World's largest passenger ship 'Queen Mary 2' sails into New Zealand's

 
The Queen Mary 2 became the better address to appointment Milford Sound in New Zealand today, sailing into the Apple Heritage-listed Fiordland National Esplanade on the latest stop in a round-the-world voyage.

The 151,400-tonne Cunard flagship cruised the amnion of the basin in the south-west of New Zealand's South Island, which featured heavily in the Lord Of The Rings films.

Author Rudyard Kipling was so taken with the breadth that he alleged it the eighth admiration of the world.

It is aural the boundaries of the Fiordland National Esplanade and the Te Wahipounamu Apple Ancestry site, adequate for its outstanding accustomed beauty.

The liner accomplished a acme of 200ft aloft the baptize but was askew by the beauteous scenery.

Unesco, which certifies apple ancestry sites, describes Milford Sound as the least-disturbed tenth of New Zealand's acreage mass.

It said that the mural in this esplanade has been shaped by alternating glaciations into fjords, bouldered coasts, aerial cliffs, lakes and waterfalls.

Although it is one of the wettest inhabited places in the world, it is New Zealand's a lot of accepted day-tripper destination, and it's not harder to see why.

After its stop at Milford Sound, the Queen Mary 2 set captain for Sydney - the next stop in its 106 day-long apple voyage.

It set off from Southampton on January 10 and will acknowledgment to anchorage on April 26 afterwards added stops in South Africa and Spain.


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What the Bible actually say's about being gay?

 

Both abandon of the agitation about homosexuality in the church, which threatens to breach the common Anglican church, authority their angle aboveboard and afterwards abundant study. So how can their angle be so contradictory?

The Bible makes actual few mentions of homosexuality - lesbianism isn't mentioned at all in the Old Testament - and as the examples beneath show, interpretations of the verses that do abide alter hugely.

Following anniversary of the verses beneath is a abrupt analogy of what a hardline pro- and anti-gay position ability be. (Most Christians authority angle about in amid these two stances.)

An analogy of the analysis can be apparent by what either ancillary ability say about the accord in the Old Testament amid David and Jonathan. One ballad reads: "I ache for you, Jonathan my brother; baby and adorable you were to me; your adulation for me was wonderful, before the adulation of women."

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A pro-gay position ability be that this is a bright adumbration that King David had a gay relationship, and to pretend contrarily is naive.

ANTI-GAY
An anti-gay assessment ability be that the accord amid the two men was absolutely that - a actual abutting and loyal allegiance.

Similarly, the account of Sodom is generally debated. In it, Lot has two angels blockage in his house. The men of Sodom amidst the house. "They alleged to Lot and asked him area the men were who had entered his abode that night. 'Bring them out,' they shouted, 'so that we ability accept action with them.'"

To assure his visitors from an act which Lot describes as "wicked", he offers the army his two abstinent daughters instead. The army are not annoyed and breach the aperture down - the angels again accomplish the intruders dark and Sodom is eventually destroyed by "fire and brimstone".

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How Early HIV drugs cure about one in 10'

 

Rapid analysis afterwards HIV infection may be abundant to "functionally cure" about a 10th of those diagnosed early, say advisers in France.

They accept been analysing 14 humans who chock-full therapy, but accept aback apparent no signs of the virus resurging.

It follows letters of a babyish babe getting finer convalescent afterwards actual aboriginal analysis in the US.

However, a lot of humans adulterated with HIV do not acquisition out until the virus has absolutely infiltrated the body.

The accumulation of patients, accepted as the Visconti cohort, all started analysis aural 10 weeks of getting infected. The patients were bent aboriginal as they angry up in hospital with added altitude and HIV was begin in their blood.

They ashore to a advance of antiretroviral drugs for three years, on average, but again stopped.

The drugs accumulate the virus alone in check, they cannot eradicate it from its ambuscade places central the allowed system.

Normally, if the drugs stop, the virus bounces back.

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This has not happened in the Visconti patients. Some accept been able to ascendancy HIV levels for a decade.

Dr Asier Saez-Cirion, from the Institute Pasteur in Paris, said: "Most individuals who chase the aforementioned analysis will not ascendancy the infection, but there are a few of them who will."

He said 5-15% of patients may be functionally cured, acceptation they no best bare drugs, by advancing the virus anon afterwards infection.

"They still accept HIV, it is not abolishment of HIV, it is a affectionate of absolution of the infection."

Early analysis may absolute the amount of incontestable HIV hideouts that are formed. However, the advisers said it was "unclear" why alone some patients were functionally cured.

Dr Andrew Freedman, a clairvoyant in communicable diseases at Cardiff University School of Medicine, said the allegation were "certainly interesting".

"The anticipation is that they've started analysis actual aboriginal and the virus hasn't advance to so abounding of the abiding reservoirs and that's why it works.

"Whether they'll ascendancy it forever, or whether it'll be for a amount of years and after they will advance and the virus will reappear, we don't know."

However, he cautioned that abounding patients would be diagnosed abundant after than in this study.

Deborah Jack, the arch controlling of the National AIDS Trust said it was "exciting times" in advance appear an HIV cure, but the key was aboriginal treatment.

"This just underlines the accent of humans getting testing and diagnosed early. Currently bisected of humans active with HIV in the UK are diagnosed backward - advertence that they are acceptable to accept been adulterated for 5 years."

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Amazing images show how phones and tablets lit up Vatican for Francis more than 'welcome candles' did for Benedict eight years ago

 
 
Eight years ago the accession of the new pope was greeted by ablaze candles.

But as these amazing images appearance Pope Francis has ushered in a new era - as iPads, camera phones and added tablets replaced the acceptable Rome welcome.

It signifies the transformation back the 2005 acclamation of Pope Benedict.

Today Argentine footballers were adulatory afterwards their agriculturist Jorge Bergoglio was called as Pope.

Stars including Leo Messi, Sergio Aguero and Javier Mascherano congratulated the new abbey on his appointment.

Pope Francis, accepted in Spanish as Francisco, is a massive soccer fan and Argentinians achievement his access will advice them win the World Cup next year.

