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Amitabh Bachchan will celebrate his 68th birthday with Kaun Banega Crorepati 4. The fourth season of the game show will start from October 11.Video.
KBC 4’ starts on Amitabh Bachchan’s birthday
First Episode on a special day
Amitabh Bachchan will celebrate his 68th birthday with Kaun Banega Crorepati 4. The fourth season of the game show will start from October 11 which is Big B’s birthday.
The KBC 4 phone lines opened on Saturday for registration and received a stupendous response. Big B writes about it on Twitter, “KBC lines just opened at 9 PM IST and Sony just rang to inform me they had 1.5 lakh sms in first 5 mins. !! Phone calls 2 B compiled !!”
“OH ! Boy ! This is scary ! Need to get back and start rehearsing to deliver what these numbers indicate and expect !! KBC you sweety !” tweets Amitabh.
However, it is not only October 11 which is important. August 2, which is considered to be Big B’s 2nd birth date, as he returned from the hospital after suffering a fatal injury during the ‘Coolie’ shoot and thus got a new life, was the day when KBC 4 phone lines opened. Big B’s kids can’t forget the special day and both Shweta Nanda and Abhishek Bachchan wished their father on Twitter.
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Cast: Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha,
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Director: Abhinav Kashyap
Producer: Arbaaz Khan
Banner: Shree Ashtavinayak Cinevision Ltd,
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Music: Sajid,Wajid
Lyrics: Jalees Sherwani
Cinematography: Mahesh Limaye
Editing: Pranav Dhiwar
Story/Writer: Dileep Shukla,Abhinav Kashyap
Released Date: 10/9/2010 On Eid Day
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Set in Uttar Pradesh, Dabangg is the story of a corrupt police officer played by Salman Khan and highlights the flaws and loopholes in the system.
The film will primarily deal with the unlawful practices in the states of UP and Bihar.
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Hud Hud! Here comes desi Robinhood aka Salman Khan with his film Dabangg and its full-on-masti music. The promos are already a hit on the small screen. So what is lined up for the music buffs, or, to say, Sallu fans?
Sajid-Wajid, Salman’s favourite composer duo is back after Veer, creating songs for Dabangg as well. So, plug-in to Dabangg music, which for sure is going to entertain you.
In a typical Sajid-Wajid style, the album begins with Tere Mast Mast Do Nain, a Bollywood romantic number soused in sufi flavour. If Rahat Fateh Ali Khan delivers the song in his usual vigour, Shreya Ghosal’s saccharine voice adds melody to the song. Deadly combo and terrific rendering! However, the remix version of the song fails to make a mark. Rahat again wins hearts with the sad version of the song which is slow and immensely passionate.
Welcome Munni Badnam Hui song and get into the Dabangg rustic mood. The masala track has Malaika Arora’s thumkas, so expect the screen to sizzle. Newcomer Lalit Pandit is the composer of the song and gets Mamta Singh and Aishwarya to sing this raunchy number, and one will definitely enjoy its catchy lyrics, main jhandu bam hui darling tere liye - that’s mind-boggling. Well, the credit goes to lyricist Jalees Sherwani. Alas! the remix version of the song has not much to offer.
The album slips into mushy mood with Chori Kiya Re Jiya. Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghosal team up again to give us a love ballad. But the track falls short of expectations; sadly it is just an average number.
Now comes the true Dabangg song. Hud Hud Dabangg is gritty and valorous in tone and who else than Sukhwinder to sing it. As usual, the crooner has done a brilliant job with this number which makes it one of the must-hear songs in the whole album. So what if it’s a bit similar to the Omkara track.
Hamka Peeni Hai, is another song that promises sharab, shabab and music. The folk based song crooned by Wajid with Master Salim is full on masti which makes it undoubtedly a treat for the Salman maniacs. The remix version is racy and saucy; get ready to have a blast.
The most entertaining of the lot seems to be the Dabangg theme, which is extensively used in the promos. The instrumental song has some of Salman’s dhasu dialogues from the film too. Like a fireball, the theme song enthralls.
Music directors have done full justice to the album and to Salman’s character. The actor’s die-hard fans will surely not be disappointed. The groovy songs bustle with vim and fun.
You would like to hear - Hud Hud Dabangg, Tere Mast Mast Do Nain, Munni Badnaam.
