Jack Tweed, the husband of the late Jade Goody, has been jailed for 12 weeks for an assault on a taxi driver.
Jade Goody’s husband jailed for assault
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Japan announces $150B stimulus plan
Japan’s Prime Minister Taro Aso announced a historic ¥15 trillion ($150 billion) stimulus package Friday aimed to turn around the recession in the world’s second largest economy.
Teens locked up for life without a second chance
It began as horseplay, with two teenage stepbrothers chasing each other with blow guns and darts. But it soon escalated when one of the boys grabbed a knife. The older teen, Michael Barton, 17, was dead by the time he reached the hospital
Commentary: Goody uses her death to teach us a lesson
Jade Goody’s life and death in the limelight has played out as if it is part of another dimension. While the former Big Brother contestant appeared omnipresent, particularly in Britain, in the weeks leading up to her death from cervical cancer, it is the reflection cast by her demise that is most interesting.
Kids with ADHD May Learn Better by Fidgeting
Like nose-picking and a preoccupation with feculence, the inability to sit still for long periods is a defining characteristic of childhood.
The Children of the Cellar
The boys knew the world only through television and the little that their mother remembered. And so now, Stefan Fritzl, 18, and his little brother Felix, 5, are getting used to sunlight. After spending their entire lives imprisoned in a cramped, windowless cellar deep underground along with their mother, Elisabeth, they are now being cared for in a special wing of a clinic near Amstetten, Austria.
Dodgers field almost 7,000 seekers for 500 part-time jobs
The long lines of parked cars outside Dodger Stadium could have been the typical sign of an afternoon game featuring the Boys in Blue. But the massive crowd of cars at the stadium during the weekend had more to do with income than infield plays. A two-day job fair to fill some 500 part-time jobs during the baseball season, from stadium security to hawking beer during the games, attracted nearly 7,000 applicants.
‘Everybody loved being around her’
The women hockey players gathered at the center of the rink and prayed. Tears wet their cheeks and most held hands. Then they lit 10 candles, the number on the jersey of the missing teammate, the one with the huge smile and even bigger heart, who died in last week’s plane crash.
UK: Birth of 13-year-old dad’s child sparks outrage
The birth of a child fathered by a 13-year-old boy has sparked an uproar in Britain. Alfie Patten, who was only 12 when the baby was conceived with his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman, 15, was pictured on the front of Friday’s tabloid Sun newspaper with his daughter, Maisie Roxanne, after her birth Monday.