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These days it is hard to be a soccer coach. Defending champion Serie A club Inter Milan’s coach Jose Mourinho found this out the hard way. In a match against Bari last week, Jose Mourinho, who once proclaimed himself as The Special One, decided to substitute Ghana’s Muntari Sully barely 30 minutes into the game. [...] What do you do when someone threatens you with personal harm, injury or death? What if that person also threatens others with mass destruction? Worse still, what if these are not just empty threats, but are promises of sure occurrences to come? Well, you sue him. Several weeks ago, French President Nicolas Sarkozy told Parliament that the burka is not welcomed in France. Around the same time, a lady by the name of Carole was told to leave a swimming pool in a Paris suburb for wearing a burkini, supposedly for hygiene reasons. The casual observers might be forgiven to think [...] For the past week, Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno who was sentenced to 6 strokes of the cane for drinking alcohol in public was staring eyeball to eyeball with the authorities, asking for the sentence to be carried out in public. Now, in the latest development to the model caning case, it was the [...] So Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Morgan Stanley – three well known Wall Street financial institutions, have successfully repaid the US Government the billions of dollars of bailout money it took previously to avoid massive liquidity meltdowns and bankruptcies. In doing so, they have side stepped Government pay restrictions that are applicable to those financial [...] Ever wondered how young people got involved in terrorist-related activities, including sacrificing their lives as suicide bombers? The Indonesian National Police seems to think that it has something to do with hate speeches – or more appropriately – hate sermons preached at mosques. The case of Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s caning for consuming alcohol in public has now taken a new twist. Yesterday, a prison van came to her home to transport her to prison. But the van returned shortly after leaving her home and released her. That leaves Kartika perplexed: “I do not know in [...] On July 12, 2007 32-year old part-time Malaysian model Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno was arrested by Malaysia’s religious department officials at a night club. Her offense? Consuming alcohol in public. She was charged in a Syariah court. She was fined 5,000 Ringgits and ordered to be given six strokes of the cane. She has paid [...] Just a day earlier, it was simply allegation made by those who had loved ones killed on Pan Am Flight 103, that oil interest is involved in the release of Lockerbie bomber Libyan Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi. Today, Libya seems to confirm this (although Britain denied it). In another sign of the upside down world that we live in, a convicted mass murderer was released from prison and flown home to a hero’s welcome. CNN reported that Libyan Abdelbeset Ali Mohmed al Megrahi, convicted for the mass murder of 259 innocent passengers onboard Pan Am Flight 103 when he planted a bomb [...] |
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