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Police in Rio de Janeiro have arrested two drug dealers dressed as Santa.

According to UOL Tabloide, the two men were dressed up as Santa near a shanty town and were apparently giving away Christmas gifts.

But the police found that the presents had small marijuana bags inside them and the two men were actually selling drugs. The two were arrested.

A police spokesperson said: "It was a smart idea we had seen them three times before we decided to investigate them, it was hard to believe that even Santa was a drug dealer!"

John F. Kerry's tour of duty in Vietnam, distinguished by Silver and Bronze stars and the close-range killing of an enemy fighter, is highlighted in his campaign ads and cheered on the trail. Even the campaign of President Bush, who did not see combat, hasn't tried to make an issue of his opponent's service record.



But as the presidential campaign heats up, some Vietnam veterans are using the Internet and talk radio to question the Democratic candidate's military record. They complain that Kerry's three Purple Hearts were for minor wounds and that he left Vietnam more than six months ahead of schedule under regulations permitting thrice-wounded soldiers to depart early.

A review by the Globe of Kerry's war record in preparation for a forthcoming book, "John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography," found that the young Navy officer acted heroically under fire, in one case saving the life of an Army lieutenant. But the examination also found that Kerry's commanding officer at the time questioned Kerry's first Purple Heart, which he earned for a wound received just two weeks after arriving in Vietnam.

"He had a little scratch on his forearm, and he was holding a piece of shrapnel," recalled Kerry's commanding officer, Lieutenant Commander Grant Hibbard. "People in the office were saying, `I don't think we got any fire,' and there is a guy holding a little piece of shrapnel in his palm." Hibbard said he couldn't be certain whether Kerry actually came under fire on Dec. 2, 1968, the date in questionand that is why he said he asked Kerry questions about the matter.

But Kerry persisted and, to his own "chagrin," Hibbard said, he dropped the matter. "I do remember some questions, some correspondence about it," Hibbard said. "I finally said, `OK, if that's what happened . . . do whatever you want.' After that, I don't know what happened. Obviously, he got it, I don't know how."

Kerry declined to talk to the Globe about the issue during the preparation of the Kerry biography. But his press secretary, Michael Meehan, noted that the Navy concluded that Kerry deserved the Purple Heart.

During the Vietnam War, Purple Hearts were often granted for minor wounds. "There were an awful lot of Purple Hearts--from shrapnel, some of those might have been M-40 grenades," said George Elliott, who served as a commanding officer to Kerry during another point in his five-month combat tour in Vietnam. (Kerry earlier served a noncombat tour.) "The Purple Hearts were coming down in boxes." Under Navy regulations, an enlistee or officer wounded three times was permitted to leave Vietnam early, as Kerry did. He received all three purple hearts for relatively minor injuries -- two did not cost him a day of service and one took him out for a day or two.

The incident that led to Kerry's first Purple Heart was risky, and covert. He and his crew left the safe confines of the huge US base at Cam Ranh Bay, climbing aboard a "skimmer" boat -- a craft similar to a Boston Whaler -- to travel upriver in search of Viet Cong guerrillas. At a beach that was known as a crossing area for enemy contraband traffic, Kerry's crew spotted some people running from a sampan, a flat-bottomed boat, to a nearby shoreline, according to two men serving alongside Kerry that night, William Zaladonis and Patrick Runyon. When the Vietnamese refused to obey a call to stop, Kerry authorized firing to begin.

"I assume they fired back," Zaladonis recalled in an interview. But neither he nor Runyon saw the source of the shrapnel that lodged in Kerry's arm. '`We came across the bay onto the beach and I got [hit] in the arm, got shrapnel in the arm," Kerry told the Globe in a 2003 interview. Kerry has also said he didn't know where the shrapnel came from.

Back at the base, Kerry told Hibbard he qualified for a Purple Heart, according to Hibbard. Thirty-six years later, Hibbard, reached at his retirement home in Florida, said he can still recall Kerry's wound, and that it resembled a scrape from a fingernail. "I've had thorns from a rose that were worse," said Hibbard, a registered Republican who said he was undecided on the 2004 presidential race.

