Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:26:04 AM CEST
Troops Discover Lush Saddam Hideaway
The doors of the town house opened to reveal a playboy's fantasy straight from the 1960s: mirrored bedroom, lamps shaped like women, airbrushed paintings of a topless blonde woman and a mustached hero battling a crocodile. "This must have been Saddam's love shack," said Sgt. Spencer Willardson of Logan, Utah.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:06:31 AM CEST
Irreparabler Schaden
Auch Tage nach der US-Besetzung der größten irakischen Städte gehen die Plünderungen hemmungslos weiter. Ziel der Raubzüge sind auch die Museen des Landes. Zehntausende Altertümer von unschätzbarem Wert wurden bereits gestohlen oder zerstört. Auch das Nationalmuseum in Bagdad mit seinen einmaligen Schätzen wurde ausgeräumt. Das Museum macht die US-Truppen dafür mitverantwortlich, weil sie nicht eingriffen. Die UNESCO forderte schnelle Schutzmaßnahmen.
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Topic: W A R - on April 13, 2003 at 10:02:26 AM CEST
Looters Ransack Baghdad's Antiquities Museum
- Looters have sacked Baghdad's antiquities museum, plundering treasures dating back thousands of years to the dawn of civilization in Mesopotamia, museum staff said on Saturday.
They blamed U.S. troops for not protecting the treasures.
Surveying the littered glass wreckage of display cases and pottery shards at the Iraqi National Museum on Saturday, deputy director Nabhal Amin wept and told Reuters: "They have looted or destroyed 170,000 items of antiquity dating back thousands of years...They were worth billions of dollars."
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Topic: TV - on April 13, 2003 at 10:00:17 AM CEST
Tony Blair to star in Simpsons
David Beckham may not have been famous enough for the Simpsons, but Tony Blair certainly is!
The British Prime Minister has taken time out from dealing with the Iraq war to record a spot in the same episode of the cartoon that JK Rowling is in, the Regina Monologues.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 13, 2003 at 9:55:41 AM CEST
Nokia accused of rabbit torture
A LITHUANIAN animal rights group has accused Nokia and the second biggest local mobile telephone company Bite GSM of torturing rabbits in adverts for new mobile phones.
The Lithuanian Society for the Protection of Animals said in an open letter to both companies it is "offended by the Nokia and Bite GSM companies' print and TV media advertisements in which rabbits are lifted by their ears".
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Topic: NATURE - on April 13, 2003 at 9:45:21 AM CEST
Rare calf with three horns born on Alberta farm
Farmer Allan Galliford was on the horn of a dilemma.
He first noticed an odd-looking tuft of hair on the forehead of the Simmental-Hereford-cross calf when she was born a year ago in March.
A month later, when he began vaccinating and dehorning calves, he noticed a third, upturned horn had sprouted in the middle of her forehead, similar to a unicorn.
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Topic: MUSIK - on April 13, 2003 at 9:39:48 AM CEST
Loco-Motion singer dies
The singer Little Eva, best known for recording The Loco-Motion as a teenager in the 1960s, has died of cancer aged 59.
She was working as a babysitter for songwriters Carole King and Gerry Goffin in 1962 when they asked her to record a song they had written called The Loco-Motion.
The song became a hit for Little Eva that year and again for Grand Funk Railroad in 1974.
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Topic: SEX - on April 13, 2003 at 9:36:47 AM CEST
Sneaky women focusing on filthy films
Movies of naked women taken by concealed cameras pack the shelves of Japanese video outlets, with dozens of new titles coming out every month. Many of these flicks are made by professional companies who pay models to act in them, but a large number are made featuring ordinary women who have no idea they're being filmed.
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Topic: SEX - on April 13, 2003 at 9:31:50 AM CEST
Sex: Fergetaboutit say Mafia men
"The virile Mafia boss is a thing out of American movies," said Girolamo Lo Verso, who recently compiled the report "La Psyche Mafiosa" based on hundreds of sessions with Mafia wives and children and even a few turncoats.
"We found that real mafiosi are more interested in power and being in command than sex," psychoanalyst Lo Verso said in a telephone interview from Palermo on Friday.
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