Mes: agosto 2019

(CBS News) ISLAMABAD – A teenaged Christian girl arrested in Pakistan on a controversial charge of blasphemy was ordered released on bail by a judge Friday, but there are concerns that her life may still be in danger even after seemingly dodging the allegation – which could technically have brought the death penalty. Judge Azam Khan ordered her release on about $10,000 bail after hearing competing arguments from the defense and prosecution lawyers. CBS News is withholding her identity as she is a minor.  “Our position has been vindicated. My client is now free on bail,” Tahir Chaudhary, the girl’s lawyer told CBS News. The rare legal victory for an individual targeted with Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy laws followed a tumultuous three weeks for the teenager who, according to a medical report, is 14 years old, but not intellectually developed to a level typical of her age. Chaudhary told CBS News his client suffers from “mental ailments that have hindered her mental development,” without specifying her condition. She was arrested after someone from her low-income neighborhood in Islamabad’s suburbs complained of seeing her carrying burned pages of the Koran – the Islamic holy book. Desecration of the Koran is considered blasphemy in Pakistan – an offense which can bring the death penalty, though it has never been meted out in court. Pakistan extends girl’s detention in blasphemy casePakistan arrests girl...

Researchers say a new study should help ease the minds parents of premature babies when it comes to how well their children will perform in school. The report, published in JAMA Pediatrics, finds that babies born early often catch up to their peers academically. About 10 percent of babies in the U.S. are born prematurely — before 37 weeks of pregnancy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “We know a lot about the medical and clinical outcomes [of premature babies] and we know some about short-term educational outcomes, but what we didn’t know is how the babies do once they get further out into elementary school and middle school,” the study’s first author Dr. Craig Garfield, associate professor of pediatrics and 음성출장샵 of medical social sciences at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, told CBS News. The study found that two-thirds of babies born at only 23 or 24 weeks were ready for kindergarten on time. The researchers were surprised to see that nearly 2 percent of these extreme preemies even achieved gifted status in school.  Though extremely premature babies often scored low on standardized tests, preterm infants born 25 weeks or later performed only slightly lower than full-term infants. For babies born after 28 weeks, the differences in test scores were negligible. For the study, the researchers analyzed data on more than 1.3 million babies...

(AP) SEOUL, South Korea – It’s a classic tale of a small-town girl who follows her dreams to the big city. But in this case, the girl is a North Korean coal miner, the big city is Pyongyang and her dream is to become a high-flying trapeze artist. “Comrade Kim Goes Flying,” a collaboration between a North Korean director and two European filmmakers, makes its world premiere Saturday at the Toronto International Film Festival before it heads to Pyongyang later this month for its North Korean debut. The film was shot on location with an all-Korean cast, but it avoids overtly political themes and isn’t what foreign audiences might expect to see from North Korea: a feel-good romantic comedy about a plucky young woman who grabs her chance to run off to the circus, only to find her wings clipped by the show’s handsome but arrogant superstar. He seems determined to make sure she doesn’t succeed – until he falls in love with her. Watch: A glimpse at the real North KoreaU.S. scolds North Korea for unauthorized Disney show British co-director Nicholas Bonner called the story an “unexpected fairytale.” “It’s one purely about a girl going about her dream” Bonner told The Associated Press in an interview in Pyongyang. “She’s an individual and rather cheeky character with this dream of hers to fly.” Bonner has been traveling to Pyongyang...