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    Default Grave-Stoned: Skull Used As A Bong

    Three teenagers have been accused of digging up a body and using the skull as a bong to smoke marijuana.

    The tomb raiders are believed to have desecrated a grave belonging to Willie Simms, an 11-year-old boy who died in 1921.

    Officers in Texas had been working on a stolen credit card case when one of the trio made a confession, saying the body had been dug up from an abandoned graveyard in woods.

    Another reportedly took officers to the site and showed them where they had removed the body.

    The state's Harris County District Attorney's Office confirmed that misdemeanour abuse of corpse charges have been filed in the case.

    Officers, who are continuing to investigate, do not have any physical evidence but charged the men on the basis of their statements.

    Two of the teenagers are aged 17 while the third is 16.


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    Default 'Unimaginable tragedy' if aid delayed

    Desperate survivors of Cyclone Nargis are pouring out of Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta in search of food, water and medicine as aid groups said thousands more people will die if emergency supplies do not get through soon.

    Buddhist temples and high schools in towns on the outskirts of Nargis' trail of destruction are now makeshift refugee centres for women, children and the elderly – some of the 1.5 million people left clinging to survival by the storm.

    The reclusive military government is accepting aid from the outside world, including the United Nations, but has made it very clear it will not let in the foreign logistics teams needed to transport the aid as fast as possible into the inundated delta.

    "Unless there is a massive and fast infusion of aid, experts and supplies into the hardest-hit areas, there's going to be a tragedy on an unimaginable scale," said Greg Beck of the International Rescue Committee.

    In the delta town of Labutta, where 80 per cent of homes were destroyed, the authorities were providing just one cup of rice per family per day, a European Commission aid official said.

    The scenes are the same across the delta, where as many as 100,000 people are feared dead in the worst cyclone to hit Asia since 1991, when 143,000 people died in Bangladesh.

    "We have 900 people here, but we only have 300 lunch boxes. We gave it to the women and children first. The men still have not had any food," said one woman at a relief centre in the town of Myaung Mya, 100km west of Yangon.

    "More are coming every day," she said.

    Despite the devastation, the junta has kept its focus firmly on its seven-step "roadmap to democracy" that is meant to culminate in multi-party elections in 2010 and bring an end to nearly five decades of military rule.

    State media have not yet revealed anything about the results of Saturday's referendum although there is no doubt about the final outcome of the vote on a new, army-drafted constitution that enshrines the military's grip on power.

    In the run-up to the vote, army-controlled newspapers and television pumped out a relentless barrage of propaganda telling the former Burma's 53 million people it was their "patriotic duty" to approve the charter.

    "I voted yes. It was what I was asked to do," 57-year-old U Hlaing said in the town of Hlegu, northwest of the former capital Yangon, where voting has been delayed by two weeks. It has also been delayed in worst-hit delta areas.

    Protesters in Japan, Malaysia and Thailand denounced the junta for holding the referendum.

    "People are dying and they still want to go on with this artificial democracy," said Than Tun Aung, a refugee who led the protest in Kuala Lumpur.

    Even before Cyclone Nargis hit on the night of May 2, groups opposed to military rule, and foreign governments led by the United States, had denounced the vote as an attempt by the military to legitimise its 46-year grip on power.

    The government's feeble response to the disaster has only fed cynicism about the junta's determination to proceed with their "roadmap to democracy" leading to multi-party elections in 2010.

    The Bush administration on Saturday sidestepped directly criticising the constitutional vote and instead said the focus of the junta should be on relief efforts.

    Questioned by reporters, White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe declined to repeat stiff criticism the United States has leveled against Myanmar's leaders for a vote seen as solidifying the military's grip on the country.

    "Our position on the referendum is well-known," Johndroe told reporters. "Our focus now is on getting assistance to the people of Burma and we would certainly hope that is the focus of the Burmese government as well."

    The United Nations appealed for $US187 million in aid, even though it is still not confident the food, water and tents flown in will make it to those most in need because of the junta's reluctance to admit international relief workers.

    Myanmar state media says 23,350 people died and 37,019 are missing after Cyclone Nargis roared up the Irrawaddy delta the night of May 2 whipping up a wall of sea-water that hammered everything in its path.

    Health experts warned that a "second disaster" loomed from diseases such as diarrhoea and malaria, even if survivors do manage to find food and shelter.

