Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of former U.S. President John Kennedy
1.& 2. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of former U.S. President John Kennedy displays her "sport for good award" in Monte Carlo in this May 25, 2000 file photo REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/Files
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver (L) poses with her daughter Maria at a California Governor's Conference on Women and Families in Long Beach, California in this December 7, 2004 file photo. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, who founded the Special Olympics and is a member of one of the most prominent American political families of the 20th century, died on August 11, 2009 at the age of 88. Picture taken December 7, 2004.
REUTERS/Jim Ruymen/Files (UNITED STATES OBITUARY POLITICS)
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver with her husband Sargent and son-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003. Eunice, sister of slain US president John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died in Massachusetts, her family said in a statement. She was 88.
(AFP/File/Robyn Beck)
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Indian volunteers assist physically-challenged competitors in the 100m race at the Special Olympics in Calcutta in 2004. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, sister of slain US president John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died in Massachusetts, her family has said in a statement. She was 88.
(AFP/File/Deshakalyan Chowdhury)
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, seen here in 2007, the sister of slain US president John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died in Massachusetts, her family has said in a statement. She was 88.
(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, seen here in 2007, the sister of slain US president John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died in Massachusetts, her family has said in a statement. She was 88.
(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards
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Eunice Kennedy Shriver, seen here in 2007, the sister of slain US president John F. Kennedy and founder of the Special Olympics, has died in Massachusetts, her family has said in a statement. She was 88.
(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)
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FILE - In this July 30,1983 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, shown at Edward Kennedy's annual summer time party at his home in Hyannisport, Mass. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this April 24, 1968 file photo, Sargent Shriver and his wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver watch a satirical presentation on a day in the life of Shriver by the staff of the Office of Economic Opportunity at night in Washington. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Charles Harrity, File)
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FILE - In this April 24, 1968 file photo, Sargent Shriver and his wife Eunice Kennedy Shriver watch a satirical presentation on a day in the life of Shriver by the staff of the Office of Economic Opportunity at night in Washington. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Charles Harrity, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 21, 1964 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver is shown swimming with youngsters in a pool at the day camp for mentally challenged children in Fairmount Park at Philadelphia. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this Jan 28, 2005 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver arrives at the Golden Jubilee Gala of the Viennese Opera Ball at New York's Waldorf Astoria. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Jennifer Szymaszek, File)
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FILE - In this July 27, 1965 file photo, one-week-old Paul Fitzgerald Kennedy Shriver makes his camera debut and his first trip as he leaves Logan International Airport in Boston with his mother, Eunice Kennedy Shriver and his father Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/J. Walter Green, File)
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FILE - In this Aug. 13, 1970 file photo, Eunice Shriver, left, and Illinois lieutenant-Governor Paul Simon watch as participating members of the International Special Olympics parade at Soldier Field in Chicago. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2006 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver waves to the congregation at Brookings Community AME Church in Los Angeles where she attended church services with daughter Maria Shriver and son-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Branimir Kvartuc, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2006 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver waves to the congregation at Brookings Community AME Church in Los Angeles where she attended church services with daughter Maria Shriver and son-in-law Arnold Schwarzenegger. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Branimir Kvartuc, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dances with his mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver after giving his acceptance speech, Tuesday, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Shriver, JFK's sister and Special Olympics founder, has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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FILE - In this Nov. 7, 2006 file photo, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger dances with his mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver after giving his acceptance speech in Beverly Hills, Calif. Shriver has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill, File)
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FILE - In this Feb. 6, 1975 file photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass, and his sister, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, jog on the Ellipse in Washington to kick off a 3,182-mile fund-raising jaunt for the benefit of the Special Olympics. Shriver has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/BD, File)
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FILE - In this Sept. 22, 1986 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver walks away from her brother Robert Kennedy's grave after a visit at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Shriver has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
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FILE - In this May 11, 2005 file photo, Eunice Kennedy Shriver arrives at a gathering in the Ronald Reagan building to pay tribute to former first lady Nancy Reagan in Washington. Shriver has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
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FILE - In this Friday, Nov. 10, 2006 file photo, Eunice Shriver Kennedy, founder of Special Olympics, attends an event at U.N. Headquarters in New York. Shriver has died at age 88.
(AP Photo/David Karp, File).
