News Headlines (160) 20 February 2013

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The children attend a rally in Lahore Pakistan (Tuesday, 19 February 2013). The action was in protest of a bomb attack on Saturday, February 16, 2013 in Quetta that killed 89 Shias. Protesters also demanded that security forces to protect them from the hardliners.

► UPI.com - Titanic violin to be auctioned

► NY DAILYNEWS - Notes from John Lennon’s killer Mark David Chapman to cop Stephen Spiro on sale for $75,000

► Indigo Children & Psychic Attacks. Named one of the "World's Greatest Psychics," Elizabeth Joyce talked about indigo children, as well as psychic attack scams, during the first half of the program. According to Joyce, the evolutionary process has gifted certain special children with two extra strands of DNA, which will be activated in a forthcoming era of new vibration. All of us will have to adjust to this new higher octave frequency, she added. In addition, Joyce said indigo children are characterized by an unusually direct stare, high intelligence and ability to cooperate.

Regarding psychic attacks, Joyce warned about so-called psychics who shake down the fearful and vulnerable for money to remove curses. She reported on a woman who was taken for over a million dollars by a person whom the victim believed had the power to make her son sick or healthy. No one can put a hex on someone without their permission, Joyce explained, noting that all one has to do to remove a curse is command it to leave. Joyce also recalled the time a man named Howard tried to steal her soul, and shared her theory that the BP oil rig was blown up by North Korean terrorists. Published on Jan 14, 2013 by DiscloseTruthTV

► Colombia's young emerald miners search for green gold
► Shiite Muslims hold hunger strike in Afghanistan
► Yemen military aircraft crashes in Sanaa
► The Beckhams arrive in Paris
► 'Ski mountaineering' wins new fans in France

► Pistorius Charged With Murdering Girlfriend ||  Raw: Pistorius Leaves Court After Hearing || Pistorius Claims He Mistook Lover for Intruder
► Biden: Shotgun Will Scare Off Intruders
► Obama Warns Sequester Will Cause Job Losses
► Woods: Playing Golf With President Obama 'Cool'
► Gun Owners Get Discount at Va. Beach Pizza Shop
► Police: Four Dead in Calif. Shootings
► Calif. Student Shoots and Kills 3, Then Self
► LAPD Chief: Review of Dorner Firing Under Way
► Naked Men' Exhibit Draws Nudists From All Over
► Virginia Dog Gets Acupuncture for Pain

► NKorean propaganda video shows Obama in flames
► Biden's Advice on Home Defense: 'Buy a Shotgun'
► U.S. government won't fall apart on "sequester" day of reckoning
► Is Obama Being Too Mean to the White House Press Corps?
► What's next for Chávez and Venezuela?
► Russia's massive meteorite: By the numbers
► Russia Meteor Blast Was Largest Detected by Nuclear Monitoring System

► Pregnant Teen Wins Abortion Battle



► World's funkiest shoe exhibit - The "Shoe Obsession" exhibit at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum in New York is full of otherworldly delights for the sartorial shoe lover. The exhibition, showing off 153 specimens, runs through April 13. (PHOTOS) 

► Higgs Boson Particle May Spell Doom For the Universe



► Texas Mom Delivers Two Sets of Identical Twins

► Nepotism alive and kicking in Italy
► Coral reefs – The ocean's larder
► Are there really five stages of grief?
► Sailors sing-off in landlocked Krakow

► In pictures: Calcutta in the 1970s


► Day in pictures: 19 February 2013


A 15-day-old night monkey sits in a vet's hand at a temporary shelter west of Bogota in Colombia. The shelter receives between 3,000 and 3,500 wild animals a year. Some are seized from poachers and others found hurt.
► Today's African Proverb : "No-one will feed a child with their hands without licking their fingers" - Sent by Aaron Anye, Johannesburg, South Africa