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Cast: John Abraham,
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Cinematography: Sudeep Chatterjee
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Release Date: August 27, 2010
Genre: Drama
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Cast: John Abraham,
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Director: Nagesh Kukunoor
Music: Pritam Chakraborty,
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Sound: Vipin Bhati
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Release Date: August 27, 2010
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Cast: Shakti Kapoor,Pawan Shankar,
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Director: Karan Razdan
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Story/Writer: Karan Razdan
Banner: Tulips Films Ltd
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Cinematography: Aatish Parmar
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Released Date:Aug 20 2010
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This is a story based in 2005-06, the times of military aggression and war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Set in this time is our central character of Mr Bhatti (Anupam Kher) a bank clerk, a lovable yet lonely nerd. Mr Bhatti dares to do what we prefer to discuss with our morning cuppa and forget soon after. He has the passion to implement his peace plan aimed at 'Saving the World'. And he will not stop at anything until he achieves it...
The key to that plan is Mr. George W Bush whom Mr. Bhatti has been trying to contact at the White House from his bank telephone, so that he doesn't have to pay for the ISD calls!
But strange things are happening to the man who wants to save mankind... this delusionary man is being followed and photographed. Wonder who these guys are?
Suddenly, Mr Bhatti realises that he has actually won a FREE trip to Europe, though he has entered no contest. Who has sent him the ticket and the hotel package free of cost? How can Mr. Bhatti go on this trip without telling his favourite star, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan about it? Never mind, if he has only met him in his dreams, thus far...In reality, all Mr. Bhatti can manage is to stand outside Mr. Bachchan's bungalow with a crowd, awaiting a glimpse of his hero
Bhatti arrives at the picturesque lake district in England with a group of tourists. Strange happenings follow Mr. Bhatti even on his chutti. An English beauty, Alice, falls in love with him, never mind his eccentricity. Mr. Bhatti, for the first time in his life, feels the power of being overpowered by a woman's attention... He goes crazy with so much attention being showered on him. He tries hard at all times, but cannot manage to suppress his excitement. Stranger things await him... soon.... Alice vanishes and is presumed dead.... murdered, actually.
Mr. Bhatti, naturally is the prime suspect. When the U.K. police check him out for criminal records on their data, it is revealed to them that he is not Mr. Bhatti but the dreaded terrorist Abu Siddique
Is Abu Sidique masquerading as bufoon Bhatti? Javed Khan (Abid Ali) who plays a Pak -born cop, now with the U.K. police digs deeper. And he realizes that Mr. Bhatti merely has a strange resemblance to the wanted terrorist, Abu Siddique, the mastermind behind the U.K. bombings. Abu Siddique has flown the nest!
The U.K police try to convince Bhatti to pretend to be Abu Siddique. Bhatti refuses. And it takes all of Javed Khan's effort to get his friend Mr. Amitabh Bachchan to come in to play and to convince Mr. Bhatti to agree. From Mumbai, Mr. Bachchan convinces Bhatti to save the world by taking on the persona of Abu Siddique.
How can Bhatti refuse Bachchan? Bhatti infiltrates into the Abu Siddique gang. Which is fine.
But what about Abu's girl freind, Katy? She thinks he is the real Abu and comes on too strongly on to him. And poor Bhatti is a virgin. Through all this Mr. Bachchan keeps advising Mr. Bhatti to do the right thing at the right time
Katy is unmanageable. And on top of it, Javed khan asks Bhatti to find out what is the gang's real plan? But as Bhatti finds out their plan, the real Abu Siddique finds out that there is someone impersonating him in U.K. He leaves Turkey for UK to add to Bhatti's woes.
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A school bus packed with children mounted a lorry in a horrific crash in the US state of Missouri. Video,Photos.
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According to the State Highway Patrol, a pickup truck driven by 19-year-old Daniel Schatz, a former reserve quarterback for the University of Missouri football team and the son of Republican state House candidate Dave Schatz, slammed into the back of a semi cab that had slowed approaching a construction zone.
The forward-most of the two buses carrying the St. James students slammed into the back of Schatz’s truck, then landed on top of it after it was rammed from behind by the other bus, said Highway Patrol Cpl. Jeff Wilson.
Jessica Brinker, a 15-year-old student who was sitting in the back of the first bus, was killed, the Patrol said.
