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Woman Gets Divorce Papers 42 Years Later
AMMAN, Jordan (Reuters) - A Jordanian woman received formal divorce papers 42 years after her husband left, and long after she remarried and had children, the official Petra news agency said on Sunday.
The 68-year-old man divorced his wife verbally in 1962, but only registered his new marital status two weeks ago, when he needed to apply for an official identity card, Petra said.
In Islam, a man is considered divorced from his wife after declaring it to her verbally three times.
The man filed formal divorce papers only after a civil servant dealing with his ID card application asked for proof that he was no longer wed to his former wife.
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Black is the new red for tomatoes
LONDON, England (Reuters) - Last year, purple was the new orange for vegetables, but this year it is black that is stealing the limelight on greengrocers' shelves -- as the new red.
Following its success last year with the purple carrot, supermarket chain Sainsbury's said on Monday it was trialling a new breed of black tomato, called the Kumato.
Six years of research has gone into the super-sweet Kumato, which originates from the Galapagos Islands and was developed to tolerate the dry, salty growing conditions of the Mediterranean.
On top of the health benefits ascribed to normal tomatoes -- high levels of vitamin C and antioxidants -- Sainsbury's said its Kumato was capable of enhancing the sex lives of reptiles.
"The story goes that seeds were fermented and spread by giant tortoises after consumption of the tomato," it said.
"Moreover, it was said that tortoises eating these tomatoes were mating considerably more than those who didn't, harking back to the once traditional view that tomatoes are a natural aphrodisiac."
LONDON, England (Reuters) - Last year, purple was the new orange for vegetables, but this year it is black that is stealing the limelight on greengrocers' shelves -- as the new red.
Following its success last year with the purple carrot, supermarket chain Sainsbury's said on Monday it was trialling a new breed of black tomato, called the Kumato.
Six years of research has gone into the super-sweet Kumato, which originates from the Galapagos Islands and was developed to tolerate the dry, salty growing conditions of the Mediterranean.
On top of the health benefits ascribed to normal tomatoes -- high levels of vitamin C and antioxidants -- Sainsbury's said its Kumato was capable of enhancing the sex lives of reptiles.
"The story goes that seeds were fermented and spread by giant tortoises after consumption of the tomato," it said.
"Moreover, it was said that tortoises eating these tomatoes were mating considerably more than those who didn't, harking back to the once traditional view that tomatoes are a natural aphrodisiac."
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Naughty nursery rhymes show tabloid tattle not new
LONDON, England (Reuters) - Bed-hopping royals, religious hatred, teenage sex, obesity warnings - tabloid headlines? No, Britain's favourite nursery rhymes.
Parents may throw up their hands in horror but a new book says that playground ditties are drenched in sex, death and violence and prove that many 21st century concerns have been around for a long time.
"Some were clearly adult rhymes which were sung to children because they were the only rhymes an adult knew. Others were deliberately created as a simple way to tell children a story or give them information," Chris Roberts, author of "Heavy Words Lightly Thrown" told Reuters.
"Religion, sex, money and social issues are all common themes and although there is a tendency to look at history through the concerns of the present it was something I was led to rather than sought to do," Roberts said.
As an example, one of Britain's most popular nursery rhymes, "Jack and Jill went up the Hill" is according to Roberts the tale of two young people losing their virginity, Jill possibly becoming pregnant and the regrets that come later.
"The interesting bit is that, having successfully 'lost his crown', it's Jack who runs off rapidly, probably to tell his mates what happened," Roberts said.
In an alternative second verse the sexual association of the rhyme becomes even more blatant, Roberts added. Instead of his head, Jack has a different part of his anatomy patched up with vinegar and brown paper.
GOLDEN AGE
Although some nursery rhymes appear to have their origins in the Middle Ages, their golden age was the period between the Tudor monarchs and the Stuarts.
This was Britain's formative age, says Roberts, as it covered among many other things the Act of Union, which brought together Scotland and England, the Civil War and the growth of Empire and trading. The Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible were published in English rather than Latin and caused even deeper rifts between Protestants and Catholics.
