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MUMMIFIED MAMMOTH LYUBA, NOW IN LONDON, PART OF CHICAGO FIELD MUSEUM TOURING EXHIBIT

Mummified mammoth Lyuba is getting a lot of attention in London, but the baby woolly mammoth got her start in Chicago.

The “Mammoth and Mastodons” exhibition at the London Natural History Museum, which opens on May 23, was created by The Field Museum in Chicago in 2010.

The star – Lyuba, a baby woolly mammoth – was discovered in Siberia in 2007 by a reindeer herder. Her name, which is Russian, means “love.” She is believed to have died 42,000 years ago when she was just 1-month old.

Lyuba debuted at Chicago’s Field Museum. The exhibit ran from spring to fall 2010, and has been on tour ever since, according to Emily Waldren, public relations manager, at The Field Museum.

“It was really popular. People loved it,” Waldren said. “It gets a lot of attention wherever it goes.”

“Mammoths and Mastodons: Titans of the Ice Age” is on a 10-city tour.

“Lyuba doesn’t always go. So some places have gotten a cast of Lyuba. Some places get the real Lyuba,” Waldren said.

London got the real thing. The exhibit runs from March 23 to September 7, 2014.

“This is one of the things we love about traveling exhibits. People become more aware of the Field Museum,” Waldren said.

Lyuba is on loan for the exhibit from tRussia’s Shemanovsky Museum.

Wales defender subject to Twitter death threats from furious Uruguay fans after it is revealed Luis Suarez could miss part or all of World Cup

Welsh defender Paul Dummett has been the target of death threats from Uruguay fans who blame him for putting Luis Suarez’s World Cup chances in jeopardy.

One fan took to social networking to warn “a bullet” would be waiting for Dummett if he ever visited Uruguay.

It comes after Dummett was red-carded for a tackle on the Liverpool striker on the last day of last season.

The red card was chalked off by the FA last week and Dummett was cleared of any wrongdoing.

But Suarez has since undergone an operation on the meniscus in his knee that means he is facing a race to be fit for the World Cup finals, where Uruguay are set to face England in Group D.

The threats came on the same day Dummett was named by Chris Coleman in the Wales squad to face Louis Van Gaal’s Dutch team in Amsterdam on June 4.
They began on Twitter with one follower Federico Gonzalez posting:”Hi Paul Dummett, from Uruguay we hope someday u come here to have a nice time w/ friends.

“We have things for you, like a bullet in the head.”

Another tweeter going by the name of @DjAlvinGreen said menacingly: “Hey, Paul Dummett, if Suárez doesn’t play against England, you’ll never play again. Kisses.”

Dummett himself has stayed silent on the matter while the Uruguayan FA has actually given a statement saying Suarez’s injury was sustained in training.

In a statement the association said on Thursday: “Luis Suárez suffered an intense pain in his left knee after undergoing a normal warm-up.

“The early diagnosis was a stable injury to the external meniscus in the knee. He was examined by a scan, which confirmed a partial injury to the external meniscus.

“This morning the meniscus was repaired via arthroscopy at the Médica Uruguayan hospital. There was no evidence of other injuries to the knee.”

Prince Charles’s Putin remarks outrageous – Russia

Remarks attributed to the Prince of Wales likening Vladimir Putin’s actions to some of those of the Nazis are “outrageous”, the Russian embassy says.

Deputy ambassador Alexander Kramarenko has met Foreign Office officials to ask for official clarification.

The alleged comments were made during a conversation with a former Polish war refugee during a royal tour to Canada.

A Russian foreign ministry spokesman said “the remarks did the prince no credit, if he really said this”.

Mr Kramarenko met senior Foreign Office director Sian MacLeod in Whitehall.

BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said the Russian aim was to talk about Prince Charles’s reported comments, but the meeting developed into a much broader discussion about recent events in Ukraine and indications were it had been fairly robust.

