बिल गेट्सको सम्पत्ति दिनमा १० लाख खर्चिए पनि सकिन २ सय वर्ष लाग्ने !

 १२ पुस– विश्वका सबैभन्दा धनीका रुपमा रहेका बिल गेट्सको सम्पत्ति अहिले ८१ अर्ब ७० करोड डलर छ । उनले मेक्सीकोका कार्लाेस स्लिमलाई तेस्रो स्थानमा धकेलेर सबैभन्दा धनीका रुपमा स्थापित भएका हुन् ।
अक्सफामको ‘इन इक्युलिटी’ प्रतिवेदन तयार गर्दा गरिएको अध्ययनले ८० अर्ब डलर सम्पत्ति भएका धनी गेट्सले दिनमा १० लाख खर्च गरे पनि सबै सम्पत्ति सक्न दुई सय २० वर्ष लाग्ने देखाएको छ ।
गेट्स लगातार १५ वर्ष विश्वका धनीमा दरिए पनि बितेको दुई वर्षयता उनी दोस्रो स्थानमा रहँदै आएका थिए । फेरी सन् २०१४ मा सबैभन्दा धनी कार्लाेस स्लिमलाई उछिन्दै उनी एक नम्बरमा उक्लेका हुन् ।
कान्तिपुर दैनिकबाट

गोर्खालीहरुले देखाएको बिर्तापूर्ण लडाई जसका कारण आज पनि बिस्वमा नेपालीहरुलाई बिर गोर्खाली भनेर चिनिन्छ !! हेर्नुहोस भिडिओ

we proud to being ghorkali.In all around the world we had choose brave than can be asked to forefather or look history.We got victory to the whole world.Until today Nepal wasn't capture by any country.

चिनले मुख खोल्यो सार्क सदस्य बन्ने चाहाना

 मंसिर ७, काठमाडौं,  –सार्कमा प्रभावकारी भूमिका खोजिरहेको चीनले यसको स्थायी रणनीीतक साझेदार वा पूर्ण सदस्य बन्ने चाहना राखेको छ ।
सार्कका ५ राष्ट्रसँग सिमा जोडिएको र यसका सबै सदस्य मुलुकभित्र उत्तिकै गहिरो सम्बन्ध रहेकाले पनि चीन सार्किभित्र आउन चाहेको बेइजिङस्थित सरकारी थिंकट्याकसँग आबद्ध बिज्ञहरुले बताएका छन् । सार्कमा चीनको भूमिका आसियानमा चीनले पाएजस्तै हुनुपर्छ चाइना इन्स्टिच्युट्स अफ कन्टेम्पोररी इन्टरनेशनल रिलेसन्स अन्तर्गत दक्षिण र दक्षिण एसियाली तथा अफ्रिकी अध्यन संस्थानका निर्दैशन हु सिसेङ भने विशेषगरी चीनले सांघाइ कोअपरेसन अर्गनाइजेसनमा खेलेको भूमिकाजस्तै चाहेको हो ।

मध्यएसियाका ६ राष्ट्र चीन, रुस, किर्गिस्तान, काजकिस्तान, ताजकिस्तान र उज्वेकिस्तान स्थायी सदस्य रहेको अर्गनाइजेसन सन २००१ मा सांघाइमा स्थापना भएको हो । चीनले १९९६ मा आसियानको सदस्यता पाएको हो । सन २००५ मा ढाकामा भएको १३ औं सार्क सम्मेलनले चीन र जापानलाई पर्यवेक्षक स्वीकृति प्रदान गरेको हो ।

A pet dog survives from death grip of python with the help of Owners

What would you do if your pet dog is attacked by a deadly constricting snake? If you care for your dog, then you will certainly act something to save your pet. Here is the same action which has happened to a poor dog being attacked by python. The owner has acted to save dog from Python’s death grip. In the beginning of video, the  dog seemed to be trapped in the death grip of a deadly python. But in the end of video, the dog was luckily released as the python leaves him alone.

 The things do not seem to be good for this dog trapped but his owner played the role of God Fathers for they tried hard to save their dog. It is the frightening moment for the dog and the dog’s owner in the forests of Karnataka in Southeast India. The dog at the first glance was unable to be moved due to the python’s grip but the owners are successful to survive the dog.The dog escapes from the death when the owner has started hitting by the leafy branch. They made noises as much as they can so that the python left the dog.

Whatever they attempted that was enough for the dog to save his life. The python slowly moved the grip and thus the dog was released. It is common to all that the pythons are non venomous snake but their way of preying the animals is to constrict and let their prey suffocate. Thus they devour on their preys . The python in the video as well is trying to do same but the people rescued the dog who was in the verge of dying. Thus the video projects on a dog which survives even after being trapped in the constricting snake.

