Cultura. Islandia. Taliban. Comportamento. US 'slavery' woman given 11 years. A wealthy New York woman has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.
Varsha Mahender Sabhnani, 46, and her husband Mahender Murlidhar Sabhnani, 51, kept them as slaves and abused them physically and psychologically. The couple had been found guilty on 12 charges in December, including involuntary servitude, harbouring aliens and forced labour. Mr Sabhnani is to be sentenced later on Friday and may get a shorter term. In addition to prison, his Indian-born wife was fined $25,000 (£12,600). "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. "I was brought to this earth to help people who are in need. " Her husband wept as his wife's sentence was announced. The wealthy couple, who run a perfume business and have four children, had brought the women to their large house to work as housekeepers, and forced them to work up to 18 hours a day.
Criminoso no merlhor estilo 007 - Similar a Catch Me If You Can - film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr. The plane slowed and leveled out about a mile aboveground.
Up ahead, the Viennese castle glowed like a fairy tale palace. When the pilot gave the thumbs-up, Gerald Blanchard looked down, checked his parachute straps, and jumped into the darkness. He plummeted for a second, then pulled his cord, slowing to a nice descent toward the tiled roof. It was early June 1998, and the evening wind was warm. If it kept cooperating, Blanchard would touch down directly above the room that held the Koechert Diamond Pearl. A couple of days earlier, Blanchard had appeared to be just another twentysomething on vacation with his wife and her wealthy father. The docent began to describe the history of the Koechert Diamond Pearl, better known as the Sisi Star — it was one of many similar pieces specially crafted for Empress Elisabeth to be worn in her magnificently long and lovely braids. Blanchard wasn’t listening. He began to work immediately, videotaping every detail of the star’s chamber.
Ku Klux Klan leader guilty of murder. A Ku Klux Klan leader has pleaded guilty to murdering a woman recruit, a day after an initiation rite in the US state of Louisiana in 2008.
Raymond Foster, 45, of the Louisiana town of Bogalusa, was sentenced to life in prison for second-degree murder of Cynthia Lynch. A former KKK member testified that Foster shot Ms Lynch, 43, after she told him: "I want out", AP reports. Foster apologised to the victim's mother, and his own family, in court. "I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me," he said. Ms Lynch was shot dead in November 2008 a day after initiation rites in rural Tammany Parish, about 50 miles (80km) north of New Orleans. Photographs taken by a witness at the intitiation ceremony show the group in white Klan outfits.
In one photo, Foster uses a sword to "knight" Ms Lynch; in another, they are shown embracing. Disabilities. Dark side of the Dubai dream. It is a place in the sun for over a million of us who holiday there every year.
It boasts a host of luxury apartments that has celebrities flocking. But behind the glitz and glamour of Dubai often lies a murky world of exploitation and an immigrant work force living on the breadline. Hit by the credit crunch, Dubai's economy has taken a turn for the worse reliant as it is on tourism, financial services and real estate. For those labouring to make the Dubai dream a reality, building the homes for the rich and famous, are facing greater pressures than ever. Ben Anderson investigates the working conditions for some construction workers But despite the slump, the pressure on would-be buyers is still healthy.