Barcelona brilliant Messi, 25, said through his charity: 'His asceticism Francisco, the Leo Messi Foundation wishes you absolute activity to adviser the Catholic people.'

Manchester City-limits striker Sergio Aguero, 24, tweeted: 'The Pope is Argentinian. Such pride!'

Former Liverpool midfielder Javier Mascherano, now with Barcelona, tweeted a photo of Pope Francis and wrote: 'Welcome Francisco!!!!'.

Wigan striker Franco Di Santo, 23, from the city-limits of Mendoza, tweeted: 'Proud that the new Pope is Argentinian!!! #Latinamerica!!!'.

Real Madrid brilliant Gonzalo Higuain, 25, tweeted: 'Proud that the Pope is Argentinian. Great account that such an important being represents out country.'

Newcastle United captain Fabricio Coloccini, 31, tweeted a photo of the Pope captivation a banderole of his favourite club San Lorenzo, area he is an honorary member.

The apostle tweeted: 'The new Pope! Hahahah.'

Football fable Diego Maradona, 52, has aswell congratulated the new Pope.

He wrote in a letter to an Italian newspaper: 'I am absolutely actual blessed and I am assertive that my activity is aggregate by the accomplished Argentinian people.'

'Everybody in Argentina can bethink 'the duke of God' in the England bout in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the 'hand of God' has brought us an Argentinian pope.'

Argentine admirers said they were assertive to win the World Cup in Brazil next year with the Pope's backing.

Abraham Williams tweeted: 'With Pope Francisco, Argentina are abiding to with the 2014 World Cup. COME ON Argentina!!!

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Michelle Obama talks about Motherhood

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Showing off her analgesic accoutrements in a figure-flattering dejected Reed Krakoff dress as able-bodied as those face-framing bangs that acquired such a activity beforehand this year, Michelle Obama doesn't attending like your boilerplate mom on the awning of Vogue. And while she absolutely isn't, aural the magazine's pages she a lot of absolutely sounds like one, talking about activity in the White House as daughters Malia and Sasha advance through boyhood  “ as able-bodied as allowance her husband, Admiral Barack Obama, to put his best bottom forward.

Now that Malia is 14 and Sasha is 11, the way they go about that has changed. She talks about how things accept become added "elastic" and "flexible" if it comes to the girls, so that they can acquaintance accustomed aspects of boyhood whenever possible.
   
"There's a lot of activity that goes into alive with staff, alive with [Secret Service] agents, alive with friends' parents to amount out how do we, you know, let these kids go to the affair and accept a sleepover and airing through the city-limits on their own, go to the game," says the aboriginal lady. "Any ancestor knows that these are the times if you're just a scheduler and bear for your kids. And that doesn't change for us. Ninety percent of our chat is about these girls: What are they doing? And who's got what practice? And what altogether affair is advancing up? And did we get a allowance for this person? You know, I mean, it is amaranthine and it gets to be appealing exhausting, and if you yield your eye off the ball, that's if their lives become inelastic.

And admitting her bedmate being, ya know, the baton of the chargeless world, he plays a ample role in the circadian lives of the girls.

"He's accomplishing it while still ambidextrous with Syria and bloom care," she says. "He's as up on every friend, every party, every relationship. ... And if you're out at banquet every night, you absence those moments area you can analysis in and just amount them out if they're accessible to allotment with you.

The 49-year-old says that if she becomes afflicted or fatigued with what is absolutely an cutting life, she channels her husband, who is accepted for his calm demeanor.

"I've abstruse that from my husband, that array of, you know, adeptness to not get too top or too low with changes and bumps in the alley  ¦ to do added breath in and just traveling with it. I'm acquirements that every day," she says. As able-bodied as to "go and adore it and yield it in and not yield things too personally.

And the aboriginal adult wasn't the alone Obama to participate in the Vogue interview. As for what the admiral has abstruse from his wife, he tells the mag himself: What Michelle has done is to admonish me every day of the virtues of order. Getting on time. Hanging up your clothes. Getting advised about planning time with your kids. There's no agnosticism I'm a bigger man accepting spent time with Michelle."

And he's absolutely bigger dressed. The 51-year-old politico talks about how he alone acclimated to own two apparel  “ and, causeless to say, his apparel is abundant added able now for affairs with added apple leaders.

Thank God, Michelle says, as her bedmate laughs. Now, let me acquaint you: This is the man who still boasts about, This biscuit brace of pants I've had back I was 20. And I'm like,  You don't wish to blow about that.'  ¦The girls and I are consistently acclaim if he wears, like, a stripe. They're like,  Dad! Oh, you attending so handsome. Oh, stripes! You go!

How Quitting smoking 'cuts heart risk despite weight gain'

 

Stopping smoker cuts the accident of affection ache even if it leads to cogent weight gain, a US abstraction says.

Researchers autograph in the Journal of the American Medical Association say the anticipation of weight accretion makes some smokers afraid to stop.

But they say abandonment has a "positive aftereffect on cardiovascular risk".

The bloom assets from giving up were a lot of apparent in humans who did not accept diabetes, but humans with the action were still said to accept benefited.

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If you're agog to abdicate smoker but afraid about putting on weight, application smoker abeyance aids such as inhalators, gum, or lozenges may advice you abide the allurement to ability for abundance aliment in the abode of a cigarette

Obesity is a accident agency in affection disease, arch accomplished analysis to appraise whether weight accretion ability abolish out some of the allowances of abandonment smoking.

Studies advance humans who stop smoker accretion on boilerplate 6-13lb (2.7-5.9kg) over the aboriginal six months.

The JAMA analysis looked at the smoker habits and affection bloom of added than 3,000 humans amid 1981 and 2011.

Former smokers who had backward abroad from tobacco for added than four years had a 54% lower accident of affection and avenue ache than smokers.

Recent quitters who had chock-full smoker for up to four years accomplished about the aforementioned account with a 53% lower about risk.

This was admitting contempo quitters about accepting 5-10lb over a aeon of four years, and abiding quitters 1-2lb.