सगरमाथाबारे विवादास्पद अभिव्यक्ति दिएकोमा कपिलले माफी मागे -

काठमाडौं, मंसिर ४ – भारतका चर्चित कमेडियन कपिल शर्माले सगरमाथाबारे दिएको विवादास्पद अभिव्यक्तिबारे नेपाली जनतासँग माफी मागेका छन् । सन् २०१३ को नोभेम्बरमा अस्ट्रेलियाको सिड्नीमा भएको एक स्टेज शोमा सगरमाथा आफ्नै आगनमा पर्छ भन्ने अभिव्यक्ति दिएका थिए ।

कमेडी नाइटस् विथ कपिलका सञ्चालक कपिलले ट्वीट गदै ‘मैले मेरो एउटा शोमा गल्तीले माउन्ट एभरेस्ट भारतमा पर्छ भनेको थिए । मैले नेपालीहरुको भावनामा चोट पुर्याउन चाहेको थिएन । मैले कसैलाई चोट पुर्याए भने माफी माग्न चाहन्छु ।’

नेपाल हुने कार्यक्रममा कपिल आउने भएपछि उक्त भिडियोलाई लिएर सामाजिक सञ्जालमा निकै आलोचना भएको थियो । अलोचना भएपछि उनले माफी मागेका हुन् ।

भारतको सन्त आश्रममा झडप, ६ जनाको मृत्यु

मंसिर ३- काठमाडौं,  भारत हरियाणा राज्यको बरवालास्थित रामपाल गुरुको सतलोक आश्रममा झडप हुँदा मृत्यु हुनेको संख्या ६ पुगेको छ । विभिन्न अभियोग लागेका रामपाललाई मंगलबार अदालतमा पेश गर्नुपर्ने भएपछि प्रहरीले उनलाई पक्राउ गर्न प्रयास गरेको थियो ।

यसैक्रममा प्रहरी र उनका समर्थकबीच भएको झडपमा २ सयभन्दा बढी घाइते भएका थिए । स्थानीय प्रहरी अधिकारीहरुले सबै शवको पोष्टमार्टमपछि मात्र मृत्युको कारण पत्ता लाग्ने जनाएका छन् ।

बरवाला सहरमा रहेको रामपालको आश्रममा हतियारधारी समर्थकहरुले केहीलाई नियन्त्रणमा लिएको र महिला तथा बालबालिकालाई मानवढाल बनाएको प्रहरीले जनाएको छ । प्रहरी कारबाहीपछि आश्रमबाट मंगलबार १० हजार मानिसलाई सुरक्षितरुपमा बाहिर निकालिएको जनाइएको छ । आश्रमभित्र अझै ५ हजार मानिस रहेको अनुमान गरिएको छ ।

रामपालविरुद्ध हत्या प्रयास, आपराधिक षड्यन्त्र र राजद्रोहलगायतका मुद्दा दायर गरिएको थियो । रामपालले भने आफूमाथिको आरोप अस्वीकार गर्दै आएका छन् । उनलाई १७ नोभेम्बरसम्म अदालतमा पेश गर्न स्थानीय प्रशासनलाई आदेश दिएको थियो । (एजेन्सी)

बिन लादेनलाई ३ गोली हान्ने ३८ वर्षिय रोब ओनिल (तस्विर सहित)

एजेन्सी । आतंकवादी संगठन अलकायदाको प्रमुखकोरुपमा संसारलाई त्रस्त पार्न सफल ओसामा बिन लादेनलाई मार्ने अमेरिकी सैनिकको तस्विर सार्वजनिक भएको छ । सन् २०११ को मे २ मा पाकिस्तानको एबोट्टाबादमा अमेरिकी सैनिकको विशेष टोलीले बिन लादेनलाई मारेको थियो । उक्त आक्रमणमा बिन लादेनलाई ३ गोली हानेर मारेका अमेरिकी सैनिक रोब ओनीलको तस्विर सार्वजनिक भएको हो ।

 ३८ वर्षिय रोब ओनिलले फक्स न्यूजको विकेण्डमा आफूले बिन लादेनलाई कसरी मारें भन्ने विषयमा सबै जानकारी सार्वजनिक गर्ने बताइएको छ । ओनिलको तस्विर पहिलो पटक अमेरिकाको SOFREP.com ले सार्वजनिक गरेको हो । यस अघि बिन लादेनलाई मार्नेको जानकारी गोप्य राखिँदै आएको थियो । बिन लादेनलाई मार्ने ‌ओनीलले सैनिक सेवामा ५२ मेडल जितेको बताएको छ ।

Israeli PM rejects emerging nuclear deal with Iran

9 Nov, Kathmandu- Israeli PM rejects emerging nuclear deal with Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has “utterly rejected” the emerging nuclear deal between western powers and Iran, calling it a “bad deal” and promising that Israel will do everything it needs to do to defend itself.

