sociologia
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
conspiracao
behaviour
history
antropologia
cultura
US 'slavery' woman given 11 years
Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 46, and her husband Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, kept them as slaves and abused them physically and psychologically. "I just want to say that I love my children very much," she told the federal court in Central Islip, on New York state's Long Island, as two of her grown children looked on.
BBC News - Who are the Taliban?
The Taliban are active in both Afghanistan and Pakistan The hardline Islamic Taliban movement has proved to be a formidable fighting force in Afghanistan and a major threat to its government.An Argentine man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering at least six people after making a pact with a spiritual figure known as San La Muerte (Lord of Death), police say. The BBC's Daniel Schweimler in Buenos Aires says the spirit's followers ask for favours, such as to win a fight or protect a harvest, but they also use it to request the death of an enemy. The figure evolved in poor communities in the north of Argentina, where characters from traditional indigenous religions merged with elements from Roman Catholicism, our correspondent adds.
BBC News - Argentina police arrest 'Lord of Death killer'
Traditional planar chip design (left) and Intel's new Tri-Gate technology (right).
BBC News - Intel unveils 22nm Ivy Bridge processor
The banking crisis was avoidable, says Islamic scholar Sheikh Hussain Hussan
BBC NEWS | Business | The steady rise of Islamic finance
BBC News - Kinect hacked days after release
The Kinect works by flooding a room with infra-red light
BBC - Meeting Spain's last anarchist
Hours after flying on a rickety 19-seater propeller plane and landing on a dirt strip, you get to the village of San Buenaventura in the heart of the Bolivian Amazon.
GM plans to cut 10,000 Opel jobs
Peter Mandelson: "There will be a future for the Vauxhall plants in the UK"
PARIS (Reuters) - Nicolas Sarkozy se déclare prêt, dans une interview au Journal du Dimanche, à participer à deux débats et non à un seul comme c'est la tradition, entre les deux tours de l'élection présidentielle.
Dubaï : prison ferme pour un baiser en public - Yahoo! Actualités
The admission is contained in the Israeli response to the UN's Goldstone report, which concluded both Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes.
BBC News - Israel reprimands officers over UN compound shelling
The 38-year-old Glaswegian, who created the cleavage-enhancing Ultimo bra, was recognised for services to business in the New Year Honours list.
Business - Mulheres ganhando espaco no mundo ne negocios
It was built to the same design as Chernobyl, which was behind the worst civil nuclear disaster in history when one of its reactors overheated in 1986. BBC correspondent Gabriel Gatehouse says Brussels insisted the place be closed down, and allocated around 820m euro (£731m) to cover part of the costs of decommissioning the plant.
BBC News - Lithuania shuts its only nuclear power station
The Afghan-Pakistan border region has become the front line in the war against Islamic militants.
BBC News - The Afghan-Pakistan militant nexus
I'm relieved because Cynthia has got her justice and maybe now she can rest in peace Mrs Lynch said her daughter was born with a number of disabilities and had no formal education or holding a job, Louisiana's WWLTV reported.