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Maria Shriver, center, and her daughters Christina and Katherine Schwarzenegger, left, leave Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, after visiting her mother Eunice Kennedy Shriver who is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger leaves Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009. Schwarzenegger's mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Joe Kennedy and his wife Beth leave Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, after visiting his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Joe Kennedy and his wife Beth leave Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, after visiting his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Joe Kennedy arrives with his wife Beth, behind, at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 9, 2009, to visit his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver. Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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Sargent Shriver walks with his son Mark Shriver as they leave Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Sargent Shriver walks with his son Mark Shriver as they leave Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009. Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Robert Kennedy Jr. leaves Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 after visiting his aunt Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Ethel Kennedy leaves Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 after visiting her sister-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Ethel Kennedy leaves Cape Cod Hospital, in Hyannis, Mass., Saturday, Aug. 8, 2009 after visiting her sister-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a sister of President John F. Kennedy and a longtime champion for the disabled, is in critical condition at the hospital.
(AP Photo/Joel Page)
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Pope prays for JFK's sister hospitalized in Mass.
BARNSTABLE, Mass. – Pope Benedict XVI is praying for former President John F. Kennedy's sister Eunice Kennedy Shiver as she remains in critical condition at a Massachusetts hospital.
The 88-year-old Shriver has been hospitalized since last week. Members of her extended family have gathered at her bedside at Cape Cod Hospital in Barnstable.
The Vatican ambassador to the United States says in a letter released to The Associated Press on Monday the pope is "holding close to his heart Eunice as she is called home to eternal life."
Archbishop Pietro Sambi says the pope prays Shriver is rewarded for her ardent faith and generous public service, particularly for those who are physically and mentally challenged.
Shriver organized the first Special Olympics in 1968. She was inspired in part by the struggles of her mentally disabled sister, Rosemary Kennedy.
Govt to free great train robber Biggs
Ronnie Biggs, who spent 35 years on the run for his part in the 1963
heist known as the Great Train Robbery, is to be released from jail,
the government said Thursday, as his son warned he was dying.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw said 79-year-old
Biggs, once a celebrity fugitive, was being released on compassionate
grounds because his condition had deteriorated and was unlikely to
improve.
Biggs is in a prison hospital in Norwich, eastern
England, with pneumonia. A series of strokes has also left him
bedridden and barely able to communicate.
Straw last month
rejected Biggs's application for parole on the grounds that the robber
was "wholly unrepentant" about his crimes, but he said the decision on
compassionate release was based on "different considerations."
"The
medical evidence clearly shows that Mr Biggs is very ill and that his
condition has deteriorated recently, culminating in his re-admission to
hospital. His condition is not expected to improve," Straw said.
Michael
Biggs, who has campaigned for his father's freedom, said he hoped Biggs
would live long enough to see his 80th birthday on Saturday -- 46 years
to the day since the heist.
"It was shocking, it was lovely, I
haven't felt like this since my daughter was born," an emotional Biggs
said of being told of his father's release.
"Hopefully I will be able to spend some quality time with my father tonight up in Norwich," he told Sky News.
He
added: "Finally common sense prevails. All I can say is that we are
absolutely delighted that my father is being released on compassionate
grounds."
The so-called Great Train Robbery saw a 15-strong gang
hold up a London to Glasgow mail train and make off with 2.6 million
pounds, a huge sum at the time, at a railway bridge north of London.
Most
of the cash was never found. The train driver, Jack Mills, was hit on
the head during the robbery and died seven years later without ever
making a full recovery.
Biggs played a minor role in the hold-up
but was jailed for 30 years in 1964. He subsequently escaped by scaling
a prison wall and jumping onto the roof of a furniture van.
On the run for decades, he fled to France, where he had plastic surgery, and Spain before heading to Australia. But he eventually settled in Brazil, where he was often pictured partying in newspapers.
Detectives
travelled to Brazil in 1974 in the hope of catching him, but they were
thwarted because Biggs by then had his son, Michael, with his Brazilian
girlfriend, making him legally untouchable.
He nevertheless
handed himself over to the authorities in 2001 amid a blaze of
publicity. Biggs said his last wish was to enjoy a pint of beer in an
English pub by the seaside before he died, but he was sent back to jail.
His lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano said Biggs was unlikely to leave hospital.
"He
is being released effectively to die and that cannot be considered a
victory. But it's a victory for common sense and Mr Straw has made the
right decision," he told Sky News.
He added: "This man is ill, he's going to die, he is not going to any pub or going to Rio, he is going to stay in hospital."