He spoke before meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry, who on Nov. 8 travelled to Switzerland to participate in nuclear talks with Iran. Israel believes Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, and says international pressure should be stepped up, not eased.

The six world powers – the United States, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany — appear to be closing in on a long-elusive deal in the decade-old dispute over Iranian nuclear intentions. The United States and its allies say they are aiming for a “first-step” deal that would stop Iran from further expanding a nuclear programme that it has steadily built up in defiance of tightening international pressure and crippling sanctions.

Israeli PM rejects emerging nuclear deal with Iran

Politics affected Nepali movies – No release this week

The political environment has adversely affected the Nepali movie industry. As the election result are being released, no Nepali movie is going to be released this week in theater.

Nepali film artists are also in a state of shock when the biggest party before election is seemingly the distinct third after Nepali Congress and CPN (UML), according the initial election result. Shocked Maoist have cried foul and have asked the counting to stop.

Prior to the election a number of film artists had joined political parties including Maoist, UML and Congress. Well known producer and Gopi Krishna theater owner Uddav Poudel is likely to loose in Kathmandu -4. Another producer, Ramesh Jung Rayamajhi (NC candidate) has lost from Morang-8 to UML candidate. Ramesh Jung has produced ‘Nai Na Bhannu La’, ‘Malai Man Paryo’ and upcoming ‘Santrash’.

Actress Rekha Thapa, who was supposed to be contesting at Parsa 1 has asked the party to accept the defeat. It seems, Maoist are also having tough time in Parsa.

Cooperatives and financial institutions should focus on raising lifting living standards: President

Kathmandu, Nov. 21: President Dr. Ram Baran Yadav has stressed on the need for the cooperatives, and financial institutions to focus on raising the living standards of the people under the poverty line.

Inaugurating the 49 th SEACEN Governors’ Conference and high level seminar here today, the President said the institutions should  engage in reducing poverty as the sustainable and inclusive economic growth is the need of the hour and the private sector should also undertake economic activities by taking their responsibility towards the society.

Finance Minister Shankar Prasad Koirala while informing about Nepal’s present economic condition, said controlling price hike was challenging for the government.

The inflow of remittances, foreign currency reserve, and the existing current account saving has helped make Nepal’s economy lively and that the government was active in implementing financial reform.

He also informed that the government was active in expanding banking and financial services in the rural areas.

IMF Deputy Managing Director Naoyuki Shinohara said IMF was positive in increasing investment in development projects and to strengthen the economy of developing countries.

From the chair Mongolian Central Bank Governor Naidansuren Zoljargal said central banks should engage in attaining sustainable economic development by reducing financial risks, and expanding financial literacy.

Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) Governor Dr. Yubaraj Khatiwada said unofficial financial transactions have created problems in market and financial risks had increased.

Convener of the Conference and Deputy Governor of NRB Gopal Prasad Kafle said it was a matter of glory for Nepal to have organized the conference in Nepal for the second time after a span of 26 years.

Mechi-Mahakali drive successful: Dahal

The Mechi-Mahakali national awareness campaign launched by the UCPN (Maoist) from Kakadvitta in Jhapa a week ago has reached Mahendranagar, Kanchanpur.

Addressing the campaign here on Tuesday, UCPN (M) Chairman Pushpa Kamal Dahal said although some forces tried to disrupt the drive by planting bombs and felling trees on roads, it was a ‘roaring success’. 

He said there is no doubt about the success of the Constituent Assembly election and urged people to vote for a change by giving his party a two-thirds majority.

He accused the CPN-UML of trying to disrupt his party’s publicity campaigns with the help of the CPN-M. It is unfortunate that the party is trying to disrupt the polls, he said. 

Meanwhile, a bomb disposal team of the Nepal Army defused a bomb planted at Krishnapur VDC in Kanchanpur, where Dahal was scheduled to address an election campaign organised by the UCPN (M).