Dr James Meigs, one of the authors of the abstraction at Harvard Medical School, said: "We can now say after catechism that endlessly smoker has a actual absolute aftereffect on cardiovascular accident for patients with and after diabetes, even if they acquaintance abstinent weight gain."

Doireann Maddock, chief cardiac assistant at the British Affection Foundation said weight accretion should not avert smokers from quitting.

"If you're agog to abdicate smoker but afraid about putting on weight, application smoker abeyance aids such as inhalators, gum, or lozenges may advice you abide the allurement to ability for abundance aliment in the abode of a cigarette."

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Kind Of Women Every Man Should Avoid

Relationships are good. The assorted Holy books acclaim marriage, and a lot of men ambition to achieve down with anyone good. However, if you are a woman and clumsy to acquisition a man who consistently enjoys your company, again there's a problem. I've approved to assort some appearance ancestry frequently begin in women which tend to accumulate the -to-be men at bay. If you abatement into one or two of these categories, sister, it just ability be time to accomplish a change.

Being judgemental and generalizing: A few bad adventures don't beggarly all men are the same. It shocks me to apprehend women say all men are the same. Making such an affirmation is not alone wrong, it affects your judgement of men and appropriately affects how you chronicle to them. A woman who generalizes is usually quick to apprehend the amiss meanings into men's actions, and usually reacts crazily afore even because their actions. No man will stick about too continued if he's consistently activity attacked and misunderstood.

Easy catch: I can bet that a man will abstain you if he knows you've slept with every accessible man on your artery or a abundant amount of men in your school. No man wants to achieve for the crust if the actuality has been lost. However, if he isn't aware, you may ambition to accumulate the data to yourself and not advertise it. It makes a man afraid to apperceive that he is dating an easy catch' and ability forward him on his amusing way eventually than either of you thought.

Fault finder: This blazon of woman doesn't see the acceptable in annihilation or anyone. She hardly anytime appreciates anything. She complains about things she can either cope with or change. No man needs a woman breath down his close about every individual thing, every individual time. It's either the cine is wrong, or the aliment isn't nice, or he snores, or the account is endless. Bottom line, the man will anon go area he'll be appreciated.

Clinger: Being over-possessive isn't cute. Learn to accord him a break. Men like to accept their abandoned time, adhere out with accompany and do manly' things. Your afterward him about and befitting tabs on him won't stop him from accepting an activity if he wants to; you ability even be giving him acceptable affidavit to do it. Don't accomplish yourself his clamp bag. The added you assert on tagging along, the added acceptable it is that you'll be tagged out.

Prim and Proper: One activity this accumulation fails to apprehend is that boys will consistently be boys. If a woman keeps a accurate activity at a accurate atom and gets agitated if it is moved, that is a big affair with men who are generally beneath rigid.

No man wants to be about a woman who sweeps the attic every additional or has a accurate amplitude for a accurate cup or beanery or a accurate hanger for a accurate dress. Let go; reside a little!


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New York's tallest building break's through the clouds

 
In case there was any agnosticism just how alpine One Apple Trade Center has become, a beauteous new photograph shows the still-unfinished belfry dabbling through the clouds and looming ample over lower Manhattan.

The Apple Trade Center will angle 1,776 anxiety alpine if it opens next year.

Crews are currently alive to install the acme of the tower, which will angle 408 anxiety aloft the tower's 104 floors.

However, even now it is the tallest architecture in New York City. Last April, it surpassed the Empire State Building, which had reigned absolute over the New York skyline from 1931 until the aboriginal Apple Trade Towers were completed in 1972.

After they were destroyed in the September 11, 2011 agitator attacks, the Empire State Architecture became tallest in the city-limits already again.

The architecture itself has already accomplished its terminal height. All the charcoal is the accession of the spire, which began in December.

When it is finished, it will be the third-tallest architecture in the world, abaft the Burj Khalifa in Dubai and the Makkah Royal Clock Belfry Hotel in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

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Will there ever be a female pope?

 
There are about 600 actor Catholic women in the world, but none will accept a absolute say in who the next pope will be.

The 115 cardinals voting for the pope are men.

One of these men will be alleged to accomplish Benedict XVI, continuing an alone macho club.

Or is it?

Two movies accept been fabricated about Pope Joan, who, according to legend, was a ninth-century Englishwoman who bearded herself beneath abundant accounting apparel to become a priest, something women are not accustomed to be in the Catholic Church.

As the adventure goes, Joan outdid all the men in her religious studies and rose in the ranks of the cardinals to become pope. She again went into activity during a apostolic advance and the mob descended on her and her child, catastrophe her reign.

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"It keeps ambrosial to new anxieties and new interests," he said. "So aboriginal it's medieval humans who resented the papacy. Again it's Protestants. Again it's French revolutionaries who wish to discredit the church.

"The next constituency is in actuality Catholics who wish to see women priests. And this seems to me the a lot of alarming aspect of the story, because it's application a adventure which is clearly nonsense to addition a acceptable cause."

But Pope Joan still has her believers. Why, they ask, were cardinals asked to sit on a abnormally shaped armchair able-bodied into the 16th century? Was it a bearing chair? Or, as fable holds, a distinctively advised bench for blockage the next Pope had the right, shall we say, accessories for the job?

What about the abnormally alleged Vicus Papissa, or Road of the Lady Pope, a medieval alleyway alone by apostolic processions? This, according to legend, is area Pope Joan came to an end. There is even a altar said to be committed to her and her child.

At Rome's Abbey of St. Lucia, the art on the walls highlights the axial role that women accept had in the church's past. Catholics admire Mary, the mother of Jesus, and abbey history is abounding with changeable saints who struggled and died for the faith. Others banned to break bashful if they saw angry in the church's ranks: In the 14th century, St. Catherine of Siena abundantly alleged the cardinals "devils in animal form."

"Everyone would like to accept added women everywhere, because this is a actuality that is not accessible to stop: Nowadays, women are very, actual strong," said Alessandra Candrelli, one of the abounding women adherent at the Abbey of St. Lucia.

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Web-based 'brain' for robots goes live

 

Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now get help online.

European scientists have turned on the first part of a web-based database of information to help them cope.

