Medicii au decis, pentru prima dată, întreruperea sarcinii în cazul unei fetiÅ£e de 11 ani. FetiÅ£a, însărcinată în patru luni, a fost violată de unchiul ei, în vârstă de 19 ani. 

Potrivit lui Constantin Nanu, directorul Spitalului de Urgenţă Piatra NeamÅ£, fetiÅ£a a fost văzută de o comisie formată din medici care a propus întreruperea sarcinii. Echipa medicală este formată din specialiÅŸti în ginecologie, pediatrie, neuropsihiatrie ÅŸi medicină legală. În urma consultaÅ£iei, pediatrul a recomandat întreruperea sarcinii, iar familia a fost de acord. CeilalÅ£i medici susÅ£in însă că trebuie să ia în calcul toate riscurile pe care le presupun atât continuarea sarcinii, cât ÅŸi un avort.

Mii de fete până la 15 ani devin anual mame. Dacă până în 2005, doar fetele de 14-15 ani intrau în scripte ca fiind mame, vârsta scade de la un an la altul. Conform unui raport al Institutului NaÅ£ional de Statistică, au fost cazuri în care fete de 12 ani au născut ÅŸi au ÅŸi păstrat copilul, renunÅ£ând la ÅŸcoală.

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Ne-a fost frică, am scăpat!

NaÅ£ionala noastră a câÅŸtigat un punct după un meci fără mari ocazii

SperanÅ£a României la gol – cornerele ÅŸi capul fundaÅŸului Goian

România a început bine Euro 2008 în faÅ£a uneia dintre favoritele la titlu, FranÅ£a. Rezultatul final, 0-0, este ceea ce de fapt ÅŸi-au propus elevii lui Victor PiÅ£urcă. Partida a debutat lent, cu un joc previzibil de ambele părÅ£i ÅŸi cu multă teamă. FranÅ£a ÅŸi-ar fi dorit să câÅŸtige, pentru că trei puncte în faÅ£a României erau foarte importante, dar nu s-a putut.

Francezii au avut mai multe ocazii decât noi, ce-i drept, dar poarta apărată de LobonÅ£ nu a fost niciodată cu adevărat în pericol. „Bătrânii” francezi nu ne-au dat emoÅ£ii iar tricolorii au prins tupeu ÅŸi, uÅŸor-uÅŸor, au echilibrat jocul.

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Un muncitor român în vârstă de 28 de ani a fost ucis de un cuplu din Verona (nordul Italiei) pentru încasarea unei asigurări de viaţă în valoare de un milion de euro.

Tancredi Valerio Volpe ÅŸi Cristina Nervo, proprietarii unei firme de transport, l-au ucis pe românul Adrian Ioan Cosmin, în vârstă de 28 de ani, informează La Repubblica în ediÅ£ia electronică de marÅ£i.

Pentru că românul lucra fără contract la firma lor de aproximativ doi ani, patronii italieni au condiÅ£ionat intrarea acestuia în legalitate de încheierea unei asigurări de viaţă. Unicul beneficiar al asigurării este chiar Cristina Nero.

Corpul carbonizat al românului a fost găsit sâmbăta trecută într-un vehicul, în localitatea Cavaion Veronese, situată în apropiere de Verona.

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BEIJING, China (CNN) — A huge volume of water Tuesday surged from a lake created by China’s massive earthquake, safely plunging downstream through an area where hundreds of thousands had been braced for disaster, officials said.

The mammoth effort to drain Tangjiashan lake — where floodwaters behind a landslide had threatened to burst through the wall of rubble to submerge low-lying towns — was declared a success by officials who said the crisis was over.

But with the risk of man-made drainage channels collapsing under pressure from the water charging through them, there was still a danger of sudden tidal waves.

The official Xinhua news agency reported late Tuesday that a crest of flood water, carrying with it trees, TVs, refrigerators and the bodies of earthquake victims, had surged safely past the city of Mianyang in southwestern Sichuan province.

Up to 250,000 people had already been evacuated from the area ahead of the deluge, but 400,000 remained in the city, where minor flooding and damage to buildings was reported as the torrent surged past.

