Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes,Video,

Russian wildfires kill 25; Putin calls for officials' resignations
By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1908 GMT (0308 HKT)

Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in Russia, among the worst ever there, have killed 25 people, destroyed more than 1,000 homes, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, response officials and Russian news agencies reported Friday.

The fires have been raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record. Thursday saw Moscow reach 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius), the highest temperature since records began in 1879.

The fires are the worst ever to hit the European part of Russia, the region west of the Ural Mountains, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said there have been 21,690 fires so far this summer, 10 percent more than last year, the news agency reported.

President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Defense Ministry on Friday to use the military to help tackle the fires, the president's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told the Interfax news agency.
The government has already dispatched additional firefighting units, along with 16 aircraft and helicopters, to fight the fires, RIA-Novosti said.

Putin and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu flew Friday to one of the affected regions, Nizhny Novgorod, where Putin called on local officials to step down.

"I recommend the resignation of the heads of regions (devastated by fire) who have, to a significant degree, lost the trust of citizens," Putin said, according to RIA-Novosti.

Many residents who lost their homes in Nizhny Novgorod had complained to Putin that local authorities' actions were "chaotic and uncoordinated," RIA-Novosti reported.

The fires have so far killed 25 people, including two firefighters, according to an official at the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry. Across the 14 fire-striken regions of central Russia, 1,257 homes have burned, and some 2,000 people have been left without housing. Sixty homes were burned in the region of Moscow.

"I don't know what to do," one Voronezh woman told state TV. "Haven't got any bed linen, cups, spoons, forks left. We're left with nothing. Everything was burned down. We couldn't salvage anything."

Putin said the families of those who died will receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) each in compensation, and the government will pay around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each destroyed house, RIA-Novosti said.

Putin also said the government will compensate people for the loss of property, the news agency said.

Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 95 Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) during the past five weeks, RIA-Novosti said.

Thursday's temperature in Moscow broke the previous record high of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius), set just three days earlier. The month of July is expected to break the record for the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow.

High temperatures in Moscow dropped to between 82 and 86 Fahrenheit (28 to 30 Celsius) Friday because of a breeze, but weekend temperatures were forecast to rise again.

The threat of more fires breaking out will remain high in the Central and Volga Federal Districts next week, given the abnormal heart wave and the lack of rain, the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia has reported on its web site.

The hot, dry weather is believed to have dried out large parts of land, making it easier for flames to spread. Central Russia also has large areas of peat bogs that often catch on fire in dry and hot weather.

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Scarred but alive after riding the train of death
By Karl Penhaul, CNN July 30, 2010 -- Updated 2011 GMT (0411 HKT)

Watch Karl Penhaul's full report on CNN International's "World's Untold Stories" on Saturday at 1630 GMT (12:30 p.m. ET) and Sunday at 1100 /1830 GMT (7 a.m./2:30 p.m. ET).

Arriaga, Mexico (CNN) -- The first thing you notice about Jessica Ochoa is her huge brown eyes.

She's a petite Salvadoran and was coming up to her 21st birthday when I met her in the southern Mexican border town of Tapachula.

The next thing you notice is her stiff walk. Her right leg was severed in February 2009, when she fell off a cargo train. The train's steel wheels did the rest.

By the time she reached the hospital, doctors say, she'd lost almost half her blood. What was left of her lower right leg and foot lay by the side of the tracks in a sock and tennis shoe.

Like thousands of other illegal migrants every year, Ochoa had been heading to "El Norte," which in Spanish translates as "The North" but means the United States.

Her American dream was to work hard and gradually save enough to buy a brick-and-concrete home for her mother to replace the tin shack where she lives with the rest of the family in a working-class neighborhood of San Salvador.

Only the poorest of the poor dare to ride aboard the lumbering cargo train that sets out from the station at Arriaga, in southern Mexico, every couple of days or so. They have little choice. This is a free though perilous ride, and they have no money.

Most of the migrants come from Central American countries like Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua. They cling to the train that some call the "Train of Death" and that others simply refer to as "La Bestia" (The Beast).

From Arriaga, it's about 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometers) to Los Angeles, California and about 3,000 miles (4,800 kilometers) to New York.

Hundreds, maybe thousands, of migrants have died falling from the Beast, some of them mutilated under its wheels. Many more have been robbed, raped or kidnapped.

Most carry no bag at all and have only a few dollars for the bare essentials en route.