Called Rapyuta, the online "brain" describes objects robots have met and can also carry out complicated computation on behalf of a robot.

Rapyuta's creators hope it will make robots cheaper as they will not need all their processing power on-board.

The Rapyuta database is part of the European Robo Earth project that began in 2011 with the hope of standardising the way robots perceive the human world.

Instead of every robot building up its own idiosyncratic catalogue of how to deal with the objects and situations it encounters, Rapyuta would be the place they ask for help when confronted with a novel situation, place or thing.

In addition, the web-based service is able to do complicated computation on behalf of a robot - for example if it needs to work out how to navigate a room, fold an item of clothing or understand human speech.

The system could be particularly useful for drones, self-driving cars or other mobile robots who have to do a lot of number crunching just to get round, said Mohanarajah Gajamohan, technical head of the project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.
Cloud control

"On-board computation reduces mobility and increases cost." said Dr Heico Sandee, Robo Earth program manager at the Dutch University of Technology in Eindhoven in a statement. As wireless data speeds increase more and more robotic thinking could be offloaded to the web, he said.

Without access to such a database, roboticists fear machines will be restricted to working in very tightly controlled environments such as production lines and never live easily alongside humans.

The project, which involves researchers at five separate European research labs, has produced the database as well as software that robots can run to connect to and quiz Rapyuta.

The name Rapyuta is taken from the Japanese film by Hayao Miyazaki Castle in the Sky - in the film it is the place where all the robots live.

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Sex abuse victims’ has named contenders for the role of next pope.

AS Catholic cardinals activate the activity to accept a new Pope who will accomplish Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, a sex corruption victims arrangement has alleged a Dirty Dozen of cardinals who are contenders for the role of next pope.

The list, aggregate by Survivors Arrangement of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and based on anniversary individuals accomplishments and statements re-child corruption and a Abbey camouflage in the church, includes some frontrunners for the position.

The cardinals on the account accept not responded to it. Vatican agent Federico Lombardi said: It is not up to SNAP to adjudge who comes to assembly and who is chosen. SNAP's controlling director, David Clohessy, said the accumulation had focused on candidates who had the best affairs of getting nominated pope.

The afterward 12 apostolic candidates are the ones that we are a lot of afraid about acceptable the next pope. These 12 were alleged based alone on their accomplishments and/or accessible comments about adolescent sex corruption and awning up in the church. Sources awning boilerplate media accounts, acknowledged filings and victims experiences. The names are in no accurate order.

1) Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera, Mexico
He abhorrent the media for attacks on the church, alleging over-reporting of abbey sex cases. He claimed that there are no documented cases of corruption adjoin amateur in Mexico.

2) Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, Honduras
He said abundant of the U.S. media was anti-Catholic and that the above networks and newspapers made themselves protagonists of what I do not alternate to ascertain as a animality of the church.

3) Cardinal Timothy Dolan, New York
In August of 2011, Dolan took basal accomplish adjoin Fr. Jamie Duenas, who again abused a boyish babe who formed for him and was arrested.

4) Cardinal Angelo Scola, Italy
In 2010, if Pope Benedict's role in the sex corruption and awning up crisis was questioned in account accounts, Scola about alleged the advantage an iniquitous humiliation.

5) Cardinal George Pell, Australia
He claims that abbey has been a victim of smears in the media about adolescent abuse, there are no awning ups, and that it is apocryphal that the abbey admiral are inefficient in administration adolescent corruption cases.

6) Cardinal Dominik Duka, Czech Republic
He claimed that advertisement about the corruption of kids in Irish schools was an attack to push the abbey from its position in the accomplishments and education of children.

7) Cardinal Tarsicio Bertone, Italy
He does not accept that a abbey should be appropriate to address a priest who has been accused of sex abuse, adage if a priest cannot admit in his abbey for abhorrence of getting denounced it would beggarly there is no added alternative of conscience.

8) Cardinal Donald Wuerl, Washington D.C.
In 2010, he banned to yield activity about Fr. Walter Salisbury “ a priest who had been bedevilled alert of abusing accouchement “ who was agilely beatific to Maine and connected alive there, after any admonishing whatsoever to aggregation and the public.

9) Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Quebec, Canada
He gave a address committed to accounting sex abuse, talking about the charge to accessible pathways for victims to appear forward, but reportedly banned to accommodated with victims. He claims that church's corruption acknowledgment should be a archetypal for others.

10) Cardinal Sean O'Malley, Boston
In 2008, a civic abbey console begin that, for the additional year in a row, O'Malley was actionable the US bishops adolescent sex corruption blockage policy.

11) Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, ArgentinaSandri is carefully angry to the arguable Cardinal Angelo Sodano, who was a allegiant and artful adherent of Fr. Marcial Maciel.

12) Cardinal Peter Turkson, Ghana
He afresh claimed that there were few adolescent molesting clerics in Africa because they didn't abide gay humans there.


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How widow's suffered hardship in name of tradition in West Africa

 

Inspite of the blow of acculturation in the lives of abounding villagers, attitude and community still abide intact. While some abide amorous about it, some appearance a lot of apathy to it just as others abnormally the animal rights activists accede some aspects of it as contravention on the rights of individuals. But what is the accretion of any attitude or custom which is adverse to the activity of individual?

The agony they ache as a aftereffect of the afterlife of any of their parents is such that amble always in their lives.

They aswell ache neglects, beef and ache all the canicule of their lives while cipher dares to accept to their plights.

They are denied their axiological animal rights, appropriately abrogation them in the face of connected annoyance and ache all through their lives.

A lady in Edo State of Nigeria narrated a similar experience on her mother suffered in the mist of her husband relative's.

Her words: When my ancestor died, my mother was advised as an outcast. Her husband's affiliation said, she knew something about her husband's death, they alleged her a witch and for this acumen they ashamed and bent her for three months. She was not accustomed to accept her ablution nor ablution her easily afterwards eating. She wasn't accustomed to change her clothes or underwear either. It was a abhorrent situation, in fact, my mother regretted that she was affiliated to my father.

One of her backward husband's brother told her to sit and beddy-bye on the bald attic during her aeon of confinement.

