Muslims forced to eat pork before being shot: How far will Umno go?

It is sad to see that Utusan has taken the decision to highlight the atrocities by the Communists in this country. Although, it is very noble of them to relive history for the benefit of Malaysians, most people are totally aghast at the way Utusan chooses to do it.

Caricatures published in the Umno-owned newspaper of Muslims being forced to eat pork, before being shot is simply not very tactful. The Chinese and Indians and the rest of the non-Muslims in this country consume pork. Most Indians shun beef. Most Buddhists in this country and even pious Indians are vegetarians and do not consume meat of any kind.

Anwar: BN bent on jailing me before elections

Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said the Barisan Nasional government was bent on ensuring he would not contest the next general election by convicting him on fabricated charges of sodomy.

“They would convict me before the elections, to deny me participating in the elections,” he said in an interview with Phillipine's The Philippine Star.

Playing at murder: 'Breakfast bet' killer, 16, acts out strangling in chilling Facebook photo before battering ex-girlfriend to death

Schoolboy murderer Josh Davies acts out the strangling of a girl in a breaktime prank that was photographed and posted on his Facebook page. 

The chilling picture is one of dozens of the 16-year-old still online today after the ‘breakfast bet killer’ was convicted of murdering ex-girlfriend Rebecca Aylward.

Another photo on his site shows the blond assassin smiling as he poses with the best friend he later accused in court of battering the 15-year-old to death with a rock.

Alice Pyne, 15, Writes ‘Bucket List’ of Things She Wants to Do – Before She Dies of Cancer

An inspirational teenage girl has created a ‘bucket list’ after being told that she has terminal cancer.

15-year-old cancer sufferer Alice Pyne with her pet Labrador Mabel

Alice Pyne, 15, suffers from Hodgkin’s Lymphoma and has created a website to update followers about her progress. The teenager, who lives with younger sister Milly and parents Vicky and Simon, has a list of wishes which range from meeting Take That to staying in a caravan.

Her family is working towards helping her achieve all her goals before cancer claims her life.

The courageous youngster speaks frankly about her illness on her blog www.alicepyne.blogspot.com and has over 1,000 followers, including This Morning presenter Philip Schofield.

ALICE’S TO DO LIST SO FAR

To swim with sharks

To make everyone sign up to be a bone marrow donor

To go to Kenya (I can’t travel there now but I wanted to)

To enter Mabel in a regional Labrador show

To have a photo shoot with Milly, Clarissa, Sammie and Megs

To have a private cinema party for me and my BFFs

To design an Emma Bridgewater Mug to sell for charity

To stay in a caravan

To have a purple Apple iPad but I’m not really allowed to put that on here and mum is trying to borrow one

To be a dolphin trainer (I can’t do this one either now)

To meet Take That

To go to Cadbury World and eat loads of chocolate

To have a nice picture taken with Mabel

To stay in the chocolate room at Alton Towers

To have my hair done if they can do anything with it

To have a back massage

To go whale watching

Alice was diagnosed with cancer just over three years ago and has undergone extensive chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

She also received a stem cell transplant where her own treated cells were used, but treatment was not effective.

Last year more than 1,000 people signed up to see if they could donate bone marrow to Alice, along with help from the Anthony Nolan Trust, but in October a scan showed there were no more curative treatment options.

Brave Alice – who lists her occupation as a ‘full-time cancer fighter’ says on her blog: ‘I’m 15 and I have terminal cancer. I’ve created a bucket list because there are so many things I still want to do in my life … some are possible, some will remain a dream.

‘My blog is to document this precious time with my family and friends, doing the things I want to do. You only have one life … live it!’

‘It’s a bit funny me doing a blog because mum has always done these sort of things and I’ve never really being interested before.

‘Most of you know that my scan at Alder Hey wasn’t very good and that the cancer is now spreading through my body.

‘It’s a pain because there’s so much stuff that I still want to do.

‘I guess that my particular cancer is made of strong stuff (which is hard because I know I gave it my all and I’m strong and determined too).

‘Anyway, mum always tells me that life is what we make of it and so I’m going to make the best of what I have and because there were so many things I still wanted to do, mum suggested that I turn my ideas into a bucket list.

I’ve not quite finished it yet, as I keep remembering other bits, so I might add things to it as I go along.

‘I’m not expecting to do everything on it. Some of the things are just not going to happen because I can’t even leave the country now (I’m too much of a risk), but they’re on there, because they were on my ‘to do’ list at some point.

‘So, I thought it would be fun to have my list online and to tick things off and do a little update on everything I do.

‘If anyone has suggestions, please let mum or dad know because they don’t know how to do all of it yet. They’re working on it!

One of Alice’s main goals is to encourage people to sign up to the bone marrow register.

On her blog she dispels the myth that it hurts to have the procedure done.

She said: ‘I read on someone’s post that it is really painful.  Well, mostly bone marrow is taken as cells via a needle and I have had it done.

‘I was 13 when I had my first transplant and because they used my own cells, I had to have them taken out (they call it harvested) and then stored and put back in some months later after more chemo.

‘I’m not just saying this, but it really didn’t hurt at all.  I had a tiny bruise from the needles and that was about it. I was a bit tired too but I’m always tired so that may not have been the cells.’

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Marilyn Monroe’s Final Photos Set For Auction, Topless Pictures Taken 6 Weeks Before Her Death

A unique print showing nine photos of a topless Marilyn Monroe from her final ever shoot, just six weeks before she died, has emerged for sale. Photographer Bert Stern’s three-day session with the famous blonde was a return to form for the glamor queen after a few difficult years.

She is pictured playing with a see-through scarf and pouts and poses like the model professional that she was. She clearly had some artistic control because after the shoot she crossed out one of the photos on the contact sheet because she didn’t like it.

Stern published the photographs – titled “The Last Sitting” – nearly 20 years after her death.

He later blew these images up for an exhibition because they beautifully summed up the movie star.

Monroe died aged 36 in 1962 and the photos from this session have helped define the image of her retained in the public conscience.

They are expected to sell for $25,000 when they go under the hammer at the Swann Gallery in New York on March 24.

Daile Kaplan, from the auction house, said: ‘The photos were taken over a three day session just six weeks before she died. It was her final ever shoot.

‘Stern took 2,500 photos in all and these are especially nice because she is playing with a scarf.

‘It was nearly two decades after her death that he published them and this contact sheet was blown up for an exhibition.

‘It is unique and includes a red cross over one of the pictures that Marilyn did herself because she didn’t like it – it is not as erotic as the rest.

‘The photos discreetly reveal her nudity and showed how Stern engaged her as an actress, model and woman.

‘Marilyn had had problems prior to this, she’d gone through two divorces and apparently was hospitalized the year before.

‘This was a return to form and she looks healthy and the nudity is subtle – it is pre-sexual revolution.

‘There is a delicacy about the images and Marilyn Monroe is often referred to as vulnerable.

‘The scarf is similar because it is beautiful but also has a vulnerable quality. And the cross she put on one of the photos has a quasi-religious quality.

‘She remains a cult figure and young collectors always come back to Marilyn Monroe.’

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