When Ochoa set out in February 2009, she said, she was carrying a single change of clothing, $200 hidden in her shoe and a photo of her baby daughter, Kathi, whom she had left behind.

The day she left home, her mother, Dina, went to the hospital for surgery for uterine cancer.

It was about 1 a.m. when Ochoa and three friends boarded the Beast in Arriaga. She made it through the night and the next morning. But by midday, she was badly dehydrated.

She asked her friends for a drop of water, but no one was carrying much. And before she could drink, Ochoa recalls, she fainted and fell onto the train tracks, under the grinding steel wheels.

Nobody jumped down to help her; it was too dangerous, so she was left to her fate. According to staff at the hospital in the small town of Juchitan, a passer-by sent her to the hospital in a taxi.

Ochoa says she doesn't remember anything between the time she fainted and two days later, when she woke up in the hospital.

At first, we never intended to focus on a single character for this edition of "World's Untold Stories: La Bestia." We were aiming to concentrate on a small group of migrants as they headed to the United States.

But it became clear that Ochoa's story went far beyond the issue of illegal immigration, took us further than the mere pursuit of the American dream. What started out as a journey to overcome poverty became a journey to face her demons.

Ochoa is a young woman of contrasts. She is intelligent, and since recovering from her accident, she holds down a job at a shrimp restaurant in Tapachula.

Yet she was preparing to break the law to cross into the United States.

She's normally bright and bubbly, ready to chatter about almost anything. But when you talk too much about the accident, she's quiet and withdrawn.

Physically, Ochoa looks a little frail. It's frightening to imagine her small frame crushed by the Beast's grinding wheels.

But mentally, she is tough. She's asking nobody for sympathy, and most significant, she has not given up her dream of one day making it to America. To achieve that, she knows she will probably have to cross illegally.

Her ambition is on hold but not abandoned. She is too proud to return to live in El Salvador. She has a promise to keep to her mother and is still determined to buy her that house.

When we drove to the railhead at Arriaga, Ochoa asked to join us. She hadn't been back to look at the cargo train since her accident.

As we walked toward the tracks there, Ochoa was joking and laughing, never complaining about her somewhat ill-fitting artificial leg.

All that changed at the station platform. She bit her quivering bottom lip, fighting a feeling. Then a solitary, huge tear rolled down her face.

She never spoke much, but her big brown eyes seemed to say it all: the feeling that she had lost the best part of her life the day she lost her leg, the fear that maybe she would never accomplish her dream.

The fear that her mother, now in her 40s, would die of uterine cancer before she could buy her that new home.

For Ochoa and other illegal migrants prepared to make this journey, these are risks and sacrifices on a grand scale.

The American dream sounds grand, but for these people, it's the modest ambition to get a job washing dishes, picking lettuce or carrying bricks for $5 or $6 an hour.

The real dream is not to earn cash for their own benefit, but to save and send money home to parents, children, wives or brothers and sisters. To achieve that, they're ready to go through hell and back.

Jessica Ochoa's journey takes on a greater relevance amid the debate raging in the United States -- especially Arizona -- about illegal immigration.

It's a discussion that has split opinions between legal and illegal migration, between setting and upholding immigration laws at the expense of racially profiling the citizens of a multicultural society.

"World's Untold Stories: La Bestia" may not resolve the specifics of that debate. But it will certainly take you to the underlying core: a journey to explore the aspirations of some of Latin America's poorest.

It will introduce viewers to the "illegals" and the "wetbacks" by name: Jessica, Miguel, Greville, Antonio and Elvin.

Many are honest, hard-working people with the best intentions. But to achieve them, they're ready to break the law.

Above all, they, like Americans, have their own hopes and dreams.

News: moderate earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring about 200 people, according to state-run media.

Earthquake hits NorthEastern Iran, injuring dozens
By the CNN Wire Staff July 31, 2010 -- Updated 0156 GMT (0956 HKT)


Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- A moderate earthquake struck northeastern Iran on Friday, injuring about 200 people, according to state-run media.

The 5.6-magnitude quake hit 715 kilometers (445 miles) east of Tehran and was centered 26.1 kilometers (16.2 miles) deep, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

The agricultural city of Torbat-e Heydarieh, at the epicenter, was rocked for about 10 seconds, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Most of the damage was seen in the surrounding 70 villages outside the city, some of which saw roughly half their houses affected, IRNA said.

Twelve people have been critically injured and hospitalized, IRNA reported. Police were attempting crowd control at the hospital in Torbat-e Heydarieh, which was packed with people searching for loved ones.