"These were heady topics to cope with, so why not keep it short and tell it in rhyme?" Roberts said.
His book grew from research for a series of walking tours around London. Some rhymes like Oranges and Lemons -- a guide to the City of London which also doubles as a saucy wedding song -- cropped up obviously. In other cases geographical research revealed social history such as the fact that prostitutes in the Southwark area of London (where licensed brothels existed) were called 'geese'.
Thus the rhyme "Goosie, goosie gander/Where do you wander?/Upstairs and downstairs/and in my lady's chamber" can be read as alluding to the spread of venereal disease -- known as 'goose bumps' because of the swelling. It also tackles a row between King Henry VIII and the Catholic church, which owned the land upon which the brothels were operating and profited hugely.
From "Mary, Mary quite contrary" and its references to the 'cockles' (cuckolds) believed to be in the promiscuous court of Mary, Queen of Scots to "The Grand Old Duke of York" -- about a former Duke's inept military strategy against the French -- sly digs at princes and popes alike were commonplace, Roberts's book reveals.
"Georgy Porgy pudding and pie/Kissed the girls and made them cry" has been interpreted as gossip about a supposedly gay courtier George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 1592-1628, but more likely was a warning to young men that overeating puts the ladies off.
NEW ERA OF FOOTBALL LULLABIES?
Increased freedom of speech, literacy and communication, eventually did away with the need for allegorical rhymes. Then came the Victorians, who viewed childhood as an innocent state where 'adult sights' should be hidden.
"During the 19th century the rhymes were increasingly written up, illustrated and sold as collections for children. They became more accessible, but also less potent," said Roberts.
Many of today's children's songs are deliberately composed as such, making the roots of the next generation's nursery rhymes more anodyne. However, the need for "tribal chanting" as Roberts puts it, is still present, and most obvious in football songs, which he suggests could be tomorrow's lullabies.
"They are about the only thing that are 'composed' anonymously and known and sung by thousands of people," he said.
"Pop songs still occasionally eulogise celebrities and make social comments but their authorship is known whereas football songs are, in a sense, true folk songs belonging to a tribe of people rather than an individual," Roberts added.
"Words change their meaning and associations alter over time so if the person singing the song doesn't know the real (or even perceived) meaning of the song it can be fitted to other uses," he said.
"I do know fathers who croon football songs, that are after all rarely complex tunes, to help their children sleep."
LONDON, England (Reuters) - Bed-hopping royals, religious hatred, teenage sex, obesity warnings - tabloid headlines? No, Britain's favourite nursery rhymes.
Parents may throw up their hands in horror but a new book says that playground ditties are drenched in sex, death and violence and prove that many 21st century concerns have been around for a long time.
"Some were clearly adult rhymes which were sung to children because they were the only rhymes an adult knew. Others were deliberately created as a simple way to tell children a story or give them information," Chris Roberts, author of "Heavy Words Lightly Thrown" told Reuters.
"Religion, sex, money and social issues are all common themes and although there is a tendency to look at history through the concerns of the present it was something I was led to rather than sought to do," Roberts said.
As an example, one of Britain's most popular nursery rhymes, "Jack and Jill went up the Hill" is according to Roberts the tale of two young people losing their virginity, Jill possibly becoming pregnant and the regrets that come later.
"The interesting bit is that, having successfully 'lost his crown', it's Jack who runs off rapidly, probably to tell his mates what happened," Roberts said.
In an alternative second verse the sexual association of the rhyme becomes even more blatant, Roberts added. Instead of his head, Jack has a different part of his anatomy patched up with vinegar and brown paper.
GOLDEN AGE
Although some nursery rhymes appear to have their origins in the Middle Ages, their golden age was the period between the Tudor monarchs and the Stuarts.
This was Britain's formative age, says Roberts, as it covered among many other things the Act of Union, which brought together Scotland and England, the Civil War and the growth of Empire and trading. The Book of Common Prayer and the King James Bible were published in English rather than Latin and caused even deeper rifts between Protestants and Catholics.
