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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 10: Women taxi drivers in New Delhi are being trained in karate as part of plan to combat crime against women in India's cities. The women taxi driver project was launched on Friday at the international airport and key tourist sites. Officials say the project will also be launched in Mumbai and the southern city of Hyderabad. In March 2004, a 59-year-old Australian woman was robbed and stabbed to death by a taxi driver in New Delhi. In late 2003, a Swiss diplomat was raped by two men in a car in the heart of the city...

Little Emily didn't let stalker win Brave 10-year-old: 'Some kids disappear and never come back' Brooklynite Jose Laboy (below) kept trying to lure or grab Emily Garcia, she says. Fifth-grader (above) describes terrifying, months-long ordeal. A 10-year-old girl stalked for months by a Brooklyn sicko helped catch her tormentor this week - after he brazenly tried to snatch her off the street, police said. "I thought he might grab me and push me into the car and take me away," a shaken Emily Garcia told the Daily News. "Some kids disappear and never come back." But Emily wasn't going...

A Croatian thief got more than he bargained for when he ran into a pair of karate-trained monks as he tried to rob a monastery. The 35-year-old thief had posed as a beggar looking for a place to stay at a monastery in Zagreb but instead broke into an office there and stole almost £1,500 that had been donated by locals, Vecernji List reported. But he failed to make it out of the monastery after monks Pejo Orkic, 40, and Ivan Pajtak, 51, cornered him and used karate to first fend off his attacks and then force him to the...

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Thugs pick wrong target - a karate instructor 07.09.2004 12.00 pm A karate instructor's trip to Fiji was about to get ugly, but not for him. Unfortunately for the six attackers, they had picked on the wrong guy -- a fourth dan blackbelt in karate. Craig Nordstrand, 47, had just beaten off four of the attackers. The other two had unsuccessfully had a go at his mate Peter Roche. After taking an initial beating, the six backed off and surrounded the pair. Nordstrand tried to give his attackers a warning. "Do you want karate?" he asked. One of the robbers...

Varda Frankel is a 73-year-old brown belt in Karate and has been studying martial arts for the past 40 years. But when she moved from Paris to Jerusalem in 1972, she was hard-pressed to find a school in which to continue her studies. She found one Karate class at the cultural center in the Old City and a co-educational studio in Talpiot which closed down 10 years ago. But she was never able to find a martial arts center that she could call home. All that changed a month ago when Frankel, along with 20 other like-minded female Jerusalemites, discovered...

Burglar Beaten by Karate ExpertMay 14, 2002 09:42 AM ET JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A burglar who tried to strangle a South African woman ended up in hospital with a fractured skull when the 45-year-old karate expert fought back, a local newspaper reported on Tuesday. The Star said Marietjie Fourie, who will compete in the Shotokan Karate World Championships in 2003, let fly a flurry of blows when her attacker grabbed her at her home in the port city of Durban. The man struck back, but Fourie grabbed wooden fighting sticks joined by a chain and lit into him, putting...