"There were no immediate reports of any mortalities in the earthquake," said Torbat-e Heydarieh Gov. Mojtaba Sadeqian, according to state run Press TV. "However, it is widely believed that a large number of people are trapped under the rubble, and the casualties are expected to be high."

The Red Cross and local government agencies were responding with medical supplies, tents, food and water, IRNA reported.

The news agency said the city has already reported scores of livestock deaths from Friday's quake.

Iran lies on a series of seismic fault lines and has experienced devastating earthquakes -- most notably in December 2003, when a 6.6-magnitude quake devastated the ancient city of Bam in southeast Iran, killing at least 30,000 people.

Last year, an earthquake struck Hormozgan province in southern Iran, injuring about 700 people in the port city of Bandar Abbas, state-run media reported.

In 2008, a strong earthquake measuring 6.1 in magnitude struck in Hormozgan, demolishing nearly 200 villages and killing at least six people.

share my abiding memories of a month spent following football's Showpiece around the "Rainbow Nation."

The best and worst of South Africa 2010

30/7/2010 Posted: 1014 GMT

South Africa's Soccer City provided a stunning closing ceremony for the 2010 World Cup. (AFP/Getty Images)

Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) – Now the sun has set on the first World Cup to be held in Africa, I'd like to share my abiding memories of a month spent following football's showpiece around the "Rainbow Nation."

From the highs of hospitable South Africans, the inconspicuous but much-hyped violent crime and the on-pitch artistry of Germany and Spain, to the lows of vuvuzela noise, lack of video technology and abysmal showings by heavyweights such as France and England, this tournament had it all...

Best player: Officially it was Diego Forlan, but I would have picked Andres Iniesta. The Spain midfielder is as skilful as Lionel Messi and pops up with crucial goals in big games. His trickery even made Arjen Robben look foolish at times during the final.

Biggest flop: Wayne Rooney. After his best-ever goalscoring season for Manchester United, England fans were hoping for more from the team’s number 10. Too tired or played out of position? Probably a bit of both.

Best entertainers: As an Englishman, it was painful to watch at times but Germany’s commitment to attacking football was thrilling. They were the highest-scoring team at the tournament, by a long way, with 16 goals.

Worst team: France were woeful. When you have players of the caliber of Evra, Henry, Anelka, Ribery and Malouda you should be able to muster more than a point from games against Uruguay, Mexico and South Africa.

Biggest controversy: TV technology. The only thing worse than the disallowed Frank Lampard goal and the wrongly-allowed Carlos Tevez goal was ruling body FIFA ignoring the controversy on its official website. Sepp Blatter says he likes debate – except when it’s about the glaring need for referees to use TV replays.

Best stadium: Durban. Stunning design and not just the eye-catching arch. Helps that it’s set in a city with a warm climate, even in winter.

Best fans: Full marks to Brazilian and England supporters for turning up to matches well after their teams were dumped out. The Dutch were as colorful as ever but the American fans had the best costumes – from astronauts to Elvis Presley outfits.

Biggest nuisance: The vuvuzela. Only enjoyable for those blowing it. Totally annoying for everyone else. When local stewards can spontaneously strike up a beautiful tribal hymn as they gather before a game, why would anyone try to argue that the vuvuzela is the sound of Africa?

Most laid-back: CNN cameraman Scott McWhinnie. A veteran of filming in several war zones, no wonder he was able to sleep anywhere, anytime.

Best steaks: The Old Greys rugby club in Bloemfontein. Run by a giant Afrikaaner called Dennis who looked as if he could pick you up and break you in two. But he was incredibly hospitable.

Most misleading: Reports of rampant gun crime and car-jacking. Either the police cracked down hard or these had been grossly exaggerated by the media before the tournament.

Biggest own-goal: FIFA’s decision to detain more than 30 women for wearing orange mini-dresses. Not the way to stop unofficial World Cup sponsors from getting publicity.

Most humbling: Visiting Nelson Mandela’s old house in Soweto. It’s tiny, but housed a large family and still has holes in the walls from bullets fired by the police. The house is still bigger than most. Most of the small “sheds” are actually people’s homes.