Thor:The Dark World Total WorldWide Collection

Thor 2 is a Hollywood Superhero movie, which is rocking the cinemas with its success. It is doing a great business in Domestic as well as foreign markets. As the Total 8 Days Business/Collection of Thor 2 is $ 400 Millions (approx.) Moreover, its overseas collection is also quite impressive. However, its a sequel of Thor (2011) that also vibrated the film industry by its record earning. Although, it receive a grand opening collection in India i.e. Rs. 7 Crores (approx.) However, now Thor 2 8th Day Earning in India is expected to Rs. 5 Crores (approx.)
Thor 2: The Dark World Box Office Collection | Thor 2 Overseas Collection

Thor 2 : The Dark World has released on many screens in India also. And its  receiving its great benefit/profit as well. As the movie belongs to the superhero that why it is very famous in India too. After its rocking opening day collection of Rs. 7 Crores it is earning with same consistency. The live Example of it is infront of you as it has received approx. $ 250 Million Overseas Collection from worldwide. The 8th Day Total Box Office Collection of Thor 2 is Rs. 5 Crores (approx.) in India.

Thor 2 Total Worldwide Collections | 8th Day Box Office Earning Report

Thor 2 Actual Total Collection Report

Thor 2 1st Day Collection in India is Rs. 7 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 2nd Day Collection in India is Rs. 9 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 3rd Day Collection in India is Rs. 8 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 4th Day Collection in India is Rs. 9 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 5th Day Collection in India is Rs. 6 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 6th Day Collection in India is Rs. 7 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 7th Day Collection in India is Rs. 5 Crores (approx.)

Thor 2 8th Day Collection in India is Rs. 5 Crores (approx.)

Total Overseas Collection of Thor 2 is $ 250 Million (approx.)
Thor 2 Total Worldwide Collections | 8th Day Box Office Earning Report

 

Thus as seeing its great business it is expected that 2nd Friday Collection report of Thor 2 in India is Rs. 5 Crores (approx.) The Total 8 days Collection of Thor 2 is $ 400 + 250 Millions (Domestic + Overseas).

Thus the Total Worldwide Collection of Thor 2 is $ 650 Millions, which is a record itself. As it has done a great business till now, it is estimated that it will also break most of the collection records of Hollywood movies.

Thor 2 Total Worldwide Collection - $ 650 Millions (approx.)

Thor 2 Total Worldwide Collections | 8th Day Box Office Earning Report

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Amnesty says US officials should face war crimes charges over drone strikes

A house in Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan destroyed by a drone missile in 2008. Eighteen people including Islamist militants were killed. Photograph: Reuters

US officials responsible for the secret CIA drone campaign against suspected terrorists in Pakistan may have committed war crimes and should stand trial, a report by a leading human rights group warns. Amnesty International has highlighted the case of a grandmother who was killed while she was picking vegetables and other incidents which could have broken international laws designed to protect civilians.

The report is issued in conjunction with an investigation by Human Rights Watch detailing missile attacks in Yemen which the group believes could contravene the laws of armed conflict, international human rights law and Barack Obama's own guidelines on drones.

The reports are being published while Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's prime minister, is in Washington. Sharif has promised to tell Obama that the drone strikes – which have caused outrage in Pakistan – must end.

Getting to the bottom of individual strikes is exceptionally difficult in the restive areas bordering Afghanistan, where thousands of militants have settled. People are often terrified of speaking out, fearing retribution from both militants and the state, which is widely suspected of colluding with the CIA-led campaign.

There is also a risk of militants attempting to skew outside research by forcing interviewees into "providing false or inaccurate information", the report said.

But Amnesty mounted a major effort to investigate nine of the many attacks to have struck the region over the last 18 months, including one that killed 18 labourers in North Waziristan as they waited to eat dinner in an area of heavy Taliban influence in July 2012. All those interviewed by Amnesty strongly denied any of the men had been involved in militancy. Even if they were members of a banned group, that would not be enough to justify killing them, the report said.

"Amnesty International has serious concerns that this attack violated the prohibition of the arbitrary deprivation of life and may constitute war crimes or extrajudicial executions," the report said. It called for those responsible to stand trial.

The US has repeatedly claimed very few civilians have been killed by drones. It argues its campaign is conducted "consistent with all applicable domestic and international law".

The Amnesty report supports media accounts from October last year that a 68-year-old woman called Mamana Bibi was killed by a missile fired from a drone while she was picking okra outside her home in North Waziristan with her grandchildren nearby. A second strike minutes later injured family members tending her.

If true, the case is striking failure of a technology much vaunted for its accuracy. It is claimed the remote-controlled planes are able to observe their targets for hours or even days to verify them, and that the explosive force of the missiles is designed to limit collateral damage. As with other controversial drone strikes, the US has refused to acknowledge or explain what happened.

