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29 March 2024

Crazy World: Kuwaiti wife wants to divorce 'smelly' hubby

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A woman in Kuwait filed for a divorce from her husband for his bad smell, saying she could no longer stand the smell, a newspaper reported on Thursday.

The unidentified woman told court she had tried many times to persuade her husband to have treatment but he refused and beat her up.

“She filed for a divorce…she said she could no longer adapt to or accept the bad smell of her husband,” Alanba daily said. (STAFF)

Baby shot as dad changed diaper

CHICAGO: A six-month-old baby who was shot in Chicago while her father was changing her diaper on the seat of a parked minivan has died, police said Tuesday.

The shooting in broad daylight Monday comes as Chicago struggles to stem an epidemic of gang violence that helped push the city's murder rate up 16 percent to 506 people in 2012. The city has already logged more than 60 murders and 250 shootings so far this year.

"The baby was in the car with her father when someone walked up and shot the baby and the father," Chicago police spokesman Mike Sullivan told AFP.

"Nobody's in custody at this time."

The family was no stranger to gun violence before this particular tragedy.

Little Jonylah Watkins's 20-year-old mother was shot in the leg last spring while she was pregnant, the Chicago Tribune reported.

"She's very distraught, she's in a lot of pain," family spokesman Pastor Corey Brooks told the paper. "They just got married several weeks ago. This is a tough time."

The girl's father was in "serious but stable" condition in hospital, police said.

Brooks and his congregants have offered a $5,000 reward for information leading to the killer's capture.

"We're going to take back our neighborhood, we're going to find who did this," he insisted.

President Barack Obama returned to his hometown last month to highlight the "senseless" gun violence ravaging Chicago as he pressed for ambitious gun control measures.

The nation became embroiled in a debate over gun violence in after the massacre of 20 young children and six staff members at a Connecticut elementary school in December but prospects for reform have dimmed.

Terrified man fakes kidnapping to fool girlfriend

NEW YORK: A man in New York went missing for a fortnight and attempted to fool his girlfriend into believing that he was kidnapped.

The 36-year-old man was terrified of the girl and he staged the crime to explain his two weeks' absence.

But the police officers uncovered his plot when they noticed a roll of duct tape in his hand even as he was tied up to a tree with a rope.

The man was arrested for filing a false report and for his pathetic attempt at pulling the wool over his girlfriend's eyes, reports the New York Post.

Sister gives exam for brother in Lahore

PAKISTAN: There are hundreds – if not thousands – of stories of love and sacrifice between brothers and sisters.

One such incident took place in Lahore, Pakistan, where the sister decided to sit examination papers in place of her brother and was caught red-handed by the inspection team during the regular visit to the examination center.

The girl sported boys’ attire in order to sit in place of her brother for the medical exams.

The brother was keen to become a doctor and was struggling to get desired numbers to get admission in a medical college so the sister came forward to brother’s help to become doctor by sitting in examination hall in place of him.

The girl – who goes with one name of Iqra – is a resident of Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan’s Urdu daily Jang reported today.

Though acknowledged that she committed mistake by sporting boys’ attire to sit in the examination hall, she claimed that it was with good intention to make her brother a doctor.

She claimed that she did it for the better future of her brother and isn’t resentful for her action.