The death toll is nearing 12,000 and climbing after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake rocked China yesterday. Citizen journalists are now being credited with breaking the news of the quake and strict Chinese laws on citizen reporting seem to be easing.
Some Muslim young women in Europe do a plastic surgery to regain virginity in order to get married. They say they do it for cultural reasons and not for religious purposes.
Officials remarking on the recent case of a man who had been found dead in his own bed after three months say that it is the sad example of an uncaring and unfeeling society of people who don't look out for others in the community
Mexico's women who live in homes with domestic violence have little help from those ordered by the law to protect them. Much of the law enforcement of the nation still hides behind the macho mentality that allows violence to be hidden away.
The earthquake disaster in China may well be remembered by the massive amount of young students lost when their schools tumbled down trapping them into the earth.
What do you say to the cameraman when you are totally nude, on a stadium field and in the midst of over 1,800 naked bodies? Oh, and you aren't allowed to smile. It certainly isn't "cheese".
The news coming in from China after a massive afternoon earthquake is not good: Already there are reports of more than 9,000 dead, students buried under the rubble of a school and a toxic chemical leak that the nation is having to deal with.
It sounds like the Great Nuclear Conspiracy: it has come to light that a CD containing vital nuclear data was carried by Benazir Bhutto and handed over to North Korea as part of a secret deal.