If his condition was to improve, Biggs would be transferred to a nursing home in Barnet, north London, near his son's home.
The
three prison service staff watching Biggs in hospital will be withdrawn
on Friday, once the licence for his release is finalised.
Great train robber Biggs to be freed
Ronnie Biggs, who spent 35 years on the run for his part in the 1963
heist known as the Great Train Robbery, is to be released from jail,
the government said Thursday, as his son said he was close to death.
Justice Secretary Jack Straw said 79-year-old
Biggs, once a celebrity fugitive, was being released on compassionate
grounds because his condition had deteriorated and was unlikely to
improve.
Biggs is in a prison hospital in Norwich with pneumonia.
A series of strokes has also left him bedridden and barely able to
communicate.
Straw last month rejected Biggs's application for
parole on the grounds that the robber was "wholly unrepentant" about
his crimes, but he said the decision on compassionate release was based
on "different considerations."
"The medical evidence clearly
shows that Mr Biggs is very ill and that his condition has deteriorated
recently, culminating in his re-admission to hospital. His condition is
not expected to improve," Straw said.
Michael Biggs, who had campaigned for his father's release, said Biggs was delighted by the government's decision.
"I've just been able to spend some time with my father... He is over the moon," he said outside the hospital late Thursday, adding that his father had used a spelling board to give his reaction.
"I
am delighted that common sense has finally prevailed and that the
government saw that it was absolutely unnecessary to keep my father in
prison," he said.
"Practically he'll still be staying in hospital
but it's the feeling that not only my father but the family will have
that it's finished, and he will be able to die with some dignity. He
will able to die as a free man," he added.
Biggs said earlier
that he hoped his father would live long enough to see his 80th
birthday on Saturday -- 46 years to the day since the heist.
The
so-called Great Train Robbery saw a 15-strong gang hold up a London to
Glasgow mail train and make off with 2.6 million pounds, a huge sum at
the time, at a railway bridge north of London.
Most of the cash
was never found. The train driver, Jack Mills, was hit on the head
during the robbery and died seven years later without ever making a
full recovery.
Biggs played a minor role in the hold-up but was
jailed for 30 years in 1964. He subsequently escaped by scaling a
prison wall and jumping onto the roof of a furniture van.
On the run for decades, he fled to France, where he had plastic surgery, and Spain before heading to Australia. But he eventually settled in Brazil, where he was often pictured partying in newspapers.
Detectives
travelled to Brazil in 1974 in the hope of catching him, but they were
thwarted because Biggs by then had his son, Michael, with his Brazilian
girlfriend, making him legally untouchable.
He nevertheless
handed himself over to the authorities in 2001 amid a blaze of
publicity. Biggs said his last wish was to enjoy a pint of beer in an
English pub by the seaside before he died, but he was sent back to jail.
Michael Biggs said his father had expressed regret "several times" for the crimes that he committed.
"(But)
my father is not sorry for the life he led, because had he not led this
life he wouldn't have me as a son or my daughter as a grand child."
His lawyer Giovanni Di Stefano said Biggs was unlikely to leave hospital.
"He
is being released effectively to die and that cannot be considered a
victory. But it's a victory for common sense and Mr Straw has made the
right decision," he told Sky News.
If his condition was to improve, Biggs would be transferred to a nursing home in Barnet, north London, near his son's home.
The
three prison service staff watching Biggs in hospital will be withdrawn
on Friday, once the licence for his release is finalised.
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Ronnie Biggs released from prison
Ronnie Biggs released from prison
Justice Secretary Jack Straw has granted Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs "compassionate release" from his prison sentence.
Mr Straw said the decision was based on
medical evidence that Biggs's condition had deteriorated and he was not
expected to recover.
Biggs, who turns 80 this weekend, is severely ill in hospital with pneumonia and doctors have said there is "not much hope".
Last
month the Justice Secretary rejected Biggs's application for parole on
the grounds that the robber was "wholly unrepentant" about his crimes.
Biggs
was rushed to the Norwich and Norfolk Hospital from his cell at Norwich
prison on Tuesday and will remain on bed watch overnight.
The three Prison Service staff watching him will be withdrawn tomorrow, once the licence for his release is finalised.
The decision means Biggs can celebrate his birthday on Saturday a free man. It will be 46 years to the day since the robbery.
Biggs
was a member of a 15-strong gang which attacked the Glasgow to London
mail train at Ledburn, Buckinghamshire, in August 1963, and made off
with £2.6 million in used banknotes.
