Watch what you eat: 'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop
Police in Russia have arrested three homeless men suspected of killing a man, eating part of the body and selling other parts to a kebab shop.
The men were held in the city of Perm, some 1,400km (870 miles) east of Moscow, local investigators said.
Their statement said that the suspects had targeted the 25-year-old victim out of "personal hostility".
It was not clear when the incident occurred. The men - who have not been named - have been charged with murder.
The investigators said on Friday that the body of the man had been found in a forested area near a public transport stop in Perm.
They said the three men attacked their victim with knives and a hammer.
"After carrying out the attack, the corpse was dismembered. Part of it was eaten and part was also sold to a kebab and pie kiosk," their statement said.
It was not immediately clear if any customers had been served.
'Body sold' to Russia kebab shop
'I agreed to become a suicide bomber'
A 14-year-old boy in the tribal region of Bajaur, in north-west Pakistan, says he was detained by Taliban forces who tried to turn him into a suicide bomber. The boy is now in army hands.
He provided a detailed account to BBC correspondent Orla Guerin. His story cannot be independently verified.
There were five people who came after me from a place in Bajaur. They tricked me. They told me they were going to behead my father.
I went with them but my father wasn't there. They tied me up.
They said: 'You have two choices. We will behead you, or you will become a suicide bomber.' I refused.
There were two more guys of my age. They were also training to be suicide bombers. If we refused they would tie our hands behind our backs, blindfold us and start beating us.
They brainwashed us and told us we would go to heaven. They said 'there will be honey and juice and God will appear in front of you. You will have a beautiful house in Heaven'.
We used to ask them to let us out to pray. They would reply 'you are already on your way to heaven. You don't need to pray.'
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The BNP scaremongering against Islam and Muslims?
Allahu Akbar – The enemy within
Events in the United States of America at a military base in Texas show how dangerous the wrong kind of policies of the so called politically correct elites can be. Major Nidal Malik Hasan, a psychiatrist working for the US Army, shouted Allahu Akbar (God is Great) and opened fire and killed thirteen people who were caught totally unprepared.
The British National Party opposes the illegal military intervention of Western forces in Islamic countries. We have rejected the said intervention from the very beginning because we see it as neo-colonialism and by the same token the British National Party reclaims the fundamental right of the British peoples of being the masters of their own destiny in Britain.
The tragic events I refer to took place in Texas, the birthplace of a now former American President who launched a war under false pretenses – an oil war – and disguised it as war against weapons of mass destruction that never existed and with the sole purpose of regime change.
Today, it happened in America and tomorrow it will happen in Britain where military bases will come under attack from the enemy within. Just hours ago, we saw it in Afghanistan when somebody who was supposed to be an ally opened fire injuring and killing British soldiers.
It does not require a lot of imagination to think that the placards we saw in Luton, raised against British soldiers returning from the battlefield, can easily be replaced by guns that will destroy lives. Many of those who raised the placards were born and bred in Britain and do not see themselves as British and will never be British – not because they will not be allowed to be British, but because they really do not want to be British and have no loyalty towards Britain.
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Agree? Disagree? is it scaremongering or are Muslims something real to fear? Is the article not simply stating facts?
Swiss Muslims open mosque doors
Muslims in many parts of Switzerland have invited the public into mosques - three weeks before a vote on whether to ban the construction of minarets.
Muslim organisations say they hope their open day will counter what they say are fears and prejudices.
The conservative group that initiated the vote - the largest party in the Swiss parliament - says minarets are a symbol of Muslim political power.
Opinion polls suggest the proposed ban will be rejected by voters.
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Pair guilty of £15 debt murders
Two teenagers face life sentences after being convicted of murdering a girl and her grandmother in a fire in east London as revenge for an unpaid debt.
Jake Sheehan, 19, of Bethnal Green, and David Philip, an 18-year-old from Bow, had denied the charges but were found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey.
Shannon Vickers, 17, and Pauline Adams, 57, were killed last February.
The home they shared, on the fifth floor of Malmesbury House in Cyprus Street, Bethnal Green, was set alight.
"Sheehan and Philip had been involved in a long-running dispute with Mrs Adams's grandson over the debt," said Det Insp Larry Smith of the Metropolitan Police.
"The grandson lived with Mrs Adams and Shannon," he added.
