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French Couple Killed 8 New Born Babies | Villers-au-Tertre Couple Arrested | Eight New Born Babies Bodies Found in Villers-au-Tertre

A woman has been charged over the discovery of the bodies of eight newborn babies at two locations in northern France, the French Interior Ministry said Thursday.

Gendarmes found the remains in the village of Villers-au-Tertre, south of Lille, some in a home and others in the garden of another home.

The woman has admitted giving birth to and killing the babies and has been charged with voluntary manslaughter, prosecutor Eric Vaillant said. But her husband has not been charged after telling investigators he knew nothing of the pregnancies and deaths, he said.

The couple are in their mid-forties. The woman is a nursing assistant while her husband is a member of the local council, a neighbor told AFP.

"These are attractive, helpful, polite and courteous people, who did nothing to make you think them capable of anything abnormal," he said.

Another resident said the couple had two grown-up daughters and were grandparents, AFP said. The pair had lived in the village for at least 15 years, neighbors said.

Former mayor Daniel Collignon said Villers-au-Tertre was a quiet, rural community. "I’m still in shock," he told AFP.

Police said a man digging in his backyard found the remains of two newborn children and called police. The man said he bought the home from another couple who live a few minutes’ drive away.

When police searched the couple’s home with sniffer dogs they found the bodies of six infants, they said.

Psychotherapist Lucy Beresford told CNN that very little was known about the circumstances of infanticide because it was a taboo subject.

Research suggested that women who denied or concealed their pregnancies, for whatever reason, were a "high-risk" group, she said. But other factors could trigger infanticide as well.

"It could actually be to do with the social isolation of the mother, or it could be their psychopathology prior to pregnancy," Beresford told CNN.

"For example, do they have a history of substance abuse or other mental health concerns that have contributed to them being in this situation which they cannot accept as a reality?"

Postnatal depression could also be a possible contributory factor, she said.

"That could be because when they’re depressed they’re not really of sound mind. It could be that they genuinely believe they are unworthy to be a parent. Or it could just be the level of disordered thinking that comes with being depressed."

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Heavy rains in pakistan | Delay salvage of crashed plane | Heavy rains delay salvage of crashed Pakistan plane

Heavy monsoon rains in Islamabad on Thursday hampered recovery efforts at the site of a Pakistani plane crash that killed all 152 people on board a day earlier, a senior police officer said.

The Airbus 321, belonging to private airline AirBlue, crashed on Wednesday into a steep and heavily-wooded hillside in Islamabad shortly before it was due to land after a flight from the southern port city of Karachi.

Thick fog and rainy weather are considered the most likely reasons for the worst aviation accident on Pakistani soil.

Bin Yameen, deputy inspector-general with the Islamabad police, told Reuters the operation to recover the remains of victims could not be resumed due to the heavy rain. Difficulty in accessing the site was also complicating salvage efforts.

"We are waiting for the rain to stop. In such weather, neither helicopters can fly nor rescue workers move up easily.

"We may give it a try but it seems very difficult to carry out such operation in difficult terrain," he said.

Investigators were looking into causes of the crash, said senior Civil Aviation Administration officer Ayaz Jadoon.

"They’re going through records and documents, though they couldn’t go up because of bad weather," he said, adding the plane’s flight data recorder has yet to be recovered.

EVIDENCE WASHING AWAY

The control tower at the airport was sealed off, and radio traffic between the plane and the tower was being examined.

The torrential rain may also damage, or wash away, evidence at the site.

"Time is very precious," the investigation team’s head, Khawaja Abdul Majeed, told Dawn News television after arriving in Islamabad late Wednesday from Karachi.

"We have to collect evidence as soon as possible, so we don’t have much time."

While Wednesday’s crash is the worst aviation accident inside Pakistan, the state-owned airline PIA has had worse disasters. In 1979 and 1992, PIA jets crashed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Kathmandu, Nepal, killing 156 and 167 people, respectively.

Within Pakistan, the last major aviation accident was in 2006 when a PIA plane crashed near the central city of Multan killing 45 people.

The federal information minister said late on Wednesday rescue workers had been able to recover 115 bodies during a day-long operation at the hard-to-access site.

Some relatives gathered at the city’s main Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) hospital to identify bodies.

A hospital official, Tahir Nadeem, said 59 bodies had been identified and taken away by their relatives while the remaining bodies — mostly in pieces — have been sent to the morgue.

The government declared a day of mourning on Thursday for the victims.

