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Father poisoned children in car

Triple death due to Carbon Monoxide poisoning.

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Two children and their father found dead in a car in an isolated beauty spot died from carbon monoxide poisoning, police have confirmed.

Brian Philcox, 52, is thought to have taken his children to the Conwy Valley on Father's Day and gassed them.

His body was found in a Land Rover with his son Owen, aged three, and his daughter Amy, aged seven.

Police said all three, from Runcorn in Cheshire, had died from poisoning due to inhaling car exhaust fumes.

A pipe had been placed from the exhaust of the Land Rover in through the back window, officers said.

Det Ch Insp Wayne Jones from North Wales Police said there were no other injuries on the children.

World karate champion Ngan picked to carry Olympic torch

16:59' 25/04/2008 (GMT+7)

VietNamNet Bridge – Karatedo queen Nguyen Hoang Ngan is among 60 Vietnamese chosen to bear the Olympic flame during the global torch relay in HCM City next week.

"It is an honour to be an Olympic torchbearer," said Ngan, a three-time Southeast Asian (SEA) Games gold medallist and two-time World Kobe Osaka International Cup title winner.

The Olympic torch-bearer selection board made public the 60 Vietnamese who would participate in the HCM City parade on Tuesday.

Ferwaka Commemorates 1994 Genocide Victims

By Bonnie Mugabe
The New Times (Kigali)
21 April 2008

The newly installed Rwanda Karate Federation (Ferwaka) commemorated the 1994 Genocide victims with a Never Again competition held at Lycee de Kigali over the weekend.

Opening the competition which is also the first event on the federation's calendar this season, the Minister of Culture and Sport Joseph Habineza called upon the federation administrators to develop the sport from the grass root levels.

"This federation must work under one umbrella, a feat which will also help in quick elevation of the sport in the country," Habineza said.

Karate training made mandatory for Sacred Heart kids

Anupam Bhagria

Ludhiana, April 10

Sacred Heart Convent Senior Secondary School, Sarabha Nagar, has made karate training compulsory for its primary school students. Larning karate has been made mandatory for all the students of class second to class V.

For this, the school has engaged karate trainers through India Martial Arts Association — a premier group in martial arts training — for imparting martial arts training to the students.

Man not insured for failure to use karate on dogs

Thursday, March 27, 2008

A vicious dog, just waiting to attack

An insurance firm in China has told a man bitten by two dogs it was his own fault for not learning karate.

Wang Zhiqing of Meishan needed stitches in his hand and a rabies jab after being attacked by wild dogs.

But when he filed a claim, the China Pacific Insurance Group said: 'You should have fought the dogs off.

'If you had learned a martial art like karate you would have avoided the problem.'

Karate exponent laments loss of standards across Asia

By Ramesh Mathew
Published: Friday, 28 March, 2008, 04:41 AM Doha Time

THE increasing migration of Japanese martial art trainers from their home land these days to Europe has drastically altered the equations in karate, said a prominent exponent of the discipline from India, who has won laurels for his country at South Asian level a number of occasions.

“The main reason behind their movement to the west is the neglect to karate in Japan as a sport these days,” said Chennai-based Jacob Devakumar, a leading karate technical delegate and a former Indian national champion.