'Callous' attitude
Sheehan and Philip told the grandson they would burn his house down, the court heard.
They carried out their threat by pouring petrol through the flat's letter box and igniting it.
"Pauline Adams and Shannon Vickers would have been asleep when the fire was set," said prosecution QC Simon Denison.
"They both woke up. Pauline went to Shannon's bedroom.
"Shannon was heard screaming for just a few seconds but she was not heard again.
"They were both overcome by the smoke and the fumes and they died together, lying side by side - two completely innocent people killed over a £15 debt and not losing face."
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Malaysia withholds 'Allah Bibles'
The Malaysian government has refused to release 10,000 Bibles which it seized because they contained the word Allah to refer to God.
The government, which is dominated by Muslim Malays, claims that the word Allah is Islamic and that its use in Bibles could upset Muslims.
The Roman Catholic Church is challenging the ban in court.
Religion has become highly sensitive in Malaysia, where about two-thirds of the population is Muslim.
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Sex education opt out is reduced
Parents' right to pull their children out of sex education classes in England is being ended once the pupils turn 15.
The change means all pupils will get at least one year of sex and relationship education before their 16th birthday once it becomes compulsory in 2011.
Currently some 0.04% of parents choose to use the opt-out, but that number could grow once it is compulsory.
Under these plans, even faith schools will have to cover areas such as same sex relationships and contraception.
However, governing bodies will still be able to ensure classes reflect the religious ethos of the school.
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Israeli physicists supply solar and wind power to Palestinian herders
SUSYA, occupied West Bank (IPS) - Hundreds of impoverished Palestinian herders and farmers living in caves and tents in a remote area of the Palestinian West Bank have been provided free electricity due to the ingenuity of two Israeli physicists.
The goat and sheep farming community of Susya, comprising clans of about 25 large families, had until recently followed a centuries-old tradition of subsistence farming without access to electricity.
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But following the intervention of Comet-ME, one of 12 finalists of the BBC's World Challenge, a global competition aimed at projects showing enterprise and innovation at a grassroots level, Susya made international headlines.
Israeli physicist Elad Orian together with fellow physicist Noam Dotan, both pro-peace activists and founders of Comet-ME, have spent the last two years installing a high-grid wind and solar system free of charge in Susya.
"The core of our activity is the provision of basic energy services for off-grid communities using solar and wind power, in a way that is both environmentally and socially sustainable," Orian told IPS.
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Feeling grumpy 'is good for you'
n a bad mood? Don't worry - according to research, it's good for you.
An Australian psychology expert who has been studying emotions has found being grumpy makes us think more clearly.
In contrast to those annoying happy types, miserable people are better at decision-making and less gullible, his experiments showed.
While cheerfulness fosters creativity, gloominess breeds attentiveness and careful thinking, Professor Joe Forgas told Australian Science Magazine.
'Eeyore days'
The University of New South Wales researcher says a grumpy person can cope with more demanding situations than a happy one because of the way the brain "promotes information processing strategies".
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Emmerich reveals fear of fatwa axed 2012 scene
Roland Emmerich, the director of the 'end of days' disaster movie, had wanted to depict the destruction of Islam's holiest site, but was persuaded not to
He blew up the Empire State Building and the White House in Independence Day, sent a giant monster careering through the heart of Manhattan in Godzilla and destroyed the famous Hollywood sign in The Day After Tomorrow. But it seems there are places even Roland Emmerich will not go - the German film-maker has revealed he abandoned plans to obliterate Islam's holiest site on the big screen for fear of attracting a fatwa.
For his latest disaster movie, 2012, the 53-year-old director had wanted to demolish the Kaaba, the iconic cube-shaped structure in the Grand Mosque in Mecca that Muslims the world over turn towards every day when they pray and which they circle seven times during the hajj pilgrimage.
But after some consideration, he decided it might not be such a smart idea, after all.
"I wanted to do that, I have to admit," Emmerich told scifiwire.com. "But my co-writer Harald [Kloser] said I will not have a fatwa on my head because of a movie. And he was right.
"We have to all, in the western world, think about this. You can actually let Christian symbols fall apart, but if you would do this with [an] Arab symbol, you would have ... a fatwa, and that sounds a little bit like what the state of this world is.
"So it's just something which I kind of didn't [think] was [an] important element, anyway, in the film, so I kind of left it out."
Read more @ The Guardian