Jeg havde nu selv aldrig hørt om dette sted. Og ved godt hvad der trækker mest i mit kamera og mig:




Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state.Teknologien er flyttet derud, derfor optagelsen. Men den moderne mentalitet lader vente på sig.
Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches by a local cleric.
The incident occurred on Sunday in a remote village in Deoghar district.
Correspondents say the abuse of women who are branded as witches is common, but rare footage of the incident has caused outrage across India.
Police went to Pattharghatia village after being informed about the incident by a group of villagers...
"No one in the mob came forward to rescue the victims as they were being stripped and beaten up," he said.
The victims are now under police protection.
Police say that people in Pattharghatia believe that certain women in their village are possessed by a "holy spirit" that can identify those who practise witchcraft.

Bogen har kun været på markedet i 19 dage, men har allerede solgt 30.000 eksemplarer, oplyser forlaget.Gæt selv hvilken bog, der er tale om?
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»Sælger en bog 10.000 eksemplarer, har den virkelig solgt godt. Og mange bøger kommer i 1.000 eksemplarer.
Several journalists were injured or arrested by the US military. One, Ibrahim Jassam, is still being held in Iraq.Om kriterierne:
Reporters Without Borders prepared a questionnaire with 40 criteria that assess the state of press freedom in each country. It includes every kind of violation directly affecting journalists (such as murders, imprisonment, physical attacks and threats) and news media (censorship, confiscation of newspaper issues, searches and harassment). Ánd it includes the degree of impunity enjoyed by those responsible for these press freedom violations.Ligeledes tæller ikke kun statens indgreb mod friheden, men også pressionsgrupper, organisationers.
It also measures the level of self-censorship in each country and the ability of the media to investigate and criticise. Financial pressure, which is increasingly common, is also assessed and incorporated into the final score.
The questionnaire takes account of the legal framework for the media (including penalties for press offences, the existence of a state monopoly for certain kinds of media and how the media are regulated) and the level of independence of the public media. It also reflects violations of the free flow of information on the Internet.
"23-årige Filippa Hamilton er 1,78 høj og vejer sølle 54 kilo. Men fjervægteren er blevet fyret fra sit modeljob hos Ralph Laurent, fordi hun er for tyk til modehusets smag."Vores kultur er heller ikke altid helt rask. Tændstikker hører til i små æsker. Ikke ved siden af indsunket hud omkring alt for synlige ribben.
Jeg vil tilføje den høje arbejdsløshed, hvor hverken uddannede, eller kvalificerede gik fri.»Jo mere jeg læste om bomben og 80’erne, jo dårligere sov jeg om natten. Men det gik også hen ad vejen op for mig, at det ikke kun var punkere og dødsrockere, som reflekterede over ragnarok og atomtruslen. No future var et motto for punkerne, men det gjaldt også yuppierne, der festede med escortpiger, stoffer og dyre drinks på Café Victor og Annabels og Prive og Submarino. Det var samme ideologi, som fik punkerne til ikke at tage nogen uddannelse og noget job, og som fik yuppierne til at brænde hele gevinsten af på caféer. ‘Hvad fanden … det kan være, vi ikke er her på torsdag.’ Det dummeste, man kan gøre, er at spare op til 90’erne. For hvem siger, vi vil være dér?«
- Kan man sige, at bomben var en fællesnævner for de ellers adskilte kulturer i 80’erne?
PARIS - I løbet af weekenden begyndte der at tegne sig et billede af den 32-årige Adlène Hicheur, der arbejder på CERN-generatoren på grænsen mellem Schweiz og Frankrig. Det forventes, at Hicheur vil blive formelt tiltalt for at have »forbindelser til en terrrororganisation«. Men hans 25-årige lillebror, der også blev arresteret torsdag i forældrenes hjem syd for Lyon, er blevet løsladt. Politiet mener, at den ældste bror, som har arbejdet på vigtige atomforskningsprogrammer i Storbritannien og USA, handlede på egen hånd, da han sendte emails med oplysninger om mulige terrormål i Frankrig til medlemmer af al-Qaeda i Algeriet.
Ifølge den franske søndagsavis, Le Journal du Dimanche, frygter den franske efterretningstjeneste, at Adlène Hicheur var ved at blive »oplært« til at fungere som »omdrejningspunkt« for en terrorkampagne, der skulle starte i Frankrig, men måske sprede sig til andre europæiske lande.
Og samtidig med at 2008-budgetterne for udsatte børn og unge skrider, erkender kommunerne, at de ikke ved, om de mange penge til indsatsen bruges rigtigt – for problemet vokser og vokser, og det koster efterhånden samfundet over 12 milliarder kr.
»De senere år er der sket en markant stigning, uden at vi har kunnet registrere tilsvarende resultater. Når man i Morsø Kommune kan fremvise effekt for færre penge, må andre tage ved lære«, siger KL-formand Erik Fabrin (V), der selv er borgmester i Rudersdal.Når samfundet tager det sidste ansvar i stadigt flere tilfælde, ikke blot for unges opdragelse og velbefinden, men også for voksnes stadigt dårligere helbred, så koster det kassen.

White House officials, they said, have concluded that McChrystal's approach could be doomed by election fraud, corruption and other problems in Afghanistan; by continued Pakistani covert support for the insurgency; by the strains on the Army, Marine Corps and the federal budget; and by a lack of political and public support at home, which they fear could also undermine the president's domestic priorities..."McChrystal and Petraeus are ignoring the problems their (counterinsurgency) approach would face in Afghanistan and here at home," said one intelligence official with extensive experience in South Asia and counterterrorism. "We don't have a reliable partner in Afghanistan or Pakistan; doubling the size of the Afghan army is a pipe dream, given the corruption and literacy problems; and neither Congress or the American people are likely to give it the money, the troops or the decade or so it would need to work, if it would work.
"Now the White House is downplaying the dangers of doing the only thing that they think Congress and the public will support - a limited war against the guys who hit us on 9/11. The truth is, both approaches have huge problems, and neither one's likely to work..."
A U.S. withdrawal or failure could permit al-Qaida and other groups export their violence from Afghanistan into Pakistan's heartland, the Indian-controlled side of the disputed Kashmir region and former Soviet republics in Central Asia whose autocrats have been repressing Islam for decades, the U.S. officials said...
"It is our belief that the primary focus of the Taliban is regional - that is, Afghanistan and Pakistan," one senior U.S. intelligence official said. "At the same time, there is no reason to believe that the Taliban are abandoning their connections to al Qaida, which has its sights set beyond the region."
"The two groups ... maintain the kind of close relationship that - if the Taliban were able to take effective control over parts of Afghanistan - would probably give al-Qaida expanded room to operate," the official added...
"Here we go again," a veteran U.S. intelligence official said. "The Bush administration ignored anything that didn't support its arguments for invading Iraq and exaggerated the threat from Saddam Hussein. This administration is minimizing the threat from radical Islam in South and Central Asia, which is much worse today than it was eight years ago, in order to defend a minimalist policy that it's settling on for domestic political reasons." (Kilde:)