SOURCE LINK: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/25/world/main5773089.shtml?tag=cbsnewsTwoColLowerPromoArea;morenews
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A Swiss adventurer has gone down in the Atlantic while trying to fly from Morocco to Spain on jet-powered wings. A rescue helicopter has pulled him from the water and he appears to be unhurt.
Yves Rossy took off from Tangiers on Wednesday but halfway through an expected 15-minute flight he went down into wind-swept waters.
"Winds were certainly difficult today," the organizers' Twitter Web feed said.
Live television footage of the attempt showed Rossy waving while in the water waiting to be rescued.
HEADLINE: Cop loses job for giving small fines
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26398689-2,00.html
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A VICTORIA Police sergeant has been sacked for using his discretion to give speeding drivers smaller fines than the law required him to do.
The officer is believed to have booked about 500 people over two years around Avondale Heights, in Melbourne's west.
He reduced the penalty for drivers through means such as increasing a zone's speed limit on a ticket.
If a motorist was caught driving 80km/h in a 60km/h speed zone, the sergeant allegedly falsely increased the speed limit to 70km/h so the driver would be fined less and receive one instead of three demerit points off his licence...
HEADLINE: 'Mr. Right' Dupes Woman Out of $50,000 Online
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576592,00.html
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ABUJA, Nigeria — Authorities say an Australian woman who fell in love online was duped out of nearly $50,000 by a Nigerian man who said he was her "Mr. Right."
Lawal Adewale Nurudeen was sentenced to 19 years in prison and ordered to repay the woman. On Monday, Nigeria's anti-graft agency said about $9,300 that had been gathered so far would be returned.
Nigerian authorities say the 28-year-old man presented himself as a Briton working in Nigeria for a multinational company. Nurudeen told the 56-year-old woman he was a widower whose wife and only child had died in a car accident...
HEADLINE: Missing Boy Spent 11 Days in NYC Subway
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,576587,00.html?test=latestnews
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NEW YORK — The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.
The boy's mother, Marisela Garcia, feels police were slow to make the case a priority because she's a Mexican immigrant.
But police say they contacted the school immediately and leafleted most of the city.
Garcia wants to know how her son went unnoticed for so long despite surveillance cameras and a police search. He has Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism.
Police found Francisco Hernandez Jr. on Oct. 26 in a Coney Island subway station.
He says he took refuge in the subway after getting in trouble at school and feared a scolding at home.
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