Thursday, July 15, 2010

Watch Online Fresh News: Pakistan has banned an Indian comedy called Tere Bin Laden (Without You Laden), about a lookalike of Osama Bin Laden.Videos ,


Pakistan bans India Osama Bin Laden Comedy Tere Bin Laden The film has a "fake" Bin Laden.

Pakistan has banned an Indian comedy called Tere Bin Laden (Without You Laden), about a lookalike of Osama Bin Laden.
The country's film censor board has objected to the way the movie portrays Bin Laden and warned that it could trigger a "terrorist attack".
The film was due to have been released in Pakistan on Friday.
Its main distributor told the BBC that an appeal has been filed against Thursday's decision.
In a statement the film board said that Tere Bin Laden was "unsuitable for public exhibition".
They said it was a "controversial subject which depicted the character of Osama Bin Laden in a comic way... and contains vulgar and objectionable dialogue, abuses and derogatory remarks".
The board said that the film also "portrayed a bad and negative image of law enforcing agencies of the country".
Touchy subject
Correspondents say that it is not unprecedented for Pakistan to ban films, especially if they are linked to India - Islamabad's longtime regional arch rival.
But the impact of such censorship is likely to be limited, correspondents say, because DVDs are the most common means of watching movies in the country and pirated ones are easily secured.
The BBC's Syed Shoaib Hasan says that although the announcement of the ban was unexpected, it was not altogether surprising as the country's government remains touchy on the subject of Bin Laden.



His current whereabouts are unknown, with some US officials maintaining that the world's most wanted man is hiding in Pakistan.
The main distributor for the film, Nadeem Mandviwala, told the BBC that the the ministry of culture will announce its decision against the appeal on Friday.
"I find it quite disturbing that we cannot portray Osama Bin Laden and the law enforcement agencies," Mr Mandviwala told the BBC.
"It's acceptable that we make comedies about the president and prime minister all the time, but not Osama."
Indian films are popular in Pakistan, though only some make it to the big screens.
Tere Bin Laden is about a struggling Pakistani journalist who tries to sell an interview of a fake Bin Laden as a scoop who wants to move to the US to fulfil his American dream.
When he comes across a person who looks like Osama, he decides to sell his interview as a scoop to the international media, which results in a series of goof-ups.
Though the film is a comedy, the director says they have been careful about the authenticity of locations in Karachi, facts about Osama Bin Laden and the context of the story.

Watch Online Fresh News; A drunk man who climbed into a crocodile enclosure in Australia.Video,

A drunk man who climbed into a crocodile enclosure in Australia and attempted to ride a 5m (16ft) long crocodile has survived his encounter.

The crocodile, called Fatso, bit the 36-year-old man's leg, tearing chunks of flesh from him as he straddled the reptile.
He received surgery to serious wounds to his leg and is recovering in hospital, police say.
He had been chucked out of a pub in the town of Broome for being too drunk.
The man, Michael Newman, climbed over a fence and tried to sit on the 800kg (1,800lb) saltwater crocodile.
If it had been warmer and Fatso was more alert, we would have been dealing with a fatality”
"Fatso has taken offence to this and has spun around and bit this man on the right leg," Sgt Roger Haynes of Broome police told journalists.
"The crocodile has let him go and he's been able to scale the fence again and leave the wildlife park."
'Right mind'
Malcolm Douglas, the park's owner, said that the crocodile was capable of crushing a man to death with a single bite.
"The man who climbed the fence was fortunate because Fatso was a bit more sluggish than normal, due to the cooler nights we have been experiencing in Broome," said Mr Douglas.
"If it had been warmer and Fatso was more alert, we would have been dealing with a fatality."
"No person in their right mind would try to sit on a 5m crocodile, Saltwater crocodiles, once they get hold of you, are not renowned for letting you go."
The man staggered back to the pub bleeding heavily.
Pub manager Mark Phillips said staff told him that the man reappeared at about 11pm with bits of bark hanging off him and flesh gouged out of his limbs.
"They said he had chunks out of his legs and things like that," Mr Phillips told The West Australian news website.
An average of two people are killed each year in Australia by aggressive saltwater crocodiles, which can grow up to 7m (23 ft) long and weigh more than a tonne.

Watch Online Fresh News; More than 20 people are feared dead and 100 injured in a suspected twin suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Iran. BBC News


More than 20 people are feared dead and 100 injured in a suspected twin suicide bomb attack at a mosque in Iran.

Iranian state media said "at least" 20 people were killed in the attack outside the Jamia mosque in the south-eastern city of Zahedan.
Thursday's attacks at a Shia mosque in a largely Sunni area were the work of suicide bombers, Iranian media said.
Members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard were reportedly killed in the blast.
No group immediately said it had carried out the attacks, which happenedat around 21.20 local time (16.50 GMT).
The attack on the Grand Mosque in the capital of Sistan-Baluchestan province came as worshippers celebrated the anniversary of the birth of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Muhammad.
'Suicide operation'
More than 20 people were killed and at least 100 injured, Fariborz Rashedi, the head of the medical emergency department in the province, was quoted as saying by Iran's Irna state news agency.
Zahedan member of parliament Hossein Ali Shahriari said the first suicide attack was carried out by a bomber dressed as a woman.
"The attacker, dressed in women's clothing, was trying to get in the mosque, but was prevented," Mr Shahriari told Fars, an Iranian news agency.
"When people came to rescue those hit in that blast, another bomber blew himself up. Three to four have been killed at least in the first attack."
Deputy interior minister Ali Abdollahi described the attack as a "suicide operation", AFP news agency said.
The Sistan-Baluchistan province is home to the Jundallah insurgency, a Sunni group that has claimed responsibility for bombings that have killed scores of people in recent years

Watch Online Fresh News: In the next 40 years, the world is going to need a 70 percent increase in food production to feed a population,Article.