Trial set for Brits accused of Brazil fraud: lawyer
Trial set for Brits accused of Brazil fraud: lawyer
Two British women accused in Brazil of trying to carry out a travel
insurance fraud by lying to police about being robbed are to go on
trial on August 17, their lawyer told AFP on Thursday.
Trial set for Brits accused of Brazil fraud: lawyer
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Two
British women accused in Brazil of trying to carry out a travel
insurance fraud by lying to police about being robbed are to go on
trial on August 17, their lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Skip related content
Shanti
Simone Andrews and Rebecca Claire Turner, both aged 23, appeared in
court late Wednesday to recognize the charges against them, Rio de
Janeiro lawyer Renato Tonini said.
He stressed that, under
Brazilian law, the women had not pleaded guilty but rather acknowledged
they were accused of attempting to illegally declare 2,100 dollars'
worth of items stolen to their travel insurers by filing a false report
with police.
Andrews and Turner, both of whom had studied law in
Britain, had been on a nine-month round-the-world trip and Rio had been
their last stop before they planned to fly home.
They were
arrested July 27 after Rio tourist police accompanied them to their Rio
hostel and discovered the mobile telephone, camera and iPod they claimed had been stolen on a bus trip.
They
were initially held in an overcrowded Rio jail they described to
British journalists as "a living hell" before being released last
Saturday on bail.
They had to hand over their passports pending the trial to address the prosecution's concerns they might try to flee Brazil.
The crime they are charged with carries a potential jail term of up to five years.
Tonini said the two were "calmer" after being allowed out of detention but remained "very worried" about their situation.
He
told AFP he would argue that, even if the women intended to carry out
the insurance scam, they did not have the opportunity to initiate the
attempt because they were arrested immediately after going to file the
police report.
Tonini added that the travel insurance the women had also would not have covered the items they declared stolen in any case.
"They weren't covered under the exclusion clauses of the insurance," he said.
The lawyer said he hoped the case would be acquitted and the charges thrown out.
Failing that, he expected a fine would be the appropriate outcome.
"The extreme worst-case scenario, it has to be said, is prison. That's a possibility, but it's very remote," he said
Cocaine-stuffed buttons from Britain seized in Spain
Police have seized 107 buttons stuffed with cocaine -- shipped from
Britain to an address in the south of Spain -- and detained one suspect
in the case, the interior ministry said Thursday.
The buttons -- sent to Roquetas de Mar, a
Mediterranean resort town popular with British tourists -- contained
half a kilogramme of Venezuelan cocaine, it said in a statement.
Police
detained the unidentified 25-year-old after determining that he was the
intended recipient of the package, in an operation carried out with the
co-operation of British police and Europol.
"At the time of his
arrest he attacked a police officer and attempted to flee but was
caught after a short pursuit. Among his belongings was a false
passport," the interior ministry said.
The man faces charges for assaulting an officer, usurpation, possessing false documents and illegal immigration in addition to drug trafficking charges.
Spain
is Europe's main entry point for cocaine from South America, mostly
from Colombia, although much of it now is transported via West Africa.
Bleeding woman blocked by G20 police
It has been revealed a heavily bleeding young woman was blocked from
leaving G20 protests after being pushed back violently by police
officers with shields.
The 23-year-old female was caught up in
clashes between demonstrators and officers at the Climate Camp in
Bishopsgate, in the City of London, on April 1.
She was later
told by a doctor there was a "low" chance she may have suffered a
miscarriage, but the woman did not think she was pregnant.
It is
the latest police controversy to come out of the protests, following
the death of a newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson and video footage showing
another female being hit with a baton.
As a result, officers have
been told by their own watchdog they must make immediate changes to the
way they control public protests.
The Independent Police
Complaints Commission says senior officers must review public order
training, warn participants of their plans and allow vulnerable people
to leave.
G20 demo woman may have miscarried
G20 demo woman may have miscarried
A heavily bleeding young woman was blocked from leaving G20 protests
after being pushed back violently by police officers with shields.
The woman, 23, was caught up in clashes
between demonstrators and officers at the impromptu Climate Camp in
Bishopsgate, in the City of London, on April 1.
She was later
told by a doctor there was a "low" chance she may have suffered a
miscarriage, but the woman did not think she was pregnant.
An
inquiry by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) found
the woman was stopped from leaving the protest for up to five hours.