"These were heady topics to cope with, so why not keep it short and tell it in rhyme?" Roberts said.
His book grew from research for a series of walking tours around London. Some rhymes like Oranges and Lemons -- a guide to the City of London which also doubles as a saucy wedding song -- cropped up obviously. In other cases geographical research revealed social history such as the fact that prostitutes in the Southwark area of London (where licensed brothels existed) were called 'geese'.
Thus the rhyme "Goosie, goosie gander/Where do you wander?/Upstairs and downstairs/and in my lady's chamber" can be read as alluding to the spread of venereal disease -- known as 'goose bumps' because of the swelling. It also tackles a row between King Henry VIII and the Catholic church, which owned the land upon which the brothels were operating and profited hugely.
From "Mary, Mary quite contrary" and its references to the 'cockles' (cuckolds) believed to be in the promiscuous court of Mary, Queen of Scots to "The Grand Old Duke of York" -- about a former Duke's inept military strategy against the French -- sly digs at princes and popes alike were commonplace, Roberts's book reveals.
"Georgy Porgy pudding and pie/Kissed the girls and made them cry" has been interpreted as gossip about a supposedly gay courtier George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham 1592-1628, but more likely was a warning to young men that overeating puts the ladies off.
NEW ERA OF FOOTBALL LULLABIES?
Increased freedom of speech, literacy and communication, eventually did away with the need for allegorical rhymes. Then came the Victorians, who viewed childhood as an innocent state where 'adult sights' should be hidden.
"During the 19th century the rhymes were increasingly written up, illustrated and sold as collections for children. They became more accessible, but also less potent," said Roberts.
Many of today's children's songs are deliberately composed as such, making the roots of the next generation's nursery rhymes more anodyne. However, the need for "tribal chanting" as Roberts puts it, is still present, and most obvious in football songs, which he suggests could be tomorrow's lullabies.
"They are about the only thing that are 'composed' anonymously and known and sung by thousands of people," he said.
"Pop songs still occasionally eulogise celebrities and make social comments but their authorship is known whereas football songs are, in a sense, true folk songs belonging to a tribe of people rather than an individual," Roberts added.
"Words change their meaning and associations alter over time so if the person singing the song doesn't know the real (or even perceived) meaning of the song it can be fitted to other uses," he said.
"I do know fathers who croon football songs, that are after all rarely complex tunes, to help their children sleep."
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'Cruelest Farmer' Jailed for Vet Attack
LONDON, England (Reuters) - A man dubbed "the cruelest farmer in Britain" by the UK's leading animal charity was jailed for two years Monday for pushing a woman vet's face into a mire of manure and cow urine.
Roger Baker, who also dragged a male animal health inspector into the slurry during the attack, was found guilty of affray at Taunton Crown Court in western England in January.
Sentencing the 61-year-old, who has convictions for animal cruelty spanning 30 years, Judge Stephen O'Malley said the incident was a "deliberate and violent attack" from a man who had a history of violent behavior and had shown no remorse.
"You and others have to be shown that the court will protect public officials who are exposed to violence in the course of their normal duties," the judge said.
Veterinary surgeon Susan Potter and animal health inspector Jonathan McCulloch were filming a dead lamb and emaciated cattle on Baker's land near Truro in Cornwall when the attack took place in February 2003.
Baker first dragged McCulloch, 27, into the knee-deep liquid manure. When Potter went to her colleague's aid, the farmer pushed her in the mire and held her face down, the court was told.
Potter, 47, "fought like a wildcat" as Baker pushed her into the slurry, she told the court during the trial.
"I went completely underneath the liquid," she said. "I thought he was trying to drown me."
The jury at the trial failed to reach a majority verdict on a second charge against Baker of making a threat to kill and the case was left to lie on the file by the prosecution.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said Baker had been banned for life from keeping sheep and had been jailed twice in the past six years for neglecting animals and failing to bury carcasses.