Kolby Griffith, 17, said he was chatting with friends on the second bus when it crashed, and that everything happened so quickly it was a blur.
“It was all very, very quick,” Griffith said. “I was trying to get away, trying to get everyone away from the bus because I could smell gas.”
Griffith, who was evaluated and released at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center in St. Louis, was among about three dozen students who were called into a room at the hospital and told about Brinker’s death.
“There’s a lot of pain,” he said, choking back tears.
A huge crowd gathered Thursday evening for a hastily called prayer vigil at a middle school in St. James, a town of 3,700 residents 86 miles southwest of St. Louis that is known for its wineries and outdoor splendor.
“Anytime you have something like this, it is a big tragedy for a community,” the town’s mayor, Dennis Wilson, said earlier. He described the community as “one of those towns where you know just about everyone in town and know their kids,” including the nearly 600 children who attend Hodge high school.
Joy Tucker, the superintendent of the St. James school system, said it was a “horrible, horrible day” for the community.
“We’ll never get over this,” she said.
Schatz was an all-state high school football player. He made the Missouri squad as a walk-on in 2009 but didn’t get into a game, his father said. Daniel Schatz left Missouri and hoped to play alongside his older brother at Westminster College this fall.
Daniel was driving to Schatz Underground Inc., a family owned contracting business in Villa Ridge, when the accident occurred, said his father. Dave Schatz won the Republican primary for a Missouri House seat on Tuesday.
He described his son as “a great kid.”
Brinker’s Facebook page included a message that read, “She was the most funniest girl to be around! always rockin the knee high sock …. we love you Jessica R.I.P.”
The students injured in the wreck — nearly 50 of them — had mostly bumps and bruises and were expected to be fine, Wilson said.
Thirty-six people were originally taken to Cardinal Glennon and by late evening, all but one were released. Of six victims sent to St. John’s Mercy Medical Center, five were released and one was transferred to St. Louis Children’s Hospital. St. Louis Children’s spokeswoman Jackie Ferman said that 16-year-old St. James girl was in stable condition.
Four other victims were taken with minor injuries to St. Clare Health Center in Fenton, Mo., a spokeswoman said.
Wilson said the driver of the first bus moved into the passing lane to give a distressed vehicle in the shoulder more room. She was checking her rearview mirror while returning to the right-hand lane when she noticed the first impact but could not stop in time, hitting the pickup. The second bus then rear-ended the first, vaulting the first bus onto the top of the pickup, which was crushed.
The buses were segregated by gender, with girls in the first and boys on the other, Wilson said.
The pickup was barely recognizable in the tangled wreckage. Crews used a crane to lift the buses off of the crushed wreckage to clear the freeway, which was closed going eastbound for hours, backing up traffic for miles.
Wilson said it was too soon to say if any of the drivers would face charges.
A spokeswoman for the National Transportation Safety Board said a team of 14 investigators will look into the accident and try to determine if there’s a broader safety issue.
Associated Press writers Jim Suhr and Christopher Leonard in St. Louis, Chris Blank in Jefferson City, and Heather Hollingsworth and Bill Draper in Kansas City contributed to this report.
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Further raising susicions on the possible Jwala-Azharuddin link up, the badminton star has filed for divorce just weeks after the cricketer decided to
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Friday, August 6, 2010, 8:38
New Delhi, Aug 6: Further raising susicions on the possible Jwala-Azharuddin link up, the badminton star has filed for divorce just weeks after the cricketer decided to end his marriage with model wife, Sangeeta Bijlani.
"Yes, I am filing for divorce," Jawala Gutta is quoted as confirming in a newspaper report.
Aware that this move is going to be seen in line with the recent speculations on a relationship between her and Azharuddin, Jwala added, "My filing for a divorce has got nothing to do with the silly rumours about my link-ups with Azharuddin, just like the news about Azhar filing for divorce has got nothing to do with our friendship."
Times of India reported that Jwala voiced her disappointment over rumours about an affair between her and ex-cricketer and Congress MP from Moradabad, Mohammad Azharuddin.
"I am going through a very rough phase in my life. I have always been a very outspoken person but right now, I am upset and I can't really go on answering questions about my personal life," she told TOI.
She, however, is not ready to reveal the reason behind her decision.
"I never hide anything, but when the right time comes, I will talk about what made me take this step. Right now, I need to be left alone," she is quoted as saying in a report published on Friday, Aug 6.
