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Fatwa against "Islamic unclean" pets in Iran
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products. The decision by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance comes after a fatwa was issued by powerful cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, ‘The Telegraph’ reports. Citing Islamic tradition, the fatwa said dogs are unclean. In June this year, Ayatollah Shirazi declared dogs unclean, saying that dog owners were "blindly imitating the West" and that their devotion to the animals would result in "evil outcomes". "Many people in the West love their dogs more than their wives and children," he said.
British women world’s ugliest tourists
LONDON: British women have been named the world’s ugliest tourists, ‘rude’ in behaviour and ‘ending up drunk in the gutter’. Women from the country are known across the world for their bad behaviour, poor dress sense and drinking habits when on holiday, the Daily Express reported Saturday. They "shamelessly break wind" and belch while lying around hotel pools or on beaches, a survey by holiday website Real Holiday Reports said. Tourists were asked the question "Which country has the ugliest women?", answers to which put Britons well ahead of the rest. They topped the poll with 22.4 percent, with the next being American women on 16.7 percent. They were followed by Germans, east Europeans. Spaniards and Turks. British women are called "fat" and "covered in bad tattoos". They wore "hideous outfits", including "too-tight-bikinis". Gary Hewitt, whose agency conducted the survey, said he was not shocked by the findings.
‘wrongly-cooked eggs’, man kills 6
A man facing eviction over his hostile temper became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before shooting himself.
Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said, 47-year-old Stanley Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes in rural eastern Kentucky, then went to his home and turned the gun, on himself.
Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said Neace stormed across the lawns of seven homes in his pajamas and fired dozens of shots from a 12gauge pump shot gun. Sims said that when state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Neace’s body on the porch in the unincorporated community of Mount Carmel in Breathitt Country. The country is home to about 16,000 people, Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of two of the victims, said witnesses to the shootings told her that Neace became enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking. Robinson said that when his wife fled to a neighbor’s trailer, Neace followed and shot her and the others. Robinson says he allowed a young girl to flee. "He just got mad at his wife for not making his breakfast right and he shot her", Robinson said. "She tried to run to tell my family and he shot them too because they found out about it."
The victims were identified as the gunman’s wife, Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter Sandra R Strong, 28; and neighbours Dennis Turner, 31; Teresa Fugate 30; and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
The names of the victims were provided by Kentucky State Police, while Robinson described their relationships. Fugate is Robinson’s sister, Turner is her cousin and Kilborn was a witness who happened to step onto the porch of another trailer when she heard the commotion.
Robinson said Fugate was shot in front of her 7-year-old daughter: "Her daughter said, ‘Please, please don’t shoot me,’ and he said, ‘All right, you can leave,’ and she ran out," said Robinson who spoke to her niece after the shootings. "She went and told her neiighbours, and the neighbours called the law". Robinson says Neace had never appeared threatening to her, but that he was known to have a violent history. Sims could not confirm that Neace had a criminal record.
TEHRAN: Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products. The decision by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance comes after a fatwa was issued by powerful cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, ‘The Telegraph’ reports. Citing Islamic tradition, the fatwa said dogs are unclean. In June this year, Ayatollah Shirazi declared dogs unclean, saying that dog owners were "blindly imitating the West" and that their devotion to the animals would result in "evil outcomes". "Many people in the West love their dogs more than their wives and children," he said.
British women world’s ugliest tourists
LONDON: British women have been named the world’s ugliest tourists, ‘rude’ in behaviour and ‘ending up drunk in the gutter’. Women from the country are known across the world for their bad behaviour, poor dress sense and drinking habits when on holiday, the Daily Express reported Saturday. They "shamelessly break wind" and belch while lying around hotel pools or on beaches, a survey by holiday website Real Holiday Reports said. Tourists were asked the question "Which country has the ugliest women?", answers to which put Britons well ahead of the rest. They topped the poll with 22.4 percent, with the next being American women on 16.7 percent. They were followed by Germans, east Europeans. Spaniards and Turks. British women are called "fat" and "covered in bad tattoos". They wore "hideous outfits", including "too-tight-bikinis". Gary Hewitt, whose agency conducted the survey, said he was not shocked by the findings.
‘wrongly-cooked eggs’, man kills 6
A man facing eviction over his hostile temper became enraged by how his wife cooked his eggs and killed her, his stepdaughter and three neighbours with a shotgun before shooting himself.
Trooper Jody Sims of the Kentucky State Police said, 47-year-old Stanley Neace killed the five people in two mobile homes in rural eastern Kentucky, then went to his home and turned the gun, on himself.