Amnesty said it accepts some US drone strikes may not violate the law, "but it is impossible to reach any firm assessment without a full disclosure of the facts surrounding individual attacks and their legal basis. The USA appears to be exploiting the lawless and remote nature of the region to evade accountability for its violations," it said.

In Yemen, another country where US drones are active, Human Rights Watch highlighted six incidents, two of which were a "clear violation of international humanitarian law". The remaining four may have broken the laws of armed conflict because the targets were illegitimate or because not enough was done to minimise civilian harm, the report said.

It also argued that some of the Yemen attacks breach the guidelines announced by Obama earlier this year in his first major speech on a programme that is officially top secret. For example, the pledge to kill suspects only when it is impossible to capture them appears to have been ignored on 17 April this year when an al-Qaida leader was blown up in a township in Dhamar province in central Yemen, Human Rights Watch said.

An attack on a truck driving 12 miles south of the capital Sana'a reportedly killed two al-Qaida suspects but also two civilians who had been hired by the other men. That means the attack could have been illegal because it "may have caused disproportionate harm to civilians".

The legal arguments over drones are extremely complex, with much controversy focusing on whether or not the places where they are used amount to war zones.

Amnesty said some of the strikes in Pakistan might be covered by that claim, but rejected a "global war doctrine" that allows the US to attack al-Qaida anywhere in the world.

"To accept such a policy would be to endorse state practices that fundamentally undermine crucial human rights protections that have been painstakingly developed over more than a century of international law-making," the report said.

Australia bushfires live: fears Blue Mountains fires will join together

RFS chief warns three major fires could join together, endangering entire Blue Mountains, as NSW premier calls a state of emergency to deal with more than 50 fires burning across the state

An aerial image shows a fire-fighting helicopter over a smoke cloud, after a devastating bushfire passed through at Yellow Rock in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. An aerial image shows a fire-fighting helicopter over a smoke cloud, after a devastating bushfire passed through at Yellow Rock in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, Australia. Photograph:

6.26pm AEST

Police Commissioner Andrew Scipione: all of the arsonists arrested so far have been "young people"

    Today, there has been two arrests with regards to a significant fire which caused about 5,000 hectares of damage. There has been an 11-year-old male taken into custody, has been charged and put before a court, his bail refused by the court.

    We currently have a 15-year-old male in our custody assisting us with similar enquiries, not yet charged but certainly at this stage the intention is he will be before the courts as soon as we can get him there.

    It's very disturbing, all of the arrests we have made with regard to arson attacks since this current crisis have been young people.


6.10pm AEST

RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons says forecasted windy conditions will cause problems in the next 48 hours:

    The weather forecast continues to firm up as being problematic over the next 48 hrs with a continuance of similar conditions to today, albeit with a marginal reduction in temperatures for tomorrow before we see those elevated wind strengths dominate much of the fire affected areas, but also more broadly right up through the Hunter, central ranges, metropolitan and Illawarra regions. We can expect to see most of those areas with widespread severe fire danger ratings.

5.59pm AEST

RFS Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons has just given an update to the media.

He says the conditions are continuing to make things unpredictable, and "as the fire grounds continue to change, we continue to see flare-ups and erratic behaviour".

There is some good news with the previously mentioned Hall Road fire being downgraded.

He says there's a "developing amount of fire activity near the community of Bilpin and Berambing, and we're seeing spot fires and spot fire activity in that local area".

5.35pm AEST

The Wollondilly fire near Hall Road has been downgraded to 'watch and act' by the RFS, and Picton Road has been reopened.



5.04pm AEST

Police have confirmed the second arrest in relation to the Heatherbrae fire in a short statement:

    A 15-year-old boy has been arrested over the large bushfire that started in Heatherbrae last week.

    He’s currently at Raymond Terrace Police Station where he is expected to be charged.

    An 11-year-old boy was charged over the fire earlier today.

    No further details are available at this stage.

4.47pm AEST

Police have arrested a second boy over the Heatherbrae fire, according to the Newcastle Herald's police reporter Dan Proudman:

   
4.40pm AEST

Guardian Australia's political editor, Lenore Taylor, on the political debate around climate change policies and the bushfires:

    According to a creeping conservative political correctness, it is allegedly improper to discuss the link between climate change and the increased risk of devastating bushfires like the ones still burning across New South Wales.

    Columnists start by attacking suggestions such as those made in an article written for the Guardian by the Greens deputy leader, Adam Bandt, that by repealing the carbon tax, Tony Abbott is failing to protect the Australian people from climate change risk. Then they move quickly to the accusation that it amounts to politicising a disaster to discuss the connection between climate change and bushfire at all.