Jwala married Chetan Anand, an Arjuna Awardee and three times National Badminton Champion, in 2005.
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An al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for targeting an oil tanker
A Emirati News Agency (WAM) handout shows Japanese oil tanker "M.Star" arriving at the Emirati port of Fujairah on July 28
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By the CNN Wire Staff August 6, 2010 -- Updated 1054 GMT (1854 HKT)
(CNN) -- Four days after an al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility for targeting an oil tanker, the United Arab Emirates government has acknowledged that it was indeed attacked, state media said Friday.
The government had earlier said the tanker was passing through the Strait of Hormuz when it was exposed to a high wave as a result of an earthquake shock.
However, the state news agency WAM reported, the tanker "was the target of a terrorist attack while passing through international waters near the Strait of Hormuz."
Workers fixed the damage to the vessel and the attack caused no human injuries or oil spills, the agency said.
The militant Islamist group claimed responsibility for the explosion aboard the oil tanker on Monday.
In a statement posted on various websites that regularly carry messages from al Qaeda leaders, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades included a picture of a man they claimed carried out a suicide attack on the tanker on July 28.
The group said the attack was intended to "strike an economic blow to the infidels." It is believed to be behind several attacks in the Middle East, including the October 2004 attack on a hotel and nearby camp sites in Egypt that killed more than three dozen people.
The statement from the Abdullah Azzam Brigades said the attack on the tanker was the "conquest of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman" -- a reference to the imprisoned blind cleric who inspired the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York.
an Iranian court prepares to render a final decision in the case of his client, Sakineh Mohammedie Ashtiani, who was sentenced to death by stoning aft
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By the CNN Wire Staff August 5, 2010 -- Updated 1750 GMT (0150 HKT)
Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) -- A prominent human rights lawyer is sitting in a detention cell in Turkey as an Iranian court prepares to render a final decision in the case of his client, Sakineh Mohammedie Ashtiani, who was sentenced to death by stoning after being convicted of adultery.
But Mohammad Mostafaei, who helped launch a worldwide campaign to clear Ashtiani, has much more on his mind. More than 1,000 miles away, his wife is in a cell too -- in Iran's notorious Evin prison.
"You know, I do not know what the future holds at the moment. Either the government of Turkey is going to report me back to Iran, or hopefully I can gain asylum in a third country," Mostafaei said in a CNN interview. "I am not sure what will happen to me."
However, a Turkish foreign ministry official told CNN Thursday that Mostafaei will not be extradited to Iran.
"As you know, he applied for asylum and within a day or two he will go to a country of his choice probably in Europe," the official said. "Norway is among the options. His extradition [to Iran] is out of the question."
A second attorney representing Ashtiani told a human rights activist Thursday that Iranian authorities have decided she will be executed.
Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee against Stoning, said she had spoken to Hotan Kian, an attorney who attended a court session in Tehran Wednesday. He was informed that there would be no more appeals for his client, Sakineh Mohammedie Ashtiani, and that Iran's high court will decide within a week whether she will be stoned or be executed in another way.
Meanwhile, Iran again on Thursday lashed out at the international media for what it called the politicization of Ashtiani's case. Gholam Hossein Dehghani, a foreign ministry official attending a United Nations meeting in Switzerland, said Ashtiani was not only accused of adultery, but she had also been found guilty of conspiracy to murder her husband.
"The delegation was amazed at how journals had swayed the public opinion on this matter, but in Iran, anyone who murdered an innocent person could be subject to capital punishment," Dehghani said, according to minutes of the meeting.
Mostafaei went into hiding July 24 after a lengthy interrogation at Evin prison. The same day, rallies were being held worldwide to draw attention to Ashtiani's case.
His wife and brother-in-law were reportedly arrested that night at his office in Tehran as they tried to gather his belongings.
Iranian authorities told Mostafaei that his family would be detained until he turned himself in.
"I made a decision, after I saw that they were still going to arrest me and mistreat me, that I must leave Iran," he said. "It was a very hard decision."
Iranian authorities have since released Mostafaei's brother-in-law, but human rights groups said they are holding his wife as collateral until he returns.
"Once the authorities in Iran realize I have done nothing wrong or illegal, they will have no choice but to free my wife," he said. "She has also done nothing wrong. I am hoping for that outcome."
