A young Emirati woman admitted to having consensual sex with her cousin but produced her marriage contract in court, amid hopes that she and her lover could win leniency. I don't know which is sicker: the fact that she spread for her cousin, or that they got married to try to avoid prosecution. I thought marrying one's cousin was a favored course of action in that part of the world...
The 21-year-old woman handed her marriage contract to the Dubai Misdemeanor Court and confessed to the charge that she had an out-of-wedlock affair with her 27-year-old cousin.
"Yes I am guilty. I have come to court to present a copy of our marriage contract," she told the judge in Courtroom Nine.
The woman, who is on bail, had her face covered with her headscarf when she addressed the judge.
The Emirati cousin, K.S., turned himself in earlier on and confessed to having consensual sex out of wedlock with 21-year-old A.K.
Sources close to the case told Gulf News that the couple provided the court with their marriage contract in an attempt to seek a reduced punishment or a suspended imprisonment. Good luck with that. I'm betting on "it doesn't work."
Even as the two are on trial for being in an illicit relationship, K.S. told prosecutors that reporting his own crime was the only route available to him to marry the cousin he loved in the face of opposition from her family.
K.S. said earlier attempts to marry his cousin had ended in failure after his proposals were rejected by her family, especially his aunt -- the A.K.'s mother. I'm sure this has everything to do with him not having enough folding cash on hand.
The judge adjourned the case until October 4. "Pics or it didn't happen!"
"Following several fruitless attempts to convince my aunt to allow us to get married, my only solution was to report to the police that I had consensual sex with my cousin," K.S. told prosecutors in his statement.
"[By doing so] then police would have to open up a case against us... which would embarrass my aunt and her family and pressure them to consent to our marriage. I was aware that we would face imprisonment, but I was told that if we got married, the case might be dismissed." Wow, that's a pretty zany scheme.
In an earlier hearing A.K.'s mother told the judge that her daughter could not attend the hearing as she was in hospital.
During police questioning, A.K. countered K.S.' claims and alleged that he had sex with her against her will.
She said he told her that he "would marry her against her will". The only antidote to a zany scheme is an even zanier scheme!
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Skidmark, if I had some way of knowing who put that image up for you, I'd say -- but unfortunately I don't. However, on his/her behalf, you are very welcome. :-)
Special chemical paint appeared towards the back of several 737 aircraft
Southwest Airlines said it looked like 'Arabic' - but language experts disagree
Security experts believe markings are vandalism by a lone graffiti artist
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If gangstas can get in to tag the planes, then it should be no problem for anyone else to get in to do whatever to the planes. Plant bombs, cut hydraulic lines, contaminate fuel, etc. And what is that special chemical paint, anyway? Something that will make the aluminum skin peel off at 25,000'? Makes me feel all not warm & fuzzy about my wife getting on one of them next week to try to come home.
[BBC] A man who burned to death in his home died as a result of spontaneous combustion, an Irish coroner has ruled. It is believed to be the first case of its kind in Ireland.
West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLoughlin said it was the first time in 25 years of investigating deaths that he had recorded such a verdict.
Michael Faherty, 76, died at his home at Clareview Park, Ballybane, Galway on 22 December 2010.
Deaths attributed by some to 'spontaneous combustion' are when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition. Typically police or fire Sherlocks find burned corpses but no burned furniture.
An inquest in Galway on Thursday heard how Sherlocks had been baffled as to the cause of Mr Faherty's death.
Forensic experts found a fire in the fireplace of the sitting room where the badly burnt body was found had not been the cause of the blaze that killed Mr Faherty. The court was told that no trace of an accelerant had been found and there had been nothing to suggest foul play.
The court heard Mr Faherty had been found lying on his back with his head closest to an open fireplace. The fire had been confined to the sitting room. The only damage was to the body, which was totally burnt, the ceiling above him and the floor underneath him.
Dr McLoughlin said he had consulted medical textbooks and carried out other research in an attempt to find an explanation. He said Professor Bernard Knight, in his book on forensic pathology, had written about spontaneous combustion and noted that such reported cases were almost always near an open fireplace or chimney.
"This fire was thoroughly investigated and I'm left with the conclusion that this fits into the category of spontaneous human combustion, for which there is no adequate explanation," he said.
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Another unfortunate victim of Jheri curl abuse.
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Not always. Nearly happened to one man while driving a car. He felt a burning sensation inside his thigh. He was on a road near a creek, so he stopped, jumped out of the car and ran to the creek and sunk his leg into cold water. That seemed to alleviate the problem. He then drove to a hospital and they x-rayed him. There was a bright (on film = in reality dark) spot of a size of a plum close to his thigh bone. No one knows how that works.
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Phil_b,
My thought was similar, except a good Irishman would never let whiskey stay on the outside of his body. Instead, I believe he let the alcohol content rise in his entire body to a combustable level, and the rest is history.
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Who knew Irishmen were flammable? Although, in retrospect, it is not surprising.
[Daily Nation (Kenya)] Thousands of jubilant people witnessed the inauguration of Michael Sata becoming Zambia's fifth President.
More than 5,000 supporters thronged the Supreme Court grounds in the capital Lusaka where President Sata, who was yesterday declared winner of Tuesday elections, took oath of office.
President Sata arrived at the Supreme Court in the company of his predecessor -- Rupiah Banda, and Zambia's founding President Kenneth Kaunda.
Addressing the gathering after taking oath of office before chief justice Ernest Sakala, who doubles as returning officer of presidential elections, President Sata thanked Zambians for their confidence in him and voting for him and his Patriotic Front (PF) party.
