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Police gunned down Ernest Vassell after residents, who saw a man carrying what appeared to be a rifle, called 911.
Authorities said they had to fire as Vassell was terrorising the neighbourhood in North Miami Beach, Florida.
But devastated family members say the 56-year old, who had been mentally disabled since he was a child, had been had never been violent.
Police spokesman Sgt. Warren Hardison said there was an encounter with the man and officers and shots were fired. He was taken by helicopter to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Vassell's devastated family is now demanding answers. Older sister Claire Harding said that her bortehr was autistic. She said: 'They murdered him in cold blood for a toy gun. That's no reason for you to kill somebody.' Read More
For those in 1942 who first viewed these imagined Nazi plans for the invasion of America, though, the threat would have been all too real.
Detailed maps have emerged online showing how experts at the time predicted Nazi forces might try to annex the U.S.
Created in the months after Pearl Harbor, they were published in the March 2 issue of Life as a warning to readers that America was no longer an observer of the Second World War.
The varied diagrams show different options which would have been available to the Germans - from invasion across the Atlantic to the East Coast to the imagined bombing of the Panama Canal before launching at attack via Japan from the West. Read More
The South African government has spent a fortune trying to redistribute the country's land wealth from the white minority to the black majority.
It has bought thousands of hectares of white owned farm land and either given it or sold it on to poor blacks.
But yesterday the country's minister of land reform admitted that many of the new black farmers have simply resold the land back to the original owners.
Gugile Nkwinti said black farmers have resold nearly 30 per cent of the white farmland bought for them by the government.
He said: 'The government bought land and handed it over to aspirant farmers who then sold it again, in many instances back to the original owner.'
Land economists say that the redistribution policy is highly inefficient as the white-owned land is often bought at above its market value by the government.
After the land has been given, or sold at a discount, to the new black owner, he is able to simply then able to sell it on.
This means that both farmers - black and white - are able to turn a profit from the government's involvement. Read More
But though the surroundings are less than glamorous, North Korea hopes to launch itself into the world of cruising with ageing liner the Mangyongbong.
The former cargo ship set sail on its maiden tour yesterday carrying about 130 passengers from the rundown port of Rajin, near the China-Russia border.
Some 500 North Koreans, about half dressed in dark workers clothes and the others in office and traditional attire, waved off the ship in a choreographed performance on the pot-holed dock.
The spectators waved North Koreans flags and fake flowers, and let off a blast of paper fireworks to mark the occasion. Carnival music blared from two minivans with speakers on their roofs.
Before the launch, vice mayor Hwang Chol-nam of Rason City, of which Rajin port is a part, gave a speech lauding the venture as part of the region’s push to attract tourism.
Hwang hailed his city’s rule which allows any nationality to visit the area visa-free. They must, however, arrange the trip through a designated tour companies. Mobile phones must be left behind in China. Read More
Sporting fake C cup breasts and padding on her bottom, she is the latest shock contestant on Toddlers and Tiaras, the U.S. reality show revealing the surreal world of beauty pageants.
In an attempt to mimic her curvaceous icon, country singer Dolly Parton - who is known for her ample cleavage - the toddler is shown sporting detachable bust and butt enhancements, before performing live on stage.
With the extra padding concealed under her Barbie pink Lycra catsuit, Maddy's tiny frame is transformed into an hourglass silhouette.
Barely able to string a sentence together, many will be shocked by the images of the peroxide blonde trying to emulate the appearance of a woman in her late 20s.
When questioned on NBC's Today show, her mother Lindsay, who entered her first pageant contest when she was nine months old, defends the enhancements used by her daughter.
She tells presenter Savannah Guthrie: 'To some people, it's over the top, to us it's just what happens... It's just normal. When she wears the fake boobs and the fake butt, it's just like extra bonus.'
But others seems less convinced and Maddy's stylist Michael Booth believes the attire is a step to far.
Interviewed backstage at the competition, where hundreds of young hopefuls battle it out to be crowned beauty queen, Michael said: 'I wasn’t a big fan of the outfit with the boobs in it. She’s very young, but hopefully the judges will perceive it in good taste.' Read More
They defaced the stonework, scrawling 'they were flammable' and also daubing a swastika on the memorial.
The monument in the eastern town of Jedwabne honours the victims of July 10, 1941, when about 40 Poles hunted down Jews, closed them in a barn and set it alight. It is estimated between 300 and 400 Jews were killed.
The incident is one of the better known cases of local people collaborating with the Nazis in the killing of Jews during the occupation of Eastern Europe.
The vandals used green paint to spray the symbols of a swastika and 'SS' - the name of an elite Nazi force - on the monument, as well as the phrases 'I don't apologise for Jedwabne' and 'they were flammable'.
Police discovered the desecration on Wednesday during a patrol and have since started an investigation.
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said: 'I utterly condemn these acts of criminality, alien to Polish tradition.
'There is no room for such behavior in Polish society - even if it is the work of but a small group of extremists.' Read More
Colin Adlard, 61 snapped and repeatedly struck his wife Wendy with the hammer while she was in bed because she would not stop shouting at him and berating him.
The 59-year-old had been dozing in bed at about 5.30am - the morning after the argument about mashed potato - when Adlard went berserk and delivered the fatal blows.
He then called police and was arrested at the bungalow they had recently moved to in the quiet Northamptonshire village of Yardley Hastings.
Adlard later told officers he attacked her on January 7 because she would not stop nagging at him. Read More
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