Mostafaei was being held Thursday at a detention center in Istanbul, Turkey, where he requested asylum, said Metin Corabatir, a representative in Turkey for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. He allegedly entered the country with improper documentation, the agency said.
It's a charge Mostafaei denies. He says his passport was his own and is valid. Mostafaei also said he has a Norwegian travel visa that he received from the embassy in Tehran some time ago.
Turkey does not require visas for citizens from neighboring Iran to enter the country. As a result, it is the first place hundreds of Iranians fled to after the Iranian government cracked down on opposition activists and critics over the past year.
Human rights groups are urging officials to grant Mostafaei's asylum request because they say he could be in grave danger if he is forced to return to Iran.
There is no word yet on whether any nation is willing to accept him.
Mostafaei said he met with officials from the Norwegian embassy on Tuesday. "They had me fill out political asylum forms so they could arrange for me to go to Norway," he said.
An official in the Norwegian embassy said Norway would not comment on a special asylum case.
"The sooner I can leave this country (Turkey) the sooner I think my wife will be freed," Mostafaei said. "The government of Turkey must act fast and help me with my case. The arrangements need to be made so I can leave Turkey and go to another country."
In a now widely-circulated open letter reportedly penned by Mostafaei and posted on the Internet, the lawyer accused Iranian authorities of holding his wife "hostage." He also explained why he made the painful choice to leave his wife behind.
"Despite the arrest of the person I love most in my life, I decided not to ever set foot in a judicial office where the interrogators do not abide by any basic laws," he wrote.
"Hostage taking is never legal," Mostafaei said. "I decided not to appear unless the interrogator's office tries hard enough to come and arrest me in my silo that I have built for myself."
Mostafaei was asked by CNN in early July if he was worried about his safety after bringing so much attention to Ashtiani, who was convicted of adultery in 2006 and condemned to die by the brutal method of stoning.
Mostafaei told CNN that he knew the risks -- he had been detained briefly after Iran's post-election turmoil in June 2009 -- but that would not stop him fighting for human rights. But it was that very fight that forced him to flee the country he calls home.
As part of that open letter, Mostafaei cried out to the Iranian government -- and to God -- for the strange twist in his fate.
"For the past few years all my thoughts have been towards saving people who did not deserve to die," he wrote. "I was so occupied with saving these people that I hardly got to see my dear wife and daughter. ... And for someone who has always worked towards justice and the interests of the Islamic Republic, is this the way I am paid back for my God-loving and human-loving actions?"
"I leave you and your interrogator at the mercy of God, the creator," he continued. "I hope that you won't let my child cry for her mother, not eating food and wanting her mother back. She needs to hug her mother. If through this separation from her mother she gets hurt, it's a sin that you have committed."
The Iranian government has not commented on the detention of Mostafaei's wife.
Meanwhile, Ashtiani's son and daughter visited her in prison Thursday, said Mina Ahadi, spokeswoman for the International Committee Against Stoning, who keeps in touch with Ashtiani's family. Ahadi said Iranian officials have told Ashtiani's son that he would receive news Thursday about his mother's fate.
Human rights activists are urging the international community not to forget Ashtiani, who may soon die -- or the man who tried to set her free.
President Barack Obama has not proven that he was born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president.Video.
Hearing set for soldier in Obama birth certificate case
By the CNN Wire Staff August 6, 2010 -- Updated 1134 GMT (1934 HKT)
(CNN) -- A court hearing is scheduled for Friday in the case of an Army officer who has refused to deploy to Afghanistan because, in his view, President Barack Obama has not proven that he was born in the United States and is therefore ineligible to be president.
Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin is scheduled to go before a judge in Virginia to enter a plea on charges that include disobeying a lawful order and dereliction of duty.
He is a decorated Army doctor and an 18-year veteran who is now facing court martial for disobeying orders to ship out for another tour of duty in Afghanistan.
Lakin says the orders are illegal because, he claims, Obama -- the commander-in-chief -- has not proven he was born in this country. Lakin wants Obama to produce his birth certificate.
"It's a fundamental of the Constitution, and my oath of office is to the Constitution. And I believe we need truth on this matter," Lakin told CNN's "AC 360" in May.
Two newspapers in Honolulu, Hawaii published announcements of Obama's birth in Hawaii in August 1961. The Republican governor of Hawaii, Linda Lingle, has recently certified Obama's birth certificate as legitimate.
