This is the terrifying moment a woman was attacked by a polar bear after jumping into its zoo enclosure. The 32-year-old leapt over bars at Berlin Zoo during the bears’ feeding time yesterday. Despite six zookeepers’ efforts to distract the four predators kept in the enclosure, the woman was bitten several times on her arms and legs.
BARACK Obama liked a restaurant’s pizzas so much he has flown the chef 850 miles to make some at the White House. The US President got a taste for Chris Sommers’ pizza while campaigning in St Louis, Missouri, last year.
AMERICAN president Barack Obama’s half brother was REFUSED a visa to enter the UK after being accused of an attempted sex attack on a young girl in Berkshire. The News of the World can reveal that Kenya-based Samson Obama tried to get into Britain on his way to Washington for his family’s big day, the historic inauguration in January.
In response to proposed public safety cuts in Mason County, a county commissioner is encouraging people to take up arms. Mason County prides itself on its gritty, rugged individualism. So much so that with the sheriff’s department facing nearly $400,000 in cuts – up to five deputies – the county commissioner made a very public declaration. “It certainly is ‘open season,'” said Tim Sheldon, chairman of the Mason County Commission. “There is no bag limit on criminals who try a home invasion in our communities.”
Mayor Bloomberg will run for reelection as a Republican this fall, the Daily News has learned, after successfully courting the party to let him back on its ballot line two years after he left it. (snip) Bloomberg has traditionally made large donations to parties that support him, though sources say financial contributions never came up in the talks that resulted in him reclaiming the Republican line.
New York’s mayor and relatives of Virginia Tech massacre victims are releasing a new television ad next week urging the state to close a gun show loophole. The second anniversary of the shooting is next Thursday. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg will join victims’ relatives in Arlington on Monday to release the ad.
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A liberal pillar of the media is taking a decidedly conservative position. The Washington Post says in an editorial that the wealthy already are pulling their weight when it comes to taxes. “In 2006, the top 20 percent of earners paid 70 percent of all federal taxes. On average, they paid 26 percent of their income to the government,” the editorial states. The numbers are particularly powerful for the richest of the rich – the top 1 percent of taxpayers. They account for 28 percent of all taxes, handing over 31 percent of their income to the government.
Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on April 7 acknowledged that gun registration is on her agenda, days after Attorney General Eric Holder told reporters in Mexico that the Second Amendment would not “stand in the way” of administration plans to crack down on alleged gun trafficking to Mexico. “These are alarming remarks from Speaker Pelosi and Attorney General Holder,” said Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb. “It appears that the Obama administration and Capitol Hill anti-gunners have dropped all pretences about their plans for gun owners’ rights, and it looks like the gloves are coming off.”
In wide-ranging remarks here, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg defended the use of foreign law by American judges, suggested that torture should not be used even when it might yield important information and reflected on her role as the Supreme Court’s only female justice. The occasion was a symposium at the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University honoring her 15 years on the court. “I frankly don’t understand all the brouhaha lately from Congress and even from some of my colleagues about referring to foreign law,” Justice Ginsburg said in her comments on Friday.
Barack Obama’s open-handed approach to the Middle East has won him praise from some Arab leaders viewed by previous U.S. presidents as deadly enemies. “Obama is a flicker of hope amid the imperialist darkness,” Muammar Gaddafi told a rally of his supporters last week. (snip) Obama has also earned conditional tributes from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Palestinian Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal and Lebanon’s Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah — all at times linked by Washington with terrorism. (snip) The readiness of America’s adversaries to acknowledge that Obama has brought a more sensitive verbal approach to the region is striking. In contrast, some traditional U.S. allies such as Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak have kept tight-lipped.