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Service on Norway's northern train line (Nordlandsbanen) wasn't expected to resume until Wednesday afternoon at the earliest, after a train collided with a moose and derailed. The train, designed to carry loads of iron ore, derailed after it hit the moose on the tracks Monday evening. "It must have been a monster moose," said Harry Korslund of the agency in charge of the rails, Jernbaneverket. "It all depends, of couse, on how the train hit the moose, but in this case it was enough that it derailed." The accident occurred between Dunderland and Mo i Rana. Passengers were being transported...

Cuban Communism: Fidel Castro's slide toward death's embrace is bringing closer the island-state's day of reckoning: Either it lives free or dies a tyranny. The U.S. must now push for freedom relentlessly. The ailing dictator will probably go out the way he shouldn't — in his bed. But the legacy he leaves just 90 miles from our shores is one of the worst in the world and should be destroyed. Contrary to the media's puerile awe at the 79-year-old Castro's significance — he's often reverently called "the longest-serving" Latin American ruler or "maverick leader" — he is one of the...

A Martyr’s Death By Jenni Vinson Trejo June 10, 2006 In Islam, martyr or shahid encounters a sacred level by fighting against the enemies of the true religion. In the process, he gives up his life in exchange for a higher, celestial existence. It is not merely the event of the death that identified martyrdom, but the very fulfillment of the duty of obedience to the will of Allah that brings a death to the level of sacred. As noble it is to die in battle —that is, to die at the enemy’s hands in a just cause —so has...

See for example this thread first. Have you heard? Al-Zarqawi is dead! The *ssh*le who liked to behead This sack of warm feces Met his Maker in Pieces Bin Laden, you're NEXT! Enough said!

Published: April 16, 2006 01:42 am      ‘He seemed so normal’ • Purcell reacts to news local man accused of murdering, plotting to cannibalize 10-year-old girl The Norman Transcript By Melissa A. Wabnitz Transcript Staff Writer PURCELL— Months of strategic planning and preparation led Kevin Underwood to invite in, kill, attempt to dismember and sexually assault his upstairs neighbor, Jamie Rose Bolin, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said Saturday. “It is our belief that though she was chosen to be the victim of this particular crime, other people, children and adults, had been targeted,” said Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins. Bolin,...

It sounds like a job for Wallace and Gromit. A "monster" rabbit has apparently been rampaging through vegetable patches in a small village in northern England, ripping up leeks, munching turnips and infuriating local gardeners. In an uncanny resemblance to the plot of the hit animated film "Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit," angry horticulturists in Felton, near Newcastle, have now mounted an armed guard to protect their prized cabbages and parsnips. "They call it the monster. It's very big -- it's nearly the size of a dog," said Joan Smith, whose son Jeff owns one of...

LONDON (AFP) - In a tale reminiscent of the last Wallace and Gromit movie, furious villagers in northeast England have hired armed guards to protect their beloved communal vegetable gardens from a suspected monster rabbit. Leeks, Japanese onions, parsnips and spring carrots have all been ripped up and devoured by the mystery were-rabbit -- prompting the 12 allotment holders in Felton, north of Newcastle, to hire two marksmen with air rifles and orders to shoot to kill. "It is a massive thing. It is a monster. The first time I saw it, I said: 'What the hell is that?'" the...

NEW CITY, NY — Mary Nagle's family wept yesterday as the jury foreman pronounced Ronald Douglas Herrera Castellanos guilty of raping and murdering the New City mother inside her bedroom last April. Herrera, 30, faces a maximum term of life in prison without parole when he is sentenced May 15 by state Supreme Court Justice William Kelly. The foreman, Matthew Kerewski, declared Herrera guilty of all 15 felony charges, including seven counts of first-degree murder and single counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse in the sexual mutilation of the 42-year-old woman on April 29. The jury of seven women...

PARIS, March 24 (Reuters) - Police in Belarus have arrested 22 reporters since the beginning of this week, an international media watchdog said on Friday in what it called an unprecedented crackdown on journalistic freedom. "These arrests are intended to gag dissent and to sow a climate of terror in the country. The independent journalists should be immediately released," the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said in a statement. RSF said 13 of the journalists were still in prison, mostly serving sentences of several days "for alleged 'hooliganism', 'taking part in an unauthorised gathering' or for 'offering obscenities'". It said...

He was a crazed monster and she was his pint-sized prey. Whatever 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown did, it was inevitably wrong in the eyes of her brutish, 27-year-old stepfather. There were six kids in their cramped Bed-Stuy apartment, and she was the one Cesar Rodriguez always targeted. He told cops Nixzmary was wild and disobedient and he responded with violence, sources said. It happened all the time. She was "the devil" and it was his job to discipline her — that's how he put it. "There were arguments, lots of arguments. One was over her taking $100; one was over her...