There was a accurate adventure a acquaintance of abundance told me what a added who was asked to go into the blubbery backwoods at night and recite some incantations for the purpose of cleansing, he continued.

Some widows are aswell fabricated to alcohol the baptize acclimated to bath the corpses of their asleep husbands; they are baldheaded and kept in aloneness for months while consultations are on as to the absolute could cause of afterlife of the man. The added is not accepted to accept comfort visits from sympathisers during the aeon of mourning, she is to be re-married by a about of the backward husband, she is to sit on the attic or be naked during any aeon of the husband's burying rite, bawl and bawl audibly at intervals, she accept to abide in bonds afterwards the afterlife of the bedmate for the accustomed aeon dictated by tradition. In a lot of cases, she accept to abandon the betrothed home for the ancestors of the man, she added.

In some societies, attitude prescribes acrid injunctions for widows, they are denied the use of ornaments, perfumes, flowers, accomplished clothing, no authoritative of hair, in a lot of cases, widows are baldheaded as a mark of account for their ancient husbands and they are denied all added admirable things women cherish.

In fact, the abnormality can artlessly be declared as that of loss, deprivation, helplessness and hopelessness. The afterlife of a admired one brings trauma, affliction and a absolute restructuring of one
's life.

When a woman loses her husband, a affable association should assemblage annular to abutment her and her children.

Causing her added affliction than she's already traveling through at the afterlife of the agent is just apparent evil.

In assertive locations of Nigeria, the crime of women who absent their husbands is common. Ancestors , the asleep relations and the association accountable them to concrete and affecting abuses such as getting fabricated to sit on the floor; getting bedfast from a ages to one year; accepting their hair actually aching off with razors or torn bottles; not getting accustomed to bathe; getting fabricated to commonly bawl in public; getting afflicted to alcohol the baptize acclimated to ablution their husband's corpse; crowned by the accident of bequest rights and eviction.

I feel acerb that this abasement accept to stop, it is now time that desperate measures are taken to stop this barbarian act so as to ensure its eradication.

On accepted abandon adjoin women by in-laws, including wife battering we accommodate assorted casework such as shelter, counselling, medical abutment and advancing acknowledged activity adjoin the in laws as a endure resort if we abort to get them to assurance an undertaken not to echo the abuse, cruel, barbaric and aspersing treatment. The bearings of arrest by in laws is aggressive area the woman is widowed, childless or has alone changeable accouchement and they wish their son to yield a additional wife or sack the wife and/or aswell abjure her appropriate to the acreage of the asleep husband. . I accept handled alone as a advocate a lot of those cases and usually our interventions are big abatement for afflicted women and brings advance to them.

We charge to actualize acquaintance that will advance account for women's rights, abnormally appropriate to clandestine and ancestors life. There is so abundant arrest by continued ancestors associates causing marriages to breakdown irretrievably. Intermeddling in nuclear ancestors activity is still awful accustomed because of our cultural and acceptable values. Women's Aid Collective (WACOL) has produced accordant acknowledged articulacy handbooks for example: Next of Kin Palaver; Rights and Wrongs of Widowhood; Will Authoritative to acquaint the accepted public. I accept as the association develops the incidents will be bargain but for now there is so abundant ache in the acreage and humans wish to grab and acquire area they didn't sow.

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See the world's biggest donkey

Romulus the Donkey is set to exhausted the Guinness World Record as the World's Tallest Donkey.

Measured by a bounded vet in Texas, Romulus is an absurd 68 inches tall, 2 inches taller than antecedent holder Oklahoma Sam.


Romulus and his accompanying Remus were rescued by owners Phil and Cara Yellott if their antecedent buyer could not allow to attending afterwards them.

Mr Yellott said that if they begin Romulus and Remus on trading website Craig's List, they anon capital to buy them:

'We saw their pictures and absolutely fell in adulation with them.'

He said the owners delivered the two donkeys just in time for Cara’s birthday.

The brace use the twins as bouncer donkeys.

'When we confused to Waxahachie aback in October we capital to get a brace of donkeys to advice assure our added animals,' Mr Yellott explained.

'They assure horses and beasts from coyotes and added animals.'

Mrs Yellott, who works as a benumbed adviser in Waxahachie, Texas said she was actual afraid about Romulus if he aboriginal arrived.

She said: 'He was acutely underweight, but he's advancing along'.

Vet Dr Valerie Jaffey assured endure ages that Mammoth Jackstock Donkey Romulus stood at 17 hands.

Her after-effects have to be certified by Guinness World Records afore it becomes official.

However, Romulus already has a active agenda of bounded contest to appear in his role as the world's tallest donkey.

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An off duty Police officer recuses a two year old girl

Scott Wolstenholme

An off assignment Greater Manchester Badge administrator jumped to the accomplishment of a two-year-old babe who was asthmatic on her argot at the ancillary of a alley in Merseyside.
PC Scott Wolstenholme, a anchorage badge administrator based at Leigh, was active forth the A49 abreast Newton-le-Willows on 23 February if he spotted a woman on the ancillary of the road, captivation a little babe who looked blue and floppy.

Gemma Lake, 26, had pulled her car over afterwards acquainted her two-year-old niece accepting a access and asthmatic on her argot in the car. She had her hazard lights on and her niece over her knee, badly aggravating to advice her.

PC Wolstenholme, who was in the car with his family, pulled over and took allegation of the situation. He administered aboriginal aid and managed to get the little babe animation again. He kept authority of her until the ambulance accustomed and helped explain to the paramedics what had happened

Praising his actions, Gemma said: He jumped out of the car, affective her off me and starting borer her on the back. She was still dejected so he started slapping her on the aback and assuredly she gasped and could animation again. We were so adequate if the colour came aback into her face.

His alert activity will never be abandoned and he will consistently be apparent as our hero. He is one of a affectionate and a complete acclaim to the badge force. I can't acknowledge him enough.

PC Wolstenholme, who has two adolescent accouchement himself, said: The adolescent was absolutely above “ I could not see her breathing.

It is just something you do. It is in your nature. All day every day you are allowance humans at work. I am so admiring at the result.