An RSCPA spokesman described him as "the most consistently cruel person" they had dealt with when Baker was jailed for 165 days in 1999.
LONDON, England (Reuters) - A man dubbed "the cruelest farmer in Britain" by the UK's leading animal charity was jailed for two years Monday for pushing a woman vet's face into a mire of manure and cow urine.
Roger Baker, who also dragged a male animal health inspector into the slurry during the attack, was found guilty of affray at Taunton Crown Court in western England in January.
Sentencing the 61-year-old, who has convictions for animal cruelty spanning 30 years, Judge Stephen O'Malley said the incident was a "deliberate and violent attack" from a man who had a history of violent behavior and had shown no remorse.
"You and others have to be shown that the court will protect public officials who are exposed to violence in the course of their normal duties," the judge said.
Veterinary surgeon Susan Potter and animal health inspector Jonathan McCulloch were filming a dead lamb and emaciated cattle on Baker's land near Truro in Cornwall when the attack took place in February 2003.
Baker first dragged McCulloch, 27, into the knee-deep liquid manure. When Potter went to her colleague's aid, the farmer pushed her in the mire and held her face down, the court was told.
Potter, 47, "fought like a wildcat" as Baker pushed her into the slurry, she told the court during the trial.
"I went completely underneath the liquid," she said. "I thought he was trying to drown me."
The jury at the trial failed to reach a majority verdict on a second charge against Baker of making a threat to kill and the case was left to lie on the file by the prosecution.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) said Baker had been banned for life from keeping sheep and had been jailed twice in the past six years for neglecting animals and failing to bury carcasses.
An RSCPA spokesman described him as "the most consistently cruel person" they had dealt with when Baker was jailed for 165 days in 1999.
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Tajik Policemen Die in Duel
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Two policemen died from gunshot wounds after what appears to have been an old-fashioned duel in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, police said Monday.
The pair were guarding the mayor's office late Sunday when they fired at each other. A police official said the motive for the duel was unclear.
"As a result of a pistol duel, the two died in a hospital from their wounds," the police official told Reuters. He said the two were noncommissioned officers, aged 29 and 33.
Duels were a popular way of settling disputes and matters of honor among the nobility in czarist Russia and claimed the lives of writers Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, but are almost unheard of in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic.
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Two policemen died from gunshot wounds after what appears to have been an old-fashioned duel in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, police said Monday.
The pair were guarding the mayor's office late Sunday when they fired at each other. A police official said the motive for the duel was unclear.
"As a result of a pistol duel, the two died in a hospital from their wounds," the police official told Reuters. He said the two were noncommissioned officers, aged 29 and 33.
Duels were a popular way of settling disputes and matters of honor among the nobility in czarist Russia and claimed the lives of writers Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, but are almost unheard of in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic.
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'Lost' Town Changes Its Name
LONDON, England (AP) - Lost: several road signs and one village's identity. Exasperated at losing its name signs to souvenir hunters, the Scottish hamlet of Lost (population: less than two dozen) has changed its name to Lost Farm, which it hopes will prove less appealing.
At least five of the signs have disappeared in recent years; the longest any sign lasted was three months, and one disappeared after just a day, said Mark Skilling, principal engineer for Aberdeenshire Council.
"It's infuriating," he said Friday. "The hamlet is very popular because of its name and we suspect souvenir hunters of taking the signs."
Skilling said it costs around 100 pounds (US$185) to replace the sign. "Apart from making it, we have to take it to Lost, which is quite far away," he said. "We hope that the name change means in future the sign will last."
The hamlet lies 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Aberdeen in the Cairngorm mountains of northeast Scotland, near the village of Bellabeg where the Water of Nochty feeds into the River Don.
Lost has been found by thousands of tourists every summer since it got a mention in guidebooks several years ago. During the rare periods when there has been a sign, visitors love to pose for photographs with it.
"The situation has caused great annoyance," said local council member Bruce Luffman. "The majority of the time there hasn't even been a sign so people don't even know if they are in the village."