A traveling exhibition showcasing 300 archeological treasures found in the Gulf country,many pre-dating the birth of Islam.Video

Pre-Islam Saudi treasures on show for first time

By Laura Allsop for CNN
July 29, 2010 -- Updated 1131 GMT (1931 HKT)

London, England (CNN) -- A "groundbreaking" new exhibition of rare artifacts from Saudi Arabia's ancient past -- some which have never been shown abroad -- has opened in the Louvre, Paris.
The world-famous museum is hosting Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, a traveling exhibition showcasing 300 archeological treasures found in the Gulf country, many pre-dating the birth of Islam.

"It's a groundbreaking historic event," the Saudi Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abulaziz Al Saud told CNN.

"Saudi Arabia has never been known for its history, and I don't mean recent history but the procession of civilizations that have existed in Arabia," he said.

The exhibition is the result of 40 years of excavation across Saudi Arabia, with several artifacts only unearthed in the last decade.
Gallery: Artifacts include jewlry, statues and bowls

Works include funerary stelae -- upright commemorative stone slabs -- dating as far back as 4,000 BC; huge statues of the Kings of Liyhan, an ancient kingdom in what is now Saudi.

Also on show are major discoveries from the island of Tarut; gold and pearl jewelry, including a single gold glove, found in a tomb unearthed in the ancient town of Thaj.

Some of the artifacts were only discovered in the last five years and have recently been restored.

Dr. Ali Al-Ghabban is Vice President of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities (SCTA).

He told CNN: "These objects and this exhibition tell people about the history of Saudi Arabia, about the participation of Saudi Arabia in the history of humanity and also the exchange and the peaceful relations between Saudi Arabia and the rest of the world."
The exhibition at the Louvre literally gives you another dimension to the heritage of Saudi Arabia and its colors.
--Minister of tourism and antiquities, Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abulaziz Al Saud

Saudi has been a major trade hub since the dawn of time, and was a connecting point between the Arabian Peninsula and the rest of the world.

Trade routes criss-crossed the country, the largest in the Arabian peninsula, followed later by pilgrim routes leading to Mecca and other holy sites.

Another section of the exhibition explores Saudi's role as the cradle of Islam, displaying artifacts such as a door from the Ka'ba in Mecca, a gift from an Ottoman sultan in the 17th century.

Focusing on the roads that took pilgrims to the country's holy sites, it suggests that Saudi Arabia was specially chosen to spread the message of Islam because of its geographical position linking major civilizations.

Today, Saudi, a member of the G-20, is participating increasingly in global politics, and Roads of Arabia gives Riyadh an opportunity to assert its cultural and historical significance, al-Saud said.

Roads of Arabia is the result of an agreement between the Louvre Museum and the SCTA in 2004. An exhibition of Islamic masterpieces from the Louvre at the National Museum in Riyadh kicked off the agreement in 2006.

"It's a breakthrough, and of course the Louvre has a reputation," al-Saud said.

As for the Louvre, a relationship with the largest country in the Middle East comes as part of a wider strategy to extend its cultural influence to the Gulf.

In 2007, France and Abu Dhabi signed an intergovernmental agreement to open the Louvre Abu Dhabi in the cultural district being built on Saadiyat Island. It is currently expected to open in 2013.

The Louvre's Islamic Art curator Carine Juvin told CNN: "The Louvre Abu Dhabi was a very important project for the Louvre.

It's about ... a cultural exchange ... It's an occasion for people of the Gulf to learn much more about European and Western culture."

Roads of Arabia will be on display at the Louvre Museum until September 27, after which -- in the spirit of the roads which it celebrates -- it will embark on a tour of museums across the world. Spain is slated as the next host.

Wildfires in central Russia have destroyed around 1,000 homes, left Eighteen people dead,

Medvedev wants army help to tackle Russian wildfires

By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1434 GMT (2234 HKT)

Moscow, Russia (CNN) -- Wildfires in central Russia have destroyed around 1,000 homes, left 18 people dead, and prompted the prime minister to call on local officials to resign, Russian news agencies reported Friday.
The fires have been raging in five regions as Russia endures dry weather and one of the hottest months on record. Thursday saw Moscow reach 102 Fahrenheit (39 Celsius) degrees, the highest temperature since records began in 1879.
The fires are the worst ever to hit the European part of Russia, the region west of the Ural Mountains, the RIA-Novosti news agency said.
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said there have been 21,690 fires so far this summer, 10 percent more than last year, the news agency reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev ordered the Defense Ministry on Friday to use the military to help tackle the fires, the president's spokeswoman, Natalya Timakova, told the Interfax news agency.
The government has already dispatched additional firefighting units, along with 16 aircraft and helicopters, to fight the fires, RIA-Novosti said.
Putin and Emergency Situations Minister Sergei Shoigu flew Friday to one of the affected regions, Nizhny Novgorod, where Putin called on local officials to step down.
"I recommend the resignation of the heads of regions (devastated by fire) who have, to a significant degree, lost the trust of citizens," Putin said, according to RIA-Novosti.
Many residents who lost their homes in Nizhny Novgorod had complained to Putin that local authorities' actions were "chaotic and uncoordinated," RIA-Novosti reported.
More than 500 homes burned down and several villages were destroyed across the region, which is about 250 miles east of Moscow. Russian state television reported a mass evacuation effort was under way there.



