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Dinosaur huge

That shark was huge. Like dinosaur huge. GREGG COPPEN, tweeting after witnessing a shark kill a tourist on a Cape Town beach

Worst business deal of the century

 

 

 

 

 

I presided over the worst deal of the century.

JERRY LEVIN, former CEO of Time Warner, on the disastrous $164 billion deal that sold Time Warner shares for AOL shares 10 years ago; Levin called on today's business leaders to take responsibility for the financial crisis

 

 

'Fake fingerprint' woman fools Japan controls

A Chinese woman managed to enter Japan illegally by having plastic surgery to alter her fingerprints, thus fooling immigration controls, police claim.

All foreigners are fingerprinted when they arrive in Japan

Lin Rong, 27, had been deported from Japan for overstaying her visa. She was only discovered when she was arrested on separate charges.Tokyo police said she paid $15,000 to have the surgery in China.

It is Japan's first case of alleged biometric fraud, but police believe the practice may be widespread.

Local media reports said Ms Lin had undergone surgery to swap the fingerprints from her right and left hands.

Skin patches on her thumbs and index fingers were removed and then re-grafted on to the matching digits of the opposite hand.

Japanese newspapers said police noticed that Ms Lin's fingers had unnatural scars when she was arrested last month for allegedly faking a marriage to a Japanese man.

The apparent ability of illegal migration networks to break through hi-tech controls suggests that other countries who fingerprint visitors could be equally vulnerable - not least the United States.

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