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...close friend Ibu Herlina, 53, who describe themselves as Yunus' adoptive grandmother and mother, respectively. However, the child's situation is not unique, and Normawati (who like many Indonesians goes by a single name) is not unused to it. Indeed, the campaigner for migrant-worker rights and her daughter are raising several children of half-foreign parentage who were abandoned by raped migrant mothers. There are dozens of children of similar backgrounds in Jakarta and its environs. (See pictures of migrant workers in the Gulf...
...wasn't just the suddenness of Enke's suicide that gripped Germany, but the surprise that a player seemingly on top of his game with an adopted infant daughter could have struggled so massively - and so privately - with depression. Teresa Enke, the goaltender's widow, broke down at a news conference on Wednesday as she explained how her husband had tried to conceal his depression from the media out of fear that their 8-month-old daughter, Leila, would be taken away if it became public. "I tried to be there for him, to give him hope," she said...
...others are convinced that his religion protected him from stronger action by the Army. "He'd have to murder the general's wife and daughter on the parade ground at high noon in order to get a serious reprimand," says Ralph Peters, an outspoken retired Army lieutenant colonel who now writes military books and a newspaper column. While stressing "there shouldn't be witch hunts" against Muslims in uniform, Peters insists that "this guy got a pass because he was a Muslim, despite the Army's claim that everybody's green and we're all the same." A top Pentagon...
...apartment Hassan shares with an Iraqi refugee and a fellow Somali, he shows pictures of his wife, son and daughter in Mogadishu. A calendar hangs on the wall as the sole decoration in an otherwise spartan room with two beds and a lonely CD player. Had he made it to Sweden, Hassan says he would have had his wife and children travel to meet him there. Now, he thinks he made a mistake in leaving. "Given a choice," he says, "I would love to go back home...
...shooting video for short promotional spots. His book Nine Dragons, which debuted last month at No. 3 on the New York Times best-seller list, follows hard-boiled detective Harry Bosch, in his 15th novel, from Los Angeles to Hong Kong's Kowloon district in search of his missing daughter. Months after his visit, while preparing for his book's launch, Connelly ran across a YouTube clip about Ashekian's disappearance - a case that bore an eerie similarity to his own fictional story. Connelly immediately went back to the film his videographer shot in Chungking Mansions. He had raw footage...