"I had my health director, who is a physician by background, go personally view the birth certificate in the birth records of the Department of Health," Lingle recently told WABC. " ... The president was in fact born at Kapi'olani Hospital in Honolulu, Hawaii. And that's just a fact."
"It's been established he was born here," the governor continued. "I can understand why people want to make certain that the constitutional requirement of being a, you know, natural born American citizen ... but the question has been asked and answered. And I think just we should all move on now."
Despite the evidence, roughly a quarter of Americans remains skeptical, including Lakin and other so-called "birthers."
Birthers have argued that Obama was not born in Hawaii or that if he was, his citizenship was invalidated by living overseas as a child.
Lakin has been steadfast in his own defense.
"I am not guilty of these charges, and will plead 'not guilty' to them because of my conviction that our commander-in-chief may be ineligible under the United States Constitution to serve in that highest of all offices," Lakin said in a press release issued this week by the American Patriot Foundation -- a group that has established a fund for his legal defense.
"The truth matters. The Constitution matters," he said. "If President Obama is a natural born citizen, then the American people deserve to see proof, and if he is not, then I believe the orders in this case were illegal."
A Brazilian soccer goalie and eight other people on murder charges in the case of a missing woman
Brazilian goalie charged with murder despite lack of corpse
By the CNN Wire Staff August 5, 2010 -- Updated 1742 GMT (0142 HKT)
(CNN) -- The man trying to prosecute a Brazilian soccer goalie and eight other people on murder charges in the case of a missing woman said Thursday that even though police have not found a body, he will proceed.
"There's no need to find the corpse to prove the death. There are many other ways to prove death. In case the corpse is found, only one proof is needed, which is the autopsy report. But in this case, all other proofs will be united and suppress the need of an autopsy report," prosecutor Gustavo Fabrini said.
Goalie Bruno Fernandes Das Dores de Souza's new attorney, Ercio Quaresma, said it's "irresponsible" to charge the nine suspects with corpse concealment, since no body has been found.
"It's an inconsequence to sign something like that not having concrete proof," Quaresma said.
The goalie, his lover and his wife were among the nine people charged with the murder of his former girlfriend, who had been trying to prove he had fathered her son.
The prosecutor filed the charges against de Souza and eight others in Contagem, Brazil, on Wednesday.
Charges include murder, kidnapping, imprisonment, concealment of a corpse, and corruption of a minor. Eliza Samudio, 25, remains missing two months after she was last reported seen.
A former policeman, Marcos Aparecido dos Santos, was also charged with murder and concealment of a corpse in the case.
Fabrini said Thursday that none of the nine suspects is being accused of conspiracy, contradicting what police had previously said.
The other seven suspects were named as Luiz Henrique Ferreira Romao, Fernanda Gomes de Castro, Dayanne Souza, Elenilson Vitor da Silva, Sergio Rosa Sales, Wemerson Marques de Souza and Flavio Caetano de Araujo.
All of the suspects are in jail, except for one, who is being sought.
Souza's 17-year-old cousin told police the woman was killed. The teen said Souza watched as the missing woman was asphyxiated, mutilated and fed to dogs, local police investigator Wagner Pinto told reporters last month.
Quaresma has said his client denies all the accusations and de Souza will not answer any questions for now.
"He has not spoken and he won't speak until the defense decides he needs to speak," the lawyer said. "And that might not happen."
Samudio was trying to prove that the goalie had fathered her infant son, who is currently being cared for by her mother, police said.
The football star was last seen with Samudio in June as they headed for his country home in the state of Minas Gerais.
The police investigator described her death to reporters last month.
"They tied her hands, and this other individual strangled her," Pinto said, referring to Santos. "Later they de-boned and disemboweled her."
The woman's body was taken to an undisclosed location, where her remains were fed to several Rottweilers, police said.
Quaresma decried the accusations.
"Are the Rottweilers being charged, too?" he asked reporters.
Souza's former attorney, Michel Assef Filho, said last month that the goalie has "no knowledge of the facts. He is astonished and scared by his cousin's testimony and that's it."
Filho stopped representing Souza when the Flamengo Club suspended Souza's contract. The attorney works on behalf of the soccer club. The Flamengo Club said it suspended the goalie's contract until all facts are known.
The death toll rose to 91 on Friday in the widespread violence that broke out after the killing of a provincial lawmaker in southern Pakistan.