The Globe asked Kerry's campaign whether the Massachusetts senator is certain he was under enemy fire and whether he recalled that a superior officer raised questions about the matter. The campaign did not respond directly to those questions. Instead, Meehan said in a prepared statement that Kerry "received the shrapnel wound early in the course of that combat engagement. " Meehan also provided a copy of a medical report showing treatment for a wound on Dec. 3, 1968. The Purple Heart regulation in effect at that time said that a wound must "require treatment by a medical officer."

Nearly three months later, a document was sent to Kerry informing him that he would receive a Purple Heart "for injuries received on 2 December 1968." The Naval Historical Center, which could not locate a copy of the original card for the incident, nonetheless confirmed that Kerry did receive the Purple Heart.

Kerry went on to earn another two Purple Hearts and he led more than two dozen missions in which he often faced enemy fire. He won the Silver Star for an action in which he killed an enemy soldier who carried a loaded rocket launcher that could have destroyed Kerry's six-man patrol boat, and he won a Bronze Star for rescuing an Army lieutenant who was thrown overboard and under fire.

One reason that Kerry has long divided Vietnam veterans is because of the way he led a group called Vietnam Veterans Against the War after he returned to the United States. While in Vietnam, Kerry began to question the policy of "free-fire zones," which permitted sailors to open fire on rivers where Vietnamese were violating nighttime curfews. He said in a 1971 appearance on "Meet the Press": "There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed, in that I took part in shootings in free-fire zones."

Thirty-three years later, that statement still rankles some veterans, apparently including those who have formed a group called Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry, which has a website devoted to what it calls Kerry's association with the "radical pro-communist" antiwar movement.

The statements of that group have been circulated widely over the Internet and picked up on conservative radio talk shows.

But some historians said Kerry is being unfairly criticized over his antiwar effort, which is best remembered for his Senate testimony in which he asked why soldiers should be asked to die for a mistake. "Thirty-three years later, his testimony has really proved to be prescient," said historian Stanley Karnow, author of "Vietnam: A History." "The war was a mistake. Nobody knew better that the war was a mistake than the poor grunts out there fighting it."

Indeed, some of Kerry's crewmates who were aghast that Kerry had led them into battle and then came home to protest the war now say Kerry was ahead of his time in seeing the mistaken policy. Crewmate James Wasser, who originally felt "betrayed" by Kerry's antiwar leadership, said, "Knowing what I know now, I would have totally agreed with him."

"[T]his isn't just a Las Vegas issue or a Nevada issue. It's an American issue," Kerry said in remarks prepared for delivery in Las Vegas. "Under the Yucca Mountain plan, more than 50,000 shipments of waste would travel just yards away from homes, hospitals, parks and playgrounds in states across this country."



Republicans said Kerry was fudging his previous record on the waste site. The Bush campaign said the senator voted six times in favor of measures that helped pave the way for Yucca Mountain's designation as the country's nuclear waste repository, including a 1987 vote in favor of legislation that narrowed the study of potential waste sites exclusively to Yucca Mountain -- a measure that critics dubbed the "Screw Nevada" bill.

"John Kerry's vote to make Nevada the sole repository site for waste and his later flip-flop on Yucca Mountain is just another example of a candidate who tells voters what they want to hear," said Steve Schmidt, a Bush campaign spokesman.

Democrats note that Kerry voted to uphold former President Bill Clinton's 2000 veto of a bill that would have allowed interim waste storage at Yucca, and voted against the site's final designation as the nation's waste repository.

President Bush narrowly edged Democrat Al Gore in Nevada in 2000, winning the state, and its 5 electoral votes, by 3.5 percentage points. Bush, in 2000, told Nevada voters he would let science, not politics, determine his course regarding Yucca Mountain. See full story.

In 2002, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham recommended Yucca as the ideal locale for the waste. That led to a vote in Congress, and ultimately a presidential signature, on legislation that finally brought the dump closer to reality.

Yucca is a highly charged issue in Nevada, which voted Democratic in the presidential elections of 1992 and 1996. State leaders of both parties as well as business interests have opposed the waste site.

In Najaf, the U.S. military said it is preparing with Iraqi forces for a major assault against armed supporters of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.

Speaking on Arab television, Iraq's interim vice president Ibrahim al-Jaafari called on the U.S.-led multinational forces to leave Najaf and for only Iraqi troops to defend the Shi'ite holy city.