    But report after report has pointed to climate change increasing the likelihood of conditions that pose the greatest risk for fire.

Read the full article here.

4.18pm AEST
Two fires likely to merge, "can't rule out" three

Fitzsimmons said they "can't rule out" that the three fires will join together, but at this stage it is likelier to be two of them — the large state mine fire at Lithgow and the Mt Victoria fire.

"North of Bells Line Of Road, the fire out of Lithgow heading towards Bilpin, will join the fire near Mt York and Mt Victoria," somewhere in the Grose Valley, he predicted, saying backburning efforts have had an impact.



4.14pm AEST

In his latest update on the bushfire crisis, RFS NSW Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons has warned residents of Wilton to take shelter as embers travel kilometres ahead of the fire front. Firefighters are tasked to assist people in the area.

“The fire is well and truly heading towards Wilton," he said.

He also said they were "acutely aware" of the natural gas plant near Wilton. Extra services have been tasked to protect it.

Fitzsimmons blamed weather for the Springwood/Faulconbridge flare up where "dozens of homes" have been lost along Grose Road. It's not entirely clear if the houses have gone in the last few hours or if they are part of earlier assessments.

Both of these fires were upgraded to emergency warnings again just this afternoon. “The last hour or so reminds us to remain vigilant," said Fitzsimmons. "The fire grounds remain dynamic and challenging to firefighters."

Photo of blonde girl found in Greece triggers thousands of inquiries

Parents of missing children round the world call charity after seeing photo of blonde, blue-eyed girl found in Roma camp

Blonde girl photo 

The charity said it had been contacted by people in the USA, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, South Africa and the UK. Photograph: www.hamogelo.gr/Rex

A Greek charity said yesterday that it was pursuing at least 10 "promising leads" – many from parents whose children had gone missing – following a worldwide appeal to help identify a blonde, blue-eyed girl found living in a Roma camp in the country.

Less than two days after launching the international campaign, the philanthropic organisation Smile of the Child announced that it had been bombarded with more than 10,000 calls and emails from around the world.

"Through our hotline we've been contacted by thousands of people in the US, Canada, Australia, Scandinavia, South Africa and the UK," Panaghiotis Partalis, the charity's international communications officer, told the Guardian.

"A lot of emails have come through from families whose own children went missing years ago. Based on pictures that we have also received, there are around 10 cases of children who bear a resemblance to the little girl and we are following them up to see if there is any link."

The girl, who is thought to be about four years old and answers to the name Maria, was discovered last Wednesday when Greek police raided a Roma settlement near Farsala in Larissa, 170 miles north of Athens, in search of weapons and drugs.

Officers were said to be taken aback when the pale-skinned child appeared in the home of a couple with 13 other offspring who were all dark-skinned. Unable to communicate in Greek, the girl could barely talk. What little she did say was conducted in the Roma dialect.

In a bid to unearth her identity, Partalis said the charity was also looking for specialists, including an anthropologist, who might be able to determine the child's origins and age.

"There is still mystery surrounding her age," he said. "We are looking for experts who can examine her teeth and other features to find out exactly how old she is and what her origin may be."

The charity has also compiled a "profile" of pictures of lookalike children. "We've put together a montage with Maria at the centre that we have passed to the police," he said. "There seems to be a lot of hope in the Swedish press that she is Scandinavian."

The girl is expected to be released from hospital on Monday, the same day the couple found raising her are due to appear in court on charges of abducting a minor. Police said it was likely they would be imprisoned pending trial. "The father already has a criminal record," said one officer in Thessaly, the region where the child was found.

DNA tests have proved conclusively that the little girl is not related to the couple – a 40-year-old woman and 39-year-old man.

Although the suspects have vehemently denied accusations of child smuggling, they have given a range of conflicting stories, telling investigators at first that the girl was found in a blanket at birth, before insisting her biological father was Canadian. Suspicions were further raised when the mother was discovered to have two identities and to have claimed to have given birth to six of her children in the same year. Costas Giannopoulos, who founded Smile of the Child after the death of his own son, said the discovery of the girl had not only shone a light on child trafficking in Greece, but revealed the parlous state of birth registrations with municipal authorities in the crisis-hit nation.

"There is a huge gap that allows anyone to claim a child as their own," he said.

On Friday, the parents of Madeleine McCann, the toddler who went missing in Portugal in 2007, said the case was a sign that children who had disappeared could still be found.