Death toll in Karachi violence rises to 91
By the CNN Wire Staff August 6, 2010 -- Updated 0911 GMT (1711 HKT)
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- The death toll rose to 91 on Friday in the widespread violence that broke out after the killing of a provincial lawmaker in southern Pakistan.
The number of wounded rose to 178, said Rafiq Gul, deputy superintendent of Karachi police.
Syed Raza Haider, a leader of the MQM party, was shot Monday evening at a mosque in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi.
Haider was attending the funeral of a relative, Gul said. The gunman also killed the politician's bodyguard.
The politician's death triggered political and ethnic violence in the city, as mobs set fire to vehicles and gunfire erupted.
Gul said 48 vehicles, eight shops and several gas stations were set ablaze in the mayhem.
The MQM is part of the ruling coalition backing President Asif Ali Zardari's Pakistan People's Party.
A 70-year- old taxpayer's advocate who once worked for the Department of Justice, is being held for contempt of court.
Ex-lawyer jailed 14 months, but not charged with a crime
By Abbie Boudreau, Emily Probst and Dana Rosenblatt, CNN Special Investigations Unit
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 14 months, even though he's never been charged with a crime.
Fine, a 70-year- old taxpayer's advocate who once worked for the Department of Justice, is being held for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge David Yaffe found Fine in contempt after he refused to turn over financial documents and answer questions when ordered to pay an opposing party's attorney's fees, according to court documents.
Fine says his contempt order masks the real reason why he's in jail. He claims he's a political prisoner.
"I ended up here because I did the one thing no other lawyer in California is willing to do. I took on the corruption of the courts," Fine said in a jailhouse interview with CNN.
For the last decade, Fine has filed appeal after appeal against Los Angeles County's Superior Court judges. He says the judges each accept what he calls yearly "bribes" from the county worth $57,000. That's on top of a $178,789 annual salary, paid by the state. The county calls the extra payments "supplemental benefits" -- a way to attract and retain quality judges in a high-cost city.
While the practice of paying supplemental benefits is common in California, most high-cost cities elsewhere don't hand out these kinds of benefits. Judges in Miami, Chicago and Boston receive no extra county dollars.
Judges in Los Angeles County not only have the highest state salaries in the nation, they also get tens of thousands of dollars in county benefits. These payments, Fine says, mean judges are unlikely to rule against the county when it is involved in a lawsuit.
In the last two fiscal years, Los Angeles County won all but one of the nine trials that went before a judge, according to Steven Estabrook, the county's litigation cost manager.
"The reason I'm here is the retaliation of the judges," Fine says. "They figured they're going to throw me in jail and that way they feel that they can stop me."
Fine's decade-long crusade against the judges eventually led to his disbarment last year. Joe Carlucci was the lead prosecutor for the California State Bar. Carlucci says whenever Fine lost a case, he would appeal and argue the judges were corrupt.
"What he ultimately did was to delay proceedings, to level false accusations against judges," Carlucci says. "All of those lawsuits were found to have been frivolous and meritless."
Judge Yaffe and county officials refused to comment on Fine's case while it's still pending.
"Fine holds the key to his jail cell," Kevin McCormick, one of the court's attorneys, pointed out in a court filing. In other words, Fine will go free once he hands over the documents the court seeks and answers the judge's questions.
The technical term is "coercive confinement" -- jail-time until a person follows a judge's order.
"He's probably done more time than most burglars, robbers and dope dealers," says Sterling Norris of the public-interest group Judicial Watch.
Norris says Fine's confinement has gone on too long.
Norris won a case in 2008 that found county payments to judges unconstitutional. The California Legislature swiftly passed a bill that enabled counties to continue paying the extra benefits.
"I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough," Norris says. "We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper."
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, calls the length of Fine's contempt confinement an "anomaly."
Fine's jail cell could be used for a more violent offender, Whitmore added. In fact, Los Angeles County's jails have in recent months released hundreds of inmates before their terms were up due to budget constraints.
Fine took his pencil-and-paper fight from solitary confinement to the U.S Supreme Court, which ruled Monday it would not hear the case. The court offered no explanation.
Meanwhile, Fine's family stands behind him -- even in the face of home foreclosure.