► Could largest-in-century meteor have been stopped?
► Video: Fireworks, sky lanterns light up Libya for 2nd anniversary of revolution 
► CrossTalk: Church in Crisis
► Every Move You Make: US to adopt new biometric surveillance system?
► 'West wants to pour petrol on Syria flame, not water'
► 3-year-old Russian boy killed by American adoptive mother in Texas  || Abusive Adoptions: Russia shocked at another child's death in US
► Correa: Neo-colonial West pushes Ecuador to backtrack on Assange
► 'ICC enemy of liberty, Syria war crimes trial will replay Yugoslavia scenario'
► Last Stand: Israel's E1 settlement slaps world in face
► US and China accuse each other of cyber warfare
► 'End to adoption question': Russia shocked at another child’s death in US
► Moscow looking for NATO cooperation, missile defense guarantees
► Russian Christians, Muslims and Jews launch political party
► Tunisian PM steps down after crisis prompted by political assassination
► Apple claims cyber-attack on staff computers by hackers that targeted Facebook
► First patient dies in UK from SARS-like novel coronavirus
► Insurgent violence against women, girls in Afghanistan jumps 20% - UN
► US drones killed more Afghan civilians in 2012 – UN
► Texas women sent to jail after hiding child they kidnapped for 8 years
► France eager to return Nazi-looted art to Jewish owners
► Russian Christians, Muslims and Jews launch political party

(We will never know when and where the wisdom of an era is coming to a nation, come and leave its message of peace in heterogeneity of the people there. Mmm... maybe to you, Russia?)

► Tattoo artists ink their way to America's skin



► US city bans use of drones
► Inside Story Americas - The impact of Bolivia's nationalisation
  ► Inside Story - The shift in global arms trade. The Middle East's biggest arms show opened at the International Defence Exhibition (IDEX), in Abu Dhabi, where 80 companies from 15 countries are displaying their products. Organisers say that the show has doubled in size since it was last held two years ago but it comes at a time of uncertainty for the global arms industry.  Published on Feb 19, 2013.



► Cameron meets India PM amid defence deal mess
► Diamonds worth $50m stolen at Belgium airport
► The Stream - Bangladesh's rising voices
  ► Fossil uncovers pre-historic sea monster.  It was once the T-Rex of the Sea. Scientists in the US are studying the fossil of a 240 million year-old sea reptile.  They have called it Jim, after the man who discovered it completely by chance. Al Jazeera's John Hendren has the story. Published on Feb 19, 2013



► Hackers hit Apple in wake of Facebook attack

► UN highlights food waste in Kenya. About half of everything grown in Kenya is exported, but almost a third of that is thrown out, not because it is rotten, but for arsthetic reasons. The UN believes this to be outrageous, and to make the point, it organised a banquet using only produce that would otherwise be tossed away or fed to animals. The UN Environment Programme believes there needs to be a revolution in the way food is handled from the farm to the fork. This is the beginning. Al Jazeera's Peter Greste reports from Nairobi. Published on Feb 19, 2013



► Al Jazeera World - Targeting Journalism. In many parts of the world, journalism is a profession under murderous assault. Nowhere has this been more true than in the Middle East in recent years.  Figures compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists show an increase in the deaths of reporters covering the region, with 30 journalists killed in 2012 in Syria alone. The period between 1992 and 2012 saw the killings of 438 journalists in the Middle East and North Africa. Iraq was the deadliest assignment. Many journalists were kidnapped, and have never been heard from again. Others were lucky to have escaped with their lives. Targeting Journalism shows the challenges faced by Arab journalists today and highlights cases of reporters who have disappeared or been killed in Egypt, Iraq, Yemen and the occupied Palestinian territories.



► Spain's politicians accused of corruption
► Inside Story Americas - The cost of America's prison industry

► When the Sequester Happens: TIME Explains



► In Defense of Hilary Mantel: Royalty, Fashion and Fertility in the Public Eye

By Radhika Jones
* 'A Plastic Princess'? Hilary Mantel Attacked Over Kate Middleton Comments
* The Kate Question: More or Less of Diana?

► Jerome Delay: Photographing Mali's Invisible War
► LIFE Behind the Picture: Marines Blasting a Cave, Iwo Jima, 1945
► A Casual Conversation with Saul Leiter

► Gen. John Allen turns down NATO post, set to retire
► Obama warns of dire sequester consequences
► Supreme Court to consider eliminating political contribution limit
► A story of a Sahara Romeo and Juliet
► Pictures in the News | February 19, 2013
► Angels outfielder Josh Hamilton signs autographs for fans at Diablo Stadium in Tempe, Ariz.  - Posted On February 19, 2013 By: Marc Martin 

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Indian bodybuilders perform prior to morning yoga sun salutations (Surya Namaskar) at Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Feb.18, 2013. Surya Namaskar programmes were organized Feb. 18 across the country on the occasion of Swami Vivekananda's 150th birth anniversary. (AFP PHOTO/Prakash SINGH)


A woman walks on two boats, which are tied together and used as a bridge, to cross Tolly's Nullah in Kolkata on February 19, 2013. (REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri)