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(Sept. 14) — Clues increasingly pointed to an inside job Monday in the slaying of a Yale graduate student whose body was found stuffed inside a wall five days after she vanished from a heavily secured lab building accessible only to university employees.
Police on Monday sought to calm fears on the Ivy League campus, saying the death of 24-year-old Annie Le was a targeted act but would not say why anyone would want to kill the young woman just days before she was to be married.
"We're not believing it's a random act," said officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman. No one else is in danger, he said, though he would not provide details other than to say that police believe no other students were involved. He also denied broadcast reports that police had a suspect in custody.
Earlier, ABC News reported that authorities investigating Le's killing have focused their efforts on a suspect who failed a lie detector test and who has what appear to be defensive wounds on his body. Sources also told ABC News that bloody clothing removed from the lab contained evidence that links her killer the to the crime.
Meanwhile, Yale officials said the building where Le worked would reopen under increased security. Still, some students worried about their safety.
"I'm not walking at nights by myself anymore," said student Natoya Peart, 21, of Jamaica. "It could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere."
Michael Vishnevetsky, 21, of New York, said he did not feel safe when he made a late trip to his lab Sunday in a different building. "It felt very different than how I usually felt," he said.
Twenty-year-old Muneeb Sultan said he's shocked that a killing could take place in a secure Yale building.

Autopsy results revealed Monday that a body found hidden behind a wall at a Yale University lab is that of graduate student Annie Le. Meanwhile, ABC News reported that police are focusing on a suspect who failed a lie detector test. But a police official later denied this. Above, a surveillance photo, left, shows Le entering the lab on Sept. 8, the day she was last seen alive.


Le, a 24-year-old pharmacology student, vanished just five days before she was due to get married. Police found her body Sunday in a wall chase -- a recess where utilities and cables are run. More than 100 investigators had been searching for her. "We're not believing it's a random act," said Officer Joe Avery, a police spokesman.


Considering the heavily secured lab building was accessible only to university employees, Le's murder appeared to be an inside job. Here, Yale students and faculty participate in a candlelight vigil for Le on campus Monday night.


A high school photo shows Le was one of two students selected as "Most Likely To Be The Next Einstein." Meanwhile, Yale students worried about their safety. "I'm not walking at nights by myself anymore," said one student. "It could happen to anyone, anytime, anywhere."


Authorities said Le used her identification card to enter the lab where her body was found. There was no record of her leaving. Her ID, money, credit cards and purse were found in her office. Above, an undated photo shows Le, front row, center, with other members of her high school in El Dorado, Calif.


Family members on Friday canceled her wedding, which had been scheduled for Sunday. Police have said that her fiance, Jonathan Widawsky, a Columbia University graduate student, is not a suspect and is assisting with the investigation. Here, a billboard showing Le appears alongside Interstate 91 in New Haven, Conn.


A sign posted by Yale graduate students hangs outside the laboratory Sunday, before it was announced that Le's body had been found.


"It's a frightening idea that there's a murderer walking around on campus," said 20-year-old Muneeb Sultan, a chemistry student. "I'm shocked that it happened in a Yale building that had key-card access. It's really sad." Here, Connecticut police stand outside the lab Sunday. (Sources: AP, New Haven Register)

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U.S. actor Patrick Swayze, who went from being a Broadway dancer to a Hollywood star with films like "Dirty Dancing" and "Ghost," has died after a two-year battle against cancer. The artist, 57, died at his home.

"Patrick Swayze died peacefully today, with his family at his side, after meeting the challenges of his illness during the past 20 months," his publicist Annett Wolf said in a statement.

Born in Texas, Swayze started his career as a dancer and made dozens of appearances on stage, screen and television over four decades. His immortality on the big screen came in 1987 with "Dirty Dancing", which exceeded expectations to become one of the most watched films of all time.

In that tape, Swayze starred as Johnny Castle, an arrogant young man who falls in love with the shy teenager Frances "Baby" Houseman, played by Jennifer Gray, at a New York vacation during the decade of the 60s.

Swayze was diagnosed at stage 4 pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease in January 2008. At that point he said that evil had already spread to her liver. But the actor and former dancer promised to fight cancer and was treated with an experimental drug, surprising to shoot a new TV detective series called "The Beast", where

"Dirty Dancing", made on a shoestring budget and almost was thrown out by his studio, became a huge box office success, receiving nominations for Golden Globes for actors and giving rise to the single winner of an Oscar "( I've Had) The Time of My Life ".

Swayze co-wrote and sang "She's Like the Wind" for the soundtrack of the film, Which Came into third place in the pop charts. The popularity of the tape has spanned over two decades and recently caused a stage musical.

The producers did not have many expectations about the movie but got $ 64 million in U.S. box office and $ 214 million worldwide.


In 1990, "Ghost" was more successful than "Dirty Dancing" with a local collection of over 217 million U.S. dollars and 505 million worldwide. Swayze plays the deceased's love Demi Moore, Sam, in the emotional film, candidate for the Academy Award for Best Picture. Whoopi Goldberg won an Oscar for her supporting role as a spiritual medium who helps Sam to communicate with his girlfriend from beyond. Goldberg said he was Swayze who convinced the director Jerry Zucker to hire her.