She
claimed to have suffered bruising on her arms and legs when she was
kicked and pushed by officers holding shields and batons. When the
intimate bleeding started some time later she was blocked from leaving
the area by lines of police officers.
Officials agreed the woman
was forcibly pushed back by an officer using a "short shield" and said
her experience was typical of many peaceful protesters.
They said the tactic was developed by the Metropolitan Police and had not been approved nationally by senior officers.
The
IPCC called on the police to make immediate changes to the way they
control public protests. They said police must review public order
training, warn participants of their plans and allow vulnerable people
to leave demonstrations.
The recommendations mirror those made by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) last month.
A
Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "It is only right and proper that
public complaints are investigated thoroughly, and where appropriate,
independently. Though we note that the medical opinion was that there
was a low probabilgity of the complainant being pregnant, there is a
real opportunity for lessons to be learnt here."
Hack attack silences Twitter, Facebook sees delays
Twitter and Facebook, two of the Web's
hottest hangouts, suffered service problems on Thursday, raising
speculation that they had come under a pre-planned coordinated attack
by hackers. Skip related content
Twitter,
the popular micro-blogging service, was knocked down by a malicious
attack that prevented people from accessing its website for several
hours on Thursday.
Facebook members saw delays logging in and
posting to their online profiles. The social networking site is working
with Twitter and Google to determine whether there was foul play, a
person familiar with the company said.
The Twitter outage follows
a wave of similar cyber attacks in July that disrupted access to
several high-profile U.S. and South Korean websites, including the
White House site. South Korea's spy agency said at the time that North
Korea might have been behind the attacks.
Twitter co-founder Biz
Stone said on Twitter's blog that the site was the victim of a
denial-of-service attack, a technique in which hackers overwhelm a
website's servers with communications requests.
"We are defending
against this attack now and will continue to update our status blog as
we continue to defend and later investigate," Stone wrote.
A
separate Twitter status Web page said: "As we recover, users will
experience some long load times ... We're working to get back to 100
percent as quickly as we can."
The time stamp was listed as "3 hours ago," as of 2:05 p.m. EDT (7:05 p.m. British time).
SOCIAL MEDIA, ANTISOCIAL ATTACKS
Twitter's
newfound fame makes it an easy target for hackers, said Steve Gibson,
the president of Internet security research firm Gibson Research Corp.
Twitter,
which lets users publish short, 140-character messages to groups of
online "followers," is one of the fastest-growing Internet companies.
The
number of worldwide unique visitors to the Twitter website reached 44.5
million in June, up 15-fold year-over- year, according to comScore data.
Denial-of-service
attacks are "not different than any other attack, but it's going to
very visible to a huge population of people who have now, to some
degree, become dependent on this next-generation, real-time service,"
he said.
A single group could have been behind the problems on
Twitter and Facebook as hackers evolve their ability to attack multiple
sites at once, Gibson said.
"It seems a little too coincidental.
They're like related services. They're similar. They're very popular,"
he said, but he pointed out it was just speculation so far.
Not
everyone was concerned. For lawyer Zabi Nowald, it was just another day
-- Twitter or no Twitter -- as he headed to work in downtown Los
Angeles with a laptop in one hand and a Blackberry in the other.
"None
of my friends do Twitter; none of my employers do," said Nowald, 27.
"It affects my life zero. I lost something I never had."
(Reporting
by Alexei Oreskovic, additional reporting by Laura Isensee in Los
Angeles, editing by Gerald E. McCormick and Andre Grenon)
Cyrus stalker charged
A 53-year-old man has been arrested again by police and charged for stalking teen star Miley Cyrus.
Mark McLeod claimed he was secretly engaged to the actress after he
was arrested last month trying to sneak onto the set of her latest
movie The Last Song.
He was previously warned in June to stay away from the set after he
repeatedly tried to gain access. At the time Mcleod was arrested and
charged with disorderly conduct and obstruction, but was released a day
later because of jail overcrowding.
Jim Price
of Tybee Island Police told reporters on Wednesday, "He was asking for
Miley and going up and knocking on some doors... The security guards
recognised him. In fact, he went up to the security guards and asked
them 'Is Miley around?'"
The criminal report in June detailed McLeod's belief that he had met 16-year-old Miley Cyrus 18 months earlier and that she had accepted his marriage proposal after her father, Billy Ray Cyrus had said, "you're the good man we've been praying for".
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