Spiegel Online reports here: Elisbeth Fritzl and her children, forced to live in a windowless basement for 24 years, vegetated away like the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust. For them, the Cold War speculation over what it might be like for people who could never go outside again and return to the earth’s surface was a reality.
AP reports here at CNN News: NEW YORK - A New York food company is recalling more than 286,000 pounds of meat and poultry because it might be contaminated with the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. The voluntary recall includes several different brands of fresh and frozen products made by Gourmet Boutique, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Saturday.
The proposal has been criticised as impractical and regressive, BBC News reports here: Women’s groups in Malaysia have reacted angrily to proposed government restrictions on women travelling abroad on their own.
CNN News reports here: “World No. 3 Maria Sharapova has blasted the ruling body of women’s tennis over its demands for top players to participate in four-hour photo shoot ahead of this month’s Italian Open in Rome.” Whats your take on this Story? My take is that Maria Sharapova is right on this one!