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News.com.au
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QANTAS staff have been booed by frustrated passengers at Brisbane Airport after leaving their check-in counters to assist an elderly woman who collapsed and died in the long queue.
The 80-year-old woman is believed to have suffered a heart attack short..
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BBC News
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A man who urinated on a woman as she lay dying and shouted "this is YouTube material" has been sentenced to three years in prison.
Anthony Anderson also covered Christine Lakinski with shaving foam after she collapsed in a Hartlepool street.
The 50-..
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Canada.com
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An Immigration and Refugee Appeal Board judge has been accused of propositiong a refugee claimant in exchange for a favourable response to the woman's application.
CTV News obtained video of the judge suggesting to a South Korean woman that he would ap..
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BBC News
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A Hartlepool man is facing jail after he urinated on a disabled woman who lay dying in the street.
The 27-year-old shouted "this is YouTube material" as he degraded Christine Lakinski, 50, who had fallen ill, magistrates heard.
Miss Lakinski, who su..
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Reuters
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A Kurdish woman was brutally raped, stamped on and strangled by members of her family and their friends in an "honor killing" carried out at her London home because she had fallen in love with the wrong man.
Banaz Mahmod, 20, was subjected to the 2-1/2..
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Daily Mail
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Men who have sex with drunken women risk being convicted of rape - even if they appear to have given consent.
Ministers will unveil the controversial proposals this week in a bid to boost conviction rates for sex offences and bring more 'date rapists'..
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CNN
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A 44-year-old woman who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home because of a $122 unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday.
Police said they had launched an investigation into Folole Muliaga's d..
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SF Gate
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A woman was convicted Monday of hiring a hit squad to murder her lover's baby daughter, ending a trial that had dominated headlines for months with details of South Africa's first known contract killing of an infant.
Dina Rodrigues was found guilty of..
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BBC News
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Iran's president has come under fire from a conservative newspaper after he publicly kissed the hand of a woman who used to be his school teacher.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a conservative by the standards of Iranian politics, was attacked by the Hezbollah n..
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Yahoo News
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A Chinese woman survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony thanks to a convenient pile of excrement which broke her fall, local media said.
The accident happened when the woman was hanging out laundry on Monday in Nanjing, capital of the eastern prov..
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BBC News
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The European Court of Human Rights has awarded a Polish woman 25,000 euros ($33,000; �16,000) in damages after she was refused an abortion.
Alicja Tysiac's eyesight worsened drastically after she had her third baby and she fears she may go blind...
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Times Online
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A Pakistani minister and woman’s activist has been shot dead by an Islamic extremist for refusing to wear the veil. Zilla Huma Usman, the minister for social welfare in Punjab province and an ally of President Pervez Musharraf, was killed as she was..
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Middle East Times
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An Iranian court has cleared of murder charges a 19-year-old woman who was originally sentenced to death for killing a man that she said tried to rape her, the press reported Monday...
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Yahoo News
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An Austrian businessman announced Thursday that he would get rid of urinals shaped like a woman's mouth from a public toilet near Vienna's national opera, after facing pressure from politicians who demanded their removal...
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SF Gate
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A Sunnyvale woman diagnosed with a drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis who traveled from India to the Bay Area in December may have infected another passenger on her flight, health officials said this week.
The passenger on the woman's Dec. 13 flight..
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CNN
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An Indian woman accused of being a witch was tied to a tree and beaten by a mob, with television footage of the incident aired in India on Friday. Nishant Tiwari, a police official in northeastern India, said a journalist who filmed the beating called him..
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CNN
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Struggling to breathe, American Airlines passenger Carine Desir asked for oxygen, but a flight attendant twice refused her request, the woman's cousin said. "Don't let me die," the cousin, Antonio Oliver, recalled Desir saying after the attendant allegedl..
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BBC News
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Authorities in Brazil are investigating reports that a young woman was left in a police cell with some 20 men for a month and repeatedly sexually abused.
The governor of the state of Para, where the reported case took place, has promised a full inquiry..
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Washington Post
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It had already been a long day when Case No. 4, woman with delinquent husband, walked through the metal gates into the spare, concrete-floored chambers of the so-called Children's Parliament here.
The aggrieved woman sat in front of a large wooden desk..
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Yahoo News
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Malaysian police have arrested a woman in connection with the murder of a man whose body was chopped into 11 pieces and stuffed into a refrigerator in a posh apartment in the capital.
The remains were discovered in black bin bags when a man who bought..
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