"My husband has always been the straightest arrow, hardworking, very successful attorney, and for this to happen to him is unbelievable," says Maryellen Fine, his wife of 27 years.
"I'll look back with tears with all the time I might have missed with the family," Fine says tearfully just before he is handcuffed and walked back to his cell.
"We don't know what is going to be next," says Fine's daughter, Victoria. "Every day is just one more day where I think maybe I'm going to get a phone call that says dad's coming home."
By Abbie Boudreau, Emily Probst and Dana Rosenblatt, CNN Special Investigations Unit
Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Once a dapper Beverly Hills attorney known for his bow tie, Richard Fine has been held in solitary confinement at Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail for 14 months, even though he's never been charged with a crime.
Fine, a 70-year- old taxpayer's advocate who once worked for the Department of Justice, is being held for contempt of court.
Superior Court Judge David Yaffe found Fine in contempt after he refused to turn over financial documents and answer questions when ordered to pay an opposing party's attorney's fees, according to court documents.
Fine says his contempt order masks the real reason why he's in jail. He claims he's a political prisoner.
"I ended up here because I did the one thing no other lawyer in California is willing to do. I took on the corruption of the courts," Fine said in a jailhouse interview with CNN.
For the last decade, Fine has filed appeal after appeal against Los Angeles County's Superior Court judges. He says the judges each accept what he calls yearly "bribes" from the county worth $57,000. That's on top of a $178,789 annual salary, paid by the state. The county calls the extra payments "supplemental benefits" -- a way to attract and retain quality judges in a high-cost city.
While the practice of paying supplemental benefits is common in California, most high-cost cities elsewhere don't hand out these kinds of benefits. Judges in Miami, Chicago and Boston receive no extra county dollars.
Judges in Los Angeles County not only have the highest state salaries in the nation, they also get tens of thousands of dollars in county benefits. These payments, Fine says, mean judges are unlikely to rule against the county when it is involved in a lawsuit.
In the last two fiscal years, Los Angeles County won all but one of the nine trials that went before a judge, according to Steven Estabrook, the county's litigation cost manager.
"The reason I'm here is the retaliation of the judges," Fine says. "They figured they're going to throw me in jail and that way they feel that they can stop me."
Fine's decade-long crusade against the judges eventually led to his disbarment last year. Joe Carlucci was the lead prosecutor for the California State Bar. Carlucci says whenever Fine lost a case, he would appeal and argue the judges were corrupt.
"What he ultimately did was to delay proceedings, to level false accusations against judges," Carlucci says. "All of those lawsuits were found to have been frivolous and meritless."
Judge Yaffe and county officials refused to comment on Fine's case while it's still pending.
"Fine holds the key to his jail cell," Kevin McCormick, one of the court's attorneys, pointed out in a court filing. In other words, Fine will go free once he hands over the documents the court seeks and answers the judge's questions.
The technical term is "coercive confinement" -- jail-time until a person follows a judge's order.
"He's probably done more time than most burglars, robbers and dope dealers," says Sterling Norris of the public-interest group Judicial Watch.
Norris says Fine's confinement has gone on too long.
Norris won a case in 2008 that found county payments to judges unconstitutional. The California Legislature swiftly passed a bill that enabled counties to continue paying the extra benefits.
"I think it's a lack of judicial integrity to say enough is enough," Norris says. "We've got a man, 70-year-old attorney, in jail for over a year on coercive confinement and that is way beyond the pale. No matter what else he may have done, that is improper."
Steve Whitmore, a spokesman for Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, calls the length of Fine's contempt confinement an "anomaly."
Fine's jail cell could be used for a more violent offender, Whitmore added. In fact, Los Angeles County's jails have in recent months released hundreds of inmates before their terms were up due to budget constraints.
Fine took his pencil-and-paper fight from solitary confinement to the U.S Supreme Court, which ruled Monday it would not hear the case. The court offered no explanation.
Meanwhile, Fine's family stands behind him -- even in the face of home foreclosure.
"My husband has always been the straightest arrow, hardworking, very successful attorney, and for this to happen to him is unbelievable," says Maryellen Fine, his wife of 27 years.
"I'll look back with tears with all the time I might have missed with the family," Fine says tearfully just before he is handcuffed and walked back to his cell.
"We don't know what is going to be next," says Fine's daughter, Victoria. "Every day is just one more day where I think maybe I'm going to get a phone call that says dad's coming home."
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