Agra, Nov 7 : Dressed as dead cows, sheep and pigs, volunteers of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India lay on the ground in a row of open coffins in front of a leather footwear fair here Saturday. A banner reading "Leather Is Murder" was laid across the coffins.Other PETA members held up large pictures of animals slaughtered for their skin and a funeral wreath was placed on each...
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Dressed as dead cows, sheep and pigs, volunteers of the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India lay on the ground in a row of open coffins in front of a leather footwear fair here Saturday. A banner reading "Leather Is Murder" was laid across the coffins.Other PETA members held up large pictures of animals slaughtered for their skin and a funeral wreath was placed on each of the open coffins...
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Obama breaks from Bush by saluting coffins of 18 Americans killed in AfghanistanPresident Obama publicly rejected the cloak of secrecy surrounding the return of US military dead late last night when he met the coffins of 18 Americans killed in Afghanistan in a solemn, unannounced ceremony.Mr Obama, under intense political pressure to make a decision on his future strategy on the war, offered prayers...
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world's largest retailer, Wal-Mart, now plans to hold on to customers even after they die - by selling coffins.Prices range from a "Mom" or "Dad Remembered" steel coffin for $895 (£540), to a bronze model at $2,899.The retailer is allowing customers to plan ahead by paying for the caskets over 12 months for no interest. They can be dispatched within 48 hours.Catering for cradle-to-grave needs, Wal-Mart...
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procession of gondolas accompanied a pink coffin along Venice's Grand Canal on Saturday in a mock funeral to protest against the steep decline in the city's population.Pall bearers in black capes accompanied the flower-draped coffin symbolising the death of the "Queen of Adriatic" at the hands of rampant tourism, rising waters and housing costs, a low birth rate and a lack of services.It was brought...
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Carl Clowes on how he feels about being told to pay back £48,000 awarded to him after he lost a leg in AfghanistanGordon Brown visits Afghan president Hamid Karzai and pays tribute to soldiers serving in the countryStick with Vietnamisation as it is already in the vocabulary for that kind of situation.So the Afghans load the bodies in Afghanistan (metaphor for them doing the killing) and we come and...
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just not an option for us. It would devastate him," says Amanda Higgins-Lekebusch, mother of 7-year old Owen, who is, a protein found in wheat, barely, rye and other grains, is harmful to the intestine and therefore must be omitted from one's"You tell your child early on, listen you're not going to eat that. Why don't we gather those items and donate them to a homeless shelter, a food bank. Look at...
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Tens of thousands of fans and dozens of football stars have gathered in Hanover to pay their last respects to Germany's national goalkeeper Robert Enke.Enke threw himself under a commuter train last week after a long battle with depression.He had been due to play as part of the national team at the World Cup finals in South Africa in June 2010.Thousands filed into the stadium to view his coffin, decorated...
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More than 45,000 fans have gathered for a memorial service for Germany goalkeeper Robert Enke, whose suicide has shaken the country.German politicians and sports stars were among those at Hannover stadium on Sunday to remember the 32-year-old goalie who stepped in front of a train near his Hannover home on Tuesday evening.His widow, Teresa, appeared on national television a day later to say her husband...
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president Bill Clinton said on Monday he would have preferred to leave the White House in a coffin because he loved being commander in chief, but signalled his political life was over."It's good that we have a (term) limit. Otherwise I would have stayed until I was carried away in a coffin. Or defeated in an election," Clinton said at a conference in Istanbul. "I loved doing the job."Clinton won two...
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