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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 METRO HERALD
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Anti-semite ‘shot christians’ Mother mauled by bear
AMERicA: The murder suspect who shot dead people at Jewishrelated sites in Kansas on Sunday killed two Christians. White supremacist Frazier Glenn Cross, 73 (pictured), shot a doctor and his 14-year-old grandson before killing an unnamed woman.
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AMERicA: A MOTHER-of-three escaped death when a 90kg bear clamped her head in its mouth and tried to drag her off into woods. Terri Frana, 45, needed 30 staples in her head after the animal attacked on Saturday. ‘It was terrifying, she just kept biting,’ said Mrs Frana from Orlando, Florida.
Mass DNA test to find rapist Film wins a fair fu awards
FRANcE: A school is to DNA test 527 staff and students in a bid to identify the person who raped a 16-year-old girl in a toilet. Headteacher Chantal Devaux said the mass screening was ‘the only way to advance the investigation’. The attack took place in September at the Fenelon Notre-Dame school in La Rochelle. The cost to analyse the samples is estimated to be €5,000.
cHiNA: Forget 12 Years A Slave or Gravity – it was kung fu epic The Grandmaster that cleaned up at the Hong Kong Film Awards. The movie, featuring Zhang Ziyi (pictured), 35, won a record 12 prizes, including best film and best director.
You’re wailing to evade court, ‘bulldog’ Nel tells Pistorius by jOEL TAYLOR
OSCAR PISTORIUS wailed and sobbed in court yesterday as he was accused of ‘concocting’ stories about the night his girlfriend was shot dead. Shortly before the murder trial adjourned for the day, chief prosecutor Gerrie Nel said: ‘You’re getting emotional now because you’re getting frustrated because your version [of events] is improbable. You’re not using your emotional state as an escape are you?’ Pistorius, accused of deliberately firing his 9mm pistol at Reeva Steenkamp, broke down crying four times. He wept when he was asked to repeat the order to leave that he says he shouted to the ‘intruder’ before firing through the toilet door of his home. Pistorius sobbed and wailed again when Mr Nel insisted that he knew he was firing at his girlfriend. Mr Nel says she was hiding from him after they had a bitter argument in the early hours of February 14 last year. ‘I did not fire at Reeva,’ wailed Pistorius as the judge announced the day’s second unscheduled break. After the judge left the courtroom, Pistorius
Murder scene: The toilet door stood sobbing with his body trembling and turned away from the gallery. Mr Nel again accused Pistorius of tailoring his version to fit evidence at the scene. Mr Nel, nicknamed ‘bulldog’, listed alleged inconsistencies in Pistorius’s account and told him he had ‘concocted’ his version of the shooting. ‘You’re tailoring your version as you’re sitting there,’ Mr Nel said. Mr Nel alleged the Olympic runner lowered his aim with his 9 mm pistol to ensure he hit Ms Steenkamp, 29, as she fell back against a magazine rack. Pistorius, 27, who denies murder, faces more questions about the toilet cubicle today when the case continues.
Mother ‘suffocated’ six babies A MOTHER accused of killing six babies told police she strangled or suffocated them then hid them in boxes in her garage. Megan Huntsman, 39, gave birth to seven babies between 1996 and 2006 and immediately killed six of them – the seventh was stillborn, police said. She was arrested after her estranged
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husband, Darren West, found the bodies in her home in Pleasant Grove, Utah, on Saturday. Ex-convict Mr West is not a person of interest in the case, say police. Asked how Mr West could not have known about the bodies, Capt Michael Roberts said: ‘That’s the million-dollar question. Amazing.’
cHiLE: A rescue worker bows his head in despair after fires killed 12 people, destroying 500 homes in Valparaiso reuters
cHiNA: Toddlers are likely to bawl when older children hog the swings at the park, but not for those living in the south-west city of Chongqing, where a 400m-long swing set with 200 seats has been built to celebrate the area’s sunny climate.