug 2014; published 16 Aug 2014
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Israel - Palestine - Gaza Explained in 14 minutes or less
updated 09 Mar 2011; published 09 Mar 2011
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Gaza to import cement through Rafah border
updated 29 Aug 2014; published 29 Aug 2014
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Hamas in new warning as Gaza relief effort continues
updated 29 Aug 2014; published 29 Aug 2014
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Meshaal: Hamas will refuse to disarm
Nasa's human spacecraft set for December flight
Full Article The Times of India
12 Sep 2014

WASHINGTON: Nasa's Orion spacecraft - built to take humans farther than they have ever gone before — is now ready for fueling. The Orion crew module, stacked atop its service module, moved out of the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at Nasa's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday. Orion was transported to the payload...

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The Orion spacecraft
photo: Public Domain / NASA

updated 20 Jun 2014; published 20 Jun 2014
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Orion Spacecraft Is Taking Shape on This Week @NASA
updated 16 Jan 2013; published 16 Jan 2013
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NASA, ESA Agree on New Orion Service Module
updated 19 Jun 2014; published 19 Jun 2014
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NASA's Orion Spacecraft is taking shape at Kennedy Space Center in Florida
updated 06 Dec 2013; published 06 Dec 2013
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Textron Team Readies Orion Heat Shield for Shipment to Kennedy Space Center
updated 29 Apr 2014; published 29 Apr 2014
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NASA goes 'back to the future' with new Orion spacecraft
updated 02 Dec 2013; published 02 Dec 2013
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Evaluations put NASA Orion on track for 2014 space mission
A Woman's Place Is in the White House
Full Article WorldNews.com
12 Sep 2014

Article by WN.com Correspondent Dallas Darling Regarding the two most prevalent sexes, male and female, which brain can multi-track and is far more communicative and holistic? Which tends to build relationships more easily, has the ability to speak and listen simultaneously, and can switch subjects and moods while interweaving diverse and...

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File - President Barack Obama speaks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton following the President's talk with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the Oval Office, May 28, 2009.
photo: White House / Pete Souza

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Women: Know Your Limits! Harry Enfield - BBC comedy
updated 08 Jul 2011; published 08 Jul 2011
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The Female Brain and Aging
updated 13 Jan 2008; published 13 Jan 2008
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Mark Gungor - Men's Brain Women's Brain
updated 24 Jan 2013; published 24 Jan 2013
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The Female Brain: Balancing Social Expectations with Your Own Health
updated 01 Aug 2012; published 01 Aug 2012
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Scientific Proof: Why Women Fall in Love Faster than Men Brain Diffrences
updated 25 Feb 2014; published 25 Feb 2014
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Marriage Boot Camp: Male Brain vs Female Brain

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The Daily Beast
For a president who is known for his eloquence, the lack of a stirring and defining phrase against ISIS is more than a rhetorical failure. In 1775, when colonists debated in the...
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The Guardian
Testimonies from people who worked in the Israeli Intelligence Corps tell of a system where there were no boundaries Palestinian boys at an internet bar in Gaza City. One ex-member...
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BBC News
Thailand's military government has engaged in "widespread" human rights violations since the May coup, Amnesty International says. In a report, the rights group...

In this Tuesday May, 20, 2014 file photo, Oscar Pistorius leaves the high court in Pretoria, South Africa.
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Anita Powell PRETORIA — South African track star Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of culpable homicide, but cleared of more serious murder charges in connection with the killing of his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp, at his home last year....
photo: AP / Themba Hadebe
Dinosaur exhibit, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Faith Lapidus Scientists have given us a look at what they believe was the planet's first semi-aquatic dinosaur - or at least their idea of what the creature called Spinosaurus looked like. The dinosaur spent part...
photo: Public Domain / Daderot
Malala Yousafzai gestures as she speaks to an audience during a discussion of her book, "I am Malala" hosted by the John F. Kennedy Library and held at Boston College High School Saturday, Oct. 12, 2013, in Dorchester, Mass. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school.
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Malala is carried into hospital on a stretcher following the attack in October 2012. Photo: AFP The Pakistani army says it has arrested the gunmen who tried to kill schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the country's restive north-west in...
photo: AP / Jessica Rinaldi
EU-Russia Summit with from left to right: Aleksander V Konovalov, Russian Minister for Justice, Viktor F Basargin, Russian Minister for Regional Development, Javier Solana, Secretary General of the Council of the EU and High Representative for CFSP, Maud Olofssson, Swedish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Energy, Carl Bildt, Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, Fredrik Reinfeldt, Swedish Prime Minister, Sergey Lavrov, Russian Minister for Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Barroso, President of the EC, Sergey E Prikhodko, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, Member of the EC in charge of External Relations and European Neighbourhood Policy, Elvira S Naiullina and Yuri P Trutnev, Russian Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology
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VOA News The European Union has imposed a new package of economic sanctions against Russia because of its actions in Ukraine. The new sanctions went into effect Friday and targeted Russian oil and defense firms. The...
photo: EC / © European Communities 2009
Islamic State supporters of Jihad
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The Australian government on Friday elevated it terrorism threat level to the second-highest warning in response to the domestic threat posed by Islamic State movement...
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Imam Talib Abdur Rashid of the Muslim Alliance in North America speaks at a news conference in front of the proposed Islamic center and mosque site near ground zero, Monday, Sept. 20, 2010, in New York.
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Meredith Buel STERLING, VIRGINIA— Leaders of America's Muslim community are condemning the violent extremism of the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. Muslim leaders say militants are exploiting their faith in a failed effort...
photo: AP / Louis Lanzano
Hamas official sees nothing wrong in negotiating with Israel
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In an apparent shift of views within Hamas, one of its senior officials said this week that the militant group sees nothing wrong with negotiating with Israel. Hamas does not recognize Israel and has opposed direct talks. Israel in turn considers...
photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb