Monday, June 3, 2013

News Headlines (263) 3 June 2013




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BBC HEALTH 28 May 2013 : Surgery 'has growing death risk through the week' || BBC HEALTH 29 May 2013 : End of week surgery 'could be problem' ||  BBC HEALTH 29 May 2013 : Operations later in week 'more risky'

NY DAILY NEWS 30 May 2013 : Grumpy Cat inks movie deal, will star in family comedy feature ||Grumpy Cat goes from meme to movie star

DAILY MAIL 31 May 2013: Radiance immortalised: Artist Marc Quinn unveils nude portrait of pregnant Lara Stone at 55th Venice Biennale festival ||TELEGRAPH FASHION 30 May 2013 : Marc Quinn unveils naked portrait of pregnant Lara Stone





TELEGRAPH 2 June 2013 : Venice Biennale 2013: Anthony Caro/Marc Quinn, review ||HUFFINGTON POST 31 May 2013  : Marc Quinn's "The Way Of The  — Flesh," 2013 Pregnant Lara Stone Portrait By Marc Quinn Heats Up The Venice Biennale (NSFW PHOTO)

INDEPENDENT 31 May 2013 : Matthew Perry won't be there for rumoured Friends movie

ABC NEWS 31 May 2013 : David Gandy: Life as One of the World's Most Successful Male Models || SOCIALITELIFE 31 May 2013 : Handsome David Gandy Attends The Dolce & Gabbana Summer Cocktail Party In Spain [PHOTOS]







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TODAY in HISTORY
3 June 1904Charles R. Drew, an African-American surgeon whose research on the storage and shipment of blood plasma revolutionized blood banking, was born in Washington, D.C.
3 June 1989Ayatollah Khomeini died

MONDOWEISS  31 May 2013 : Updated: al-Aqsa Foundation discovers mass graves of Palestinians killed during the Nakba in Jaffa ||  ► ALJAZEERA ENGLISH 1 June 2013 :  Mass Palestinian grave found in Tel Aviv. Skeletal remains of dozens of Palestinians killed by Israelis during 1948 have been found in a mass grave in Tel Aviv.

DAWN 28 May 2013 : Turkish people trust parliament more than military: expert. A Turkish scholar here on Monday said military was a powerful institution in his country and trusted by the people in the past. But now parliament is more trusted and, therefore, the military cannot interfere in the transition from laicism to the Anglo-Saxon democracy.

RUSSIA TODAY 2 MArch 2013 : 'Screw the Troika': Hundreds of thousands protest austerity measures across Portugal



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Insight: Simmering anger at Erdogan's authoritarianism boils over in Turkey ||UPDATE 2-Erdogan accuses Turkish opposition of provoking anti-government protests  ||  "If this is about holding meetings, if this is a social movement, where they gather 20, I will get up and gather 200,000 people. Where they gather 100,000, I will bring together one million from my party," Erdogan said in a televised speech. ||  ► UPDATE 1 - Calm on Turkish streets after days of fierce protests

Thousands take to streets in Turkey, clash with police
By Jonathon Burch and Humeyra Pamuk - ISTANBUL/ANKARA - Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Turkey's four biggest cities and clashed with riot police firing tear gas on the third day of the fiercest anti-government demonstrations in years.
* Simmering anger at Erdogan's authoritarianism boils over
* Video: Tayyip Erdogan addresses Turkish unrest
* Egyptian tourist critically injured in Istanbul protests: medics
* Video: Wreckage litters Taksim Square after riots

Frankfurt 'Blockupy' protesters target ECB, banks, airport

Iranian presidential candidate's staff arrested - report. Supporters of Hassan Rohani also shouted slogans in support of detained opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi at the rally in Tehran, according to a video of the event posted on YouTube.




Police leave Istanbul square after clashes. Thousands of protesters celebrated early Sunday after police withdrew from Istanbul's Taksim Square, the focal point of nationwide protests against Turkey's Islamist-rooted government.

Demonstrators march for Wikileaks whistleblower Manning. People gather for a demonstration in support of Wikileaks whistleblower US Army Private Bradley Manning at Fort Meade in Maryland, where Manning's court martial will begin on June 3. ||Demonstrators march for WikiLeaks whistleblower Manning

Hong Kong battles to kick the ketamine habit. Hong Kong was dubbed the ketamine capital of the world with a cheap and abundant supply of the addictive drug flooding across the border from mainland China. But now the city's fighting back and trying to kick its ketamine habit.