    State-run TV in Myanmar warned of "foreign interference" in a repeatedly broadcast message on Saturday urging people to vote yes for the constitution.

    Most people probably did just that. Of the 20 people Reuters interviewed near polling stations in Hlegu on Saturday, only two admitted to voting No Even then it was in a whisper and with a nervous glance over the shoulder first.

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    Default Obama takes superdelegate lead

    Barack Obama has caught up with Hillary Clinton in the race for superdelegates, the group of independent Democrats who look increasingly likely to decide the party's presidential candidate, media reports say.

    Recent declarations of support from superdelegates in Utah, Ohio and the Virgin Islands give Obama 275 of the party's 800 superdelegates, the Associated Press reported.

    Clinton has support from 271.

    Superdelegates are prominent members of the Democratic party and can vote for whichever candidate they want, irrespective of the results in the primaries.

    Buoyed by the support and acting even more like he has clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, Obama said yesterday he would be willing to campaign jointly with Republican John McCain and acknowledged he needed to better introduce himself to Americans.

    After a stop at a solar technology company in this central Oregon town, Obama was asked if he supported a suggestion that he campaign with McCain and hold joint town hall meetings in the run-up to the November general election.

    "I think that's a great idea. Obviously we'd have to think through the logistics on this," Obama said. "Should I be the nominee, if I have the opportunity to debate substantive issues before the voters with John McCain, that's something I'm going to welcome."

    Obama, who took a commanding lead in the Democratic race last week, said he looked forward to pointing out his differences with McCain, including views on the energy crisis, the Iraq war and health care.

    "In a contest between myself and John McCain there is going to be a very clear choice on policy," he said. "I think this is going to be a very concrete contest around very specific plans for how we improve the lives of Americans and our vision for the future and that's a debate that I'm going to welcome."

    McCain, who held unusual "dual town hall" style meetings with former Democratic White House hopeful Bill Bradley in the 2000 election, would not commit.

    "John McCain has repeatedly encouraged these types of appearances with his opponents in the past, but in order to extend all due respect to Senator Clinton, we will look forward to welcoming the arrangements when the Democrats have actually chosen their nominee," said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds.

    Although in campaign rallies over the past two days Obama has been speaking mainly about McCain, he too was quick to note that the grueling battle against rival Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination was not yet over.

    "We haven't finished this primary yet so it's premature to start projecting how the general election's going to play out," he said at the news conference. But he said Democrats must ensure they unify the party after the nomination battle is settled in order to beat McCain in November.

    "I want to go into the general election. . . with the party unified and ready to take on what I think is a wrong-headed vision of where the country should go," he said.

    INTRODUCE HIMSELF

    Obama, a first-term senator from Illinois, said he realized he must make sure Americans knew who he was and what he stood for as he moves toward the general election.

    "The American people are busy. They got a lot of stuff going on," he said.

    "I think they have a sense of who I am, but I'm applying for the most challenging job on the face of the planet and I expect that I'm going to have to continually describe to the American people who I am, where I come from, what shaped my character and how I intend to lead this country."

    Obama received a rousing welcome from about 2,000 cheering supporters packed into a high school gym in Bend. He urged them to vote for him in the state's May 20 nominating contest.

    Clinton was in New York on Saturday and appeared at a "Mother's Day Celebration" fund-raiser with daughter Chelsea. The New York senator and former first lady, who has lent her campaign more than $11 million of her own funds, is struggling financially to keep her battle afloat.

    Obama has been picking up the support of more and more "superdelegates" – the group of nearly 800 party leaders and elected officials not bound by state-by-state nominating contests who are free to back any candidate at the Democratic convention in August.

    The support of superdelegates has become critical as neither candidate can clinch the nomination without them.

    "They are looking forward to resolving this contest as soon as we can so we can pivot and start talking about John McCain and the general election and our positive unified vision for where we want to take the country," Obama said.

    With just 217 pledged delegates at stake in the final six primary contests, Clinton has no realistic chance of overtaking Obama's lead in pledged delegates won in the state-by-state battles that began in January.

    Clinton is expected to do well in the next election in West Virginia on Tuesday and in the vote in Kentucky on May 20. The nominating contest in Oregon, also on May 20, favors Obama who has been campaigning across the state over the past two days.

