Britney Houston Dead at the age 48

Whitney Houston, the iconic American singer whose battles with drugs, alcohol and ex-husband Bobby Brown marred her star power, has died. She was 48.
Houston's publicist confirmed the singer's death to ABC News. Her cause and location of death are not yet known. Six police cars were spotted in front of the Beverly Hilton hotel today, where Houston is believed to have been staying.
Houston was last seen publicly on Thursday, when she appeared disheveled and disoriented in front of a Hollywood nightclub. According to the Hollywood Reporter, she got into an altercation with "X Factor" finalist Stacy Francis on Thursday at an event where she was said to be acting "belligerent."
Houston returned to rehab in May of last year seeking treatment for drug and alcohol dependence. "Whitney voluntarily entered the program to support her long-standing recovery process," her publicist said at the time.
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Amanda Knox To Be Freed

Jury in Italy has partially overturned the conviction of Amanda Knox.
The jury as overturned the murder conviction but upheld the conviction on the defamation charges after she accused club owner Patrick Lumumba of killing British college student Meredith Kercher in 2007 in Perugia
The jury has also overturned the murder conviction of Raffaelle Sollecito. Both will be free to leave.
Her American passport expired while she was in jail, it is reported that matter is being sorted out.

130 dead from Monsoon in Pakistan, Five Million Affected

Monsoon rains in Pakistan have affected up to 5 million people and killed 132 others in a month, and the country is bracing for more wild weather.
Southern Sindh, a flood-prone province where authorities said more heavy rain was expected in the coming days, was the hardest-hit area, with crops and many houses destroyed.
"The floods triggered by heavy rains have killed 132 people and affected 4 to 5 million people," Zafar Qadir, the country head of the National Disaster Management Authority, told a press conference in Islamabad.

APP adds: As heavy rain lashed several parts of the Sindh province, the number of people affected is rising. The situation has worsened in Badin while, according to reports, in Khairpur district, 15 more villages have been inundated. After overnight rain, the situation once again deteriorated in Badin and five villages were inundated.Meanwhile, 6,000 villages have been inundated in the Khairpur district and according to DCO Abbas Baloch, over one million acres of farmland has been destroyed, reported a private news channel. The Army has been called out to Faiz Ganj while the communication network of several areas has been disrupted. Over 50 villages have been inundated in Thatta.

Infant Killing On Rise In Pakistan

Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) -- At a morgue in Pakistan's largest city, five linen pouches -- each the size of a loaf of bread -- line the shelf of a walk-in freezer.
Wrapped inside each small sack is the corpse of an infant.The babies are victims of what one relief agency calls Pakistan's worst unfolding tragedy -- the killing and dumping of newborns."Sometimes they hang them and sometimes they kill by the knife, and sometimes we find bodies which have been burned," said Anwar Kazmi, a manager at Edhi Foundation, Pakistan's largest privately run social service and relief agency.Records at Edhi Foundation show more than 1,200 newborns were killed and dumped in Pakistan last year, an increase of about 200 from the previous year.Families view many of these children as illegitimate in a culture that condemns those born outside of marriage.Statistics show roughly nine out of 10 are baby girls, which families may consider too costly to keep in a country where women frequently are not allowed to work.The babies are usually just days old. Their corpses are often dumped in Karachi's sprawling garbage dumps, where they're sometimes mutilated by street animals, Kazmi said. He estimates hundreds of baby corpses are never found.The head of Edhi Foundation, 83-year-old Abdul Sattar Edhi, said he blames Pakistan's crippling poverty and a government that, for decades, has failed to educate the masses, generate jobs and provide citizens with the most basic needs."The distribution of resources by the government is wrong," Edhi said. "Many people don't pay taxes; there's no charity, and what you get from the government is all based on your wealth."The Pakistani government has said it's improving education, but 55 million Pakistanis remain illiterate, according to the United Nations. And the government is billions of dollars in debt while entangled in a costly fight against the Taliban and other Islamic militant groups.The killing of newborns gets little attention in Pakistan, and rarely are they investigated by a police force that's often poorly trained, lacks resources and stays focused on what's perceived to be more important crimes.In many parts of the world, female infanticide is still practiced through direct violence but also by intentional neglect, according to the World Health Organization.In some Asian countries, infanticide of girls is enough to skew the population figures in favor of males. The United Nations found, for example, that there are 130 boys to 100 girls in parts of Asia, especially in countries with extreme poverty and overpopulation such as China and India."Girls are seen as a burden, seen as a property which belongs to somebody else so people see that as a waste of money and the wasting of an education of a girl," said Bhagyashri Dengle, executive director of Plan India, a nonprofit for children. "Then when the girl gets married, the families have a big heavy dowry. So that is one of the reasons here."Dengle said awareness and education at the grass-roots level are ways to combat this practice."I think we really need to reach out to young people (to) create an awareness, to change attitudes and dispel the notion that having a boy is better than a girl," she said. "We launched this program 'Let Girls Be Born' -- that campaign is reaching out to masses using televisions, through newspapers and through (the) Internet. What we are trying to do is positive messaging on the girls. That girls aren't a sect -- they are as good as boys."In Pakistan, until things improve, the Edhi Foundation said it will keep more than 300 cradles in front of their offices throughout Pakistan, where families can drop off unwanted newborns. The foundation cares for them and puts them up for adoption, no questions asked."It's for awareness -- that please don't kill your innocent babies," Kazmi said.

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Seventy Five Bodies Recovered From Air France Wrackage

Seventy-five additional bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of an Air France plane that crashed off the coast of Brazil two years ago, more than doubling the number of remains that have been found, the vice-president of the French victims' association told CNN Tuesday.