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A woman treated in a ‘House of Horrors’ abortion clinic said she decided to keep the baby at the last minute - but medics hit her and continued with the termination. Davida Johnson, 30, developed veneral disease and suffered four miscarriages after being treated.

For those of you that are following the thread regarding the Philippine flag being flow upside down.http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2596569/posts An alert FReeper, Ready4Freddy noticed that the flag of Myanmar is also being flow upside down.As of the posting of this thread it still has not been picked up by the media.The second flag in question is second to the left.I checked all other flags of countries in the UN, and there are none that have a blue block on the bottom left. Only Myanmar and Samoa have a blue block and that is on the upper left hand corner.

The U.S. Government today apologised for displaying an inverted Philippine flag - wrongfully signifying that the nation was in a state of war - in a meeting hosted by Barack Obama. The Philippine flag was displayed upside-down behind President Benigno Aquino III when leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met President Obama in New York on Friday.

CNSNews.com) – A proposed casino located a half-mile from the Gettysburg National Military Park could bring much-needed jobs and income to the local community, according to proponents, but opponents of the plan call casinos “predatory” businesses, and say opening a casino near Gettysburg is a “national disgrace” that dishonors fallen Civil War soldiers. The American Legion, the nation’s largest veterans service organization, weighed in on the project last week in a statement, joining the concerns of an already vocal group opposed to the casino project. "There is no way that The American Legion or the American people -- especially her...

A message in a bottle written by the mother of a British soldier killed in Afghanistan has been found by workers cleaning up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Sarah Adams, 43, was on holiday in Barbados when she wrote the loving message about her son Private James Prosser, 21, who was killed by a roadside bomb. She threw it into the sea and after floating 1,300 miles it was fished out of the water by workers cleaning up the oil leak from the BP pipeline in the Gulf of Mexico. The workers were so moved by Mrs Adams' message...

Two missing six-year-old girls have been found in the home of a suspected paedophile after a frantic search by friends and family. The children were tracked down to the flat of Bradley McCloud. Police arrested the 56-year-old at his home in Kennington, South London, and charged him with abducting both girls and possessing indecent images.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — An amphibious sightseeing boat that stalled in the Delaware River was knocked over by an oncoming barge Wednesday, spilling 37 people overboard and leaving two passengers unaccounted for after a frantic rescue effort.

Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, is expected to leave his job later this year after growing tired of the "idealism" of Barack Obama's inner circle.

Catholic League president Bill Donohue comments on the latest developments regarding the decision by officials from the Empire State Building to deny Mother Teresa the honor of having her colors of blue and white shine from the building's tower on August 26, the day the U.S. Postal Service is commemorating the 100th anniversary of her birth: Daniel Hernandez, a PR specialist hired by the Empire State Building, has a nice job: he was hired to say he doesn't know anything [click here]. When asked by Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, an investigative journalist reporting for Fox News, about the decision to stiff...

When the fearsome Baltic pirate Klaus Störtebeker was executed 600 years ago his headless body is said to have walked 12m (40ft) along the length of Hamburg quayside. He had struck a deal with the elders of the port: any of his 70 men that he managed to pass in his post-decapitation walk should be spared. The quivering corpse passed 11 fellow pirates before the executioner put out a foot and tripped him up. Little wonder, then, that the skull of Störtebeker has fascinated Germans for so long — and that its theft from a Hamburg museum last month has...

An arc, known as a fire rainbow taken in the Austrian Alps. The fire rainbow gets its name as it looks like a bow set on fire, but it is caused by ice Picture: NATIONAL PICTURESA smile in the sky, or upside down rainbow, over Copthorne, near Crawley, Sussex Picture: NATIONAL PICTURES/NIGEL BLACKWELL An early morning sunrise gives a pinkish glow to a rainbow as rain clouds glide by on the western horizon in Tigard, Oregon Picture: APA bolt of lightning strikes a yacht's mast. Amateur photographer Francis Evans from Truro, Cornwall, decided to take a photograph from his window...

A partial list of actors who passed away this year. JANUARYPat Hingle 01/03/09Patrick McGoohan 01/13/09Ricardo Montalban 01/14/09FEBRUARYPhil Carey 02/06/09James Whitmore 02/06/09MARCHRon Silver 03/15/09MAYDom DeLuise 05/04/09JUNEDavid Carradine 06/03/09Ed McMahon 06/23/09Gale Storm 06/24/09Farrah Fawcett 06/25/09Michael Jackson 06/25/09JULYKarl Malden 07/01/09 SEPTEMBERPaul Burke 09/13/09Henry Gibson 09/13/09Patrick Swayze 09/13/09OCTOBERSoupy Sales 10/22/09NOVEMBEREdward Woodward 11/16/09DECEMBERRichard Todd 12/03/09Gene Barry 12/09/09Jennifer Jones 12/17/09

Scotland Yard has warned businesses in London to expect a Mumbai-style attack on the capital. In a briefing in the City of London 12 days ago, a senior detective from SO15, the Metropolitan police counter-terrorism command, said: “Mumbai is coming to London.” The detective said companies should anticipate a shooting and hostage-taking raid “involving a small number of gunmen with handguns and improvised explosive devices”. The warning — the bluntest issued by police — has underlined an assessment that a terrorist cell may be preparing an attack on London early next year.

Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him. More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present. The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as “opportunistic” and a “waste of time”. Furious about equipment shortages and poor compensation for their injuries, one soldier said: “It is almost...

These amazing festive images were painted by an armless thalidomide victim, using his right foot. The stunning paintings will appear on Christmas cards and sold all over the world. Peter Longstaff's artwork pieces include flickering candles and another depicts a stag in a magical winter wonderland setting And as well as teaching himself to paint, the 48-year-old has lived life to the full as a pig farmer, father and youth football coach. Peter was one of many babies born with deformities in the in late 1950s and early 60s when their pregnant mothers were given the drug thalidomide to combat...

A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time. Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no sound. 'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state. 'I dreamed myself away,' he added, tapping his tale out with the aid of a computer. Doctors...

WWII in HD is the first-ever World War II documentary presented in full, immersive HD color. Culled from thousands of hours of lost and rare color archival footage gathered from a worldwide search through basements and archives, WWII in HD will change the way the world sees this defining conflict. Using footage never before seen by most Americans--converted to HD for unprecedented clarity--viewers will experience the war as if they were actually there, surrounded by the real sights and sounds of the battlefields. Along the way they'll meet a diverse group of soldiers whose wartime diaries and journals show in...

With all the news articles appearing regarding our schools. I thought it was appropiate to play this old television presentation from the 1980. I have looked though many of the media centers in our district to show it to my school students with no luck until now.I think you will find it chilling.Part One - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzNVx4ZN9A&feature=relatedPart Twohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgErWze-w9U&feature=relatedPart Threehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5hsJmXCtLY&feature=related

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) - Nouriel Roubini, a leading economist who predicted the scale of global financial troubles, said a U-shaped recovery is possible, with leading economies undeperforming perhaps for 3 years. He said there is also an increasing risk of a "double-dip" scenario, however.

The inspector general's office for the Social Security Administration is looking into the problem as part of its broader audit on stimulus spending. The Social Security Administration acknowledged the $425,000 glitch following a report that nearly two-dozen inmates in Massachusetts had wrongly received the $250 stimulus checks.