The flood waters were released earlier by engineers and troops who had toiled for days using mechanical diggers, dynamite and anti-tank weapons to blast drainage channels through the landslide dam.

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WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Barack Obama’s vice presidential search team on Tuesday shared with a Democratic senator the names of about 20 people under consideration to be the presumptive Democratic nominee’s running mate.

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-North Dakota, said that some of those considered are "top officials now," others are "former lawmakers" and others are "former top military leaders."

He said many of the names already have been "bandied about" in the media, but others were "outside the box."

He declined to give examples.

Conrad said the team wanted his impressions about the people considered, the "respect" others hold for them and their "standing with their colleagues." The list may not have included everyone under consideration.

Two of the three members of the search team, Jim Johnson and Eric Holder, came to Conrad’s Capitol Hill office Tuesday morning for a "wide-ranging" and "free-form" meeting that lasted about 40 minutes, Conrad said.

The third member of the team, Caroline Kennedy, was not there.

Johnson and Holder arrived on Capitol Hill on Monday for several days of meetings with top Democrats, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

They spent about 30 minutes with Reid on Monday before heading over to speak with House leaders, a senior Democratic aide said.

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Pasadena, Calif. — NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blasted to smithereens.

The stellar corpse, called SGR 1900+14, belongs to a class of objects known as magnetars. These are the cores of massive stars that blew up in supernova explosions, but unlike other dead stars, they slowly pulsate with X-rays and have tremendously strong magnetic fields.

"The universe is a big place and weird things can happen," said Stefanie Wachter of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, who found the ring serendipitously. "I was flipping through archived Spitzer data of the object, and that’s when I noticed it was surrounded by a ring we’d never seen before." Wachter is lead author of a paper about the findings in this week’s Nature. You can see the ring at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/20080528.html .

Wachter and her colleagues think that the ring, which is unlike anything ever seen before, formed in 1998 when the magnetar erupted in a giant flare. They believe the crusty surface of the magnetar cracked, sending out a flare, or blast of energy, that excavated a nearby cloud of dust, leaving an outer, dusty ring. This ring is oblong, with dimensions of about seven by three light-years. It appears to be flat, or two-dimensional, but the scientists said they can’t rule out the possibility of a three-dimensional shell.

"It’s as if the magnetar became a huge flaming torch and obliterated the dust around it, creating a massive cavity," said Chryssa Kouveliotou, senior astrophysicist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala., and a co-author of the paper. "Then the stars nearby lit up a ring of fire around the dead star, marking it for eternity."

The discovery could help scientists figure out if a star’s mass influences whether it becomes a magnetar when it dies. Though scientists know that stars above a certain mass will "go supernova," they do not know if mass plays a role in determining whether the star becomes a magnetar or a run-of-the-mill dead star. According to the science team, the ring demonstrates that SGR 1900+14 belongs to a nearby cluster of young, massive stars. By studying the masses of these nearby stars, the scientists might learn the approximate mass of the original star that exploded and became SGR 1900+14.

"The ring has to be lit up by something, otherwise Spitzer wouldn’t have seen it," said Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz of the University of California, Santa Cruz. "The nearby massive stars are most likely what’s heating the dust and lighting it up, and this means that the magnetar, which lies at the exact center of the ring, is associated with the massive star-forming region."

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Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. By decoding ghostly echoes of light traveling away from the remains of a supernova called Cassiopeia A, the scientists have pieced together what the star looked like in life, and ultimately how it met its demise.

The discovery, made using primarily NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Japan’s Subaru telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii, represents the first time astronomers have been able to resurrect the life history of a supernova remnant in our own galaxy.

"Cassiopeia A lies in our cosmic backyard and offers the sharpest view of what is left hundreds of years after a supernova explosion," said Oliver Krause of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, lead author of a paper about the discovery appearing in this week’s Science. "The echoes of light we found around Cassiopeia A provide us with a time machine to go back and see its past."

Cassiopeia A is one of the most explored objects in our sky and the subject of more than 1,000 scientific papers. It is the burnt-out corpse of a massive star that ended its life in a fiery supernova about 11,300 years ago. In fact, until recently, it was the youngest supernova remnant in our Milky Way galaxy (the new record holder, G1.9+0.3, was recently discovered using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and other ground-based telescopes).

