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New Mexico: Thieves have made off with 80 pairs of sunglasses worth approximately $28,000 in a raid which lasted only 39 seconds. Brands taken included Christian Dior, Gucci, and Versace.

Store owner Brian Body, who only opened Acoma Optical in February, said that his losses will be covered by insurance. Police are investigating the possibility that the robbery is connected to a number of other similar incidents in the area.

“You build up something. you work very hard and somebody comes in and takes it in the middle of the night and takes advantage of that. I’m just thankful that everybody’s OK,” said Body.
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Tunisia: A 30-year-old man has been accused of rape over a telephone conversation he had with a 20-year-old woman. The pair were reportedly having an erotic conversation when the woman screamed and indicated that she was bleeding.

According to the family’s lawyer, Maha al-Metebaa, a medical examination of the young woman showed that she had lost her virginity. He said that the allegations need careful examination. The man denies ever touching the woman.

“The intercourse did take place… verbally only. The sexual act did not really happen because the physical proximity factor is not there, yet it happened because there is a direct physical impact – the loss of virginity,” said al-Metebaa.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health groups told Congress on Wednesday that sex abstinence education programs are a failure. They have not impacted STD rates, pregnancy rates, or changed the age that sex begins.

Experts from groups including the American Public Health Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Psychological Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists presented data to a House panel.

Despite spending $1.3Bn in federal funds on these programs since the late 90s, statistics show that 25% of American teens have an STD. 30% of American girls become pregnant before the age of 20. Critics blame the lack of comprehensive sex education.
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A corrections officer with 29 years on the job was assaulted and raped by an inmate working on the law library in the Duval County jail Thursday. The officer was taken to the hospital in serious condition.

Jonathan Tave used a shank when he overcame the officer in an area that is mainly supervised by video and intercoms.The officer attacked was wearing proper equipment for the area; she was assigned a pair of handcuffs, a radio and pepper spray.

Tave is being held on previous charges that include murder, arson, armed robbery, and a slew of other charges. Numerous additional charges are now pending against Tave including kidnapping, 4 counts of sexual assualt and evidence tampering.
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Michael Burgess of Custer County, Oklahoma stands accused of running a sex ring from inside his county jail. Burgess even ran wet t-shirt contests in the jail. If convicted of all counts, he stands to receive 467 years in jail.

The charges include 14 counts of rape in the 2nd degree, rape by instrumentation, bribery of a public official, indecent exposure, forcible oral sodomy, rape, and kidnapping.

The former sheriff is also involved in another lawsuit alleging other inappropriate actions. Burgess had been sheriff of Custer County since 1994.
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Yemen: 8-year-old Nojud Mohammed Ali has been granted a divorce. The girl initially signed a marriage contract with the understanding that she would remain with her parents until she was 18 but she was sent to live with her husband a week later.

Her ex, Faez Ali Thameur, 28, did not oppose the divorce. He told Judge Mohammed al-Qadhi that the marriage had been consented to by both the girl and her parents. He said that the marriage had been consummated but denied beating her.

Nojud’s father said he married her off because he was afraid following the abduction and marriage of two older daughters. Nojud plans to live with her mother’s brother and wants to go back to school.
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93-year-old Jack Higgs has ruined a perfect, 76-year-old driving record in spectacular style. Mr. Higgs was parking his Ford Fiesta near a car showroom when “something” happened to make the car shoot backwards.

It ran into the first Porsche, a Carrera 2, which then worked as a ramp. The Fiesta was lifted and flipped before it rolled onto the roof, landing on the Porsche 911 parked next to the ramp-like Porsche.

Mr. Higgs’s insurer will pay the

At least 45 people were killed at the funeral of two murdered members of the local Awakening Council in the town of Albu Mohammed , Iraq when a suicide bomber exploded among the crowd.

This latest attack follows the death of 50 people in the town of Baquba on Tuesday.
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The fourth outbreak of the bird flu has been confirmed by the South Korean government, following rumors that have been circulating over the last several days.

Despite having millions of poultry slaughtered and many areas under isolation, the outbreak was confirmed at a farm about 235 miles southwest of Seoul. Following preathvious outbreaks between 2006 & 2007, officials had been better prepared.

Several measures have been taken to ensure that the outbreak doesn’t spread, with shipments of birds being put on stand-by and the destruction of eggs. The Bird Flu so far had caused the deaths of 238 people around the world since 2003.
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Farmer Stoil Panayotov, who has been married three times, has not had any luck with his wives bearing children. As a result, he struck a deal with a farmer at a livestock market to trade him his current wife for an eight-year-old goat named Elena.trade,

The Bulgarian farmer explains: “A friend told me he had no luck with women and that he really liked my wife. The deal was reached when my wife gave approval.” The swap was concluded in the market town of Plovdiv as stunned onlookers watched.

Added Stoli: “The goat has given birth to three kids and my wife to none. This deal was more profitable to the goat owner. I got a second hand goat and he got a brand new wife.”
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