    An MSNBC count gives Obama about 155 more delegates than Clinton but he is still about 165 delegates short of the 2,025 needed to clinch the Democratic nomination.

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    Default Memoirs reveal depth of Blair-Brown enmity

    British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was dealt a further blow when former deputy prime minister John Prescott disclosed he had urged Tony Blair to sack Brown when he was finance minister.

    In memoirs serialised in the Sunday Times newspaper, Prescott described the tempestuous relationship between the two men in the years before Blair stood down last June, and said the prime minister had been scared to act against Brown.

    Prescott's claims come at a difficult time for Brown, already struggling after crushing local election losses, collapsing opinion poll ratings and damaging revelations about his behaviour while serving in Blair's government.

    In extracts from her memoirs on Saturday, Blair's wife Cherie accused Brown, who had long sought the prime minister's job, of "putting too much pressure on Tony to quit when Tony wasn't ready".

    Prescott said he spent much of his time acting as a conciliator, with "hundreds" of phone calls and meetings dealing with "Blair-Brown issues".

    Brown was "frustrating, annoying, bewildering and prickly", Prescott said, while Blair had reneged several times on pledges to make way for Brown as prime minister.

    Prescott said he had also challenged Brown to quit as Chancellor of the Exchequer over Blair's broken promises.

    "With Tony, when he was moaning on about Gordon's behaviour, I'd say 'Sack him. Find a new chancellor is that's how you really feel'. But neither would take the final step," Prescott said.

    "They were caught in their own trap. Tony knew that sacking Gordon would tear the party apart."

    Brown's popularity has plummeted in recent months, raising questions over whether he will face a leadership challenge ahead of national elections which must be called by 2010.

    An unpopular income tax reform, rising fuel and food prices, a downturn in the housing market and criticism of Brown's leadership brought the Labour party to its worst local election performance on record earlier this month.

    Since then, there has been no let-up in bad headlines for Brown.

    An opinion poll in Sunday's Observer newspaper showed only one in five voters thinks Brown is doing a good job. Another poll in The Mail on Sunday showed Labour could be heading to defeat in a crucial parliamentary by-election in 10 days time.

    The ICM survey carried out in the Crewe and Nantwich constituency puts the opposition Conservative Party on 43 percent, four points ahead of Labour on 39 percent, with the Liberal Democrats on 16 percent.

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    Default Deadly tornadoes sweep Oklahoma and Missouri

    At least 18 people were killed today in Missouri and Oklahoma after tornadoes swept through the area, authorities in the two states said.

    There were at least 12 storm-related deaths in Missouri, 10 of those in Newton County on the border with Oklahoma, according to Susie Stonner of the Missouri Emergency Management Agency.

    "There's a lot of wreckage and overturned vehicles," she said, adding police had not ruled out finding more victims.

    Hardest hit was Racine, a tiny community along the state line about 170 miles south of Kansas City.

    Six people were also killed in the small northeastern Oklahoma town of Picher, officials said.

    "Basically a 24-block area is virtually destroyed," said Michelann Ooten, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management.

    She added that Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry had ordered National Guard troops to arrive in Picher by Sunday morning (local time) to help in rescue and recovery operations.

    Local television footage from Picher showed widespread devastation. Homes were ripped from their foundations, trees were stripped of leaves and sheet metal was twisted like paper.

    Ooten said search efforts for missing people in Picher were shutting down as it was unsafe for rescuers to move through the rubble at night even with mobile floodlights.

    "You need day break," she said. "That'll be the real story."

    Fifty people have been treated for injuries ranging from head trauma to lacerations and broken bones, said Jennifer Hessee, spokeswoman for the Integris Baptist Regional Health Centre in Miami, Oklahoma, 15 miles from Picher.

    "I've never seen anything like this," Hessee said. "We went into disaster mode and called in all of our staff. It's slowed down. Hopefully the worst has come in. It'll make for a sad Mother's Day for a lot of people."

    Picher is at the centre of a massive federal clean-up of pollution from lead and zinc mining. Residents were being assisted with relocation from the community after high levels of lead were found in groundwater.

    In Missouri, Howard Birdsong, the mayor of Neosho, a town of 11,500 that is the Newton County seat, said at least two of the deaths came when a tornado overturned a vehicle.

