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'Amanda Knox, the American student accused of murdering Meredith Kercher, her British flatmate, claims she regrets having lied in police interviews to incriminate an innocent man.

Ms Knox, 21, said she was "afraid" but believes she will be acquitted in the end. On Tuesday Paoli Micheli, the pre-trial judge, ordered both her and Raffaele Sollecito, her former Italian boyfriend, to stand trial on December 4 on charges of murder, sexual assault and theft.
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Ms Knox said she regretted she could not vote in the US election. "Oh, I'd really like that" she was quoted as saying. "I'm a good American girl and I feel it is my duty to vote."...

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'GREENS MP Ian Cohen has spoken for the first time of the humiliation of being accused of domestic violence.
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In April, Cohen was summonsed on charges of assault and assault occasioning bodily harm after his former partner, Donna Davis, alleged he attacked her on June 22, 2006. She went to police in January of this year, sparking a long investigation.

Yesterday, Mr Cohen, 57, was relieved his seven-month ordeal was over, but he said the emotional scars of being shunned by some MPs and Greens, abused by strangers in the street and branded a wife-basher would take a long time to heal.

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'A Chicago high school teacher is charged with sexual assault and abuse for alleged sexual encounters with three students of the South Side charter school where she worked.
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Prosecutors claim she had sex with two students and a former student. One of the boys was 15, and the other two were 16.
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She was arrested and held Sunday in lieu of $100,000 bail.'

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'It is not men’s fault. I believe it is part of their genetic makeup. And until some genius scientist finds a way to alter their genes to prevent them from being threatened by successful women, this will remain a volatile topic.

Women will continue being viewed as the weaker sex, and any attempt to rescue themselves from that stereotype will send the Tony Ms of the world running scared, terrified that the IWTs are out to emasculate them and take away their balls.

Sorry, guys. Your world domination is getting diluted every day. Women are putting down their lesos, strapping on their stilettos, and marching into offices to give PowerPoint presentations. They are doing it all, and going home at the end of the day to breastfeed their kids while still donned in their dryclean only power suits.'

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'SYDNEY, Australia (AP) -- Thirteen-year-old Lukas Moeller has Down syndrome. His father is a doctor who came to Australia from Germany to help fill a shortage of physicians in rural communities.

But now Australia has rejected Dr. Bernhard Moeller's application for residency, saying Lukas does not meet the "health requirement" and would pose a burden on taxpayers for his medical care, education and other services.

The case has provoked an outcry in the rural region of southeastern Victoria state, where Moeller is the only internal medicine specialist for a community of 54,000 people. Residents rallied outside Moeller's practice this week, demanding that the decision be overturned, and hundreds of Internet and radio complaints from across the country bombarded media outlets Friday.'

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Ed. note: Would they have dared to do so if this were "a mum and her little girl"?

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'Ohio's inspector general is investigating why a state agency director approved checking the state child-support computer system for information on "Joe the Plumber."

Helen Jones-Kelly, director of the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services, confirmed today that she OK'd the check on Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher following the Oct. 15 presidential debate.
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...Reports state that he lives alone with a 13-year-old son.

"Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look" at them, Jones-Kelley said, citing a case where a lottery winner was found to owe past-due child support. "Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way."'

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'According to cops, Horvath a married mother of four, reportedly approached the teen about her "feelings" last spring and the two carried on a torrid affair during the summer months before being discovered this fall. According to the arrest affidavit the two lovers allegedly have sex in various place, mostly in parked cars, as many as 25 times, including once in a Walmart parking lot where they were caught naked by the cops. What happened to them? The police asked the teen if he was PAYING FOR SEX and then let them go. That's some nice police work there Lou.
The worst part of the story? One of Horvath's own sons is a classmate of the victim, and has since had to be transfered to another school. Yeah, probably wouldn't be cool to be walking around the halls of your school with people talking about your mom having an alleged affair with one of your friends.'

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'PRINCETON — Women with battered eyes and bruised souls have become the symbols of domestic violence in America, but one organization is working to change the perception that all domestic abuse manifests itself physically on the outside and that women are the only victims.

Men and Women Against Discrimination (MAWAD) formed in West Virginia to expose the untruths behind the theory that men are always the aggressors, pursue a family court system that recognizes and honors each parent’s role in a child’s upbringing and to seek “truth, justice and equality in family law.”

Along the way, organizers say they discovered there are many men out there who are just as abused as any of their female counterparts, that the court system all too often ignores their wounds and that the very systems put in place to stop domestic violence can be manipulated and twisted into another form of abuse during divorce and custody negotiations.'

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'According to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV), one in every four women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime.

The NCADV also reports that a staggering 1.3 million women are victims of physical assault by a partner each year. Don't be fooled though, domestic violence also includes verbal, emotional, and psychological abuse as well. Whether someone endures constant put downs, verbal threats or mental domination, this is still considered domestic violence.'

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'A recognized corporate leader for its commitment to preventing domestic violence and raising awareness of the issue, Verizon Wireless was the first wireless carrier in the nation to collect and recycle old cell phones and has done so since January 1999 -- first in New Jersey and then across the U.S. The wireless equipment is refurbished or recycled in an environmentally friendly manner and the proceeds used to provide wireless phones and service and cash grants to local organizations and shelters like the N.Y. Asian Women's Center that provide direct services to victims of domestic violence.'

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'The Iowa Supreme Court on Friday ordered a new trial for a woman convicted of drowning her infant son, whose body was found in a central Iowa lake.
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Anfinson has been serving a 50-year prison sentence in the 1998 death of her 15-day-old son, Jacob. His body, weighted down with rocks, was found in Saylorville Lake near Des Moines.

Anfinson’s lawyer argued that the baby died accidentally in an infant bathtub and she panicked and hid his body in the lake.
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In asking the Supreme Court to review her appeal for postconviction relief, Anfinson claims her lawyer dismissed an insanity or diminished capacity defense despite evidence she was suffering from severe postpartum depression at the time of the child’s death.'

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'A law introduced in Brazil two years ago to protect women from domestic violence has been used to protect a man who was being abused by his ex-wife.

It is thought this may be the first time the legislation has been used to protect a man.

The case was heard before a judge in Cuiaba in the state of Mato Grosso.

The judge ruled that the former wife had to stay at least 500m away from her ex-husband and must avoid all contact with him.

The man alleged that he was suffering physical aggression, psychological and financial abuse and provided several documents to prove his case.'

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'A New Berlin woman accused of attempted homicide told detectives that she wrapped plastic wrap across her husband's face and hit him with a dumbbell because she wanted him to shut up, according to a criminal complaint filed today in Waukesha County Circuit Court.

Valentina Grenader, 45, was charged with attempted first degree intentional homicide, strangulation and suffocation, and substantial battery. She is being held in the Waukesha County Jail on $100,000 bail.

If convicted of all three felonies, the maximum penalty is 73 years and six months in prison.

The woman's husband needed eight stitches to close a head wound, according to the criminal complaint.'