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- UK nurses' 'Do Not Disturb' uniforms sparks fury
- Hollywood actor convicted of raping and torturing 20-year-old woman
- World's oldest person turns 115
- Three die as planes collide in Austria
- Hurricane Irene leaves several dead, impacts millions in US
- World's largest doner kabab feeds 3,000 in Dubai
- City that never sleeps turns into ghost town
| UK nurses' 'Do Not Disturb' uniforms sparks fury Posted: A UK hospital trust's decision to give nurses 'Do Not Disturb' uniforms to wear during routine ward duties to prevent patients from speaking to them, has sparked controversy The bright red tabards will hold the message: "Do Not Disturb. Drug Round in Progress", and during that time patients will be expected to address any concerns to care assistants, who do not have clinical qualifications. The move came after complaints against patients emerged that they ask meaningless questions about toilets and meal times, and thus stopping nurses from doing their jobs properly. However, Joyce Robins, from campaign group Patient Concern, described the initiative as "grotesque and ridiculous". "If you're a nurse and you can't do more than one thing at a time, you're a pretty hopeless nurse. It sends patients completely the wrong message," the Daily Mail quoted her as saying. "Often the drug round is the only time you see a nurse to talk to them. Now these red tabards will send out a further 'get off me' signal. "It's grotesque and ridiculous," she added. The trial was first successfully made at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust, and now, the uniforms are being introduced for staff nurses and matrons in hospitals across the country.
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| Hollywood actor convicted of raping and torturing 20-year-old woman Posted: Joseph Hyungmin Son, who had a small part in the first 'Austin Powers' film as Dr. Evil''s sidekick has been convicted of torture in connection with the 1990 abduction and gang rape of a 20-year-old California woman
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| World's oldest person turns 115 Posted: The world's oldest person -- Besse Cooper -- has turned 115. On the secret to her long life, she said: "I mind my own business. And I don't eat junk food." Cooper's birthday was recently celebrated at her residence in Monroe, Georgia, The Telegraph said. A Guinness World Records representative delivered Cooper a plaque that certifies her as the oldest person on earth. Her son, 76-year-old Sidney Cooper said: "She still remembers things and thinks clearly and talks. But she has her good days and her bad days. I'd say she sleeps about 80 percent of the time." Born in Tennessee in 1896, Besse Cooper moved to Georgia during World War I. She married her husband Luther in 1924, and they had four children. Today, she has 12 grandchildren and more than a dozen great-grandchildren.
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| Three die as planes collide in Austria Posted: There people were killed and a pilot was badly injured when two small planes collided Sunday afternoon in an Austrian town. The accident occurred in Salzburg, a western state of Austria, Xinhua reported. According to the Austrian Press Agency (APA), the collision occurred some 250 metres from the runway at a height of 40 to 50 metres above the ground at the airfield of Zell am See town. One of the aircraft was coming from Innsbruck, a western city of Austria while the other was coming from Bavaria, a southern state of Germany.
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| Hurricane Irene leaves several dead, impacts millions in US Posted: As Hurricane Irene petered out leaving 18 dead across seven states and impacting millions with strong winds and drenching rains, authorities prepared to fight dangerous, damaging flood waters along the East Coast. The cost from wind damage alone is expected to top $1 billion, with downed power lines leaving more than four million people without electricity, according to US government estimates. "I want people to understand that this is not over," President Barack Obama said Sunday evening from Washington. "The impacts of this storm will be felt for some time, and the recovery effort will last for weeks or longer." Flood warnings and watches were in effect Sunday night for much of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, eastern New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. Also hard-hit was New Jersey, where initial fears about coastal flooding -- which had prompted the evacuation of more than 1 million people from the shore -- had given way to fresh concerns about inland flooding. In New York City, officials worked Sunday night to return the city to normal. Hours earlier, the Hudson River overflowed in lower Manhattan, receding only after massive amounts of water spilled over jogging paths and into at least one nearby apartment building. Area's three major airports -- Newark Liberty in northern New Jersey and LaGuardia and John F. Kennedy in the New York City boroughs of Queens -- will reopen Monday, two days after they shut down. New Jersey Transit rail service is suspended "until further notice," except for the Atlantic City rail line, but light rail and bus service will resume Monday. By 8 p.m., Tropical Storm Irene had maximum sustained winds of 50 mph and was nearing the US-Canadian border, according to the National Hurricane Centre.
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| World's largest doner kabab feeds 3,000 in Dubai Posted: A restaurant in Dubai has set a new Guinness record by preparing the world's largest doner kebab at 468 kg. Doner kebab (which means "rotating roast") is a Turkish dish made mainly of lamb meat, cooked on a vertical rod and sliced off to order.  Pic for representation The Doner Restaurant set the new record, said Guinness adjudicator Tarika Vara. In an act of goodwill, the doner was distributed among charity organisations in Dubai, feeding more than 3,000 people. Restaurant owner Rana Abdullah said, "It has pleased us to have won this title. It is also a pleasure to have helped out with charity in this holy month. I thank the Doner restaurant team for their dedication to the success of this project."
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| City that never sleeps turns into ghost town Posted: Floods, blackouts as Hurricane Irene lashes New York Waterlogged and silent, New York awaited the worst of Hurricane Irene as an unsettled dawn broke over the city on Sunday. Seawater cascaded toward Wall Street and the labyrinth of cables and pipes beneath it, threatening the nerve centre of global finance.  However, the city appeared to escape the worst fears of urban disaster -- vast power outages, hurricane-shattered skyscraper windows and severe flooding. A foot of water rushed over the wall of a marina in front of the New York Mercantile Exchange, where gold and oil are traded, and floodwater lapped at the wheel wells of yellow cabs. But the city's biggest power company, Consolidated Edison, said it was optimistic it would not have to cut electricity to save its equipment. The Sept. 11 museum, a centerpiece of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site, said on Twitter that none of its memorial trees were lost. And Irene made landfall as a tropical storm with 65 mph winds, not the 100-mph hurricane that had churned up the East Coast and dumped a foot of water or more on less populated areas in the South. "Just another storm," said Scott Beller, who was at a Lowe's store in the Long Island hamlet of Centereach, looking for a generator because his power was out. Irene weakened to winds of 60 mph, well below the 74 mph dividing line between a hurricane and tropical storm. The system was still massive and powerful, forming a figure six that covered the Northeast. It was moving twice as fast as the day before. As a hurricane, Irene had already killed 14 people and left 4 million homes and businesses without power. It unloaded more than a foot of water on North Carolina and spun off tornadoes in Virginia, Maryland and Delaware.
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