    It appeared the twister carved a 15-mile path just north of town after striking neighboring Oklahoma. In some areas, the destruction is a half-mile wide, he said.

    "There's an awful lot of property damage," Birdsong said by telephone. "From what I've seen many homes have been destroyed, some businesses, and some cars have been overturned, uprooted trees and power outages . . . There are several dozen injured."

    In all, the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Centre in Norman, Oklahoma, recorded 34 tornado reports in Missouri, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, though some were multiple reports about the same twister or twisters.

    The National Weather Service in Springfield, Missouri, said it would send out assessment teams on Sunday morning to determine the scope of the damage, and figure out the number and paths of the tornadoes.

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    Default Turkey attacks Kurdish rebels in Iraq

    Turkey says it has launched air and artillery attacks against Kurdish separatist rebels in northern Iraq after an insurgent strike on a military base.

    "Targets proven to belong to the PKK terrorist organisation in northern Iraq were put under heavy and effective fire by our air force planes with the support of artillery," the statement said.

    The attacks, which began after 3am Sunday NZT, targeted a group of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) members who had escaped into Iraq from Turkey after a rebel attack on a military headquarters that resulted in the deaths of six soldiers.

    Two soldiers were killed in the initial PKK attack on Friday night and four died later in ensuing clashes with the rebels.

    The military said on its website that it was trying to find out what casualties it had inflicted on the Kurdistan Workers Party.

    A senior Iraqi border security official said there was one air strike and artillery shelling of the border area in northern Iraq overnight. There were no casualties in the attacks that occurred around 0800 NZT on Saturday, he said.

    The violence was part of a wider military operation, backed by attack helicopters, tanks and artillery, against the PKK in restive and mountainous southeast Turkey.

    Amid widespread public anger over PKK attacks, Turkey has sent tens of thousands of troops to the border region. Over the past week dozens of Turkish F-16 warplanes have launched bombing raids against suspected PKK positions deep inside northern Iraq.

    Turkey blames the PKK for the deaths of 40,000 people since 1984, when the group took up arms to fight for a Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey. Ankara, like the European Union and the United States, considers the group a terrorist organisation.

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    Default China quake kills nearly 9000


    QUAKE CASUALTY: Rescuers try to carry an injured man out from the debris of a collapsed building at Juyuan Middle School after the earthquake in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province
    China's most devastating earthquake in three decades has killed nearly 9000 people, with the toll likely to soar as authorities struggle to reach casualties in large areas cut off from relief.

    The earthquake that hit China's southwestern province of Sichuan killed 8533 people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday, citing the provincial government.

    The epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude quake was in a mountainous region about 100km from Sichuan's capital Chengdu, a bustling city of 10 million.

    "The road started swaying as I was driving. Rocks fell from the mountains, with dust darkening the sky over the valley," a driver for Sichuan's seismological bureau was quoted by Xinhua as saying, as he was driving near the epicentre.

    The quake hit in the middle of the school day, toppling eight schools in the region. Chemical plants and at least one hospital were also flattened, trapping many hundreds, state media said.

    About 900 teenagers were buried in the rubble of a collapsed three-storey school building in the Sichuan city of Dujiangyan.

    Local villagers had already helped dozens of students out of the ruins and five cranes were excavating the site as anxious parents looked on, Xinhua said.

    "Some buried teenagers were struggling to break loose from underneath the ruins while others were crying out for help," the agency said.

    Nightfall, severed communications and blocked roads have hampered rescue efforts and the death toll was likely to rise significantly.

    An estimated 3000 to 5000 people were killed in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County alone, state media said.

    As many as 10,000 in Beichuan were feared injured and 80 per cent of the buildings there had been destroyed, Xinhua said. There had been more than 300 aftershocks, state television said.

    Beichuan's population is 161,000, meaning about one in 10 residents were killed or injured. The county is a part of Mianyang city, and about 160km from the provincial capital, Chengdu.

    Hundreds of people were buried in two collapsed chemical plants in Shifang in Sichuan, the online edition of the official Xinhua news agency said.

    About 6000 people were evacuated, Xinhua said, adding that more than 80 tonnes of highly corrosive liquid ammonia had leaked.

    Hundreds of people were buried under rubble in Shifang in Sichuan as several schools, factories and dormitories collapsed during the quake, the official Xinhua news agency said.