Authorities hope that the discovery of the girl will also help crack the mystery of Ben Needham, the Sheffield boy who went missing at the age of 21 months on the Aegean island of Kos 22 years ago. Ben's mother, Kerry Needham, told ITV: "My family and I are extremely delighted at the news that a four-year-old girl has been found in a gypsy camp in Larissa, Greece. We have always believed that Ben's abduction was gypsy-related and have a long ongoing inquiry in Larissa. We hope that the investigation into Ben's disappearance will now be looked at again."

François Hollande's intervention in Roma deportation case sparks anger

French president's offer to allow deported teenage immigrant back into France to study without her family backfires

The teenager at the centre of the row, herself condemned the French president as 'having no heart' for suggesting she return without her family. Photograph: Rex Features

The French president, François Hollande, was widely criticised on Sunday for offering to allow a deported teenage immigrant back into France without her family.

Hollande waded into the row on Saturday when he offered Leonarda Dibrani, a 15-year-old of Roma origin who was ordered off a school bus and deported to Kosovo, the chance to return to France to finish her studies, but only if she did so alone.

The proposal drew angry condemnation, including from Leonarda, who said she would not return alone, exposing Hollande to fresh attacks on his leadership.

"What do 80% of the French think about this?" asked François Bayrou, who ran against Hollande in the first round of the 2012 presidential election, on the digital news channel iTele. "They think the state has totally lost its compass, deciding one thing and then deciding its exact opposite one minute later … Hollande's authority is significantly weakened here."

Leonarda's expulsion after her family failed to obtain political asylum has tested Hollande's ability to handle the issue of illegal migration, a source of increasing public frustration in France.

Students protested to demand the schoolgirl be allowed back, but opinion polls showed that most French did not want the family to return. Opponents from the centre-right UMP party accused Hollande of being so obsessed with satisfying his Socialist base that he had betrayed the will of the public. Even members of his own party appeared dissatisfied with the president's attempt at a compromise.

Minutes after Hollande's TV appearance, in which he said police had followed rules but lacked tact in doing so, the Socialist party leader, Harlem Désir, appeared on a different channel saying Leonarda's family should be let back into France.

"I am going to talk to the president and the government about this," he said, adding that he wanted "all the children of Leonarda's family to be able to finish their studies in France, accompanied by their mother".

The Dibrani family suffered a further crisis on Sunday when Leonarda's mother Dzemila Dibrani was beaten and briefly treated in hospital in Kosovo.

She and Leonarda's father Resat Dibrani were accosted by another Roma couple in downtown Mitrovica, and she sustained unspecified injuries when the Roma man inquired about the fate of a child from their past romance, a Kosovo official said on condition of anonymity. Both couples are being questioned by police.

A poll in the weekly JDD newspaper showed Hollande's approval rating had sunk to 23%, the lowest level in his presidency and beating record low popularity ratings set by his predecessor Nicolas Sarkozy.

But while Hollande wilts under grim economic data and attacks on his authority, his tough-talking interior minister, Manuel Valls, has become France's most popular minister.

A JDD poll published this month showed Valls had the support of 61% of the public, far ahead of any other minister. By emphasising a tough stance on Leonarda's family rather than the offer to allow her back, he appears to have come out of the affair unscathed.

"Nothing will make me deviate from my path," Valls told JDD in an interview published on Sunday. "The law must be applied and this family must not come back to France."

Valls has toughened his rhetoric against illegal migration and makeshift Roma camps as the far-right National Front party has surged in popularity ahead of municipal and European elections next year.

Leonarda, who was born in Italy, and her five brothers and sisters attended school in France, where they arrived in 2009. But an official report showed their attendance record was patchy and said the family's attempts to assimilate were disappointing.

Repeated requests for asylum by her father, Reshat, who is from Kosovo, were undermined by the fact that he lied about their nationality.

Leonarda, speaking in French from a house in the Kosovo city of Mitrovica, criticised Hollande as "having no heart" and said her family would return to France anyway.

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Jokes:

In October 2002, a British organisation called Laughlab announced the conclusion of a year-long international study to discover the funniest joke in the world. They found that the British, Irish, New Zealanders and Austalians prefer a play on words; that the French, Belgians and Danes have a taste for the surreal and Freudian; that Americans and Canadians enjoy jokes showing one group's superiority over another; and that Germans have the broadest sense of humour because they find almost anything funny.

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Malta warns EU waters 'a cemetery' after fresh tragedy

Maltese PM Joseph Muscat says European waters close to Africa are turning into a cemetery, after another boat laden with migrants capsized.

Mr Muscat said Malta felt "abandoned" by the rest of Europe and insisted that the EU had to take action.

