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Touching moment a Sikh man breaks strict religious protocol and removes his turban to help save life of little boy

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New Zealand student Harman Singh, 22, broke strict religious protocol by taking off 
his turban to help save the life of a child hit by a car. He has been 
heralded as a hero. Singh removed his turban to help cradle 
the bleeding head of a five-year-old boy who had been hit by a car on his way 
to school.<br />
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Mr Singh heard the accident take place outside his home, 
before running outside to investigate. He broke strict Sikh protocol by 
removing his turban. Turbans become a part 
of a Sikh's body and are usually removed only in the privacy of their 
own house. Normally this is in the most intimate of circumstances, when 
bathing the head, or washing the hair.<br />
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Since the incident occurred, Mr 
Singh has received thousands of messages and comments on his Facebook 
page. 'Thousands of people have said "well done". I was only doing what I
 had to and trying to be a decent member of the community,' he said.<br />
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Source: UK Daily Mail

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Seymour Hersh Report: Pakistan Intel Officer Shared Osama's Hideout Info With US

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ISLAMABAD -- A former Pakistani intelligence officer disclosed the hideout of Osama bin Laden to CIA in exchange for USD 25 million bounty on the head of the al-Qaeda chief, who was living as prisoner under ISI protection in the garrison town of Abbottabad, according to a report.</div>
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"In August 2010 a former senior Pakistani intelligence officer approached Jonathan Bank, then the CIA's station chief at the US embassy in Islamabad. He offered to tell the CIA where to find bin Laden in return for the reward that Washington had offered in 2001," the Dawn reported, citing American investigative journalist and author Seymour M Hersh.</div>
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The intelligence official, Hersh said, was a military man who is now living in Washington and working for the CIA as a consultant. "I cannot tell you more about him," he said.</div>
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The US confirmed the information provided by the official and put the compound under satellite surveillance. Americans later informed the ISI which set up a cell in Ghazi, Tarbela, where "one man from the SEALs and two communicators" practised the raid before executing the operation, Hersh said, adding that it was difficult decision but Pakistan was ultimately taken on board and told about the script to kill Osama.</div>
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Hersh said that whatever the Obama administration told about the operation to kill Osama was part of fiction and the real story was totally different.</div>
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"The most blatant lie was that Pakistan's two most senior military leaders? Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (the then army chief) and Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha (the then ISI chief) ? were never informed of the US mission," he told Dawn.</div>
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When the Americans contacted the Pakistani government and asked for Osama, the ISI insisted that he be killed and his death should be announced a week after the operation.</div>
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Hersh said the Saudi government also knew about Osama's presence it Abbottabad and had advised the Pakistanis to keep him as a prisoner. "Osama was an ISI prisoner and never moved except under their supervision," he said.</div>
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The Americans were required to say that the al-Qaeda chief was found in a mountainous region in the Hindu Kush so that neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan could be blamed for keeping him, Hersh said, adding that the ISI wanted him dead because "they did not want a witness".</div>
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Hersh said President Barack Obama did not consult Gen Kayani and Gen Pasha before releasing the cover story that he shared with his nation in a live broadcast.</div>
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"The cover story trashed Pakistan. It was very embarrassing for them," said Hersh. "Pakistan has a good army, not a bad army, but the cover story made it look bad."</div>
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Hersh also said that Dr Shakil Afridi, the physician now jailed in Peshawar for helping CIA trace down Osama's hideout, was a CIA asset but he did not know about the operation.</div>
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Afridi was used as a cover to hide the real story, he said.</div>
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Osama was killed in Abbottabad on the night of May 2, 2011, in a covert raid conducted by US Navy Seal.</div>

