Mes: agosto 2019

Updated at 12:03 p.m. ET (AP) BERLIN – A woman killed her five infants shortly after giving birth in secret at home and in the woods because each time she got pregnant she worried her husband would leave her if she had any more children, authorities said Thursday. The woman, 28, who has been arrested on five counts of manslaughter, made a “comprehensive confession” to the killings after turning herself in as a six-year investigation closed in on her, said Ulrike Stahlmann-Liebelt, the head prosecutor in Flensburg, on Germany’s border with Denmark. Stahlmann-Liebelt said the woman, whose name was not released in accordance with German privacy laws, has two living children, aged 8 and 10. But then in 2006 she began hiding her pregnancies, staying away from doctors and hospitals and killing the infants after giving birth to two at home and three in the woods, she said. “She had the impression her husband would leave her if she had any more children, and that’s why she didn’t tell anyone she was pregnant, including her husband,” Stahlmann-Liebelt said. “She has said that the family lived at a certain level of prosperity, that it was clear her husband did not want any more children, and that one reason was to preserve this standard, and she feared that might be endangered if another child were there.” The husband has told police...

LOS ANGELES — Brad Pitt was unable to put the cat out of first place at the weekend box office. Walt Disney’s “The Lion King” reissue was No. 1 for the second-straight weekend with $22.1 million, according to studio estimates Sunday. That puts it just ahead of Pitt’s baseball drama “Moneyball,” a Sony Pictures release that opened at No. 2 with $20.6 million. Debuting closely behind at No. 3 was the Warner Bros. family film “Dolphin Tale” with $20.3 million. “Dolphin Tale” stars Harry Connick Jr., Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. The 3-D reissue of 1994’s “The Lion King” has taken in $61.7 million since opening the previous weekend to a much bigger audience than expected. That’s on top of nearly $800 million worldwide the movie made in its original run and a 2002 re-release. Photos: Dolphin’s prosthetic tale comes to big screenImages: Angelia, Brad play “Moneyball”Photos: Fall films 2011 The film has done so well that Disney plans to leave it in theaters longer than the two-week run the studio initially planned as a prelude to its Blu-ray home-video debut Oct. 4, said Dave Hollis, Disney’s head of distribution. The studio has not yet decided how long or how widely the film would play theatrically after the Blu-ray release, Hollis said. “Consumers I think will be happy to consume it in multiple ways for this kind of franchise,...

(CBS) “Boston” Rob Mariano may have finally won the $1 million prize last year on “Redemption Island,” but the four-time player isn’t done with “Survivor” yet. Mariano, who is appearing next on the History Channel show “Around the World in 80 Ways,” tells Celebrity Circuit that he and his wife, fellow “Survivor” winner Amber Brkich Mariano, watch the show together and comment on it. “Thank God for DVR because we pause, we’ll have a discussion and then it goes about two-and-a-half hours to watch the show,” he laughs. “Sometimes we agree, sometimes we don’t. That’s what makes it fun, to have the perspective of who people who have played and won. We love it.” Mariano tuned in for last week’s season premiere of “Survivor: South Pacific,” and sized up the competition for us. Pictures: “Survivor: South Pacific” Celebrity Circuit: We’re only one episode in, but what are your impressions so far? “Boston” Rob Mariano: It’s going to be tough for either [“Survivor” veterans Ozzy Lusth and Benjamin “Coach” Wade] to win, I think – even tougher because of the fact that I won last year. I think right now they’re doing a good job. They’re, for the most part, staying low-key, not causing crazy waves, which you don’t want to do in the beginning. They have to make themselves useful, so that [the other castaways] want to keep them....

(AP) MISRATA, Libya – One of the young Libyan rebels credited with capturing Muammar Qaddafi in a drainage ditch nearly a year ago died Tuesday of injuries after being kidnapped, beaten and slashed by the late dictator’s supporters – the latest victim of persistent violence and instability in the North African country. The death of Omran Shaaban, who had been hospitalized in France, raised the prospect of even more violence and score-settling, with the newly elected National Congress authorizing police and the army to use force if necessary to apprehend those who abducted the 22-year-old and three companions in July near the town of Bani Walid. Libya is battling lingering pockets of support for the old regime, and its government has been unable to rein in armed militias in a country rife with weapons. Earlier this month, a demonstration at the U.S. Consulate in the eastern city of Benghazi turned violent, killing four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador. Shaaban was praised as a “dutiful martyr” by the National Congress, although his family says he never received a promised reward of 1 million Libyan dinars ($800,000) for capturing Qaddafi on Oct. 20, 2011, in the former leader’s hometown of Sirte. The eccentric dictator was killed later that day by revolutionary fighters. The Libyan government said it would honor Shaaban with a funeral befitting a hero. His body was greeted at...