| Georgia plans to execute man known as 'stocking strangler' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:15 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia plans to execute an inmate known as the "stocking strangler," a man convicted of raping and killing older women in attacks that terrorized a small city decades ago.
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| S.Africa rages at Australia visa plan for 'persecuted' whites Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:23 AM PDT  South Africa reacted with fury on Thursday after an Australian minister suggested "persecuted" white farmers in the country should be offered fast-tracked humanitarian visas. Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has drawn criticism for cracking down on asylum seekers from Asia and the Middle East, said white farmers could be admitted as refugees. Dutton made the offer in response to Pretoria's vow to enact land "expropriation without compensation" to redress land confiscations of the colonial and apartheid era.
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| All-new 2019 Toyota RAV4 to be unveiled in New York Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:10 AM PDT  Despite being regarded by many observers as one of the less attractive models in the extremely popular compact crossover SUV segment of the current auto market, the Toyota RAV4 is still one of the biggest-selling vehicles of its type in the entire world. The current generation of the RAV4 has been around now since 2013, which isn't a particularly long time for a model to be in production before an all-new replacement is brought in. It's also worth noting that the current RAV4 is now significantly older than some of its big rivals, such as the Honda CR-V and Mazda CX5, so it's no surprise Toyota has seen the need for a redesign of its biggest-selling model.
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| 'Stephen Hawking proved you can achieve remarkable things - even once you've lost control of your body' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:17 AM PDT  In what can sometimes feel like a sea of darkness, Stephen Hawking was a shining light for motor neurone disease sufferers. I cannot emphasise enough how important he has been to me personally since my own diagnosis with the same disease last year, and I am sure thousands more people around the world. When you are told that you might have MND - an agonising process that takes months - your head spins. The first thing you see online is that life expectancy is between one to three years from diagnosis. Fear sweeps over you. The next thing you look for is examples of people who have defied MND and there is no better example than Professor Hawking. Like most people, he was told he only had a few years to live when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, at 22. He ended up sticking around for more than 50 years. That may be a statistical anomaly but straight away, you think: 'why can't that be me too? Why can't I live until I am 76 or longer?' He was the first person that made me realise that the doctors might be wrong and that the worst-case scenario can be overcome. But it is not just how long he lived, but how he lived. MND will take away most of your bodily functions and your independence, something that, as a former Scotland rugby international, I can barely comprehend, but there is one thing that it does not affect - your brain. Professor Hawking proved that you can still achieve truly remarkable things even once you have lost control of your body. He refused to let his circumstances dictate what he could accomplish and he changed our understanding of science in the process. The wheelchair was made entirely irrelevant; I just found that so inspiring. What I have found since being diagnosed aged 47 is that hope is the single best pill you can take for MND. If you think positively that you are going to beat it, that filters into everything you do. The day you think that MND has got you is the day the disease wins. That means you have to think positively every day. You are trying to do things to prove that MND isn't going to get a hold of you all the time, whether that is simply lifting a coffee cup, or going to the gym and lifting weights. Doing all these little things gives a middle finger to MND to say: 'you are not going to stop me living my life.' Doddie Weir, left, and Scott Murray during training at Murrayfield in 1999. Credit: RUI VIEIRA /AP The issue with MND is that your own timetable becomes a mystery. When it came to my own diagnosis, which followed a year and a half of symptoms, I was told that I would be in a wheelchair within a year: yet here I am, still standing, still telling bad jokes and wearing terrible suits. You have to believe that you can at least influence your own timetable, even though you don't know what that is going to be. I know I will eventually be trapped inside my own body, but his example shows that life does not end there. Without wishing to pretend that I knew his circumstances particularly well, I am sure he relied upon a team of people, family, friends and carers to help him through some of the dark times. Sometimes the support of those crucial people can be forgotten. Yesterday was a tremendously sad day, and so too are the ones that will follow: for so long, he has been a figurehead within the MND community, and now he is gone. We will have to ask, 'who is going to be the next Stephen Hawking? Who is going to be the next person in the MND community who we look up to?' Even now, he leaves the most inspiring of legacies. He may have lost the final battle, but he definitely won the war against this wicked disease. One day, hopefully, we will develop the drugs that allow every MND sufferer to live as long as Professor Hawking did, and to enjoy an even better quality of life. That has become my mission with the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. If I was to take one message from his life, it would be never give up, and I don't intend to ever stop battling MND. The fight goes on.
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| Man shoots 2 at hospital before killing self; 1 victim dead Posted: 15 Mar 2018 01:40 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at an Alabama hospital before fatally shooting himself, police said.
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| Nobel prize winner hospitalized, wife found deceased in Illinois Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:58 PM PDT  (Reuters) - A Japanese Nobel-winning chemist was discovered wandering in rural Northern Illinois and his wife found dead nearby, some nine hours after they had been reported missing from their home 200 miles away, police said on Wednesday. Nobel Prize winner Ei-ichi Negishi, 82, was transported to a local hospital for treatment after he was spotted walking near Rockford, Illinois, at 5 a.m. on Tuesday, the Ogle County Sheriff's Department officials said in a written statement. Deputies later found the couple's car and the body of his wife, Sumire Negishi, at the nearby Ochard Hills Landfill, the sheriff's department said.
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| Girl, 11, Agonizes Over Death of French Bulldog on United Flight: 'It Can't Breathe There!' Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:56 PM PDT  The family says their dog, Kokito, barked for about an hour while in the overhead bin before his death.
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| Death of puppy on United flight prompts U.S. agency probe Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:20 PM PDT  U.S. Senator John Kennedy, who earlier on Wednesday sent a letter to United Airlines President Scott Kirby demanding information on the high number of animals that have died in the carrier's care, wrote on Twitter that he planned to file a bill on Thursday that would prohibit airlines from putting animals in overhead bins. Kennedy, in his letter, said United's "pattern of animal deaths and injuries is simply inexcusable." He cited figures from the Transportation Department that of the 24 animals that died on U.S. carriers last year, 18 were on United flights.
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