His role as Danny Zuko in "Grease" on Broadway called the attention of Hollywood and moved to the West Coast in the late 1970s, where he appeared in small roles in film and television. The papers were brought him to stardom teen drama "The Outsiders" 1983 and "Red Dawn" in 1984, in which he and his co-star of "Dirty Dancing", Jennifer Gray, interpret adolescents struggling against an invasion Russian. After Dirty Dancing and Ghost, Swayze experienced several setbacks in his career, including a struggle with alcohol.

Attributing part of their problem drinking to his sudden fame and the Hollywood lifestyle, he returned to Texas with his wife Lisa Niemi, but worked on the tapes "The Green Dragon" and "Donnie Darko", both in 2001.


Swayze was born in Houston and entered the world of acting from a young age. His father was a rodeo champion and her mother had a dance studio. She trained in dance at an early age and played for ballet companies in New York before moving to Broadway.

107-year-old resident of Malaysia Wook Kundor started looking for a new husband, who can become the twenty-third husband, AFP reported on September 14 with reference to the local media. Kundor fears that her current husband, Muhammad Musa, which is younger than her 70 years, may soon leave her for a younger woman. Currently, Musa is a voluntary treatment for drug dependence in Kuala Lumpur, and Wook Kundor feels lonely without him. Mature Malay told reporters he was not going to be alone. "I'm going to get married again, to get rid of the feeling of desolation," - she said. Wook Kundor and Muhammad Musa were married in 2006. Reports of their marriage hit the press, which was associated with age of the bride and a significant difference in age between married couples. Then, various sources reported that Kundor a 21-second or 22-second marriage, but for Musa - the first. Muhammad Musa was boarder Kundor. As they told journalists three years ago, their love came from a sense of mutual respect. Musa Kundor intended to teach the Latin alphabet, and she him - osnvam Islam.

The leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden released audioobraschenie "to the American people." As the representatives of IntelCenter - the organization that tracks terrorist publications, the recording lasts about 10 minutes, transmits Bi-bi-si.

Video appeared on an Islamist site.

It is not known what treatment the subject of "terrorist number one in the world", but it should be noted that the record came just days after the anniversary of the tragedy of 11 September 2001.

Last audioobraschenie U.ben Laden was laid out in the Network in June In his speech, the leader of al-Qaeda lashed out at U.S. President Barack Obama, accusing him of involvement in a military operation against militants of the Taliban in Pakistan's Swat valley.

Large-scale operation against the Taliban government of Pakistan has decided to start because the leaders of the extremists broke a peace agreement with Islamabad, concluded in February 2009. In April, 2009. Taliban occupied the villages in the north-western district Buner, thus attempting to expand its influence in the neighboring Swat province.

The fighting had destroyed about 1,1 thousand militants killed 75 soldiers. Nearly 2 million civilians left the Swat valley.

U.ben Laden said that Barack Obama and his administration have sown new seeds of hatred and revenge against America.

The history is full of examples where public people could not withstand public scrutiny of his personal life and went mad. Apparently, the list of accidents can be extended with another victim of show business: the sexiest woman on the planet admitted that she suffers from schizophrenia.
Hollywood beauty Megan Fox, to his 23-th anniversary of coming to the most Olympus kinoslavy, staunchly holds himself in hand and tries not to fall into the scandalous history. Young actress carefully selects roles (good, can afford it), not to abuse its appearance and even embarrassed himself on screen. However, in the still waters, as they say, run deep ...

In a recent interview with the famous magazine Star "Transformers" admitted that a notice for "symptoms of schizophrenia." According to the actress, she is seriously concerned that her life could end just as tragic as the life of the legendary Marilyn Monroe, which, according to widespread version, committed suicide in 1962.

Answering journalists' questions, the actress tried to be very candid, admitting that almost convinced that she was mentally ill. Currently Megan awaits the conclusion of doctors. "I could end up like Marilyn Monroe. I am constantly struggling with the idea that I was a person at risk of, or persons suffering from a form of schizophrenia. I definitely mentally ill", - said M. Fox. In his public confession Megan also admitted that he felt the strongest self-doubt, considers his body and hates unattractive, when looking at her.

September 11, Muslim pilgrims from around the world who gather to worship the Saudi holy city of Mecca. This is the August 22 this year, the largest since the start of Ramadan prayers. During Ramadan, the Muslim people from dawn to dusk only to water but no food.

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Mmalaysian court sentenced an industrial climber Alain Robert (Alain Robert), better known by the nickname "Spider-Man", to a fine of two thousand ringgit (567 dollars) for illegal entry into the building of Petronas Towers. This Wednesday, September 2, reported Agence France-Presse. On Tuesday morning, Robert managed without the use of special equipment and insurance to get on one of the twin towers of the Petronas Towers, a height of 451 meters. Later he was arrested and taken to the police station, where he was held pending trial. In court, Robert explained his conduct "passion" of mountaineering. Alain Robert climbed in my life more than 80 different buildings. Almost always he was arrested, but mostly no charges "Spider-Man" did not show. The highest building in Malaysia's Petronas Towers, Robert managed to win only the third time - in 1997 and 2007 his attempts to close by the end of the ascent interrupted by police.