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Beauty arrest

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

MISS England Rachel Christie has relinquished her crown after being arrested on suspicion of a nightclub assault.

Student faces down Iranian leader

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

AN Iranian maths student has become an unlikely hero to some of his countrymen for daring to criticise the country’s most powerful man to his face.

‘Stolen baby’ back home

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A BABY girl is back with her mother a year after the Mexico City doctors who delivered her allegedly sold her to another woman.

Murder accused fugitive had plastic surgery, police say

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A THICKER jaw, lower eyebrows and a protruding bottom lip — images of the facelifted fugitive who allegedly killed Briton Lindsay Hawker were released by Japanese police yesterday.

Murder accused fugitive had plastic surgery, police say

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A THICKER jaw, lower eyebrows and a protruding bottom lip — images of the facelifted fugitive who allegedly killed Briton Lindsay Hawker were released by Japanese police yesterday.

Psychics used to probe death

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A POLICE force has admitted following up leads supplied by “mystics” after a man’s death.

Gunman kills one, injures five in Florida

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A GUNMAN opened fire yesterday in the offices of an engineering firm where he was let go more than two years ago, authorities said, killing one person and injuring five others.

Language heard in womb defines baby’s cry

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A BABY’S very first cry is audibly shaped by the language heard while in the womb, according to a new study.

Boyle to film climber’s story

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

SLUMDOG Millionaire director Danny Boyle is to film the true story of an American climber who hacked off part of his arm with a knife after it became trapped under a rock, according to reports.

Soldiers killed

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

TWO more American troops have been killed in Afghanistan.

Hopes climate talks will yield deal

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

UN climate negotiators said yesterday that, despite low expectations for setting legally binding emissions targets next month, it is still possible to conclude a strong, 192-nation deal to define future work in fighting global warming.

Uncertainty as Abbas says he will not run again

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

MIDEAST peace prospects have been plunged into unknown territory as no prospective leaders emerged publicly yesterday in the aftermath of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s announcement that he doesn’t want another term.

Army base gunman still alive but motive for killings remain a mystery

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

AFTER mistaken reports in the aftermath of the shooting at Fort Hood in Texas that the gunmen responsible for the killings was shot dead, it has emerged that suspect Nadil Malik Hasan is alive and being treated at the base hospital.

Sect polygamist found guilty

IrishExaminer.com — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE first of a dozen polygamist sect members to be tried over charges including child sex offences faces jail after being found guilty.

Baby found under babysitter’s bed

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A BABY missing for five days was found alive and well under her babysitter’s bed, and Florida authorities said yesterday they plan to charge the babysitter, her husband and the child’s mother.

Anger as Britain uses genetic tests for asylum seekers

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

BRITAIN is using genetic tests on some African asylum seekers in an effort to catch those who are lying about their nationality, drawing criticism from scientists and provoking outrage from rights groups.

Negotiators scale back UN climate deal goals

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

NEGOTIATORS and diplomats were working yesterday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month’s deadline, without firm US commitments.

Pupils: Hitler was a football coach

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

ONE in 20 British schoolchildren thought Adolf Hitler was a coach of the German football team, a survey has found.

Drunk social worker ‘offered detoxed client whiskey and magic mushrooms’

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A SOCIAL worker, who had helped a client through detox, offered to buy him a drink in a pub, a misconduct hearing was told yesterday.

Mothers told stolen babies had died

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THREE doctors and a nurse have been arrested for allegedly selling newborns after telling mothers their babies had died at a private hospital in Mexico City, authorities said.

Relatives shocked as car crash ‘victim’ attends own funeral

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

A BRAZILIAN bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

UN to relocate staff after Afghan attack

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE United Nations said yesterday it will send more than half of its international staff out of Afghanistan or into more secure compounds following last week’s deadly Taliban attack against UN workers — the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country.

UN war crimes tribunal rules to appoint lawyer for Karadzic

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE UN war crimes tribunal has ruled that former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will be appointed a lawyer to represent him whenever he fails to appear in court.

Chimp attack victim seeks €100m

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

THE family of a Connecticut woman mauled and blinded by a chimpanzee has sought to sue the state for $150 million (€100m), saying officials failed to prevent the attack.

Report to result in better monitoring of sex offenders

IrishExaminer.com — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:00:00 GMT

CALIFORNIA corrections officials say they’re working to improve the monitoring of released sex offenders, responding to a scathing report that cited missed chances to catch the suspect accused of holding Jaycee Dugard captive for 18 years.