Raw: Zombies Walk Through Prague Rain. Despite unrelenting rain around 600 zombies gathered in Prague on Saturday to participate in the city's sixth zombie walk through the Old Town. The annual event is part of similar walks organized in other cities around the world. (June 2)



Jolie, Pitt Talk Mastectomy at 'WWZ' Premiere.  Angelina Jolie joins Brad Pitt at his London 'World War Z' premiere - her first public appearance since news of her double mastectomy - and both say they're moved by the outpouring of public support. (June 3)





MAGAZINE
Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy?
The crocodiles wandering in back yards

HEALTH
Curing cancer or 'selling hope' to the vulnerable? Hundreds of thousands of pounds have been raised to send British patients to a doctor in America who claims he can "cure cancer". But Dr Stanislaw Burzynski's treatment has been dismissed by practitioners of mainstream medicine.
Doctors call for global consensus on diagnosis of death
►  Jolie 'moved' by surgery support
Film star Angelina Jolie says she feels "moved" by the support she has received from fans since she announced she had a double mastectomy.
* Angelina Jolie: 'I feel great' - VIDEO
* Jolie's aunt dies of breast cancer

Pencil extracted from Afghan man's head
TECHNOLOGY : Licensed to hack: Cracking open the corporate world

Gaddafi assets 'in South Africa'
South African officials are investigating claims that Muammar Gaddafi and his family stashed $1bn (£600m) in assets in the country.
* The last of the buffoon dictators?
* The Gaddafi family tree




Tear gas as thousands return to Taksim Square in Istanbul (PHOTOS, VIDEO) ||  ► Turkish police clamp down on anti-government protests: LIVE UPDATES
OP-ED : Erdogan 'hasn't thought through what his main priorities are'
Court-martial trial for Bradley Manning over WikiLeaks starts Monday   
Evacuation in Prague, state of emergency as floods grip Czech Republic (PHOTOS)
RT becomes first TV news channel to hit 1 billion views on YouTube
Almost 100 Afghan schoolgirls poisoned in suspected gas attack

VIDEOS
'Taxation is legalized form of robbery'.  It's been said that in life two things are guaranteed - death and taxes. RT speaks with Dutch libertarian leader Toine Manders who has some issues with one of those.
Why You Should Care: EU picking on little Cyprus (E32). Like Feudal serfs of the past poor citizens of Cyprus have had their pockets picked by their lords on the continent. Can Tim convince Apathybot that this is a tragedy or will he at least be able to teach him how to pronounce the country's name? Find out right now!
Jazz Band Hijack: Musicians turned Terrorists (RT Documentary). The first-ever children's jazz band to appear in Eastern Siberia was an instant success. It was made up of seven brothers with the family name Ovechkin. But on March 8, 1988, the talented young musicians turned terrorist when they attempted to hijack a plane to escape from the Soviet Union. Now, 25 years after the tragedy, RT reveals new details on the case.



Worlds Apart: Human Rights - Universal or Flexible? Human rights have been used as both carrot and stick reasons to bring some countries into the European fold and to keep others out. They are thought to be universal, yet their application is highly specific to the country's political, social and economic circumstances. To discuss that RT's Oksana Boyko joined by Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary-General of the Council of Europe.



1 Billion Views: 1 Billion Thanks (music by Peter Nalitch). It's official: RT is the first TV news channel to reach 1 billion views on ::  the video-sharing website YouTube, beating its long-established rivals to the mark. We would like to thank all our users. You helped us get there! 

EU Priority Problem? Brussels busy bottling olive oil amid raging crisis. As if EU bureaucrats don't have enough on their hands trying to extinguish financial fires raging across the broken continent, they've now decided to take their unlimited powers to the holy of holies: EU eateries. Yes, at a time when harsh austerity measures, delayed retirements and high unemployment levels are pushing Europeans to vent their outrage on the cobblestone streets, Brussels decided this was the perfect time to impose strict new rules on how restaurants serve olive oil to their customers.





Syrian conflict spills into Lebanon. The fighting in Syria has again spilled over into Lebanon. One Hezbollah fighter and several Syrian rebels have been killed in clashes near the eastern Bekaa Valley. Syrian government forces and Hezbollah fighters are continuing their three-month battle to regain the Syrian town of Qusayr. The International Red Cross says it believes thousands of civilians are still trapped there. Al Jazeera's Rula Amin has more from Beirut.






► Protests in Turkey: Taksim Could Become Erdogan's Tahrir Square
By Piotr Zalewski / Istanbul -  Mass protests escalated in Istanbul over the weekend, as demonstrators took to the streets to speak up against Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's 'arrogance of power'
* Protests in Istanbul After Police Crackdown 
Hezbollah, Syrian Rebels in Worst Clash in Lebanon
CNN HEALTH  : Deadly MERS-CoV virus spreads to Italy
IMMIGRATION  : Schumer: Immigration Bill to Pass Senate by July 4
DISASTERS : The (Virtually) Tornado-Proof Hospital: What Moore Can Learn From Joplin
ECOCENTRIC : 7 Things You Didn't Know About Cicadas 

PHOTOGRAPHY
Rock It, Man: Stunning Space Photos Paired With Cosmos-Themed Songs. In celebration of the first-ever music video from space — Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's cover of David Bowie's 1969 classic, "Space Oddity" — TIME.com presents a musical photo gallery, of sorts, featuring pictures from outer space
60 Years as Queen: Classic Portraits of Elizabeth II



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