The five deaths happened in the Voronezh region, about 275 miles south of Moscow, news agencies reported. Twenty-one people were hospitalized there and more than 2,500 were evacuated, RIA-Novosti said.
"I don't know what to do," one Voronezh woman told state TV. "Haven't got any bed linen, cups, spoons, forks left. We're left with nothing. Everything was burned down. We couldn't salvage anything."
Forty-four houses were burned in the Moscow region, state TV said.
Putin said the families of those who died will receive 1 million rubles ($33,000) each in compensation, and the government will pay around 3 million rubles ($100,000) for the reconstruction of each destroyed house, RIA-Novosti said.
Putin said the government will also compensate people for the loss of property, the news agency said.
Temperatures across much of western and central Russia have topped 95 Fahrenheit (35 Celsius) degrees during the past five weeks, RIA-Novosti said.

Thursday's temperature in Moscow broke the previous record high of 99.5 Fahrenheit (37.5 Celsius), set just three days earlier. The month of July is expected to break the record for the hottest month ever recorded in Moscow.

Temperatures in Moscow dropped to between 82 and 86 Fahrenheit (28 to 30 Celsius) Friday because of a breeze, but weekend temperatures were forecast to rise again.




The hot, dry weather is believed to have made conditions more conducive to fires, drying out large parts of land and making it easier for flames to spread. Central Russia also has large areas of peat bogs that often catch on fire in dry and hot weather.

Flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 430 people across Pakistan, according to an aid organization.TV Live .

At least 325 people dead in Pakistan flooding

From Reza Sayah, CNN
July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1025 GMT (1825 HKT)

Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- Flooding caused by monsoon rains has killed at least 430 people across Pakistan, according to an aid organization.

That toll includes 25 people killed in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, said Anwar Kazmi, spokesperson for Edhi Foundation. The hardest hit region was the northwestern province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where 228 people have died, he said.

Many of the victims died when floodwaters swept away hundreds of mud houses in parts of Swat Valley and the districts of Shangla and Tank, according to Bashir Ahmed Bilour, a provincial minister in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

The rushing waters have also washed away thousands of acres of crops and dozens of government buildings, local businesses and schools, Bilour said.

Earlier Friday the head of Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said flooding had killed at least 150 people and injured 90 others since Wednesday. Retired Gen. Nadeem Ahmed said 90 people were still missing.

The Pakistani Air Force is helping with rescue efforts, spokesman Tariq Yazdanie said in an interview on Pakistani TV.

The recent torrential rains have broken all previous records of rainfall in the country, he said.

The U.N. Refugee Agency dispatched the first shipment of aid for flood victims in the region Thursday, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

APP said the supplies include 585 tents, 2,700 plastic sheets, 1,760 kitchen sets and 4,000 plastic mats.

At the same time, a top official in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province pressed Pakistan's president for help, according to APP.

The news agency said Assembly Speaker Karamatullah Khan told legislators he had asked President Asif Ali Zardari for a supply of emergency boats.



Photographs from Getty Images showed flood victims struggling to cross a swolen river in the town of Nowshera. The pictures showed children being ferried across the water in overcrowded boats, and more able-bodied people helping the elderly to higher ground.

Supplies from the U.N. agency will go first to the two hard-hit villages of Talli and Sultan Kot in Sibi district, APP said.

A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period.Video.

Daughters: Mom accused of killing 8 babies 'secretive'
By the CNN Wire Staff July 30, 2010 -- Updated 1309 GMT (2109 HKT)

Douai, France (CNN) -- A French woman who admitted to giving birth to and smothering eight babies over a 17-year period was secretive but always supportive of her family, two of her daughters said in a local newspaper report published Friday.

"It's incomprehensible," Virginie, 21, told La Voix du Nord newspaper.

