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- Illegal immigrants can be deported in UK if they have pet cats!
- Steve Jobs' death breaks Twitter record with 10,000 tweets per second
- Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passes away
- Doh! The Simpsons to be cancelled?
- 85-yr-old Duchess weds for third time
- Helicopter joyride ends in tragedy
| Illegal immigrants can be deported in UK if they have pet cats! Posted: UK Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has jumped to defend the nation's Human Rights laws after Home Secretary Theresa May claimed that they were responsible for blocking the deportation of an illegal immigrant because he had a pet cat During a Conservative party conference Clarke went out of his way to pick a fight with May who said that a Bolivian immigrant escaped deportation on the grounds that he had a pet cat. "Bolivian immigrant cannot be deported because - and I am not making this up - he had a pet cat," she said. Clarke accused May of 'misrepresenting' human rights law, the Daily Mail reports. "They are British cases and British judges she is complaining about. I cannot believe anybody has ever had deportation refused on the basis of owning a cat," he said. "I'll have a small bet with her that nobody has ever been refused deportation on the grounds of the ownership as a cat," he added. According to the paper, while the cat was not the main reason for the decision not to deport the man, the pet was explicitly mentioned by the immigration judge. "The evidence concerning the joint acquisition of Maya (the cat) by the appellant and his partner reinforces my conclusion on the strength and quality of [their] family life," the judge said. While the Home Office appealed against the decision and lost, the fact remains that, in the original verdict, a court allowed a migrant to stay partly because of his ownership of a cat, the paper said. May's claims were, however, refuted by the Judicial Office who said the ruling in the case had nothing to do with the cat. The Home Secretary had recently called for the Human Rights Act to be scrapped saying that it hinders the government's attempts to deport dangerous foreign criminals.
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| Steve Jobs' death breaks Twitter record with 10,000 tweets per second Posted: The death of Apple's visionary leader Steve Jobs has provoked the biggest online reaction of any event in recent history, as the official twitter figures reached 10,000 tweets per second According to social media monitoring firm SR7, the huge reaction eclipses the previous biggest event, Beyonce''s performance at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she revealed she was pregnant, which generated a record 8868 tweets per second. Other huge online events included Japan beating USA in the women's soccer World Cup finals in July that generated 7196 tweets per second and Osama bin Laden''s death that led to over 5000 tweets per second, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Also, 5530 tweets per second were recorded during the Japan earthquake and tsunami in March, and 3966 tweets per second were generated during the British royal wedding. According to Twitter, across the whole of 2010 there were an average of 600 tweets a second.
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| Apple co-founder Steve Jobs passes away Posted: Apple co-founder and former-CEO Steve Jobs died Wednesday surrounded by his family. He was 56.
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| Doh! The Simpsons to be cancelled? Posted: The Simpsons, the cult US cartoon series, is facing the axe after the actors who work on the show refused to accept a major pay cut.
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| 85-yr-old Duchess weds for third time Posted: A wealthy, 85-year-old Spanish duchess considered the world's most title-laden noble married a civil servant 25 years her junior yesterday, shrugging off her children's qualms and celebrating by kicking off her shoes and dancing a bit of flamenco. A crowd of several hundred clapped and roared its approval as the Duchess of Alba waved and dance on a red carpet after her wedding to Alfonso Diez at Palacio de las Duenas, her 15th-century residence in the cobblestoned old quarter of Seville.
Known now for her frizzy white hair, squeaky voice and wildly colourful clothes, the duchess is among Spain's most famous people. Only a few dozen family members and close friends were invited to the ceremony. Maria del Rosario Cayetana Alfonsa Victoria Eugenia Francisca Fitz-James Stuart y de Silva, who has more titles than Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, wore a pale pink knee-length dress by Spanish designers Victorio y Lucchino. Her six children, all from her first marriage, reportedly balked when the idea of marriage emerged. In July of this year she assigned them and her grandchildren juicy chunks of her vast estate, including mansions and palaces, in an effort to appease them. Estimates of her wealth range from $800 million to $4.7 billion.
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| Helicopter joyride ends in tragedy Posted: British woman Sonia Marra celebrating her 40th birthday died after the helicopter that she hired for a private tour with her family crashed A woman who died in the helicopter crash in New York's East River was identified as Sonia Marra of Sydney, Australia, and she died on her 40th birthday, authorities said. Sonia Marra, a British citizen who lives in Australia, drowned when she was trapped inside a helicopter as it sank 50 feet beneath the surface.
New York Police Department divers pulled her from the water about 90 minutes after the Bell 206 Jet Ranger went down. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Four others, including the pilot and Marra's partner, her mother and stepfather, survived the crash and were rescued from the water and taken to hospital. The two women were in a critical condition last night. The men were later released without injuries. Rescue attempts Emergency crews arrived within seconds of the crash to find the helicopter upside-down in the murky water with just its skids showing on the surface. The pilot, Paul Dudley, and three passengers were bobbing in the water, and witnesses reported a man diving down, possibly in an attempt to rescue Marra. Marra, her partner Helen Tomaski and her British mother and stepfather Harriet and Paul Nicholson, had hired the helicopter for a private tour of the city. The Foreign Office spokesman said, "We can confirm that three British nationals were involved in a helicopter crash in New York. One of them has been killed. Next of kin has been informed and we are providing consular assistance to the family." Mayor Bloomberg said it had been "a terrible accident" involving people who had come "to see the best of our city". The helicopter apparently ran into trouble shortly after take off and was trying to return to the heliport when it went into the river off 34th Street in Manhattan. Eyewitnesses Joy Garnett and her husband were on the dock waiting to take the East River ferry to Brooklyn when they heard the blades of a helicopter and saw it start to take off. "I thought, 'Is that some daredevil move?'" she said. "But it was obviously out of control. The body spun around at least two or three times, and then it went down."
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