News & Events - January 2007

HOUSTON (Reuters) - A 10-year-old U.S. boy who hanged himself may have been inspired to do it by television coverage of Saddam Hussein's execution, police said on Thursday.

Relatives told police in Webster, Texas, that Sergio Pelico had seen the video of the former Iraqi leader's hanging and asked about it before the incident on Sunday.

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KOLKATA: A 15-year-old girl from Kharda district hanged herself in response to the execution of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Thursday.

"She said they had hanged a patriot. We didn't take her seriously when she told us that she wanted to feel the pain Saddam did during the execution," the girl's father, Manmohan Karmakar, said.

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Why has his hanging developed such a morbid interest?

What is your opinion of these new developments?

2007-01-06 02:38:53 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

american troops invaded our country in 2003 and used to arrest our men and every man can carry a gun because they accuse us as terrorist.. can you tell me who is the terrorist the invador or the resistant?

2007-01-06 02:34:30 · 7 answers · asked by mohammad a 1 in Current Events

2007-01-06 02:33:36 · 4 answers · asked by Reo 5 in Other - News & Events

get ready for global warming, america. as if things couldn't get any worse eventually a draft will be called after your troops have been all killed. makes me not want to be human knowing all our resources are going to shi-zn-it. i know you people ignnore me about weird things like u.f.os and spread your opinion. well since the government is being so honest about its new weaponry it makes you wonder what they got goin on behind the scenes. i figure since they got tired of lying after roswell they decided not to give us the whole truth. look at it like this people. u.s.a'z forces have a corrupt backgroud yet they use innocent faces to defend our so called freedom. with all the hell that goes on in my life i'm probably safer in iraq. what sucks is that eventually when the ice caps melt we're in for tidal waves that will wipe out mankind. for those of you who are stupid: the earth is in a majority covered by water. -you people should look up in the sky once in a while. technology's crazy.

2007-01-06 02:21:09 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Why are they so timid, lazy ?

2007-01-06 01:52:34 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

GLOBAL WARMING!it's soon to happen.we are all going to die from global warming and there is no way to protect ourselves.

2007-01-06 01:52:32 · 11 answers · asked by nerdy4u2 1 in Current Events

I need this information for a project. Can you please leave a source? Thank you!

2007-01-06 01:50:17 · 8 answers · asked by ? 2 in Current Events

Walter Cronkite perhaps?

2007-01-06 01:46:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

2007-01-06 01:45:58 · 22 answers · asked by matthew a 2 in Current Events

Why is that ?

2007-01-06 01:39:18 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070106/ap_on_re_us/mansion_madam_7

Melissa Wolf (Penthouse Pet name) looks pretty much like she will be in the slammer for a while.

2007-01-06 01:37:35 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

I'm interested to know what people thought of the Saddam execution video footage and why people thought it was murder and that he didn't deserve to die for the horrendous crimes that he had committed on humanity? And also why others thought that his execution was justified and right and that we had every right to watch. ALL OPINIONS WELCOME!

2007-01-06 01:37:20 · 24 answers · asked by LMac100 2 in Media & Journalism

Is Osama a stark raving mad man or a good muslim?

2007-01-06 01:36:08 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - News & Events

2007-01-06 01:33:52 · 16 answers · asked by andykpln 4 in Current Events

2007-01-06 01:10:50 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Media & Journalism

I thought the Gulf war was about oil, The Falklands was about territory, so why is religeon suddenly playing such a big part, can't we all get on or are we all damned?

2007-01-06 01:07:07 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Does anyone know what the newspaper is for Bristow Oklahoma?

2007-01-06 01:06:13 · 3 answers · asked by Dustie M 1 in Media & Journalism

I don`t. If he were, we`d see videos of him speaking of current events and such....Al Qaida would love to shove OBL down the west`s throats with new video images, but they can`t. If a.q.`s 2nd top figure can make new videos, so should OBL......I think he is dead. What do you think ?

2007-01-06 01:04:47 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

2007-01-06 01:02:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

A lot of time seams to be wasted putting the latest BB nonsense on the news. Surely it has enough airtime without news companies updating us all on the latest vacuum to hit the screens.

2007-01-05 23:48:33 · 18 answers · asked by 👑 Hypocrite󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣 7 in Media & Journalism

2007-01-05 23:21:15 · 18 answers · asked by Count Acumen 5 in Current Events

are they really useful to the human being ?????

2007-01-05 23:19:21 · 8 answers · asked by reda 3 in Current Events

The reason why I ask is just recently it was reported on a headline "Muslim guilty of inciting murder". I think that this is totally wrong and can only lead to tension amongst faiths. After all you don't see headlines like "Christian gets life for murder" or "Jew gets fined for theft"

A person's belief or faith should not have anything to do with what crime they are guilty of.

I work alongside people from different faiths and I have no problem with that. Mainly my work takes me into Tunisia a 98% Muslim country, my colleagues accept that I am Christian and we share views.

What I can't understand why the press find it necessary to single out the Muslim faith when reporting any crime commited by a Muslim. Why not go for the whole hog and put headlines mentioning all faiths! It is time that the press stopped this farce!

There are crimes committed by people from all faiths but yet we don't see these faiths reported in the press!

2007-01-05 23:11:38 · 23 answers · asked by tunisianboy46 5 in Media & Journalism

It sounds crazy I know but I watched a film called Loose Change and I also watched a film called 9/11 Mysteries and Terrorstorm and I am almost totally convinced this is the case. If so this is the biggest mass murder and crime in American history. They should at the very least Re Open the investigation with a TRUE independent commission.

Please watch a video or all the videos below to understand where I am coming from. I looked at a website called screw loose change and it did not satisfy me. They could not adequetely explain away anything. In fact all these so called myth debunking sites remind me of propaganda and have no legs to stand on.

Here are the video links for Loose Change, 9/11 Mysteries, and Terrorstorm, all for free.

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=7866929448192753501&q=Loose+Change

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-6708190071483512003&q=911

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=786048453686176230&q=Terrorstorm

2007-01-05 23:07:50 · 8 answers · asked by calgaryloverboy26 1 in Media & Journalism

Does anyone else think that the Al J is doing a good job.
In a region that has hardly ever known a free press
have AL J done enough to walk the fine line which is very fine there, to report without excessive bias.
I would expect the bias and it is there but I think they have managed it quite well. What do you think?

2007-01-05 23:05:23 · 7 answers · asked by farshadowman 3 in Media & Journalism

The oil flow from Iraq has been constant apart from the odd bomb interuption for ages now but the infrastructure etc etc remains pitiful.
WHERE are the billions?
I cannot work it out, does anyone actually know?

2007-01-05 22:32:00 · 13 answers · asked by farshadowman 3 in Current Events

civilians and soldiers, how do you feel about that and what do you think will happen?

2007-01-05 22:29:54 · 1 answers · asked by talofa lava 2 in Media & Journalism

With 25000 murders a year, 60000 rapes and any children you have denied a university education and then a job because they have quotas to fill from the townships. Surely the penny must have dropped by now that South Africa is now the blackmans country and any whites that remain must surely be prosecuted for endangering the safety of their kids

2007-01-05 22:17:23 · 15 answers · asked by gwtrwrte r 1 in Current Events

And what are your views on the politics behind it.

http://news.search.yahoo.com/news/search?fr=sfp&ei=UTF-8&p=Noida

2007-01-05 22:15:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Current Events

Or are objectivity and neutrality no longer requirements for journalism?

2007-01-05 22:09:49 · 9 answers · asked by charlie c 2 in Media & Journalism