Neighbours in the roadside mobile home park said Neace stormed across the lawns of seven homes in his pajamas and fired dozens of shots from a 12gauge pump shot gun. Sims said that when state police arrived about an hour after the gunfire began, they heard a single gunshot and found Neace’s body on the porch in the unincorporated community of Mount Carmel in Breathitt Country. The country is home to about 16,000 people, Sherri Anne Robinson, a relative of two of the victims, said witnesses to the shootings told her that Neace became enraged when his wife did not cook his breakfast to his liking. Robinson said that when his wife fled to a neighbor’s trailer, Neace followed and shot her and the others. Robinson says he allowed a young girl to flee. "He just got mad at his wife for not making his breakfast right and he shot her", Robinson said. "She tried to run to tell my family and he shot them too because they found out about it."
The victims were identified as the gunman’s wife, Sandra Neace, 54; her daughter Sandra R Strong, 28; and neighbours Dennis Turner, 31; Teresa Fugate 30; and Tammy Kilborn, 40.
The names of the victims were provided by Kentucky State Police, while Robinson described their relationships. Fugate is Robinson’s sister, Turner is her cousin and Kilborn was a witness who happened to step onto the porch of another trailer when she heard the commotion.
Robinson said Fugate was shot in front of her 7-year-old daughter: "Her daughter said, ‘Please, please don’t shoot me,’ and he said, ‘All right, you can leave,’ and she ran out," said Robinson who spoke to her niece after the shootings. "She went and told her neiighbours, and the neighbours called the law". Robinson says Neace had never appeared threatening to her, but that he was known to have a violent history. Sims could not confirm that Neace had a criminal record.
‘Human hand’ served as food in Pak prison
A "human hand" was reportedly found in the food served to prisoners in a Pakistani jail here, an official said.
An object believed to be a human hand was found in the beef curry served at ‘sehri’, the pre-dawn meal during the holy month of Ramzan, an official at Kot Lakhpat Jail said on the condition of anonymity.
A prisoner Fahim Raza raised alarm after finding the suspicious object in the food served that forced him to puke, the official said. Other prisoners refused to eat their meals as they protested against the jail administration’s "gross negligence".
Some of the jailbirds were also reportedly subjected to torture for raising the matter with higher authorities.
Meanwhile, a prison official reportedly removed the "human hand" from Raza’s meal and told inmates to keep mum about the incident.
An investigation into the matter has been issued under DIG (Lahore region) Mirza Shahid Saleem after Punjab Home Department’s Deputy Secretary for Prisons Khalid Rasool visited the jail,
Saleem recorded the statements of 14 prisoners in the barrack where the incident occurred and examined the food served to them.
Sources said the jail administration put pressure on prisoners to hush up the incident. The object found in Raza’s meal was neither preserved nor sent to a laboratory for examination.
The DIG said he had thoroughly investigated the matter and has concluded that the object found in the food was not a human hand, but "actually it was piece of cooked meat which had a deformed shape. "He claimed there was no need to conduct any laboratory analysis as it was evident from the statements of some prisoners that the object was a piece of meat.
An object believed to be a human hand was found in the beef curry served at ‘sehri’, the pre-dawn meal during the holy month of Ramzan, an official at Kot Lakhpat Jail said on the condition of anonymity.
A prisoner Fahim Raza raised alarm after finding the suspicious object in the food served that forced him to puke, the official said. Other prisoners refused to eat their meals as they protested against the jail administration’s "gross negligence".
Some of the jailbirds were also reportedly subjected to torture for raising the matter with higher authorities.
Meanwhile, a prison official reportedly removed the "human hand" from Raza’s meal and told inmates to keep mum about the incident.
An investigation into the matter has been issued under DIG (Lahore region) Mirza Shahid Saleem after Punjab Home Department’s Deputy Secretary for Prisons Khalid Rasool visited the jail,
Saleem recorded the statements of 14 prisoners in the barrack where the incident occurred and examined the food served to them.
Sources said the jail administration put pressure on prisoners to hush up the incident. The object found in Raza’s meal was neither preserved nor sent to a laboratory for examination.
The DIG said he had thoroughly investigated the matter and has concluded that the object found in the food was not a human hand, but "actually it was piece of cooked meat which had a deformed shape. "He claimed there was no need to conduct any laboratory analysis as it was evident from the statements of some prisoners that the object was a piece of meat.
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