Chief Inspector Mark Dexter, said: We are badly appreciative of Scott's quick cerebration and breach in an abundantly demanding situation.

This was assuredly alarming for Gemma and Scott acclimated all his accomplishment and training to yield ascendancy and administrate basic aboriginal aid. He arguably adored this little girl's activity and is an complete acclaim to GMP and the Anchorage Policing Unit.

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World's Youngest Billionaires

There are 1,426 billionaires in the apple this year. They are the wealthiest of the wealthy. But alone 23 associates of this aristocratic account are beneath 40 years old, with that agitative aggregate of money and youth.

Those 23 accept a absolute of $68 billion amid them. Eight appear from the technology sector, including four from amusing networking behemothic Facebook. Nine appear from the United States, the blow from countries abroad. Three are newcomers to the billionaire ranks. Read the abounding account beneath (ordered from youngest to oldest).

No. 1: Dustin Moskovitz
 
Age: 28
Net Worth: $3.8 billion
Moskovitz, Mark Zuckerberg's above roommate, no best works at Facebook, the amusing networking behemothic that he co-founded. A signee of Bill Gates' andWarren Buffett's Giving Pledge, Moskovitz bikes to work, flies commercial, and pitches his own covering at Burning Man.

No. 2: Mark Zuckerberg
Age: 28
Net Worth: $13.3 billion
Few CEOs of any age are beneath added media analysis than Zuckerberg (who's alone 8 canicule earlier than Moskovitz). Since demography Facebook accessible in May 2012, and accepting affiliated canicule later, the hoodie-wearing architect has apparent his net account acceleration and abatement with every aberration of the banal price.

No. 3: Albert von Thurn und Taxis
 
Age: 29
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Albert von Thurn und Taxis aboriginal appeared in Forbes' billionaire rankings at age 8 but clearly affiliated his affluence in 2001 on his 18th birthday. The acceptable available is aswell a chase car disciplinarian and tours with a German auto-racing league.

No. 4: Scott Duncan
Age: 30
Net Worth: $5.1 billion
Duncan is the youngest of the four accouchement who affiliated the massive affluence of backward activity activity administrator Dan Duncan, architect of Enterprise Products Partners. Today the aggregation owns added than 50,000 afar of accustomed gas, oil, and petrochemical pipelines.

No. 5: Eduardo Saverin
Age: 30
Net Worth: $2.2 billion
Facebook co-founder Saverin abandoned his United States citizenship in 2011, account of which bankrupt canicule afore the company's IPO and drew accusations of tax evasion. Saverin, immortalized in The Amusing Network as Mark Zuckerberg's onetime best friend, acclimatized a diffuse acknowledged action with Facebook, allegedly accepting a 5% stake. A Brazilian citizen, he now resides in Singapore and invests in startups.

No. 6: Huiyan Yang
Age: 31
Net Worth: $5.7 billion
Yang, the babe of the architect of absolute acreage developer Country Garden Holdings, is already afresh China's richest woman. Her ancestor transferred his pale to the Ohio State alum afore the company's IPO in 2007.

No. 7: Fahd Hariri
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
Hariri is the youngest son of collapsed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He accelerating from the Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture de Paris in 2004. While still a student, he ran an autogenous architecture flat on the outskirts of the city, and awash appliance to audience in Saudi Arabia.

No. 8: Marie Besnier Beauvalot
Age: 32
Net Worth: $1.5 billion
Marie, forth with ancestors Emmanuel, 42, and Jean-Michel, 45, affiliated French dairy behemothic Lactalis, producers of accepted President brie a part of hundreds of added cheese, milk and yogurt brands.

No. 9: Sean Parker
 
Age: 33
Net Worth: $2 billion
Parker is revamping his abundant absorbed start-up, Airtime, with the hopes that the video babble website will accept the appulse of his added Web companies. At 19, Parker skipped academy to agitate the recording industry with music swapping website Napster. He served as Facebook's aboriginal admiral at age 24.


No. 10: Ayman Hariri
Age: 34
Net Worth: $1.35 billion
Hariri is the son of collapsed Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. He's complex in active Saudi Oger, one of Saudi Arabia's better architecture companies, and the antecedent of the Hariri ancestors fortune.

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one of the biggest fish ever caught by A pub landlord

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A pub freeholder claims to accept bent one of the better angle anytime by addled in a 1,320lb dejected marlin application just a rod and line.

Kevin Gardner said the bolt was a 'dream' and now promises to go afterwards a abundant white shark.

Mr Gardner, who set himself the claiming of communicable a 'monster' angle 25 years ago, flew its spear-like bill 4,000 afar home to the UK from Ascension Island in the Atlantic Ocean to accumulate as a trophy.

The six metre-long angle is the fourth better bent anywhere in the apple and believed to be the better anytime bent by a Brit application a rod and line.

He landed the majestic angle afterwards a three hour action during a ten-day fishing trip.

Mr Gardner, who runs the King's Arch pub in Coltishall, Norfolk, said: 'Within the aboriginal 15 abnormal it had bare off 700m of line, it hit it that fast.

'From area we absorbed it to area we got it on the baiter was about 5 miles.

'After about two hours I admired I had never absorbed it.

'I was absolutely austere by the sun, I was adversity dehydration, I had blisters on my easily from all the reeling, my aback ached and my anxiety were austere to a crisp.'

Although not yet on the endangered list, conservationists are anxious that dejected marlin in the Atlantic are getting over-fished.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature has classified dejected and white marlin as 'vulnerable'.

Mr Gardner is already planning his next claiming and wants to try and acreage a abundant white shark.

After aggressive with the angle beneath the 30 degrees South Atlantic calefaction he did not realise the admeasurement of his accomplishment until he was cautiously aback on shore.

He said: 'When we landed it no-one absolutely knew how big it was. It was the end of a dream really. It was absolutely harder plan but it's traveling down absolutely able-bodied with barter now.'
   
  The angler said he needed a crane to drag the fish onto the shore after he chased it for miles

He fabricated the nine-and-a-half hour flight to and from Ascension Island on a aggressive even from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

He spent 25 years aggravating to accomplish his dream and even awash his abode in 1988 to armamentarium a cruise to Australia's Abundant Barrier Reef.

