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Georgina KenaghanA meeting with six determined young women, all blind, led Georgina to put her career on hold to coach the women’s goalball team. Georgina led the team to qualify for the London 2012 Paralympic Games for the first time in 16 years.

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Bomber

kills 12

in KabulKABUL: A female bomberhas killed 12 people in Kabulin the deadliest single attackover an anti-Islam US filmthat again sparked protestsacross the Muslim world.

The Kabul bombing bringsto more than 30 the numberof people who have been kil-led in a violent backlash overa YouTube trailer for thefilm, Innocence of Muslims,believed to have been pro-duced by a small group of ex-tremist Christians, which de-picts the Prophet Moham-med as a womanising thug.

Another potentially ex-plosive publication is due tohit news stands in France to-day after the satirical weeklyCharlie Hebdo confirmedthat its next edition containsseveral cartoons which fea-ture caricatures of the Pro-phet Mohammed.

The editor of the weeklysaid the images would‘‘shock those who will wantto be shocked’’.

In Afghanistan, Hezb-i-Islami, the second largest in-surgent group after theTaliban who have been fight-ing US-led troops and thegovernment for 10 years,claimed the attack and said itwas to avenge the ‘‘insult’’ ofthe film.

‘‘The bombing was in re-taliation for the insult to ourprophet,’’ spokesman ZubairSidiqi said in a call from anundisclosed location.

Security officials said nineforeigners, including SouthAfricans, were among thosekilled on a major highwayleading to Kabul airportwhen the bomber blew upher car alongside a minivancarrying foreign workers.

A week of violent protestsoutside US embassies and ot-her American symbols in atleast 20 countries has leftsome 19 people dead, includ-ing the American ambassa-dor to Libya and three otherUS diplomats in Benghazi.

JESUSHAD ‘WIFE’BOSTON: A Harvard Universityprofessor has unveiled afourth century fragment ofpapyrus she says is the onlyexisting ancient text thatquotes Jesus explicitly refer-ring to having a wife. KarenKing, an expert in Christianhistory, says the text containsa dialogue in which Jesus re-fers to ‘‘my wife’’, whom heidentified as Mary.

GREENPAPAL FLEETVATICAN CITY: Pope Benedicthas taken delivery of his firstenvironmentally friendly elec-tric car at a ceremony nearRome. The customised Re-nault Kangoo Maxi Z E is oneof two of the boxy runaboutsfor the papal fleet, both fittedwith a 44kW electric motor.

USADULTS FATTERNEW YORK: A group campaign-ing against obesity predictsthat more than half the peoplein 39 US states will be obeseby 2030. The fattest state,Mississippi, is predicted tohave 67 per cent of its adultsobese by 2030, a big rise fromits present rate of 35 per cent.

CAT’SHOLIDAY FLIGHTCIRCLEVILLE, Ohio: A US wom-an says the pet cat that snea-ked into her luggage for aflight to Florida seems unaf-fected by his holiday trip.Ethel Maze said Bob-Bob thecat spent 10 hours in a suit-case before she opened it lastweek. She says the cat waslethargic and wet from per-spiration, and at first shethought he had died.

Prince William and Kate drink coconut milk from a tree planted by the Queen in 1982 inTuvalu. After eight days spent travelling Singapore, Malaysia and the Solomon Islands,William said Tuvalu was the highlight of their tour marking the Queen’s Jubilee.

Police officers killed

LONDON: One ofBritain’s mostwanted men hasbeen accused of lur-ing two unarmed fe-male constables totheir deaths.

Greater Manche-ster Chief ConstableSir Peter Fahy saidFiona Bone, 32, and

Nicola Hughes, 23,had been sent to in-vestigate what ap-peared to be a rou-tine burglary whenDale Cregan, 29, at-tacked them with agun and a grenade.It appeared deliber-ate, he said. Creganhas been arrested.

Obama rebuffs Mitt

SALT LAKE CITY:US PresidentBarack Obama hasdeclared the occu-pant of the WhiteHouse must ‘‘workfor everyone, notjust for some,’’ jab-bing back at MittRomney’s jarringstatement that as a

candidate, hedoesn’t worry aboutthe 47 per cent of thecountry that paysno income taxes.

The Republicanpresidential chal-lenger neither dis-avowed nor apolo-gised for hisremarks yesterday.