Because Cassiopeia A is 11,000 light-years from Earth, the light from its explosion would have reached Earth, sweeping right past it, about 300 years ago.

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LONDON, England (AP) – Cutting through the canopy some 60 feet high, Kew Gardens’ new XStrata Treetop Walkway gives nature-lovers a look at a part of the forest that’s seldom seen — a view from the top.

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, in west London, is hoping the soaring steel walkway will allow the public to experience the environment hidden just above its tree line.

"Retrospectively it was a leap of faith," curator Nigel Taylor said, describing the difficulty of erecting the 448-ton structure at the heart of an 18th century landscaped garden.

But he said the 220-yard circular walkway allowed visitors to "see a side of the forest that was completely invisible."

Project manager Tony Kirkham said the walkway was aimed at showcasing every part of the tree — from top to bottom. Entry is through an underground chamber where bronze-cast roots poke out of the concrete, animatronic insects buzz and squirm behind glass portholes, and a glowing mosaic (representing fungi) casts an uneven light.

"It’s meant to look like a factory," Kirkham said, "This is the engineering part of the tree."

Kirkham allowed that real roots would have been "pretty boring," but once at the top, the view is anything but.

The whole park stretches out from the various viewing platforms — on a clear day central London’s skyscrapers, some 11 miles away, are visible.

Sweet chestnuts and American red oaks crowd around the structure, branching out over and under the walkway, their leaves poking gingerly through the crosshatches as a sparrow hawk wheels lazily overhead.

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Lungmetrajul inspirat din serialul de televiziune de succes "Totul despre sex" s-a situat pe primul loc în box office-ul românesc, în săptămâna 2-8 iunie, cu încasări de 205.812 lei, potrivit datelor furnizate de AgenÅ£ia Champions.

În prima săptămână de prezenţă în cinematografele din România, "Totul despre sex/ Sex and the City: The Movie" a fost vizionat de 12.982 de spectatori.

Eroinele newyorkeze Carrie, Samantha, Miranda ÅŸi Charlotte au permis studiourilor Warner Bros să stabilească un record de încasări în SUA pentru prima zi de lansare - peste 20 de milioane de dolari - cele mai bune încasări obÅ£inute vreodată în istoria filmului american de o comedie romantică sau de un film destinat în special publicului feminin.

Liderul box office-ului din săptămâna 26 mai - 1 iunie, "Mariaj de Vegas/ What Happens in Vegas", a coborât pe poziÅ£ia a doua, cu încasări de 204.205 lei.

"Mariaj de Vegas", în regia lui Tom Vaughan, spune povestea lui Joy (Cameron Diaz) ÅŸi a lui Jack (Ashton Kutcher) care, deÅŸi iniÅ£ial nu ÅŸtiau unul de existenÅ£a celuilalt, se trezesc căsătoriÅ£i într-o dimineaţă, în Vegas. Cei doi descoperă că au câÅŸtigat o imensă sumă de bani la jocurile de noroc din Vegas ÅŸi trebuie să îÅŸi împartă câÅŸtigurile, înainte de a se despărÅ£i.

În săptămâna 2-8 iunie, filmul a avut un număr de 14.283 de spectatori.

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Inventatorii britanici au creat o îngheÅ£ată rotativă care ajută persoanele leneÅŸe să nu consume energie cu mâncatul acesteia.

Dezvoltatorii spun că invenÅ£ia este utilă pentru că nu permite scurgerea îngheÅ£atei în zilele călduroase, odihneÅŸte limba ÅŸi permite iubitorilor de soare să-ÅŸi menajeze încheietura mâinii, informează telegraph.co.uk.

Dispozitivul este pentru utilizare la domiciliu, după o zi de leneveală în grădină, ÅŸi este compus dintr-un con care poate fi umplut cu îngheÅ£ata preferată.

Dispozitivul, care funcţionează cu baterii, este lavabil şi costă 5,75 de lire sterline (7,19 euro).

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