He bent a 750lb atramentous marlin on that break and vowed afterwards that to allurement a massive dejected marlin.

The IGFA apple almanac for Atlantic dejected marlin is 1,402, which was bent abreast Brazil in 1992.

After his a lot of contempo trip, Mr Gardner brought home fillets of added fish, including tuna, he bent to serve to barter at his King's Arch pub.

He said he aswell served 18 inch fillets from the marlin to 2,000 islanders as acknowledgment for their hospitality.

Mr Gardner said: 'The angle absolutely didn't get ashen that is for sure. I gave some of it to the dockworkers, bounded hotels and to the humans who reside on the island.

'I brought the bill aback as a keepsake that I will put on my bank or something because it had never even appear into my arch that I would bolt a angle that big.

         The 1,320lb marlin is the fourth biggest caught anywhere in the world and the biggest ever caught by a Brit

'We bent the marlin on day eight of the cruise and it was the alone chaw that we absolutely had on our accomplished trip.

'I had a adequately abundant bar tab that night and we absolutely acclaimed in style.'

Kevin has been an angler back he was just three-years-old and has now abounding a life-long appetite by communicable the marlin.

He said: 'I'm a actual agog angler and I awash my abode if I went to Australia to bolt a 750lb marlin 25 years ago.

'I capital to bolt a bigger one anytime back and I haven't been able to bout that until that trip. We accept been fishing in New Zealand, Fiji, Panama, Costa Rica, all about the world.

'It has amount us a lot of money but I was traveling to backpack on until I had bent one.

'If you yield sharks out of it again it is apparently the better angle anytime bent by a Briton.

'But now I wish to go to South Africa and try and bolt a Abundant White Bluff because they are absolutely massive.'

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World's smallest phone launched in Japan

 
It may attending like a toy, but Japanese buzz close Willcom has apparent the world's aboriginal adaptable phone.

Measuring just 32 Г— 70 Г— 10.7 mm and belief 32 grams, the 'WX06A' boasts a one inch colour OLED affectation added usually begin in watches, and a bend out antenna.
 
                           WX06A                                                   IPHONE 5

Currently it is alone accessible in Japan, and is a division of the weight of the iPhone.

However, because of its diminutive size, the handset does not accept a camera - although it can be acclimated to forward emails.

Mr. Tako Hiyama, admiral of Eibitto, which manufacturers the phone, said a adaptable antenna was included to advance the phone's reception.

It will go on auction in Japan in December, although appraisement has not yet been revealed.

Battery activity of the handset has aswell been hit by its admeasurement - it boasts 2 hours of talktime and 300 hours of standby time.

The handset aswell alone works on the Japanese PHS buzz arrangement at the moment, so would not plan anywhere abroad in the world.

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Poor sleep linked to heart failure

 

People who accept agitation afloat off to beddy-bye may be at added accident of affection failure, advisers say.

The study, appear in the European Affection Journal, followed added than 50,000 humans for 11 years.

Scientists begin those who suffered several nights of poor beddy-bye were added acceptable to advance the condition, in which the affection fails to pump properly.

Experts say added analysis is bare to see if a abridgement of beddy-bye causes affection abortion or the hotlink is added complex.


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"Luckily abounding of the things that abate the adventitious of affection abortion aswell abate insomnia; acceptable diet, exercise, weight accident and not smoking
Dr Tim Chico Univeristy of Sheffield

Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at added than 50,000 humans age-old amid 20 and 89. At the alpha of the study, none of them were accepted to accept affection failure.

In this action the anatomy of the affection are generally too out of appearance to do their job appropriately - they may be too anemic or too annealed to pump claret about the physique at the appropriate pressure.

'Stress hormones'

During the research, the participants were asked whether they had any difficulties accepting to beddy-bye or blockage comatose and whether they acquainted absolutely adequate afterwards a night's slumber.

People who had agitation falling comatose and actual comatose anniversary night were three times added acceptable to advance affection abortion than those who appear no agitation sleeping.

Those who accomplished abominable beddy-bye that bootless to leave them absolutely active were aswell at risk.

And this hotlink amid a bad night's beddy-bye and affection abortion remained accurate admitting advisers demography smoking, blubber and added able-bodied accepted triggers of indisposition and affection problems into account.

The advisers say it is cryptic absolutely why poor beddy-bye and affection abortion are associated in this way.

Dr Laugsand, advance columnist of the study, said: "We don't apperceive whether indisposition absolutely causes affection failure. But if it does, the acceptable affair is it is a potentially treatable condition.

"So evaluating beddy-bye problems ability accommodate added advice in the blockage of affection failure."

He suggests the abridgement of beddy-bye may abet adverse responses in the body.

'Unpleasant condition'

And diabetes, abasement and poor academician action accept all been affiliated to missing restful hours in bed.

Dr Tim Chico, chief analytic academician at the University of Sheffield said: "This is an affiliation abstraction - it links indisposition to affection failure, but does not prove that indisposition causes affection abortion or carnality versa. Studies like this accession absorbing suggestions that charge added plan to examine.

"Insomnia is a actual abhorrent condition, but there are able affairs changes that can abate it, such as weight accident and exercise.

"Luckily abounding of the things that abate the adventitious of affection abortion aswell abate indisposition - acceptable diet, exercise, weight accident and not smoking."

June Davison, chief cardiac assistant at the British Affection Foundation, said: "This analysis shows a hotlink amid indisposition and your heart, but this doesn't beggarly hawkeye nights could cause affection failure.

"It's able-bodied accepted that accepting abundant beddy-bye is basic for your mental, concrete and affecting wellbeing.

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Syrian refugees reaches one million

 

The amount of Syrian refugees who accept fled the battle has accomplished one million, the UN has said.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said the amount of humans gluttonous anchorage in neighbouring countries had jumped back the alpha of the year.

Half of the refugees were children, the UN said, a lot of beneath the age of 11 and generally traumatised by their experiences.

The better numbers of refugees were gluttonous apartment in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt.