The case for eating insects

In the next 40 years, the world is going to need a 70 percent increase in food production to feed a population that will be billions larger and considerably wealthier than it is today.
Where is that food going to come from? Dutch entomologist Marcel Dicke has at least a partial answer in the six-legged creatures we call insects.
Take another look at the locust; Dicke thinks we should think of it as the “shrimp of the land,” a delicacy that people should prize.
Speaking at the TED Global conference in Oxford, England Thursday, Dicke made the case for eating insects, which come in six million species and make up 80 percent of the animals on earth. “We’re not on a planet of man but a planet of insects,” he told the audience.
Four of every five people already eat insects intentionally and they’re prized as delicacies in China and Southeast Asia. Dicke showed a photo of his visit to Lijiang, China, where he ate caterpillars, locusts and bee pupae.
The rest of us eat insects unintentionally. He pointed out that, in the United States, for example, a fair amount of insect content is legally allowed in food. Chocolate can have 60 insect components per 100 grams; peanut butter can have 30 insect parts for every 100 grams; fruit juice can have five fruitfly eggs and 1 to 2 larvae for every 250 milliliters.
Insects are a particularly efficient crop. The same amount of feed can produce 9 times as much locust food as beef, Dicke said. That will come in handy because the world won’t only have more mouths to feed; those mouths will belong to people who are more affluent, and typically will eat more and demand more meat. The potential for the growth of livestock production is very limited, Dicke said.
Why are many people in the west reluctant to eat insects? Dicke said it’s “a matter of mindset.” To help change that mindset, Dicke served insect-covered chocolate to moderator Bruno Giussani, the European director of TED, who first protested, “I’m on a diet” before giving one a try.
Cookies topped with bugs were served in the break after Dicke’s speech.
In the service of journalism, CNN’s team sampled them. Our review: sweet, crunchy - and nutritious.

Watch Online Fresh News: Russian investigators have identified the killer of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, Article,


Killer of Natalia Estemirova 'on wanted list'

Russian investigators have identified the killer of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova, President Dmitry Medvedev has said.

During a visit to Germany Mr Medvedev said an "international search" was under way for the suspect.
The announcement comes after German Chancellor Angela Merkel called on Russia to "find the truth" about the killing of the Chechen rights worker.
Ms Estemirova's body was found a year ago near the Chechen Capital Grozny.
But Mr Medvedev did not identify the suspect - to avoid prejudicing any case against them, he said.
The human rights worker, who had documented hundreds of cases of abuse against civilians by government backed militias, had been abducted from her office before her body was found.
"It's wrong to say that there is no investigation, the perpetrator of this murder, the killer, has been uncovered and definitely identified," Mr Medvedev said.
'Vital leads'
Ms Estemirova had worked for the prize-winning campaign group Memorial since the second Chechen War in 1999.
On Wednesday her colleagues and family accused the authorities of ignoring vital leads in the investigation.
Elena Milashina, a reporter from the Novaya Gazeta newspaper who knew Ms Estemirova, said DNA clues had not been followed up.
"[She] must have struggled with her captors because investigators obtained DNA samples of three people from under her fingernails," Ms Milashina told London's Guardian Newspaper
"Why have no samples been taken from the [local] police officers for comparative study?"
Investigators had previously said one of the people responsible for the murder was a rebel fighter who had been killed in a shootout with Russian special forces last autumn.
Her colleagues find that scenario far too convenient, the BBC's Rupert Wingfield Hayes in Moscow.
They believe her real killers are linked to the pro-Moscow regime of Chechen president Ramzan Kadyrov, and because of that will never be brought to justice, our correspondent says.

Watch Online Fresh News: Argentine Senate backs bill legalising gay marriage, Article.

Argentine Senate backs bill legalising gay marriage


Argentina has become the first country in Latin America to legalise gay marriage after the Senate voted in favour.

Debate continued until the early hours of Thursday
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The country's Chamber of Deputies had already approved the legislation.
The vote in the Senate, which backed the bill by just six votes, came after 14 hours of at times heated debate.
The law, which also allows same-sex couples to adopt, had met with fierce opposition from the Catholic Church and other religious groups.
The legislation, backed by President Cristina Fernandez's centre-left government, passed by 33 votes to 27 with three abstentions.
Demonstrators hold a banner that reads in Spanish "Neither union nor adoption. Only: men and women" outside Congress in Buenos Aires on 14 July There were demonstrations for and against the bill outside Congress as senators debated
There were demonstrations for and against the bill outside Congress as senators debated.

Outside Congress, as the debate continued into the early hours of Thursday, supporters and opponents of the bill held rival demonstrations.
"Nearly every political and social figure has spoken out in favour of marriage equality," said Maria Rachid, president of the Argentine Federation of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals and Transsexuals.
"And we hope that the Senate reflects this and that Argentina, from today forward, is a more just country for all families," she told the Associated Press.
Ines Frank, from a group called Argentine Families Argentina, said opposition was not discrimination "because the essence of a family is between two people of opposite sexes".
There have been several gay marriages recently in Argentina, some of which were annulled by the Supreme Court, creating a legal controversy.
Civil unions between people of the same sex are legal in Buenos Aires and in some other provinces but there was no law to regulate it on a country-wide level.
Argentina's capital is widely considered to be among the most gay-friendly cities in Latin America. It was the first Latin American city to legalise same-sex unions.

Same-sex civil unions are also legal in Uruguay and some states in Brazil and Mexico, while gay marriage is legal in Mexico City.