Date of Birth : 24 March 1974 (37 years old) Place of Birth : Washington, USA Nickname : Allycat Occupation : Actress Dated : Seth Green, Ginger Fish, Twiggy Ramirez, Alexis Denisof Alyson Hannigan is an American actress who´s most known for her part as the band geek Michelle Flaherty in the “American Pie” movies. Alyson Hannigan is also known for her part as Lily Aldrin in the sitcom “How I meet you Mother”. She´s dated Marilyn Manson´s drummer Ginger Fish. She married Alexis Denisof back in 2003 and they got their first child Satyana. She was born on Alyson´s 35th birthday march 24, 2009. Alyson Hannigan Photo’s :
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President Barack Obama bluntly told Republican congressional leaders Wednesday they must compromise quickly if the government is to avoid an unprecedented default. (July 14)
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West Sussex residents report buildings shaking for few seconds in 3.9 magnitude earthquake An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 has struck in the middle of the Channel. Residents in parts of West Sussex reported buildings shaking for a few seconds at around 8am on Thursday. The British Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 10km and its epicentre was south of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Official measurements showed it happened at 7.59am BST. Sussex police, the Solent coastguard and West Sussex fire and rescue service said they had not been called out to any incidents related to the quake. David Kerridge, from the British Geological Survey, said the earthquake was the largest in the area since a magnitude 4.5 quake in 1734. “Historically, there have been two other significant events nearby – a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in 1878 and a magnitude 4.3 earthquake in 1750,” he said. “In the UK, we experience an earthquake of this magnitude approximately every two years.” Several residents in Worthing, West Sussex, are reported to have felt the earthquake. The British Geological Survey is running an online questionnaire to collect information from members of the public. guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …West Sussex residents report buildings shaking for few seconds in 3.9 magnitude earthquake An earthquake with a magnitude of 3.9 has struck in the middle of the Channel. Residents in parts of West Sussex reported buildings shaking for a few seconds at around 8am on Thursday. The British Geological Survey said the quake had a depth of 10km and its epicentre was south of Portsmouth, Hampshire. Official measurements showed it happened at 7.59am BST. Sussex police, the Solent coastguard and West Sussex fire and rescue service said they had not been called out to any incidents related to the quake. David Kerridge, from the British Geological Survey, said the earthquake was the largest in the area since a magnitude 4.5 quake in 1734. “Historically, there have been two other significant events nearby – a magnitude 5.0 earthquake in 1878 and a magnitude 4.3 earthquake in 1750,” he said. “In the UK, we experience an earthquake of this magnitude approximately every two years.” Several residents in Worthing, West Sussex, are reported to have felt the earthquake. The British Geological Survey is running an online questionnaire to collect information from members of the public. guardian.co.uk
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Killing of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky has shocked Orthodox Jewish community in New York An eight-year-old boy who got lost while walking home alone was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions. His remains were found stuffed in a rubbish bin and the man’s refrigerator, police said on Wednesday. The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky has shocked the Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in part because it is one of the safest sections of New York and because the man under arrest is an Orthodox Jew. A day-and-a-half search for the boy ended with the discovery of his severed feet inside a freezer at the home of a man who had been spotted with the child on a surveillance video, police said. The rest of the remains were in bins in another neighbourhood. “It is every parent’s worst nightmare,” said police commissioner Raymond Kelly. The 35-year-old suspect, Levi Aron, had implicated himself in the killing, he said. Police said there was no evidence the boy was sexually assaulted, but they would not otherwise shed any light on a motive except to say Aron told them he “panicked” when he saw photos of the missing boy on fliers distributed in the neighbourhood. Police are looking into whether Aron has a history of mental illness. Aron was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. The medical examiner’s office said it was still investigating how the boy was killed. Meanwhile, thousands gathered around a Borough synagogue for the boy’s funeral service, with speakers broadcasting over a loudspeaker. They spoke and chanted in Yiddish and Hebrew, stressing the community’s resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death. Many of the mothers who gathered outside the Kletzky family home on Wednesday said the