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SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) - A former mechanic was convicted Thursday of raping and strangling an 11-year-old girl whose abduction was captured by a car-wash security camera.

Zim warns US ambassador 10/11/2005 09:30  - (SA)     Related Articles US govt supports Zim envoy Mugabe: Mr Dell, go to hell Zim could expel 'meddling' envoy Mugabe upset with US ambassador Envoy slams Zim corruption    Johannesburg - United States envoy to Zimbabwe Christopher Dell has gotten off with a warning after raising the ire of his host country, Zimbabwe's Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the Zimbabwean government had summoned and warned him not to interfere in Zimbabwe's internal affairs, failure of which could result in him being thrown out of the country. Initial indications were that Dell...

MARTINEZ -- A 22-year-old Martinez woman is in police custody after allegedly having Internet correspondence with someone who solicited sex from her and her 4-year-old daughter in exchange for $500, police said. Shannon Nicole Woods, of the 200 block of Thistle Circle, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of offering a minor under 16 for lewd and lascivious acts. She is being held on $50,000 bail, said Martinez police detective Sgt. Gary Peterson. Police are reviewing videotapes and the contents of Woods' laptop while determining whether they have enough evidence to charge her with a crime. Peterson said police received tips...

Though he is Palestinian by birth and by political disposition, when director Hany Abu-Assad began thinking about suicide bombers in the occupied territories of the West Bank, he imagined them as heartless monsters. "Like anybody else," he says, "I thought they had been brainwashed."In the film "Paradise Now," the final hours of a pair of auto mechanics who have been recruited as bombers are recounted, and the last thing the young men appear to be is unthinking. Abu-Assad used the interrogation transcripts of actual bombers who had failed to strike their targets when he was writing the script for the...

WALLACE, Idaho - A convicted sex offender accused of raping and stabbing his 12-year-old daughter and leaving her for dead at a remote campsite pleaded guilty on Wednesday. John R. Tuggle faces possible life in prison on the guilty pleas to one count of rape and one count of kidnapping with a deadly weapon. Sentencing was scheduled for Nov. 7. In a plea deal, the Shoshone County prosecutor's office agreed to drop charges of attempted murder and lewd and lascivious conduct. Prosecutor Michael Peacock said the deal will protect Tuggle's daughter from having to testify. Tuggle, 37, was accused of...

AFTER decades of blurred photographs, snatches of wobbly cine-camera film and centuries of myth, tourists cruising Loch Ness aboard the Royal Scot could scarcely believe their eyes when a 16ft plesiosaurus reared out of the water in front of them. However, what could have been the natural history coup of the century was last night revealed to be a £100,000 television stunt as Channel 5 revealed it placed a 440lb animatronic model of Nessie in Loch Ness to see if people would really believe they had seen the fabled monster. The results of the test will be screened later this...

After several months hiding in depths unknown, the well-known monster has returned to the marshy area west of the Huron River, north of SR 2. Brothers Dale and Gerald Schofield returned the monster and a new friend to their swampy lair Saturday evening. The brothers chose to replace the creature in time for Father's Day as a tribute to their father, Thomas A. Schofield, who created the monster in 1994 and died in November 2004 at age 80. "It's strange seeing it out there," Gerald Schofield said yesterday about the monster sculpture. "It's got a little baby with it. It...

MILFORD. Ohio -- A 34-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of raping his 7-week-old baby, News 5's Bina Roy reported. The baby girl also has a broken leg, a broken wrist and bruises on her chest, nose and legs, Roy reported. The baby's mother, Shannon Sorah, said her husband, Joseph Warner Sorah, admitted sexually assaulting his daughter. "He admitted to doing it when no one was around," she said. She said he slept next to the child's crib in another room. "He said the reason why he wanted her to sleep in there was so I could get my...

Fonda flick doesn't fly in Hardin County By JOHN FRIEDLEIN The owner of Hardin County's two movie theaters is refusing to show the nation's top-grossing movie. Like many veterans, Ike Boutwell has an issue with "Monster-in-Law" star Jane Fonda. On the ticket window at the Elizabethtown Movie Palace is a sign that tells movie goers the cinema will not show the film because of what she did in Vietnam. Below the message are pictures of Fonda clapping with a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft crew in 1972. The sign on the marquee outside Showtime Cinemas in Radcliff reads: "No Jane Fonda movie...