"As we move into the next chapter of Zambia's history, I had liked to recognise the peaceful and orderly transaction of power. It will be amiss of me if I did not acknowledge and thank my predecessor President Rupiah Bwezani Banda's contribution to this transaction," said 74-year-old Sata, saying he will treasure the Presidency.
Mr Banda had earlier conceded defeat and urged Zambians to rally behind his successor.
We will make every effort to make sure that at no time will you have cause to think that you misallocated your trust and confidence, he said.
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At this point, Putin has caught the imperial fever, and has convinced himself that only he is smart enough to run Russia. As such, he is the worst possible president.
I'm leaving this post though it's seriously OT and would ordinarily be mod-zapped, as it's already had some number of page views from our readers. But I really don't see a problem with the IRS trying to understand the burden of rules on the general population. I wish more government agencies gave it some thought.
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to issue a sole sourced purchase order to the University of Minnesota's Social Behavior Science Division Research Professors: Marsha Blumenthal and Laura Kalambolidis, for research experiments, data to explore the impacts of Behavioral experiments of alternative reporting regimes: transparency vs. burden.
The project involves a three-stage laboratory experiment to explore taxpayers' willingness to accept increased reporting burden in exchange for either earnings or non-transparency of earnings to the authority.
The first stage is designed to induce subjects to reveal their tendency to under-report taxable earnings in a voluntary reporting system with random audits and penalties for under-reporting.
The second stage tests subjects' willingness to pay for burden reduction when there is no opportunity to under-report earnings.
The third stage presents subjects with two alternative regimes.
One regime shall have no reporting burden, there shall be no opportunity to misreport.
In the alternative regime subjects shall have to track their earning (a burden,) but subjects shall have the opportunity to increase their payoff by misreporting.
Using our knowledge from the first two stages about subjects' tendency to under-report, analysis of third stage behavior shall tell us whether the regime choice is an effective mechanism for separating compliant and non-compliant taxpayers.
The G20 nations are preparing for an orderly default in early November following the G20 summit in Paris.
So who takes the haircut: the international banking and investment community or ordinary citizens? That is, I note, a rhetorical question...
Sources close to members involved in the meeting in Washington, USA, say that privately a default by Greece is seen as inevitable.
Baked in the cake for quite a while. Greece is no longer the problem, especially if the Euro Central Bank allows Euro banks to keep counting worthless Greek bonds as having some value.
Meetings in Washington this weekend are focused on preparing the ground on how to recapitalise the banks and preparing economies for default.
It is expected that emergency funding will keep Greece afloat through October until an announcement is made at the G20 meeting in Paris next month. It is not thought that Greek default necessarily means that Greece will have to leave the euro currency.
No no, certainly not! Let the Greeks continue to lie, spend, lie, steal, spend, lie, steal, spend and default. What could possibly go wrong (again)?
President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari ... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ... on Friday said that the havoc caused by floods during the last two years was a wake-up call for everyone to search for permanent solutions to natural disasters rooted in climate change. Last years record floods were the snooze alarm...
He called upon the national and international experts and the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... (UN) agencies to devise workable plans for countering the vagaries of climate change.
The president was addressing representatives of various UN agencies engaged in relief and rehabilitation work in Sindh, at Bilawal House here on Friday.
The President said that food, shelter, water and sanitation, health and logistics were critical clusters and called upon the relevant UN agencies and donors to coordinate with the Disaster Management Authority and relevant government departments for carrying out humanitarian assistance.
He said that all relevant state institutions, including the army and navy, had been geared up to play their role in the relief work.
The Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) and the Bait-ul-Maal had also been mobilised to provide assistance, he added.
Zardari thanked the UN secretary general for launching an urgent international appeal for humanitarian assistance despite the donors' fatigue.
He said that Badin and Thatta needed to be given special attention in view of a huge body of stagnant water accumulated in Badin that had jeopardised life, livestock and agriculture on a massive scale.
Spokesman to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the UN agencies and donors, whose representatives attended the meeting, included UNICEF, WHO, FAO, UNHCR, USAID, WFP and UN Habitat among others.
Speaker of the National Assembly Dr Fehmida Mirza, provincial ministers, President's Secretary General Salman Farooqui and senior federal and provincial government officials also attended the meeting.
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Not certain iff it was per this satellite, but I did visually observe a few minor fireballs in the PM skies off AGANA/HAGATNA BAY [WESTPAC] - the balls suddenly just "lit up" before disappearing just as quickly, from my vantage point coming down nearly perpendicular to the horizon. IMO PROLLY BURNED UP COMPLETELY JUST ABOVE THE EARTH'S SURFACE [mid-sky] AS I DID NOT SEE ANY THIN FIRE STREAKS OR LINES GOING ALL THE WAY DOWN TO THE SURFACE = HORIZON.
* AM NEWS = NASA is repor looking for possib "missing debris" that fell out of path when the satellite began to break up.
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ION C2CAM > [Future = near decades] SPACE STORMS TO POSE GREATER RISKS TO FLYERS + ASTRONAUTS, vee dangerous radiation hazards such that NASA's planned first manned mission to Mars before 2050 could be endangered or even cancelled.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A young Emirati woman admitted to having consensual sex with her cousin but produced her marriage contract in court, amid hopes that she and her lover could win leniency.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has backed PM Vladimir Putin to succeed him next year, ending speculation over which man would run for the post.
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The President said that food, shelter, water and sanitation, health and logistics were critical clusters and called upon the relevant UN agencies and donors to coordinate with the Disaster Management Authority and relevant government departments for carrying out humanitarian assistance.
