‘Wife’s consent for man’s second marriage not needed’
Islamabad: A constitutional body in Pakistan which gives legal advice to the government on religious issues has said a man does not need his wife’s consent for a second marriage, prompting angry reactions on social media.
The Council of Islamic Ideology, known as CII, said the Pakistani laws regarding second marriage of a man in the presence of first wife were against religious principles.
“Sharia allows men to have more than one wife and we demanded that the government should amend the law,” Council’s chairman Maulana Mohammad Khan Sheerani told reporters on Monday after a meeting on the issue.
Sheerani said seeking permission from one’s wife before entering into another marriage is not necessary. The council met in Islamabad and analysed the existing family laws in Pakistan. Sheerani said Islamic Sharia law does not require permission from a wife before a man enters into another marriage, while according to the Muslim Family Law 1961, permission from any existing wives is mandatory. He said this was contrary to Islamic Sharia law. “We urge the government to formulate Sharia-compliant laws related to nikah, divorce, adulthood and ‘will’,” Sheerani said. (PTI)
Los Angeles police arrest man in severed head case
Los Angeles: Los Angeles police say they’ve solved the case of a severed human head found two years ago near the Hollywood sign. Police said today they’ve arrested 38-year-old Gabriel Campos Martinez for the 2012 murder of 66-year-old Hervey Coronado Medellin of Los Angeles.
Martinez was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, yesterday with the help of local authorities and is being held without bail while he awaits extraditing proceedings.
Two women discovered what turned out to be Medellin’s head while walking several dogs through a trail in Griffith Park. A cadaver dog named Indiana Bones and investigators helped find more body parts, including hands and feet, near the same area where the head was discovered. (AP)
4-yr-old boy steals $ 3,264 from home to gamble
Beijing: A 4-year-old boy in China was caught by his school teacher with USD 3,264 in cash that he stole from home to gamble on cards with friends and appear “cool”.
The teacher alerted the kindergartener’s parents in Shaoyang, Hunan province of China after discovering the hefty sum in his schoolbag while checking for his homework last week. When confronted by school authorities, the boy admitted to taking the cash from a cabinet while his mother was not home, a few days earlier, ‘Global Times’ reported. He said that adults who gamble with piles of money look “cool” and he wanted to play high-stakes cards with his friends. The shocked mother said she had been struggling to locate the money which she had set aside for a business deal. (PTI)
Things you never knew about Barbie revealed
Washington: Did you know Barbie ran for president a total of six times in early 90s or that she has had at least 50 different hair colors in her lifetime? On the occasion of Barbie’s 55th birthday, the Huffington Post has compiled a list of things you probably didn’t know about her.
Another astonishing fact is that a Barbie doll is purchased every three seconds in the world and her real name is Barbara Millicent Roberts, named after maker Ruth Handler’s daughter. Handler had said that her whole philosophy behind Barbie was to show the world that a woman has choices and she can go anywhere and be anything. (ANI)
Robotic suit gives you power to lift 220 pounds like superhero
Washington: A latest robotic suit reportedly allows wearers to lift heavy objects like a superhero.
The robotic ”body extender” by an Italian engineering company, Percro, could help disaster workers clear rubble easily or have usage in war zones. According to Cnet, the extender allows wearer to lift up to 220 pounds of weight, 110 pounds with each hand, and has 22 different points of movement.
The Percro engineers said that it”s the most sophisticated wearable robot developed to date. Fabio Selsedo from Percro said that it was a device that”s able to track the complex movements of the human body, and also to amplify the force of the user. (ANI)
Einstein’s letter to US soldier on sale for $ 40000
Washington: A previously-unpublished letter written by physicist Albert Einstein in 1945 to a US soldier where he explains that “space should be looked at as a four-dimensional continuum” is up for sale for USD 40,000.
The typed, one-page letter was Einstein’s reply to Sergeant Frank K Pfleegor and his friends who were puzzled by a scientific article they read and sought to clear up their confusion with the help of the 20th Century genius. Less than a month after the group wrote a letter to Einstein, he replied.
The original letter to Einstein, dated April 17, 1945, has been published and remains in the Einstein Papers at Jerusalem University, FoxNews.com reported. It was assumed Einstein simply never replied; the letter’s existence was known only to the Pfleegor family, which has now put it up for sale through the Pennsylvania-based historical document specialists The Raab Collection. In the letter Einstein wrote, “Dear Sir: I see from your letter of April 17th that the attempt of my last publication was not reported in an adequate way.”
“I have not questioned there that space should be looked at as a four-dimensional continuum. The question is only whether the relevant theoretical concepts describing physical properties of this can or will be functions of four variables,” he wrote.
Einstein’s letter enlightened Pfleegor and his friends who while in the Philippines during World War II had interpreted a late 1944 article in ‘Science Digest’ to suggest the physicist was rethinking his 1915 theory of a four-dimensional universe to say there were as many as eight. (PTI)
Man charged in $ 7 million shoplifting case jailed
Chicago: The head of a suburban Chicago family accused of stealing $ 7 million in goods in a decade-long shoplifting spree will stay in jail because he is a flight risk, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.
Branko Bogdanov, his wife and his daughter allegedly operated in tandem to pilfer merchandise, then have it sold on eBay.
They were arrested last week at their spacious home in a wealthy Chicago neighbourhood of Northbrook. Bogdanov, 58, emigrated in 1973 from the former Yugoslavia and is in the United States illegally.
He’s been arrested 16 times and convicted six times, including for shoplifting, prosecutor Renato Mariotti said at a detention hearing.
If convicted of the one count of interstate transportation of stolen property, he faces up to 10 years in prison. (AP)
Student rowdiness helps Cambridge University earn over $28,000
London: Weird acts and indiscipline among students helped one of the most reputed centres of learning in Britain earn 17,000 pounds (nearly $28,300) by way of fines over the last two years.
The colleges under university of Cambridge in Britain, witnessed bizarre acts ranging from stroking on the fire alarm to candle thefts over the last two years, it was reported.
The detailed figures were acquired under the Freedom of Information Act.
However, a total of 14 of the 31 colleges at Cambridge failed to respond to the information request.
Magdalene College, which dates back to 1428 and stands on the banks of the Cam river, saw some of the highest fines being imposed, with one student fined 400 pounds for taking drugs. The rowdiness of drunken students has often left the authorities in dismay. (IANS)