New Zealand's oldest immigrant rejects instant fame
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New Zealand's oldest immigrant, 102-year-old Briton Eric King-Turner, sailed into Wellington on Wednesday amid a media frenzy sparked by his decision to retire to the other side of the world.
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BUCHAREST, Jan 19  A 66 year-old Romanian woman dubbed ''the world's oldest mum'' in the local press defended her decision to have a baby, saying she was like any other mother.
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This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours - Rouen deputy mayor Catherine Morin-Desailly PARIS (New York Times) - Since 1875, the mummified, tattooed head of a Maori warrior has been part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Natural History at Rouen in Normandy. But when Rouen's mayor arranged recently to return it to New Zealand as an act of "atonement" for colonial-era trafficking in human remains, the national Ministry of Culture stepped in to block him. The ministry contends that the head is a work of art that belongs to France and that its return could set an unfortunate precedent for a huge swath of national museum collections - from Egyptian mummies in the Louvre to Asian treasures in the MusÃ©e Guimet and African and Oceanic artifacts in the MusÃ©e du Quai Branly. "The mayor of Rouen made his decision without any consultation, and his decision is against the law," Olivier Henrard, the legal adviser for the Ministry of Culture, said.  "There are other Maori heads, there are mummies, there are religious relics in France," he said. "If we don't respect the law today, tomorrow other museums or elected officials might decide to send them back, too." Rouen officials insist that the Maori head is a body part, not artwork, and that due to France's bioethics law it must be returned to its place of origin. "This object reflects the barbaric trafficking in body parts, the belief that another race was inferior to ours," said Catherine Morin-Desailly, Rouen's deputy mayor, who proposed the return. "It belongs to the heritage of humanity, not in storage somewhere in a museum."  The Maoris traditionally preserved the tattooed heads of warriors killed in battle to keep their memory alive. Trade in body parts flourished in the 19th century, as contact with outsiders increased. Europeans collected Maori remains. Some Maori slaves were forcibly tattooed, then decapitated.  Morin-Desailly cites French precedent concerning the return of human remains: Those of Saartjie Baartman - the "Hottentot Venus" as she was labeled in her day. A farmer's slave born in 1789, she was sold to a British Marine surgeon and presented in public in London and later in Paris as a freak because of her oversized buttocks and genitalia.
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A federal immigration judge in Los Angeles yesterday dismissed a 20-year-old effort by the U.S. government to deport two Palestinian activists who once supported a group later determined to be a terrorist organization, calling Washington's lengthy case against the men "an embarrassment to the rule...
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Jakarta - A leading Indonesian scientist on Saturday challenged the widely publicised theory that fossilised bones found on the eastern island of Flores were from a previously unknown species of human.
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The candidate's failure to draw much support from the ethnic community has sparked an ugly debate over whether his race is the reason
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A 66-year-old Romanian said to be the world's oldest mother defends her decision to give birth.
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A 66-year-old Romanian, said to be the world's oldest mother, defends her decision to give birth.
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George Johnson, considered California's oldest living person at 112 and the state's last surviving World War I veteran, had experts shaking their heads over his junk food diet.
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When Annia Hatch was 17, her homeland of Cuba refused to send her to the 1996 Olympics even though she had won the country&#39;s first world championship medal earlier that year.
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An 111-year-old Japanese just named the world&#39;s oldest man said he owed his longevity to steering clear of alcohol.
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Isaac Slade, frontman for The Fray, says he hasn't decided whether he wants to inherit a $15 million English mansion from Sir Benjamin Slade, a 60-year-old aristocrat who may be a distant relative.
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Â· Appeal judge urges all UK residents to be sampledÂ· No plans to widen records, says PM's spokesman
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Hong Kong&#39;s highest court rejected the government&#39;s request that a 67-year-old tenant be given hours instead of weeks to appeal the sale of a $2.7 billion property trust, putting its Dec. 20 trading debut in doubt.
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Auckland International Airport , operator of New Zealand's main international gateway, rejected a Canadian fund's NZ$1.8 billion ($1.4 billion) offer for up to a 40 percent stake, saying it was too low, would raise debt levels and the fund lacked expertise in running airports.
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A 66-year-old Romanian, thought to be the world's oldest mother, tells a UK newspaper she regrets two earlier abortions.
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A Belgian businessman rejected a  Nigerian job applicant because the businessman said his own dog  was racist and would bite non-whites, Belgian media reported  Saturday. The 53-year-old man Nigerian told De Standaard  newspaper he arrived at the Belgian&#39;s wrought-iron business and  was immediately confronted by the barking dog.