The bodies were found on Tuesday in Verkhnyaya Pyshma in the Sverdlovsk region by staff at the store. Past inspections of the store by local officials had failed to uncover the gruesome find.The bodies were reportedly said to be in bag bearing the logo of another food store in a nearby town.On Thursday Irina, a 30 year old woman, was detained. The woman almost instantly admitted to the killing.“The detainee admitted that she gave birth to two boys in 2008 in a rented apartment, after that she put her sons in a refrigerator at home,” head of the press service of the Interior Ministry’s local department, Valery Gorelyh noted. Forensic experts said that children were born alive and died of hypothermia, as there were traces of oxygen in their lungs. “After the babies died and got frozen, Irina transferred the two boys to the food store where she worked at the time, and hid them in a freezer ,” Gorelyh added.Currently Irina lives with her elderly mother and a nine-year old daughter. She has been successfully working in the trade sector for a long time. On Friday she was released, but had to sign an agreement she would not be leaving Russia till the investigation and trial finished.Irina says she did not want the children and hid her pregnancy from colleagues and even her family, giving birth without anyone’s help, as tabloid KP.ru reports.“She is now very depressed. She cannot explain the reason she kept them in the freezer, she throws up her hands and says she didn’t know what to do with them. That’s why she carried the bodies from one freezer to another, wandering around the town with plastic bags,” the head of the criminal investigation of the Interior Ministry’s local department Alexander Mazaev told local 4-1 channel.The woman will be charged with up to 5 years in prison under the article ‘Murder of a newborn by mother’. Her guilt and sentencing is likely to hinge on whether experts deem her sane. … Read More
Toy gun v recession: Portuguese man robs bank to buy medicine
“I needed a few hundred euros for medication. Also we had no food at home. This is what I bought with the money that was stolen. I took about a thousand euros,” Augusto Costa told RT.Costa turned to crime after he couldn’t afford to pay the medical bills for his now ex-wife who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.Today Costa is a convicted bank robber.He chose his bank branch as the target, blaming them and Portugal government for what happened to him.“They robbed me, so I robbed them. I’m not proud, but I think the state forced me into this position,” Costa explained his actions.In the interview to RT’s Peter Oliver, Costa spoke about the day when he took a toy plastic gun and headed to his bank. Watch full report from Lisbon. … Read More
Toy gun vs recession: Portuguese man robs bank to buy medicine
“I needed a few hundred euros for medication. Also we had no food at home. This is what I bought with the money that was stolen. I took about a thousand euros,” Augusto Costa told RT.Costa turned to crime after he couldn’t afford to pay the medical bills for his now ex-wife who suffers from Multiple Sclerosis.Today Costa is a convicted bank robber.He chose his bank branch as the target, blaming them and Portugal government for what happened to him.“They robbed me, so I robbed them. I’m not proud, but I think the state forced me into this position,” Costa explained his actions.In the interview to RT’s Peter Oliver, Costa spoke about the day when he took a toy plastic gun and headed to his bank. Watch full report from Lisbon. … Read More
South Korean toddler gets first ever windpipe transplant
An international team of surgeons has successfully given a South Korean-Canadian toddler a life-saving windpipe transplant made from plastic fibers and some of her own stem cells. Hannah Warren, 2, was born without a trachea and is now the youngest person to ever receive a bio-engineered organ,…
Linsanity revisited
It takes a fairly long time to write a book, for obvious reasons having to do with conceptualizing and writing and editing and the ambient neuroses that come with all that. For less obvious reasons having to do with things I’m not anywhere near as familiar with, it also takes a very long time to publish a book. When Jeremy Lin was off on his giddy and sudden ascent around this time in the 2011-12 NBA season, publishers were clamoring for a book on Jeremy Lin, any book on Jeremy Lin that they could sell immediately to the many people who were suddenly very interested in Jeremy Lin. But, for all the reasons mentioned above, and because Linsanity’s bright bloom was so brief, no proper Jeremy Lin book ever came. There was a glossy Collector’s Edition magazine-y thing with many photos of Lin on sale at the drugstore, next to assorted other Linsanity-related detritus—I remember a lot of pull-out plastic banners—but as it was all marked down and marked down again and finally gone, there was no Jeremy Lin book.Continue Reading… … Read More
Korean Beauty Pageant ‘Clones’ Controversy
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180 killed, 11,000 injured in Chinese earthquake
YA’AN, China (AP) — Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China’s Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters.The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off roads and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county, in Sichuan’s Ya’an city area, which is further south on the same fault line where a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region five years ago.Hardest hit were villages further up the valleys, where farmers grow rice, vegetables and corn on terraced plots. Rescuers hiked into neighboring Baoxing county after its roads were cut off, reaching it overnight, state media reported. In Longmen village, authorities said nearly all the buildings had been destroyed in a frightening minute-long shaking by the quake.In the fog-covered town of Shuangli, corn farmer Zheng Xianlan said Sunday that she had rushed from the fields back to her home when the quake struck, and cried when she saw that the roof collapsed. She then spent the night outdoors on a worn sofa using a plastic raincoat for cover.Continue Reading… … Read More
