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SAUDI ARABIA: A sacked Saudi soldier took it on his wife by torturing her with a screw driver despite earlier court warning to him not to beat her up again.
The woman said she had beaten by her 60-year-old husband many times but agreed to move with him to the western Red Sea port of Jeddah to be with her daughters after he was transferred.
After he was sacked, he started to get drunk quite often and beat her up again, prompting her to report him to the police.
“But they did not do anything about it as he was well known among police men…one day he returned home drunk, locked me up in a room and locked our daughters up in another room,” she told Sharq newspaper.
“He then started to drink again and had a screw driver next to him…when he finished drinking, he began to hit me with the screw driver…once he fell asleep later, I sneaked out of the house and went to the hospital.”
Sharq said the unnamed woman was still at hospital and quoted human rights activist, Sama Badawi, as saying “:”I have visited this woman and could hardly believe my eyes when I saw what her husband had done to her.”
She said the woman is pregnant in her second month and that doctors were trying to determine if they can save the baby.
“She reported him to the police again and they went straight to his house but they did not find him or his daughter…it seems he had fled,” Badawi said.
US: A 67-year-old Florida woman was found beaten, strangled and hidden beneath the Christmas presents in her home, and authorities have charged a younger woman who had been befriended by the victim.
Patty Michelle White, 40, of South Carolina, was jailed on on fugitive charges and expected to be extradited Tuesday to Florida to face murder charges, authorities said.
The body of Michele O'Dowd of Florida was discovered Friday by her twin brother, Phil Axt, who had gone to check on her at her home in a gated community after O'Dowd failed to show up for work.
The door was open and O'Dowd's house had been ransacked, Axt said. Chairs and tables were turned upside down. Her car and dog were still at home.
"I knew this wasn't going to pretty," he said.
A foot was sticking out of a big pile of Christmas gifts, Axt said. Buried under the gifts was his sister's cold body, her bloody face covered with a towel.
Police said White was an ex-girlfriend of the victim's nephew, and was considered a family friend. They said White had returned to Florida to rob O'Dowd after staying with relatives in South Carolina.
"Whatever took place in that apartment went horribly wrong and she ended up beating and killing her," according to the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office. White then returned to South Carolina, where she confessed to authorities after she was pulled over and arrested Saturday.
Axt said his sister treated White as part of the family, giving her odd jobs to earn extra money even though "she just couldn't keep a job, couldn't get her life together."
O'Dowd allowed White to stay at her home for a month for free, trusting her with her PIN number to her debit card so White could purchase groceries for the two of them.
White later used that debit card to withdraw $1,000 at two bank ATMs in Florida, authorities said.
Authorities took some clothes from White's family's home in South Carolina to be examined and turned over to Florida police. A car in which White and her mother were traveling when White was arrested was also examined but later released to the family, police said.
Aunt Miki, as O'Dowd was known to friends and family, was "the most sweetest, kindest person who would never hurt a fly," Axt said.
He also said his sister's neighbors heard screams.
"So many people in the community said they heard someone screaming and wailing, and no one called the police," he said.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office declined further comment pending the investigation. There was no answer Tuesday at a phone listing for White's family in South Carolina.
UK: A heartbroken man, 60, bought the world's most extravagant dessert in sweet revenge after he was dumped by his girlfriend of three years.
The dessert set him back by $33,500, reports Herald Sun.
The ingredients that went into the making of this pudding were edible gold, champagne and caviar. It also consisted of a gold bracelet and spoon set and the cherry on top was a two-carat diamond, reports Herald Sun.
Each mouthful of the dessert costs about $1200.
US: A global IT firm plans to phase out emails as a form of internal company communication within the next two years. Atos considers the current volume of emails to be 'unsustainable', reports CNN.
The management wants more face-to-face communication among employees and the firm plans to encourage staff members to use messaging services like those available on social networking sites such as Facebook, etc. The emphasis in future would be on real-time communication.
The CEO of the company, Thierry Breton, feels that employees should not have to waste precious hours in the evening going through their inbox. He also feels that most of internal emails are not important and are simply a waste of time.
In fact, Breton confessed during an interview to Wall Street Journal recently that he had not sent a single email in the last three years. He believes emails cannot replace the 'spoken word'.
Atos has 74,000 employees in 42 countries. The company has already reduced the volume of emails by 20 per cent within six months, a spokesperson told the news channel.
PAKISTAN: According to media reprots, a moneky has been arrested in Pakistan's Punjab province for crossing the border from India.
The monkey was captured by wildlife officials in Bahawalpur, Express News channel reported.
The animal has been sent to Bahawalpur Zoo and christened 'Bobby'.
LOS ANGELES: Alec Baldwin says he was kicked off a plane Tuesday at Los Angeles International Airport after having words with a flight attendant over an "addicting" word game he was playing on his cellphone.
The "30 Rock" actor was asked to get off a New York City-bound flight for playing "Words with Friends" while the plane idled at a gate, said Baldwin's spokesman, Matthew Hiltzik.
"He loves 'Words with Friends' so much that he was willing to leave a plane for it," said Hiltzik, who added that Baldwin boarded another American Airlines flight to New York.
Baldwin, a prolific Twitter user, took to the social media site to vent, saying a "flight attendant on American reamed me out 4 playing Words With Friends while we sat at the gate, not moving."
It wasn't clear if passengers had been asked to turn off their cellphones, which is typical before a flight backs away from the terminal.
American Airlines spokesman Ed Martelle declined to comment, citing customer privacy concerns.
Airport police Sgt. Belinda Nettles said officers did not respond to the incident.
Baldwin tweeted that it would be his last flight with American, despite the fact that the airline shows "30 Rock" for in-flight entertainment. He mocked American Airlines flight attendants on Twitter, saying the airline is "where Catholic school gym teachers from the 1950's find jobs as flight attendants."
"Words With Friends" players compete online to score the most points by building words with tiles on a Scrabble-like game board.
Baldwin plays the role of executive Jack Donaghy on "30 Rock" and played an amorous ex-husband to Meryl Streep in the 2009 romantic comedy "It's Complicated."
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