Malta and Italy launched a rescue operation after a boat capsized on Friday, leaving up to 50 people dead.

It happened 120km (70 miles) off Lampedusa, the Italian island where at least 300 migrants drowned last week.

The loss of life has renewed the debate within EU member states on migration rules.

In the latest incident, the vessel carrying more than 200 migrants is believed to have encountered difficulties in Maltese waters just before sunset on Friday.
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    Rules need to change, whether they are tighter or looser is not the issue, the fact is that this thing is broken and it needs to be fixed”

Maltese PM Joseph Muscat

The migrants used a satellite phone to raise the alarm but the boat capsized when passengers crowded to one side as they tried to get the attention of a passing aircraft, the Maltese navy said.

Earlier on Friday, at least 500 other migrants travelling in separate boats were rescued in coastguard operations near the Italian island of Sicily.

Also on Friday, a separate boat accident off the Egyptian port of Alexandria claimed the lives of at least 12 migrants.

Egyptian security officials said 116 people, mostly Palestinians and Syrians, were pulled from the water.

Mr Muscat said prompt action between Malta and Italy had saved lives, but he complained that "from the European side we have heard only talk, empty talk really".

"Right now politicians are thinking about tightening or loosening migration rules. In our case our main concern is these people at sea," he said.

"We feel abandoned by Europe. I don't know how many more people need to die at sea before something gets done. We will make sure our voice is heard during the next European Council. Rules need to change, whether they are tighter or looser is not the issue, the fact is that this thing is broken and it needs to be fixed."

"Helicopters rescued 120 people"

Mr Muscat added: "As things stand we are building a cemetery within our Mediterranean Sea."

After last week's tragedy off Lampedusa the European Commission called for the EU to launch Mediterranean-wide search and rescue patrols to intercept migrant boats.

The EU's Frontex border agency, set up in 2004, has seen its budget cut from 118m euros (£100m; $160m) in 2011 to 85m euros in 2013.
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Italy has previously appealed to EU states for help in coping with the thousands of illegal migrants who wash up on its shores every year.

The BBC's Matthew Price, in Lampedusa, says European leaders face a quandary as they struggle to balance political pressures to restrict migrant numbers with the need to assist those desperate enough to risk such a perilous journey.

Lampedusa, 290km (180 miles) off the North African coast, is a key destination for migrant vessels bound for Europe.

Tens of thousands attempt the perilous crossing to Lampedusa, Sicily and other Italian islands each year.

The latest rescue operation swung into action after the Maltese air force spotted the boat and alerted Italian naval vessels still in the area after last Thursday's disaster.

Helicopters were used to lift many to safety but nightfall hampered the rescue operation.
Children among dead

The nationalities of the migrants were not immediately known. At least 33 people were confirmed dead, with one reports estimating the death toll at 50.

Mr Muscat's office said 147 survivors had been picked up by a Maltese patrol boat and were being taken to Malta. Another 56 had been saved by Italian crews.

The prime minister said the dead included three small children.

Cecilia Malmstrom, the EU Commissioner for Home Affairs, praised the swift Italian and Maltese rescue effort, which she said had helped reduce the potential death toll.

She said in a statement that she was following the operation with "sadness and anxiety".

"These new horrible events are happening while we still have the shocking images of the tragedy in Lampedusa in our minds," she added.

Malala Yousafzai meets Obamas at White House

US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have met Pakistani schoolgirl campaigner Malala Yousafzai in the Oval Office.

The Obamas thanked Malala, 16, who was shot in the head last year by the Taliban, for her "inspiring and passionate work" for girls' education.

The Obama's 15-year-old daughter Malia also attended the meeting.

The White House said the US celebrated Malala's courage and determination to promote girls' right to attend school.

"As the First Lady has said, 'Investing in girls' education is the very best thing we can do, not just for our daughters and granddaughters, but for their families, their communities, and their countries'," the White House said in a statement.

On Thursday, Malala was awarded the EU's Sakharov human rights prize. Although she had been tipped for the Nobel Peace Prize, on Friday that went to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the body overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal.

A native of Pakistan's mountainous Swat Valley, Malala rose to prominence in 2009 after writing an anonymous blog for the BBC Urdu service about her life under Taliban rule and the lack of education for girls.

Her name became internationally known after the Pakistan army pushed the Taliban out of the area in 2009.

The Taliban's Islamist doctrine puts harsh restrictions on women's rights and one of the militants shot her last year as she was riding in a bus with school friends.

After the attack, she was flown to the UK for medical treatment and now lives in Birmingham, where she is going to school.