The name comes from a Celtic word meaning "inn"; today the hamlet has a few houses, a war memorial and a farm.
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LONDON, England (AP) - Lost: several road signs and one village's identity. Exasperated at losing its name signs to souvenir hunters, the Scottish hamlet of Lost (population: less than two dozen) has changed its name to Lost Farm, which it hopes will prove less appealing.
At least five of the signs have disappeared in recent years; the longest any sign lasted was three months, and one disappeared after just a day, said Mark Skilling, principal engineer for Aberdeenshire Council.
"It's infuriating," he said Friday. "The hamlet is very popular because of its name and we suspect souvenir hunters of taking the signs."
Skilling said it costs around 100 pounds (US$185) to replace the sign. "Apart from making it, we have to take it to Lost, which is quite far away," he said. "We hope that the name change means in future the sign will last."
The hamlet lies 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Aberdeen in the Cairngorm mountains of northeast Scotland, near the village of Bellabeg where the Water of Nochty feeds into the River Don.
Lost has been found by thousands of tourists every summer since it got a mention in guidebooks several years ago. During the rare periods when there has been a sign, visitors love to pose for photographs with it.
"The situation has caused great annoyance," said local council member Bruce Luffman. "The majority of the time there hasn't even been a sign so people don't even know if they are in the village."
The name comes from a Celtic word meaning "inn"; today the hamlet has a few houses, a war memorial and a farm.
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Cops Caught Issuing Tickets As a Contest
PORTERDALE, Ga. (AP) - A contest between two police officers in a small Georgia town to see which one could issue the most traffic tickets was stopped by a judge who overheard the apparent winner talking about it, the mayor said.
Part-time Porterdale police officers Erin Cox and Frank Jackson wrote about 150 tickets in January, which was significantly higher than in previous months, Mayor Paul Oeland said.
Some tickets were for minor offenses including not reporting an address change to the state or having defective equipment on a vehicle, it was first reported in The Covington News.
The contest was revealed when City Court Judge C. David Strickland overheard the officers talking about it recently. Oeland said "Jackson indicated he had won the contest."
"I think it was sort of bragging rights," said Oeland, a lawyer. "They would make a traffic stop for a legitimate reason and then try to find anything else they could possibly write a ticket for."
The mayor added: "It is not anything that we as a city support."
Both officers were asked to resign by Friday by City Manager Tom Fox, Oeland said. They have been with the department less than a year, he said.
Neither could be reached Friday. There was no answer at the police department.
PORTERDALE, Ga. (AP) - A contest between two police officers in a small Georgia town to see which one could issue the most traffic tickets was stopped by a judge who overheard the apparent winner talking about it, the mayor said.
Part-time Porterdale police officers Erin Cox and Frank Jackson wrote about 150 tickets in January, which was significantly higher than in previous months, Mayor Paul Oeland said.
Some tickets were for minor offenses including not reporting an address change to the state or having defective equipment on a vehicle, it was first reported in The Covington News.
The contest was revealed when City Court Judge C. David Strickland overheard the officers talking about it recently. Oeland said "Jackson indicated he had won the contest."
"I think it was sort of bragging rights," said Oeland, a lawyer. "They would make a traffic stop for a legitimate reason and then try to find anything else they could possibly write a ticket for."
The mayor added: "It is not anything that we as a city support."
Both officers were asked to resign by Friday by City Manager Tom Fox, Oeland said. They have been with the department less than a year, he said.
Neither could be reached Friday. There was no answer at the police department.
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Honey, Doesn't That Look Like Our House?
LONDON, England (Reuters) - A British couple who discovered their home had been the scene of a grisly murder as they watched a crime documentary on television, failed in a legal claim on Friday that the previous owners should have informed them.
Alan and Susan Sykes said they would never have bought the 83,000 pound ($155,000) house in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in December 2000 if they had known that 15 years earlier a doctor had murdered his 13-year-old adopted daughter there and dismembered her body into more than 100 pieces.
