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Whenever Deng Huidong sees a little boy around 3 years of age, she can't help but wonder if he's her son. Human traffickers snatched him more than a year ago. Huidong believes he was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son that was looking for a male heir. But she and other parents complain of police indifference when children go missing.

Bickley: The Cards have around 200 plays in their playbook. Ever wonder where they come from?

The private security industry in Iraq has ballooned to a record high of 54 companies but will not be subjected to extra scrutiny in the wake of the murders in Baghdad - providing it abides by Iraqi law, a senior official told the Guardian.Despite lingering distrust, officials acknowledge the sector as an 'imposition' necessary to facilitate Iraq's reconstruction, said interior ministry spokesman, Abdul Kareem Kalaph.Foreign investment is widely hailed as Iraq's future lifeblood and despite security gains nationwide, it is still virtually impossible for investors and donors to move around Iraq without security details. The man accused of shooting dead his two colleagues, Daniel Fitzsimons, had returned to make a living by escorting engineers and investors. The two men he is accused of killing, Paul McGuigan, and Darren Hoare, were involved in similar work.Experienced operatives, many of them ex-special forces soldiers are paid £400 each per day to escort clients around the country. An i

Whenever Deng Huidong sees a little boy around 3 years of age, she can't help but wonder if he's her son. Human traffickers snatched him more than a year ago. Huidong believes he was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son looking for a male heir. But she and other parents complain of police indifference when children go missing.

Whenever Deng Huidong sees a little boy around 3 years of age, she can't help but wonder if he's her son. Human traffickers snatched him more than a year ago. Huidong believes he was sold, possibly within hours, to a family without a son looking for a male heir. But she and other parents complain of police indifference when children go missing.

The GD900 Crystal packs two touch-sensitive surfaces: its screen and its transparent, slide-out, glass keypad. The latter isn't just visually appealing -- it's also useful, letting you navigate around without obscuring the screen with your fingers. Plenty of other features prove this phone's no one-trick pony

The second largest planet in our solar system will appear to make its 170,000-mile-wide system of rings disappear Aug. 11. - The 170,000-mile-wide ring system around Saturn will appear to disappear Aug. 11 as the planet's equator will be directly in line with the photons of light streaming in from the sun. On earth, the phenomenon is known as an equinox and it occurs every year about March 21 (spring equinox) and Se...

Sales of Microsoft's Xbox console tripled in the UK in the week following its price-cut to UKP 99, according to sources in the UK retail sector - bringing weekly sales of the system up to around the 15,000 mark. GamesIndustry.biz....

MIAMI, Fla. (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) -- ForeclosureDeals.com has been closely following and analyzing foreclosure filing data around the nation. For the first half of 2009, the company reports that foreclosure filings were just shy of two million. This number is a nine percent increase from the last six months of 2008 and a 15 percent increase from the first six months of 2008.

[ The following is an exact transcript of this podcast. ]The so-called birthers can’t accept that President Obama is really a natural-born American citizen. Part of what’s behind this seemingly irrational belief may lie in what’s called implicit social cognition--the deep-rooted assumptions we all carry around, and may act on without realizing it. [More]