"My heart and mind are not ready to believe that he has died. I’m still hoping he might call me anytime," civil engineer Nadeem Ahmed told Reuters, as he searched among the bodies at the hospital for his brother. Ahmed did not find his brother’s body.

Sarfraz Chaudhry, a retired soldier, was hoping to find body of his sister, Gulzar Bibi, who was one of eight family members on the ill-fated plane.

"She was coming here to attend a funeral of a 90-year-old relative, but nobody knew that she and others would have their last day," he said.

"We have identified six of our dead relatives, but of my sister and one other, we are still searching and hope that we find them."

(Additional reporting by Augustine Anthony in Islamabad; Editing by Chris Allbritton and Miral Fahmy)

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India has raised security concerns on BlackBerry | Govt raises security concerns over BlackBerry services

India has raised security concerns with Research In Motion(RIM.TO) over the Canadian company’s popular BlackBerry services, but is not planning a ban in the world’s fastest growing mobile phone market.

Internal Security Chief U.K. Bansal told reporters on Thursday that he hoped Indian concerns that militants may use the BlackBerry data services would be resolved soon.

"They (RIM) have assured us that they will be addressing it," Bansal said.

Security officials are concerned that the BlackBerry services poses a national security threat because of encrypted data sent on RIM devices. They want access to the encrypted services.

The home ministry has clamped down on mobile phone operators following the Mumbai attacks in 2008, which killed 166 people.

India said on Wednesday telecoms equipment vendors must allow inspection of their gear and made carriers solely responsible for the security of their networks, addressing security worries that had led to restrictions on Chinese manufacturers.

The authorities have also clamped down on pre-paid mobile phone subscriptions in the disputed Kashmir region because of suspicion they were used by militants to stage attacks against Indian security forces. India also says Pakistani-based militants used Indian mobile phone networks to plan the Mumbai attacks.

Telecoms companies are now required to provide more details about mobile phone users or risk being banned from providing certain services.

(Reporting by Bappa Majumdar; writing by Paul de Bendern; editing by Malini Menon)

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India gold recovery by september 2010 | Gold prices may recover Sep In India |POLL – India gold recovery seen by end-Sept

Indian spot gold prices may recover by the end of September helped by bargain-buying after it shed more than 7 percent from its all-time high, but easing global inflationary concerns may check gains, bank dealers and analysts said.

In subsequent quarters, gold is expected to trade below the all-time high of 19,198 rupees per 10 grams seen in early June.

Gold traded at 17,720 rupees at 11:53 a.m. on Wednesday, after hitting a 2-½-month low of 17,711, a level last seen on May 5, but still down more than 7 percent from their all-time peak.

HDFC Bank quoted gold at 17,918 rupees per 10 grams, down 1.8 percent from the previous trading session.

"Prices have fallen a lot now, and are at their support levels… we could be some accumulation at lower levels," said a official with a state-run bank in Mumbai, which deals in bullion.

Lower inflationary pressures could dim the yellow metal’s appeal as a safe hedge.

Weak energy costs pushed U.S. consumer prices down for a third straight month in June while consumer sentiment dropped to a near one-year low in July.

"Investment demand could come down (for gold) as inflationary fears lessen," said Gnanasekar Thiagarajan, director, Commtrendz Research in Mumbai.

Gold is expected to recover to 18,050 rupees by the end of September, a Reuters poll of 19 participants, which included 8 bullion dealing banks and 11 commodity brokerages showed.

"Going forward, we believe that price of the precious metal is likely to witness some amount of consolidation in Q3 2010, as European concerns abate," said an economist with a private bank that is a large gold importer.

Gold futures had struck a life high on June 8 on the back of safe-haven premium on euro zone crisis and investment demand through overseas Exchange Traded Funds (ETF).

Gold may rise further in the subsequent quarters on the back of recovering seasonal festive demand in the last quarter, when dhanteras, the single biggest gold buying festival, is slated.

"Pick-up in demand is expected on account of marriages and festival season in India, which could trigger upside in prices," said Amar Singh, head business development and research with Aditya Birla Money, a commodity broker based in Mumbai.

"Further, funds are also likely to become more active as volatility would increase in December quarter," said Singh.

India, the world’s largest consumer of the yellow metal, imported 106.7 tonnes of gold in October-December 2009, up 82 percent on year.

Gold may rise to 18,670 rupees by the end of December quarter, and 18,700 by the end of first quarter of 2011, a poll conducted over a two-week period showed.

(Editing by Sunil Nair)

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