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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Chinese billionaire, Li Jinyuan, the chairman Tiens Group Company, has taken 6,400 of his staff on a 4-day holiday to France which finished with a world-record breaking human chain in Cote D'Azur. </span><br /><br /><div class="mol-para-with-font">
<span style="font-size: x-small;">According to <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3074574/Chinese-billionaire-takes-6-400-staff-holiday-Paris-Cote-d-Azur-making-world-s-longest-human-chain.html" style="color: #990000; text-decoration: none;">Mail Online</a>, Jinyuan, 57, (pictured right in white) booked up 140 hotels in Paris where the group visited the Louvre and various cultural sites in one of the world's most famous and revered cities. The huge group of tourists then made their way to the glamorous Cote D'Azur, where they booked 4,760 rooms in 79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> It took 147 buses to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate the world's biggest ever human chain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I<span id="ext-gen150">t took 147 buses to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate the world's biggest ever human chain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The 6,400 employees arranged themselves to spell out the phrase 'Tiens' dream is Nice in the Cote d'Azur', to celebrate 20 years of partnership between the Chinese company and the French region.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">France is expected to be 33million Euros better off thanks to the all-expenses-paid staff trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The group were expected to spend 13million euros in Paris, home of the Eiffel Tower, the Arc De Triomph and The Louvre.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Nice was expected to be 20million better off thanks to the visit - and many of the guests stayed in hotels Cannes, where the famous film festival is to be held next week, and Monaco, long known for being a playground of the rich and famous. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Li Jinyuan, 57, is listed as a billionaire on the Forbes rich list and took more than half of his staff to the region to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the founding of the company.</span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1951">The fast-food chain's chief executive, Steve Easterbrook, revealed <a data-rapid_p="9" href="http://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-ceo-reveals-turnaround-plan-2015-5" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a massive turnaround strategy</a>on Monday, following years of lagging sales and traffic.</span></div>
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Easterbrook also admitted to some of the chain's blunders that led to its current slump.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1957">Here are the weaknesses that Easterbrook mentioned:</span></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1960">1. McDonald's needs to serve higher-quality food.</strong></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1963">Customers are demanding "great-tasting, high-quality food," and McDonald's needs to make changes to some of its core menu items to meet that demand, Easterbrook said on a call with analysts Monday.</span></div>
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In an recent step in that direction, the company pledged to remove antibiotics and hard-to-pronounce ingredients from its chicken.</div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1969">2. McDonald's has been slow to react to customers' changing tastes and needs. </strong>Customers want a more progressive restaurant experience than what McDonald's is currently offering,Easterbrook said. </div>
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He said the company needs to be "faster with innovation and smarter with taking risks." </div>
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"In the last five years the world has moved faster outside the business than inside," Easterbrook said. "The business cannot ignore what customers are saying when the message is clear: We’re not on our game."</div>
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<strong>3. The corporate structure is bloated and cumbersome. </strong>The company plans to strip away layers of management to streamline operations.</div>
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"Our existing organization is inefficient and lacks clear accountability," Easterbrook said. "We need to execute fewer things better."</div>
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<strong>4.</strong><strong> McDonald's menu is too big, and it's slowing down service. </strong>The chain needs to "reduce complexity for customers and crew," Easterbrook said.</div>
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McDonald's menu has grown 42.4% in the past seven years, from 85 items in 2007 to 121 items today, according to <a data-rapid_p="11" href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/mcdonalds-menu-problem-its-supersized-1417631056" style="color: #324fe1; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Wall Street Journal</a>.</div>
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<strong>5. The company has had some marketing misses.</strong> Easterbrook said McDonald's has made the mistake of targeting millennials in its advertisements as if they are one homogeneous group.  Going forward, the company will engage in "less sweeping talk of millennials as if they are one single group with shared attitudes," he said.</div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1913">"One thing we can do is make available the facts as they are today" about the food McDonald's serves "so people can make judgments based on reality instead of misconceptions," he said.</span></div>
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<strong id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1916">7. The company doesn't give enough power to franchisees. </strong></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1919">Easterbrook repeatedly emphasized the importance of franchisees to the company's success. </span></div>
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<span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430855268235_1925">"By putting more restaurants in the hands of our best owner/operators, we're getting closer to the communities and customers we serve," he said.</span></div>

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