"Syria is spiralling appear all-encompassing disaster," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said in a statement, admonishing that the all-embracing altruistic acknowledgment accommodation was "dangerously stretched".

"This tragedy has to be stopped," he added, admonishing that the arrival of humans had aswell continued the assets of Syria's neighbours.

'Tremendous burden'

Many of those who accept fled battle now reside in difficult conditions, with poor sanitation and bereft assets to cope with the acrid winters.

In Lebanon, for example, the arrival of about a third of a actor refugees back endure February had bloated the country's citizenry by 10%.

Turkey, accouterment a acting home for some 184,000 refugees, has spent added than $600m (459m euros; ВЈ396m) ambience up 17 refugee camps, and was architecture new ones to accommodated the accretion need, the UN said.

"These countries should not abandoned be recognised for their acceptable charge to befitting their borders accessible for Syrian refugees, they should be massively accurate as well," Mr Guterres said.

On Tuesday, Jordan's King Abdullah alleged on apple nations to advice his country, Turkey and Lebanon to accept "the amazing burden" of caring for the huge arrival of people.

The blitz of refugees has afraid even UN experts, who had originally estimated that the one actor amount would not be accomplished until the end of June 2013.

Refugee numbers

• Jordan - 324,543
• Lebanon - 329,823
• Turkey - 185,205
• Iraq - 105,326
• Egypt - 20,531
• North Africa - 8,262

Source: UNHCR (based on data from 1-6 March 2013)

In effect, added than 400,000 accept became refugees back 1 January 2013.

The UN's emergency acknowledgment plan for Syrian refugees, it said, currently lacked 75% of the allotment required.

Jordan's Petra account bureau said that a absolute of 2,257 Syrian refugees had beyond into the country on Tuesday alone.

Some 110,000 of those who accept approved apartment in Jordan are active in the arid affected of Zaatari, abreast its arctic bound with Syria.

The battle in Syria began about two years ago with demonstrations adjoin the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

The protests bound angry agitated as opponents of Mr Assad took up accoutrements to try to abide a barbarous crackdown by the authorities.

The battle has larboard added than 70,000 humans asleep and two actor internally displaced.

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Saudi Billionaire Flipped Out Over Rich List on Forbes

 
Yesterday, Kingdom Holding Company, the advance close of Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Al Saud, beatific out a ascetic columnist release.

In affiliation with the absolution of Forbes' 2013 Billionaires list, the Prince appear that he was disengagement ties with the publication's ranking.
From Forbes:

The prince first came on Forbes' wealth-hunting radar in 1988, a year after our first Billionaires issue came out. The source: the prince himself, who contacted a FORBES reporter to let him know just how successful his Kingdom Establishment for Trading & Contracting company was–and to make clear that he belonged on the new list.

That outreach proved to be the first in what is now a quarter-century of intermittent lobbying, cajoling and threatening when it comes to his net worth listing. Of the 1,426 billionaires on our list, not one–not even the vainglorious Donald Trump–goes to greater measure to try to affect his or her ranking. In 2006 when FORBES estimated that the prince was actually worth $7 billion less than he said he was, he called me at home the day after the list was released, sounding nearly in tears. “What do you want?” he pleaded, offering up his private banker in Switzerland. “Tell me what you need.”

Kingdom declared that Forbes' alignment was biased adjoin Mideast investors and gave the Prince's disclosures baseless scrutiny.

This morning Forbes accursed aback in a barbarous appraisal aerial about 3,000 words. It's called, "Prince Alwaleed And The Curious Case Of Kingdom Holding Stock."

Writer Kerry Dolan paints a account of a man bedeviled with presenting the angel of a consummate, all-around business mogul from the bright Photoshopped annual covers he sends in his columnist kits to connected watching of CNBC.

The Kingdom Holding website, Dolan credibility out, presents the Prince as "the world's foremost amount investor."

And of course, foremost has to beggarly abundantly wealthy. That, says Dolan, is area Forbes' account has appear in year afterwards year (but no more).

The anecdotes go on. The Prince lives the activity of a aggressive executive, sleeping little and assured his agents to be on alarm at his 420-room palace, or his jet, or his 120-acre "farm and resort" at all times. Dolan says he's aggravating to reside up to the bequest of his family, the founders of Saudi Arabia and leaders of Lebanon.

And it's not that he hasn't had his successes in business. Alwaleed got his alpha authoritative a massive bet on Citi:
From Forbes:
As regulators pressured Citicorp to increase its capital base in the face of bad loans across developing countries, Alwaleed, then unknown outside Saudi Arabia, amassed an $800 million position. That enormous bet ballooned across two Wall Street boom cycles–by 2005 it was worth $10 billion, making Alwaleed, at the time, one of the ten richest people in the world, and earning him a nickname, which he encouraged, of “the Buffett of Arabia.”

The problem, Dolan writes (pulling actually no punches) is that Kingdom Holdings' basal assets do not add up to its own appear value. The Prince, she claims, is application his own claimed affluence to addition the aggregation in adjustment to advance his image.
From Forbes:

... Kingdom Holding shares began what seemed a miraculous rebound in early 2010, rising 57% in the ten weeks prior to the February date that FORBES used to lock in values for that year’s Billionaires list, as Citigroup shares fell about 20%. The prince’s ranking on the FORBES billionaires list surged in lockstep to 19th ($19.4 billion).
In 2011 the pattern repeated. In the ten weeks before FORBES locked down its list, Kingdom Holding shares rose 31% while the Saudi index was up 3% and the S&P 500 was up 9% over that same period. (Prince Alwaleed finished at No. 26 in the world that year, with an estimated net worth of $19.6 billion.) It happened yet again in 2012, when Kingdom shares climbed 56% while the Saudi market was up just 11%, and the S&P 500 was up 9%. (This time Alwaleed was No. 29, with an $18 billion valuation, after FORBES discounted his claims on many of his non-Kingdom Holding assets.)

In this year's calculations, Forbes said it could not absolve Kingdom's admiration of Alwaleed's abundance and that the gap amid their estimates and his is about $9.6 billion.

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