The couple, who put the house on the market soon after they learned about their home's gruesome history, were attempting to claim damages from sellers James and Alison Taylor-Rose.
In dismissing the case at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Peter Gibson said: "I feel a great deal of sympathy for this couple. But we had to decide the case on a dry issue of law."
"I can well understand their horrified reaction at learning their recently purchased house had been the scene of such a gruesome murder, made all the more vivid by the details given in the documentary," he said.
"There was also the possibility parts of the victim's body might still lie undiscovered in this house," he added.
The Sykeses struggled to find a buyer and ultimately lost 8,000 pounds on the sale.
The couple say that when the Taylor-Roses were asked: "Is there any other information which you think the buyer may have a right to know?" on a legal form, they answered "No."
Afterwards lawyers for the Sykeses issued a statement in which they said: "We are extremely disappointed with the decision, but we felt it was right and appropriate to take the case to court."
An original claim for damages was also rejected by a county court judge.
University dental biologist Dr Samson Perera was convicted of murder in 1985. Parts of his victim's body were found hidden under the floorboards, in pot plants and a coffee jar at the house, while others were never traced.
LONDON, England (Reuters) - A British couple who discovered their home had been the scene of a grisly murder as they watched a crime documentary on television, failed in a legal claim on Friday that the previous owners should have informed them.
Alan and Susan Sykes said they would never have bought the 83,000 pound ($155,000) house in Wakefield, West Yorkshire in December 2000 if they had known that 15 years earlier a doctor had murdered his 13-year-old adopted daughter there and dismembered her body into more than 100 pieces.
The couple, who put the house on the market soon after they learned about their home's gruesome history, were attempting to claim damages from sellers James and Alison Taylor-Rose.
In dismissing the case at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Peter Gibson said: "I feel a great deal of sympathy for this couple. But we had to decide the case on a dry issue of law."
"I can well understand their horrified reaction at learning their recently purchased house had been the scene of such a gruesome murder, made all the more vivid by the details given in the documentary," he said.
"There was also the possibility parts of the victim's body might still lie undiscovered in this house," he added.
The Sykeses struggled to find a buyer and ultimately lost 8,000 pounds on the sale.
The couple say that when the Taylor-Roses were asked: "Is there any other information which you think the buyer may have a right to know?" on a legal form, they answered "No."
Afterwards lawyers for the Sykeses issued a statement in which they said: "We are extremely disappointed with the decision, but we felt it was right and appropriate to take the case to court."
An original claim for damages was also rejected by a county court judge.
University dental biologist Dr Samson Perera was convicted of murder in 1985. Parts of his victim's body were found hidden under the floorboards, in pot plants and a coffee jar at the house, while others were never traced.
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This Is No Yolk
TIRANA, Albania (Reuters) - People in the Albanian capital Tirana have been shocked by an increasing number of eggs without yolks, local television reported Thursday.
"We broke half of the eggs we bought but they lacked their yolks. Friends of ours told us the same had happened to them and in restaurants as well," a woman told the News24 TV station.
Antonio Conardio, a professor of Fowl Pathology at the University of Bari in Italy, said the all-white eggs were a rare phenomenon that happened when chickens were overdriven to produce more eggs.
The yolkless egg was Albania's second shock this year from apparently freaky fowls. Early in February, news spread of a cock producing an egg. But its owner slaughtered the animal for a Muslim festivity, making checks impossible.
TIRANA, Albania (Reuters) - People in the Albanian capital Tirana have been shocked by an increasing number of eggs without yolks, local television reported Thursday.
"We broke half of the eggs we bought but they lacked their yolks. Friends of ours told us the same had happened to them and in restaurants as well," a woman told the News24 TV station.
Antonio Conardio, a professor of Fowl Pathology at the University of Bari in Italy, said the all-white eggs were a rare phenomenon that happened when chickens were overdriven to produce more eggs.
The yolkless egg was Albania's second shock this year from apparently freaky fowls. Early in February, news spread of a cock producing an egg. But its owner slaughtered the animal for a Muslim festivity, making checks impossible.
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