streets were normally safe enough for a child to walk home alone. Adel Erps, like other neighbours, expressed shock the suspect was Jewish. “It hurts so much more,” she said. Aron’s family was Orthodox but not Hasidic. When detectives arrived at his apartment at about 2.40am local time, they asked him where the boy was, and he nodded toward the kitchen, Kelly said. Detectives saw blood on the freezer door and opened it to discover the feet inside, wrapped in plastic bags. A cutting board and three bloody carving knives were in the refrigerator and a plastic rubbish sack with bloody towels was found nearby. Aron told police where to find the rest of the body. It was in pieces, wrapped in plastic bags, inside a red suitcase that had been placed into a rubbish bin in another part of Brooklyn, Kelly said. Police and volunteers had been looking since late Monday afternoon for Leiby, who disappeared while on his way to meet his mother on a street corner seven blocks from his day camp. It was the first time he was allowed to walk the route alone. His parents had taken him on a practice run on Friday. The break in the case came when investigators watched a grainy video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, getting into a car with a man outside a dentist’s office. Leiby was last seen wearing dark pants and a short-sleeved shirt and yarmulke. Police said the boy had evidently missed a turn and got lost. Detectives tracked the dentist down to his home in New Jersey, and he remembered someone coming to pay a bill. Police identified Aron using records from the office, and 40 minutes later he was arrested. Kelly said it was “totally random” that Aron grabbed the boy and, aside from a summons for urinating in public, he had no criminal record. He had lived in New York most of his life and worked as a clerk at a hardware supply store around the corner from his home, authorities said. New York United States guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Killing of eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky has shocked Orthodox Jewish community in New York An eight-year-old boy who got lost while walking home alone was killed and dismembered by a stranger he had asked for directions. His remains were found stuffed in a rubbish bin and the man’s refrigerator, police said on Wednesday. The gruesome killing of Leiby Kletzky has shocked the Jewish community in Borough Park, Brooklyn, in part because it is one of the safest sections of New York and because the man under arrest is an Orthodox Jew. A day-and-a-half search for the boy ended with the discovery of his severed feet inside a freezer at the home of a man who had been spotted with the child on a surveillance video, police said. The rest of the remains were in bins in another neighbourhood. “It is every parent’s worst nightmare,” said police commissioner Raymond Kelly. The 35-year-old suspect, Levi Aron, had implicated himself in the killing, he said. Police said there was no evidence the boy was sexually assaulted, but they would not otherwise shed any light on a motive except to say Aron told them he “panicked” when he saw photos of the missing boy on fliers distributed in the neighbourhood. Police are looking into whether Aron has a history of mental illness. Aron was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder. The medical examiner’s office said it was still investigating how the boy was killed. Meanwhile, thousands gathered around a Borough synagogue for the boy’s funeral service, with speakers broadcasting over a loudspeaker. They spoke and chanted in Yiddish and Hebrew, stressing the community’s resilience and unity after what one called an unnatural death. Many of the mothers who gathered outside the Kletzky family home on Wednesday said the streets were normally safe enough for a child to walk home alone. Adel Erps, like other neighbours, expressed shock the suspect was Jewish. “It hurts so much more,” she said. Aron’s family was Orthodox but not Hasidic. When detectives arrived at his apartment at about 2.40am local time, they asked him where the boy was, and he nodded toward the kitchen, Kelly said. Detectives saw blood on the freezer door and opened it to discover the feet inside, wrapped in plastic bags. A cutting board and three bloody carving knives were in the refrigerator and a plastic rubbish sack with bloody towels was found nearby. Aron told police where to find the rest of the body. It was in pieces, wrapped in plastic bags, inside a red suitcase that had been placed into a rubbish bin in another part of Brooklyn, Kelly said. Police and volunteers had been looking since late Monday afternoon for Leiby, who disappeared while on his way to meet his mother on a street corner seven blocks from his day camp. It was the first time he was allowed to walk the route alone. His parents had taken him on a practice run on Friday. The break in the case came when investigators watched a grainy video that showed the boy, wearing his backpack, getting into a car with a man outside a dentist’s office. Leiby was last seen wearing dark pants and a short-sleeved shirt and yarmulke. Police said the boy had evidently missed a turn and got lost. Detectives tracked the dentist down to his home in New Jersey, and he remembered someone coming to pay a bill. Police identified Aron using records from the office, and 40 minutes later he was arrested. Kelly said it was “totally random” that Aron grabbed the boy and, aside from a summons for urinating in public, he had no criminal record. He had lived in New York most of his life and worked as a clerk at a hardware supply store around the corner from his home, authorities said. New York United States guardian.co.uk
