Jul 16, 2010
Whale sighted in Derwent, Tasmania
The visiting whale provides a memorable sight for passengers on the ferry Emmalisa. Picture: LEIGH WINBURN. INSET: A crew member from the MV Bob Barker snapped this picture of a whale breaching.A WHALE has been spotted swimming in the River Derwent this morning, surfacing off Macquarie Wharf.
Michael Beasley, from the Sea Shepherd vessel MV Bob Barker, said the crew saw at least two whales performing shallow breaches approximately 150m from the wharf about 11am yesterday.
At least one of the whales was out again this morning.
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North Korean health system in crisis
By staff writers/ Mercury
July 16, 2010 8:46am
SURGERY without anaesthetics and unsterilised needles illustrate the desperate state of North Korea's healthcare system.
Food shortages have persisted since the 1990s famine and some North Koreans survive partly on grass, tree roots and bark, the rights group says.
The communist state says healthcare is free for all, but Amnesty says many witnesses have told it they have been paying for all services since the 1990s.
Doctors are usually paid in cigarettes, alcohol or food for consultations and take cash for tests or surgery.
"If you don't have money, you die," the report quotes a 20-year-old woman refugee as saying.
The report, citing World Health Organisation figures, says the North spends less on healthcare than any other country - less than $US1 per person per year. Amnesty says its report is based on interviews with more than 40 North Koreans now living overseas and with health professionals in the country.
It paints a grim portrait of hospitals lacking anaesthetics and medicines, with unsterilised needles and bloodstained sheets.
A 24-year-old defector from northeastern Hamkyong Province told Amnesty that a doctor amputated his left leg from the calf down without administering anesthesia after his left ankle was crushed by a train when he fell from one of the carriages.
"Five medical assistants held my arms and legs down to keep me from moving. I was in so much pain that I screamed and fainted from pain," said the man, identified only by his family name, Hwang. "I woke up one week later in a hospital bed."
Doctors also often work without pay and have little or no medicine to dispense, and must reuse the scant medical supplies at their disposal, the report says.
The report quotes a 56-year-old woman from the northeastern city of Musan who had her appendix removed in 2001 without anaesthesia. "I was screaming so much from the pain, I thought I was going to die. They had tied my hands and legs to prevent me from moving," she said.
Amnesty says many people bypass doctors and go to the markets to buy medicine.
Catherine Baber, Amnesty's deputy Asia-Pacific director, said the North failed to provide for the most basic health and survival needs of its people - "especially worrying as North Korea fights a tuberculosis epidemic".
Quoting WHO figures, the report estimates that 5 per cent of the population of 24 million are infected with tuberculosis. Pyongyang has begun refusing US food aid despite a 2008 UN survey showing 9 million people do not get enough to eat.
July 16, 2010 8:46am
SURGERY without anaesthetics and unsterilised needles illustrate the desperate state of North Korea's healthcare system.
Food shortages have persisted since the 1990s famine and some North Koreans survive partly on grass, tree roots and bark, the rights group says.
The communist state says healthcare is free for all, but Amnesty says many witnesses have told it they have been paying for all services since the 1990s.
Doctors are usually paid in cigarettes, alcohol or food for consultations and take cash for tests or surgery.
"If you don't have money, you die," the report quotes a 20-year-old woman refugee as saying.
The report, citing World Health Organisation figures, says the North spends less on healthcare than any other country - less than $US1 per person per year. Amnesty says its report is based on interviews with more than 40 North Koreans now living overseas and with health professionals in the country.
It paints a grim portrait of hospitals lacking anaesthetics and medicines, with unsterilised needles and bloodstained sheets.
A 24-year-old defector from northeastern Hamkyong Province told Amnesty that a doctor amputated his left leg from the calf down without administering anesthesia after his left ankle was crushed by a train when he fell from one of the carriages.
"Five medical assistants held my arms and legs down to keep me from moving. I was in so much pain that I screamed and fainted from pain," said the man, identified only by his family name, Hwang. "I woke up one week later in a hospital bed."
Doctors also often work without pay and have little or no medicine to dispense, and must reuse the scant medical supplies at their disposal, the report says.
The report quotes a 56-year-old woman from the northeastern city of Musan who had her appendix removed in 2001 without anaesthesia. "I was screaming so much from the pain, I thought I was going to die. They had tied my hands and legs to prevent me from moving," she said.
Amnesty says many people bypass doctors and go to the markets to buy medicine.
Catherine Baber, Amnesty's deputy Asia-Pacific director, said the North failed to provide for the most basic health and survival needs of its people - "especially worrying as North Korea fights a tuberculosis epidemic".
Quoting WHO figures, the report estimates that 5 per cent of the population of 24 million are infected with tuberculosis. Pyongyang has begun refusing US food aid despite a 2008 UN survey showing 9 million people do not get enough to eat.
Jul 15, 2010
New stars and welcome returns for London Fashion Week - Telegraph
By Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director
Looks from Burberry and Acne AW10 collections (left and right); British designer Giles Deacon, who will be returning to London Fashion Week; and designer Hussein Chalayan
The Swedish design powerhouse, Acne, and the NewGen hot talents, Holly Fulton, David Koma and Michael Van Der Ham, will all make their catwalk debuts at London Fashion Week in September.
The Swedish design powerhouse, Acne, and the NewGen hot talents, Holly Fulton, David Koma and Michael Van Der Ham, will all make their catwalk debuts at London Fashion Week in September.
Iranian scientist was 'paid $5 million by CIA' for nuclear secrets - Telegraph
Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
Shahram Amiri arrives at Imam Khomini Airport with his wife and son Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Shahram Amiri, who arrived home in Iran today, gave unspecified intelligence in return for the money, the officials claimed.
Shahram Amiri, who arrived home in Iran today, gave unspecified intelligence in return for the money, the officials claimed.
Mr Amiri, who was greeted by his wife, seven-year-old son and government ministers on his return to Tehran airport, denied he knew any secrets or even that he was a nuclear scientist at all.
New Zealand woman sounds Welsh after suffering 'foreign accent syndrome' - Telegraph
Bronwyn Fox, 59, of Invercargill, in the southernmost region of the South Island, told the Telegraph on Tuesday that she has never been to Britain and does not have any British-born relatives.
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