Daily Archives: June 8, 2013

‘I’m here for you Paris’: Disgraced doctor Conrad Murray’s bizarre offer of support to troubled daughter of Michael Jackson from behind bars

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d5Disgraced doctor Conrad Murray – who is currently in jail for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson – has reached out to troubled teen Paris Jackson to offer his compassion and support.

His audio message to Paris – which he recorded behind bars – comes following the 15-year-old allegedly tried to end her own life on Wednesday by taking a large number of painkillers and slashed her writs with a knife.

He has apparently attempted to contact Paris while she recovers in hospital under a psychiatric order.

According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, he said: ‘Paris, this is a letter to you. I don’t know what you are going through but I am sure whatever it is must be difficult.

‘I can tell you are not doing well and I don’t know if there is anything I can do to solve your pain or help you with your problem.

‘But I wanted you to know that I am here for you. I’ve never been gone. I always will be available to listen to you, answer questions or share with you a plethora or beautiful untold stories of your father, as well as venerable thoughts of you that he shared with me.

‘Paris has been very, very depressed for a while. She’s been throwing fits and tantrums, kicking and screaming and cutting herself,’ a source told People magazine.

‘She misses her father greatly,’ the source adds. ‘She was the center of Michael’s world and it’s all different now. She says that she is lonely and that she doesn’t feel loved.’

Paris has also allegeldy been in arguments with her brother, Prince Michael, after she started growing close to her biological mother, Debbie Rowe, who she was denied to spend much time with when her father was alive.

The developing relationship has apparently created a rift within the Jackson family as Paris and her brother have differing opinions of spending time with their mother.

 

Google chief calls Internet spying threat to freedoms

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2Google-ի տնօրենը համացանցի լրտեսությունն անվանում է ազատությանն ուղղվաGoogle chief Larry Page on Friday branded Internet spying a threat to freedoms and called for governments to be more revealing about what they try to find out about people’s online activities.

“We understand that the US and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety — including sometimes by using surveillance,” Page said in a blog post.
“But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish.”
Page put his personal stamp on the California-based Internet giant’s denial that it opened any doors for US intelligence agencies to mine data from its servers.
Google and other technology firms on Thursday were adamant that they did not knowingly take part in a secret program called PRISM that gave the National Security Agency (NSA) and the FBI back doors into servers at major Internet companies.
“We have not joined any program that would give the US government or any other government direct access to our servers,” Page said.
“Indeed, the US government does not have direct access or a ‘back door’ to the information stored in our data centers,” he continued. “We had not heard of a program called PRISM until yesterday.”

French geographers publish global atlas on sexuality

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1Ֆրանսիացի աշխարհագրագետները ստեղծել են սեռական ակտիվության համաշխաWhere are people most unfaithful? Who uses sex toys? On a darker level, where is child rape more prevalent? French geographers have tried to answer these questions and others in a global atlas on sexuality.

“Sexuality is everywhere on our city walls and on our screens, in lighter news or in darker events,” said Nadine Cattan, research director in geography at France’s National Center for Scientific Research.
“We wanted to cover all this worldwide to try and understand it a bit better,” she said, adding the research had lasted 18 months.
The atlas covers multiple areas, such as what it calls a “sexual and amorous transition” happening in Europe, where infidelity is on the rise.
Using data drawn across five European countries from the 1.5 million members of Gleeden — a dating site for married people who want affairs — the atlas pinpoints Paris as the city where most people are unfaithful.
According to the data, more than half of those who cheat on their partners are highly educated, and 22 percent work in finance, banking or insurance. The major reason cited for infidelity is a desire to test their seduction power.
In Greece, Poland and Brazil, some 80 percent of the population think sex is very important, while in Thailand and Japan just 38 percent do, it says.
In Europe, people in Britain, Norway and Sweden are the most avid users of sex toys, citing a report by condom maker Durex, while southern countries including France are not that interested.
It adds that many countries have taken measures to address sexual harassment, such as women-only bus lines in Mexico and similar initiatives in cities in Brazil, Egypt and Japan.

Nelson Mandela Hospitalized: Former South African President in ‘Serious But Stable Condition’

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gty_nelson_mandela_ll_130328_wgNelson Mandela, the former president of South Africa, is in “serious but stable condition” after contracting a lung infection, South Africa officials said.

The 94-year-old Nobel Peace prize winner’s “condition deteriorated and he was transferred to a Pretoria hospital,” early Saturday morning according to statement from the office of South African President Jacob Zuma.

“The former President is receiving expert medical care and doctors are doing everything possible to make him better and comfortable,” the statement said. “President Jacob Zuma, on behalf of government and the nation, wishes Madiba a speedy recovery and requests the media and the public to respect the privacy of Madiba and his family.”

In April, Mandela spent 18 days in the hospital due to a lung infection and was treated for gall stones in December 2012.

 

At least 42 dead and 30 injured after Chinese bus burst into flames in rush hour

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ch1At least 42 people have died and 33 others were injured in a rush hour bus fire in southeast China.

An express bus burst into flames while on an elevated roadway in the prosperous port city of Xiamen, state media reported.

A local fire official who only gave his surname, Sun, said bodies were piled up inside the bus. He said the cause of the fire was being investigated.

Xinhua News Agency quoted a survivor as saying she smelt petrol and then saw a fire spreading rapidly.

An official news site, Xiamen Net, said witnesses heard sounds of explosions after the fire had been burning for about 10 minutes.

China’s public transit has been expanding rapidly over the past decade, but there are worries that the country is sacrificing safety in its rush to roll out modern services.

Anti-gay campaigners in Russia tell Elton John: ‘Wear flamboyant clothes at your concert and we’ll protest in the streets’

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e4Elton John has been told to lose his flamboyant stage costumes for an upcoming concert in Russia – or face protests by anti-gay campaigners.

The singer, who will play in the southern city of Krasnodar next month, has been told by a communist group that his usual outfits are ‘homosexual propaganda’ that could breach local laws where promoting homosexuality is a criminal offence.

The country’s Communists of Russia party has instead suggested that the 66-year-old performer should wear ‘more respectable’ traditional Cossack clothes for his concert.

Local party leader Mikhail Abramyan recommended that Elton don a knee-length kaftan, knee-high leather boots, and a fur hat for the July 14th gig.

He said: ‘It would be more respectable.  We have suggested it to the promoters and we hope he’ll wear it.’, according to Russian news agency Ria Novosti.

A spokesman for Elton John did not wish to comment this afternoon.

 

Supermodel Naomi Campbell to stand trial after ‘attack on Italian photographer which put him in hospital’

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NBCUniversal's "2013 Winter TCA Tour" Day 2 - ArrivalsNaomi Campbell has been ordered to stand trial for an alleged attack on an Italian photographer, which put him in hospital.

The supermodel allegedly flew at paparazzo Gaetano Di Giovanni battering him and scratching him, after he took pictures of her on holiday with her billionaire ex-boyfriend.

Mr Di Giovanni claimed his face was scratched and bruised after Miss Campbell, allegedly slapped him and hit him with her handbag.

The supermodel’s ‘nails had damaged his left eye’, he told Italian newspaper La Repubblica.

‘For a few seconds I could not see a thing. I could hear that her bodyguards and her boyfriend were trying to drag her away.’

Miss Campbell denies the allegations and in a statement today her spokesman said: ‘Three years ago Ms Campbell was the victim of paparazzi harassment in Italy.

The alleged attack took place on the island of Lipari off the coast of Sicily in July 2009.

Di Giovanni claims it took three days to recover from an eye injury, which he said was certified by medical experts at a local emergency room.