    Hundreds were also buried under rubble in a collapsed hospital in Dujiangyan city in Sichuan.

    The quake's epicentre was in nearby Wenchuan, a mountainous county of about 100,000 people, but its force was enough to cause buildings to sway across China and as far away as the Thai capital Bangkok.

    The Sichuan plain is one of China's most fertile agricultural areas, but it relies heavily on an irrigation system linked to the 2000-year-old Dujiangyan flood control works.

    Which means the quake could exacerbate inflation, already running at the fastest pace in 12 years.

    The quake is also the worst to hit China in 32 years since the 1976 Tangshan earthquake in northeastern China where up to 300,000 died.

    It has come at a bad time for China, which holds the Olympic Games in August, and has been struggling to keep a lid on unrest in ethnic Tibetan areas and the heavily Muslim northeastern Xinjiang region.

    The US Geological Survey said on its website (http://earthquake.usgs.gov) the main quake struck at 0628 GMT at a depth of 10km.

    In Beijing and Shanghai, office workers poured into the streets as the tremor hit. In the capital, there was no visible damage and the showpiece Bird's Nest Olympic stadium was unscathed.

    Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in Chengdu and President Hu Jintao ordered an "all-out" rescue effort, Xinhua reported.

    Thousands of army troops and paramilitary People's Armed Police carrying medical supplies were also headed to the region, state television said. But a landslide had blocked a mountain road leading to Wenchuan, preventing troops from reaching the scene, state radio said.

    In Washington, President George W Bush said the United States was ready to help.

    "I extend my condolences to those injured and to the families of the victims of today's earthquake. I am particularly saddened by the number of students and children affected by this tragedy.

    "The United States stands ready to help in any way possible," Bush said in a statement.

    At least 45 had died in Chengdu, Xinhua said, citing an official with the local seismological bureau. Another 600 people were injured, 58 of them critically, in the sprawling city.

    Some 57 have been confirmed killed in northern Shaanxi, 48 in northwestern Gansu, 50 in Chongqing municipality, and one in Yunnan province, Xinhua said, citing the national headquarters of disaster relief.
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    Default First US aid lands in Myanmar

    The first US military aid flight has landed in Myanmar on Monday, but relief supplies continued to just dribble into the reclusive state nine days after a devastating cyclone.

    A C-130 military transport plane left Thailand's Vietnam War-era U-Tapao airbase carrying 12,700 kg of water, mosquito nets and blankets. US aid officials said they hope it will the first of many US flights to the army-ruled former Burma.

    Greeting the plane at Yangon airport was Navy commander-in-chief Soe Thein, who promised to deliver the supplies "as soon as possible" to the cyclone-hit region, a US embassy official in Yangon said.

    "This is Burma's hour of need and the need is urgent," US Agency for International Development administrator Henrietta Fore said before boarding the plane with a Thai-US delegation for the short flight to the cyclone-hit city of Yangon.

    Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the US Pacific Command, is also on the plane, to try to meet with Myanmar's generals to urge them to allow a "long, continuous train of flights" that could carry up to 90,000kg of relief goods a day.

    "We're limited only by the permission from the authorities in Burma," Keating said at the Thai air base.

    Agencies report that deliveries to more than a million increasingly desperate cyclone victims have been minimal.

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    Default Corby sister denies drugs knowlege in defamation trial

    Mercedes Corby has denied that she was ever involved in drugs and had no knowledge of any drugs that were in her sister Schapelle Corby's luggage when she was arrested in Bali in 2004.

    Giving evidence at NSW Supreme Court today in her defamation case against Channel Seven, Ms Corby, 33, said that the allegations made by her former best friend Jodie Power on Today Tonight in February last year were false and that she had been close to two men, Ron Bakir and Robin Tampoe, who had undertaken to represent Schapelle but were then disaffected.

    She said that on January 27, 2006, when she got word that Channel Seven was putting the programs together, she had sent a long email to Channel Seven warning them that Ms Power was not a reliable witness.

    She told the court that Ms Power was mentally unstable, was prone to hallucinations and that she had had to call a mental health team to Jodie's home on one occasion when she was hysterical.

    "Jodie's husband says until he kicked her out six months ago he was aware she was in constant contact with them [Ron Bakir and Robin Tampoe] and witnessed it as recently as a few weeks ago," she said.

