ASHBURTON GUARDIAN, Friday, May 10, 2013
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Man faces rape, kidnap charges
• Woman harpooned A 28-year -old woman miraculously survived after her husband accidentally shot her in the mouth with a harpoon, Brazilian officials said. The Rio de Janeiro State Health Department said the woman’s husband was cleaning his spear gun when it went off, firing a harpoon that hit her spine. Elisangela Borborema Rosa was rushed to the hospital and underwent emergency surgery; the harpoon came within 1cm of killing her. She is expected to make a full recovery. - AAP
Authorities filed Rican neighbourhood rape and kidnapping said Ariel Castro had charges yesterday taken part in the against a US man search for one of the after three women missing women, permissing for about a formed music at a decade were found fundraiser for her and alive at his home. attended a candleThe women were light vigil, where he subjected to procomforted her mothlonged sexual and er. Two of the women psychological abuse were welcomed home and suffered miscaryesterday by jubiAmanda Berry riages, a city councillant crowds. Neither man briefed on the case said. Berry nor Gina DeJesus, about Police told a news conference 23, spoke publicly, and their famithat the women went outside just lies pleaded for patience and time twice over the years. alone. Puerto Rican-born Ariel Castro, The third captive, Michelle 52, was charged with four counts Knight, 32, was reported in good of kidnapping — covering all three condition at a local hospital. captives and the daughter born to All three women apparently had one of them while she was held — been held captive in the house and three counts of rape against since their teens or early 20s, the three women. Prosecutors police said. Law enforcement offibrought no charges against his cials left many questions unanbrothers, Pedro, 54, and Onil, 50, swered, including how the women saying there was no evidence they were taken captive. had any part in the crime. Deputy police Chief Ed Tomba Councilman Brian Cummins said a paternity test on Ariel said many details remained Castro was being done to estabunclear, including the number of lish who fathered Berry’s now pregnancies and the conditions 6-year-old child. under which the miscarriages Police Chief Michael McGrath occurred. He said the women were earlier told NBC he was “absokept in the basement for some lutely” sure police did everything time without having access to the they could to find the women over rest of the house. Police said they the years. He disputed claims by were apparently bound with ropes neighbours that officers had been and chains. called to the house before for sus“It sounds pretty gruesome,” picious circumstances. Cummins said. “We have no record of those calls The women’s plight has riveted coming in over the past 10 years,” the US since 27-year-old Amanda McGrath said. Berry kicked through a screen Neighbours and those who know door at the house Tuesday, used Ariel Castro said he joined in the a neighbour’s telephone to call search for DeJesus nearly a decauthorities and told a police dis- ade ago and comforted her mother patcher, “I’m free now.” An officer just a year ago at a vigil. showed up minutes later, and “When we went out to look for Berry ran out and threw her arms Gina, he helped pass out fliers,” around the officer, a neighbor said Khalid Samad, a commusaid. nity activist who said Castro was Neighbours in the largely Puerto friends with DeJesus’ father. - AP
• Sandwich lobby The Queensland student accused of throwing a sandwich at the prime minister says he is innocent. Kyle Thomson, 16, was among a group of teens who jeered at Julia Gillard during a visit to Marsden State High School, south of Brisbane. A sandwich was hurled in the direction of Ms Gillard, but it missed her. Kyle was accused of throwing the sandwich and has been suspended from school for 15 days. He denied the allegations, telling the Nine Network he was instead trying to stop another student from throwing the sandwich. - AAP AP Photo/Chicago Zoological Society, Jim Schulz
Rare baby sloths finally make public show Two sloth bear cubs are seen on exhibit with their mom Hani at the Brookfield Zoo in Brookfield. Until this week, the 3½-month-old male and female cubs, born January 20 have been off exhibit with their mother in a maternity den. A total of fewer than 20,000 bears are thought to remain in the wild. There is evidence of wild populations having declined 30 to 49 per cent in the last 30 years due to deforestation and poaching mainly for the medicinal market. Currently, there are 39 sloth bears exhibited at 18 North American zoos accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.
Probiotics boost stamina in heat: Research Probiotics help extend the time people can be active in hot conditions, according to research with implications for athletes, miners, firefighters and the military. A clinical trial in Tasmania shows athletes can run for 14 per cent longer in hot conditions after being given probiotics. The trial was conducted at 35°C in 40 per cent humidity and the
athletes were compared to a placebo group, says Dr Cecilia Shing, who leads research into nutrition and exercise in health and chronic disease at the University of Tasmania. Dr Shing will tell the BioCeuticals Research Symposium in Sydney today that probiotics have the potential to help improve immune function and maintain gut health
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during periods of intense exercise and exercise in hot environments. They could also help prevent fluid restriction during exercise. Probiotics help improve heat tolerance and the research has implications for people working in high-temperature environments, she said. “Probiotics help maintain physical work performance which
could potentially help keep people alert in hot conditions and reduce heat-related illnesses.” Probiotics reduce inflammation and improve the gut-barrier function during extreme exertion, she said. Dr Shing’s research, conducted in collaboration with scientists in England and Singapore, is under peer review before publi- AAP cation.
French woman finds US vet’s tags in garden A small, weathered piece Blood everywhere. Parts. of silver has finally finished All he knew was to pick up its journey from a backthose bodies for the family yard in southern France to members of dead soldiers.” the 90-year-old US veteran Willie Wilkins later who lost his identification returned to the US and on the battlefield during worked on an assembly World War Two. line. He was a happy man Sixty-nine years after who doted on his only losing his dog tag, Willie daughter, but he had a Wilkins reclaimed it this nervous breakdown and week in a surprise cerpost-traumatic stress disemony. order and retired at age “I am so happy,” his 44, his daughter said. daughter, Carol Wilkins, Willie Wilkins and his Willie Wilkins said. “You don’t know what family were convinced his joy is on my heart for what you have done dog tag would remain buried somewhere for my father.” in the bloody battlefields of Provence. In August 1944, Willie Wilkins was part But in a backyard 6430km away, in of the Allied invasion, and his job was Istres, France, Anne-Marie Crespo was one of the grimmest. He was responsible tilling the soil around an olive tree on a for removing and identifying the bodies of spring day in 2001 and found it. dead servicemen and having them buried Crespo knew the small piece of metal or transported back to the US. At some stamped with a name and numbers point, Wilkins’s silver dog tag slipped off belonged to a soldier and showed it to his neck. visitors. One took photos of the dog tag “It could have been an arm, it could have and sent them to her brother, Philippe been a hip that dragged it off, because Clerbout. Clerbout posted the pictures in he was picking up dead bodies,” Carol an online history forum and eventually Wilkins said. “He said it was horrible. tracked Wilkins down. - AP
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The man who was the original voice of Charlie Brown in Peanuts television specials was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon, then immediately released to a residential drug treatment centre. A judge warned Peter Robbins that he could be sent to prison for nearly four years if he violates the terms of his probation. “Don’t be a blockhead,” Superior Court Judge Dwayne Moring told Robbins, borrowing a line from Charlie Brown’s friend - AP Lucy.
• Ship hits port Nine people are feared dead after a container ship crashed in Italy’s busiest port of Genoa, bringing down a 50-metre control tower in an accident that revived memories of last year’s Costa Concordia cruise ship disaster. The Jolly Nero ploughed into the dock in the night during a standard manoeuvre as it was being steered to exit the port on its way to Naples with a cargo of industrial vehicles and containers. Some of the victims were thrown into the water, while others were trapped in the tower’s lift, which plunged into the sea, emergency workers said. - AFP
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