Further east, in Amara, British forces clashed overnight with militiamen. At least 10 rebels were reported killed.


Meanwhile, northeast of Baghdad in Mahmodiya, at least six Iraqis were killed and 10 wounded in a bomb blast near a busy market.

And a leader of Iraq's largest Shi'ite movement, the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, was shot dead.

More than 75 young school children were killed when a rampaging fire engulfed a private school in southern India this morning, Indian media reported. The children attending the school in the state of Tamil Nadu were reported to be from 6 to 13 years old.

More than 30 of the children were burned to death and the rest died in a stampede, M.B. Venkatesh, a witness who lived near the Lord Krishna Middle School in the town of Kumbakonam told The Associated Press. There were also unconfirmed reports that no teachers or fire extinguishers were present in the building and one of its main exits was locked.

"Parents were crying, beating their chests and calling out for their children," S. Kalidas, one witness, told Reuters. "People looked scared. They were running around for help and there was complete panic. It was a huge fire."

More than 800 students were believed to be in the school when the fire began in a kitchen, according to Indian media reports. A short-circuit is believed to have ignited the kitchens thatched roof. Flames then spread to a portion of the main three-story school building that also had a thatched roof.

Images of firefighters trying to put out the fire as hundreds of panicked parents surrounding the building were broadcast on Indian television news channels. Some of the children's bodies were so badly burned that they could not be identified.

"They have been charred beyond recognition so we cannot say how many girls and how many boys," J. Radhakrishnan, chief administrator of the district, told The A.P.

Government officials called for an immediate investigation into the fire. The blaze was the worst school fire in India since 1995, when 400 people, half of them children, died at a school ceremony in the northern part of the country.

Today's tragedy could spark a crackdown on the thousands of private schools that have opened across India as government spending on education has declined. The schools, which offer poor families the promise of an education that will lift their children out of destitution, are poorly regulated.

Hospital officials said they expect the death toll to rise. As many as 30 school children arrived at a local hospital with severe burns. Over the next several days, they are expected to slowly perish from their injuries.

Organisers of an international music festival in Oslo have forced a Korean artist who planned to film couples having sex inside a tent on the festival grounds to cancel the shoot at the last minute.

The artist, Shu Lea Cheang, installed the tent at the Quart music festival and had intended to start filming couples who volunteered to have sex inside it in a fictive search for people to star in an imaginary pornographic movie called Fluid, Staale Stenslie, the head of Norway's National Touring Exhibitions told AFP.



Cheang's film of the search was to be shown at the Soerlandet Kunstmuseum, an art museum in the southern Norwegian town of Kristiansand.

The National Touring Exhibitions forced Cheang to cancel it at the last minute amid concerns that the shoot could violate Norwegian decency laws.

Stenslie had earlier said the project was "far from pornography".

"It's about humanity, nakedness and intimacy. Shu Lea is a very serious and respected artist," he insisted.

"This is a society-critical exhibit. It's commentary on how we have handled the AIDS epidemic, and it's a bridge between popular culture and art," Stenslie said.

The music festival did however feature sex on stage.

A young couple attending a Cumshots concert was called up by the lead singer in the middle of the concert, where they had sex on stage to the crowd's applause, as the band played on

A judge in America is reportedly facing the sack after using a penis pump while trying cases in court.

Donald Thompson, 57, was seen fumbling beneath his robes under his bench.


Witnesses claim they heard 'whooshing' noises, and a police officer said he saw the judge pumping a tube between his legs.

Court clerk Lisa Foster says Thompson's manouevrings meant she saw his penis at least 20 times.

The judge, who presides at Creek County Court in Oklahoma, said the gadget, used to extend the penis, was a 'gag gift' from a friend.

But the district attorney wants him sacked for his 'moral turpitude'.

A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the Qaeda chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and been flown to Saudi Arabia.