    "I believe they are also probably manipulating her from behind the scenes. Ron knows she is a little mad and used to call her 'my crazy friend'."

    She also said she had been photographed pulling marijuana out of a package and putting it into a bowl but it was a long time ago, when she was 17. She said she had not smoked the drug.


    Called by her counsel, Stuart Littlemore QC this afternoon, she said she had received very short shrift from Channel Seven.

    The main addressee of the email, Neil Mooney, said he no longer worked for Today Tonight and Craig McPherson told her to ring the following week. When she did, she was told he was out of the office.

    Heather Moore, 52, who appeared as a witness for Seven today, told the court she was invited to a Queensland property in late 2003, where she had drinks and smoked marijuana with a group of people on the verandah of the house.

    When asked who was part of the group Ms Moore said, "Mercedes and her husband and two others."

    Ms Moore told the court she had seen marijuana drying in a shed at the property and that Ms Corby and her husband had visited the shed.

    Under cross-examination, Ms Moore admitted to a $1500 a day heroin habit which she had fed by shoplifting, but said she had quit 32 years ago.

    Schapelle Corby was jailed in Bali after being convicted of smuggling marijuana into Indonesia.

    The defamation hearing continues.

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    Default Dungeon daughter amazed to be free

    The woman locked in a cellar dungeon by her father for 24 years has reportedly told her family that she never wants to see his face again.

    London's Daily Mail has reported that Elizabeth Fritzl - who was repeatedly raped and had seven children by her father - broke down when she saw her mother for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century and said: "I can't believe I'm free - is it really you?".

    Rosemarie Fritzl, the mother of 42-year-old Elizabeth, had lived upstairs with her husband Joseph, unaware that her daughter was locked in the cellar below along with three of her children.

    Another three children were taken to the surface by Joseph Fritzl, who told his wife that Elizabeth had run away to join a cult and had left the babies on their doorstep.

    The Daily Mail reported that the one thing Elizabeth wanted more than anything was to feel raindrops on her skin.

    "I can't believe I'm out. I didn't think I would ever see you again," Elizabeth reportedly told her mother.

    "It's all too much for me. I don't ever want to see him again."

    Elizabeth has also been reunited with the children taken away from her while she was living in the confined cellar, according to the report.

    "My babies. You are so beautiful," Elisabeth reportedly said as she held them close and stroked their faces.

    Elizabeth's sister Gabriele Helm, 36, speaking for the first time, told the UK's Sunday Mirror: "None of us can believe how normal Elisabeth seems. She is healthy and very chatty and doing very well.

    "Every day she gets a bit stronger. I can't say what the family is going through. It's more than anyone can believe. It has devastated us.

    "We are working together to support Elisabeth. She is overjoyed to see her children. She told them they were beautiful and she is spending all the time getting to know them."

    Elizabeth's lawyer, Christoph Herbst, told the newspaper: "Elisabeth is very happy to be rediscovering the world. She is very keen to go outside and feel the rain on her skin. But it is important for them to adjust slowly.

    "For now they just talk to each other. But Elisabeth and her children who lived in the cellar have no concept of time and of the future. Some people who hear the story think Elisabeth is like something from a horror film. But rumours that she has no teeth and cannot talk are not true.

    "If you met her you would not realise what she has been through, as she seems just like every normal person.

    "She tells her family that all she longs for is a normal life - or as normal a life as they can get. That's her only wish."

    Mr Herbst told the paper one of Elizabeth's children was keeping the family's spirits up despite their ordeal.

    "They are all happy and there is a lot of laughter, which you might not expect. Felix makes everyone laugh. They are teaching him to run because inside the cellar he could not run.

    "It is really brilliant how Elisabeth has reacted to the outside world. They are all rather fine. Elisabeth is really an impressive person. She is very strong. She's happy now for the first time."

    Prosecutor Gerhard Sedlacek was quoted as saying authorities were gathering evidence to charge Fritzl with murder in relation to a baby who he incinerated after it was born in the cellar.

    Elizabeth was imprisoned in Amstetten, Austria, when she was just 18.

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    I wouldn't want to see the bastard either if he locked me up for that long. I probably would have tried to kill him.

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    That was awful, natural disasters scare me a lot...
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    Thanks for the news.
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