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KABUL – The first half of this year was the deadliest six months for civilians in Afghanistan since the decade-old war began, the country’s UN mission said on Thursday. Civilian deaths hit a record high, up 15 percent on the first half of 2010, due to roadside and suicide bombings, increased ground fighting and more deadly air strikes. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said 1,462 civilians had been killed in conflict-related incidents. It blamed insurgents for 80 percent of those deaths – up nearly a third on the same period last year. “The rising tide of violence and bloodshed in…
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Government tries to fight accusations it is clueless over terrorism after co-ordinated explosions in city leave 18 dead Cities across India are on high alert as the government came under mounting criticism for its repeated failures to detect terrorist attacks, following the blitz on Mumbai in which 18 people were killed. As a steady monsoon drizzle swept Mumbai, the casualty figure from the three bomb explosions on Wednesday was revised downwards by the home minister, P Chidambaram, on a visit to the affected districts. “The discovery of the severed head takes the number of killed to 18 (reduced from the earlier official figure of 21 dead), while the number of injured stands at 131,” Chidambaram said. “It appears that ammonium nitrate was used in the bombs, with a timer mechanism. The three blasts occurred within 10 minutes of each other, which shows it was a co-ordinated terrorist attack.” He added that of the 131 injured, 26 have been discharged from hospital, 82 are in a stable medical condition, while 23 are critical. As yet, no known terrorist organisation – Indian cities have been attacked in recent years by both Muslim and Hindu terrorists – has taken responsibility for the blasts, but security experts believe the prime suspect in the latest outrage is the radical Muslim group, the Indian Mujahideen (IM). But despite the IM remaining active for the last nine years following the Feb 2002 anti-Muslim violence in teh state of Gujarat, both intelligence agencies and local police are struggling to eliminate the threat. Defending the security agencies, Chidambaram told reporters that “if there was no intelligence on a particular incident it doesn’t mean a failure of intelligence.” But he failed to clarify his logic. He also insisted that CCTV cameras have been installed in Mumbai, even though the state home department has still to clear a Jan 2009 city police proposal for a 5,000-camera electronic surveillance network. Only the traffic police have CCTV cameras at road junctions. Maharashtra’s chief minister, Prithviraj Chavan, also maintained that CCTV cameras had “got a lot of useful footage” of the attacks, but explained away the failure to upgrade the system by saying: “Mumbai wants quick progress … but procurement (of equipment) is a difficult process.” Even the ruling Congress party leader, Rahul Gandhi, joined the official chorus and declared that “99% of terror attacks have been stopped” by the authorities. The newspapers however carried long lists of terror strikes in Mumbai and other cities during the last decade, including several that remain unsolved. “It is very difficult to stop every single terror attack,” Gandhi added. “We’ve improved in leaps and bounds, but terrorism is something that is also increasing in leaps and bounds.” Many businesses at the gold, diamond and jewellery centres in Mumbai that were hit by the blasts remained closed on Thursday, but a few traders and workers who were around expressed anger and frustration at the fact that Mumbai had again become a target for terrorists. “Terrorist attacks on Mumbai have become an annual event, the city has become an easy target, as the government cannot do anything,” a businessman in Zaveri Bazaar said on a TV news channel. “So we’ve no choice but to keep working.” Even as politicians resorted to tired clichés about the “resilience of the people of Mumbai”, a young man at the third bomb site in Dadar spoke of the ordinary man’s helplessness. He said: “The relatives of the injured and dead are faced with one kind of tension today, whereas others like me have another kind of tension – the daily tension of filling our stomach. Inflation has gone out of hand, so we’ve to work in order to survive.” But a lot of the anger was directed against the politicians, some of whom made ritual and pointless tours of the bomb sites meant as photo ops. Meanwhile, relatives of the dead stood patiently outside the city coroner’s office in the monsoon rain hoping to collect the bodies of their loved ones. India Global terrorism Maseeh Rahman guardian.co.uk
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