Khaled al-Harbi, a potentially valuable asset in the war on terror because of his close relationship to bin Laden, was shown on Saudi television Tuesday being pushed in a wheelchair through the Riyadh airport.
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Harbi is the most important figure to surface under a Saudi amnesty promising to spare the lives of militants who turn themselves in. He told the television, "I called the embassy and we were very well received."
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Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, is considered a sounding board for bin Laden rather than an operational planner for his terror network, a U.S. counterterrorism official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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The Interior Ministry did not specify what Harbi is wanted for.
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Mansour al-Nogaidan, a Riyadh journalist and former militant, said Harbi appeared on a videotape released in November 2001 in which bin Laden described the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks.
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Nogaidan said Harbi was disabled in both legs while fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He used to preach in a mosque in Mecca, but left Saudi Arabia for Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
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On the videotape, bin Laden praised the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and credited them with inspiring conversions to Islam.
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Harbi is the third man to take advantage of the monthlong amnesty that King Fahd offered militants June 23.
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The Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, has acknowledged for the first time that Saudis had joined the insurgency against U.S.-led forces in neighboring Iraq. The government had previously denied reports of their involvement.
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"Surely, there are Saudis," Nayef told reporters but he said their number was not known.
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Nayef warned that there would be no extension to the amnesty, which expires July 23, and declared that the kingdom's fight against terror is not over. RIYADH A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the Qaeda chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and been flown to Saudi Arabia.
.
Khaled al-Harbi, a potentially valuable asset in the war on terror because of his close relationship to bin Laden, was shown on Saudi television Tuesday being pushed in a wheelchair through the Riyadh airport.
.
Harbi is the most important figure to surface under a Saudi amnesty promising to spare the lives of militants who turn themselves in. He told the television, "I called the embassy and we were very well received."
.
Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, is considered a sounding board for bin Laden rather than an operational planner for his terror network, a U.S. counterterrorism official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
.
The Interior Ministry did not specify what Harbi is wanted for.
.
Mansour al-Nogaidan, a Riyadh journalist and former militant, said Harbi appeared on a videotape released in November 2001 in which bin Laden described the planning of the Sept. 11 attacks.
.
Nogaidan said Harbi was disabled in both legs while fighting Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He used to preach in a mosque in Mecca, but left Saudi Arabia for Afghanistan shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks.
.
On the videotape, bin Laden praised the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and credited them with inspiring conversions to Islam.
.
Harbi is the third man to take advantage of the monthlong amnesty that King Fahd offered militants June 23.
.
The Saudi interior minister, Prince Nayef, has acknowledged for the first time that Saudis had joined the insurgency against U.S.-led forces in neighboring Iraq. The government had previously denied reports of their involvement.
.
"Surely, there are Saudis," Nayef told reporters but he said their number was not known.
.
Nayef warned that there would be no extension to the amnesty, which expires July 23, and declared that the kingdom's fight against terror is not over. RIYADH A confidant of Osama bin Laden, seen on a videotape with the Qaeda chief as he talked about the Sept. 11 terror attacks, has surrendered to Saudi diplomats in Iran and been flown to Saudi Arabia.
.
Khaled al-Harbi, a potentially valuable asset in the war on terror because of his close relationship to bin Laden, was shown on Saudi television Tuesday being pushed in a wheelchair through the Riyadh airport.
.
Harbi is the most important figure to surface under a Saudi amnesty promising to spare the lives of militants who turn themselves in. He told the television, "I called the embassy and we were very well received."
.
Harbi, also known as Abu Suleiman al-Makki, is considered a sounding board for bin Laden rather than an operational planner for his terror network, a U.S. counterterrorism official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
.
The Interior Ministry did not specify what Harbi is wanted for

A woman in Iran claims to have given birth to a frog.

BBC Online says Iranian daily Etemaad claims the creature grew from larva inside the woman's body.

While the 'frog' has yet to undergo genetic tests, the paper quotes medical experts who say it has human characteristics.

Clinical biology expert Dr Aminifard said: "The similarities are in appearance, the shape of the fingers and the size and shape of the tongue."

The paper claims the mother-of-two, from the south-eastern city of Iranshahr, unwittingly picked up the larva when she swam in a dirty pool.

But it is unclear how this could have happened

A Romanian man faces charges after he tried to blow up his kitchen because his wife was such a lousy cook.

Viorel Leahu, 41, from Todiresti, said he decided to punish his wife for her terrible food.

He told police he had been inspired by watching Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger movies, reports Natuional newspaper.

He opened the gas tap and threw a lighter on the cooker. The explosion damaged the room and left him with an injured hand.

Mr Leahu now faces up to three years in jail for destruction of property and putting his wife's life in danger.