"She was secretive, but she never judged us. She accompanied us. She supported us," she said.
The woman, Dominique Cottrez, told investigators she killed the babies because she did not want to have any more children and did not want to see doctors for contraceptives, prosecutor Eric Vaillant told reporters. Cottrez is overweight and was able to conceal the pregnancies, he said. On Thursday, prosecutors said they had charged her with murder.

Cottrez said she hid the pregnancies and deaths from her husband, Vaillant said. And daughters Virginie and Emeline, who came to court to support their mother Thursday, told La Voix du Nord they were also shocked by the news.

"We never noticed anything. She had moments of fatigue, it's true, but she was working almost 24 hours a day. She would wake up early for her work as a nurse's home aid, and when she would return home, she had her housework," the newspaper reported the daughters' saying.

They described their mother as a caring person who often babysat her grandchildren.

"For us, it's something that one sees on television, but not in a little town like ours," Emeline said, according to La Voix du Nord.
The case came to light when a couple gardening in their backyard in the northern town of Villers-au-Tertre found two babies' bodies in sealed plastic bags and called police.
As word spread and reporters descended on the village, which local media have said has a population of about 700 people, residents said they were still reeling from the news.
Cottrez, 45, grew up in Villers-au-Tertre. Her parents, farmers who are now dead, owned a large part of the arable land in the village, according to La Voix du Nord.
Thursday morning, the village priest left eight candles in front of the door to the couple's home, La Voix du Nord reported.
Police spoke to Cottrez and her husband, who had previously lived in the home, and Cottrez admitted immediately that she was the mother of the two babies the couple found gardening, Vaillant said. She then told police about six others concealed in their garage, Vaillant said.

Those six bodies were also in sealed plastic bags but were covered by various objects, he said.

The babies were born between 1989 and 2006, but their exact birthdates aren't known, Vaillant said.

Cottrez, a nurse, had psychological problems from her first pregnancy, said Pierre-Jean Gribouva, the lawyer for her husband.

"My client is in a deep state of shock," Gribouva told CNN affiliate BFM. "He had no idea about this. He has totally fallen apart."

A difficult first pregnancy sparked Cottrez's actions, Vaillant said. Because of her weight, the first pregnancy was "traumatic," and she didn't want to go through it again, he said.

Vaillant did not explain why Cottrez went through a second pregnancy with her other daughter before apparently committing the crimes.

The father, Pierre-Marie Cottrez, hopes the public does not make "simplistic conclusions" about his wife, Gribouva told BFM.

Despite earlier reports that the husband had been charged, Vaillant said he was free to go but may still be investigated. Vaillant said he personally still had "doubts" about the father's story.

"The sky has fallen in on his head," Vaillant said of the father.

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Cast and Crew
Cast:Mark Wahlberg,
Samuel L. Jackson,
Will Ferrell,Dwayne Johnson,
Eva Mendes,Michael Keaton,
Ray Stevenson,Paris Hilton,
Anne Heche,Lindsay Sloane,
Steve Coogan, Peter Conboy
Director: Adam McKay
Producer:Patrick Crowley, Jimmy Miller
Release Date: 06 Aug 2010
Genre: Action - Comedy
Language: English
Rating:PG-13,
Runtime:1 hr. 47 min.

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The Story :
The Other Guys is an action-comedy film. Two mismatched New York City detectives seize an opportunity to step up like the city's top cops whom they idolize -- only things don't quite go as planned.

Review:
Just a few hours ago I was interviewing Mark Wahlberg for the upcoming comedy The Other Guys. While I’m not supposed to say too much about what I thought, trust me when I say it’s an awesome comedy that had me laughing from beginning to end. If you’re a fan of Adam McKay and Will Ferrell movies like Anchorman and Talladega Nights, you’ll love it. And Ferrell and Wahlberg’s chemistry is perfect. It’s a great comedy.
Anyway, while I’ll be posting my full exclusive interview with Wahlberg closer to the August 6th release of The Other Guys, since he gave me updates on The Raven, The Brazilian Job (the sequel to The Italian Job), Five Brothers (the sequel to Four Brothers), Cocaine Cowboys and David O Russell’s The Fighter, I figured you’d like to get those updates today. Hit the jump for more:
Now this is'nt going to win any awards, however unlike Kevin Smiths Cop Out, this at least looks like a funny cop buddy movie. and it has Coogan in it!!!
What could have been a good satire ended up being 1.5 hours of people "playing at" the buddy cop genre and failing.



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