A Foreign Office spokesperson said: “In response to Mr Kramarenko’s representations, the director said that the Foreign Office could not be expected to comment upon reports of private conversations, and restated the government’s hope that ahead of the Ukrainian presidential elections Russia would step back from comment or actions provoking instability in Ukraine.”

Museum visit
Earlier, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in London said: “The minister-counsellor of the Embassy, Mr Alexander Kramarenko, will meet this afternoon the representatives of the FCO [Foreign and Commonwealth Office] to discuss a range of bilateral issues.

“The outrageous remarks made by Prince Charles in Canada will be among the questions raised. The embassy asked the FCO for official clarifications on that yesterday.”

The foreign ministry said it was better, as one British Labour politician had been quoted as saying, for royalty to be seen and not heard.

Following the Russian embassy’s statement, Clarence House said it had “no further comment to make at this stage”.
Reaction in the UK has been generally supportive of the prince.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister David Cameron said he would not comment on a private conversation but added that “everyone is entitled to their private opinions”.

His deputy, Nick Clegg, said Prince Charles was “free to express himself” and Labour leader Ed Miliband said the prince “has got a point”.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage said there were times when “it might be better” for the prince not to get involved in such things.

However, former Foreign Affairs Select Committee chairman, Labour MP Mike Gapes, said the prince should end his “freelance foreign policy”.

Royal biographer Robert Hardman said such incidents were an “occupational hazard” for the prince, but campaign group Republic said he was developing “something of a track record for interfering in policy”.

The Prince of Wales reportedly made the remark during a conversation with Marienne Ferguson at an immigration museum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she works.

They had been discussing Hitler’s takeover of countries. Ms Ferguson said the prince said “something to the effect of ‘it’s not unlike… what Putin is doing'”.

The prince and the Russian president are both due to attend a D-Day anniversary event in France next month.

‘Private conversation’
Clarence House said it would not comment on what it said was a private conversation.

“But we would like to stress that the Prince of Wales would not seek to make a public political statement during a private conversation,” it said.

On Monday, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall visited Canada’s national immigration museum Pier 21.

The prince chatted to museum volunteer Ms Ferguson, who left Poland for Canada shortly before the Nazi occupation.

The 78-year-old managed to escape to Canada along with her parents and two sisters, but other members of her family were sent to Nazi camps.

Charles and Camilla have now returned to the UK after their four-day tour of Canada.

Prince Charles’s next official public engagement is on Saturday, when he is due to attend the Music in Country Churches concert at the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Northleach, Gloucestershire.

Woman captive 10 years ‘felt she had nowhere to go,’

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Prosecutors said the investigation continues into the man accused of kidnapping a 15-year-old Santa Ana girl and holding her captive for 10 years, raping her and forcing her to have his child.

Isidro Garcia, 42, appeared for a court hearing Thursday from jail via a video monitor, wearing a blue vest while standing his attorney. Garcia has been charged with one felony count of forcible rape, three felony counts of lewd acts on a minor, and one felony count of kidnapping to commit a sexual offense.
Garcia’s bail was set at $1 million, with the judge noting that he was under an immigration hold.

If convicted, Garcia faces up to 19 years in prison.

The charges filed by the DA all relate to the period in 2004 when the girl was 15-years-old.

The girl arrived in the country from Mexico when she was 14. After she turned 15 Garcia allegedly raped her and then sexually assaulted her multiple times while at the apartment complex where he lived with her mother, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the District Attorneys office.
The district attorneys office has not filed charges of false imprisonment rated to the years the victim spent with Garcia after the alleged kidnapping but prosecutors are still investigating and more charges could come later, Emami said.

The woman was convinced that her family did not care for her and was abused physically, emotionally and sexually for years, Emami said.

“She felt like she had nowhere to go,” she said.

She contacted her sister of Facebook in April and also reunited with her mother before going to police, Emami said.
For years, authorities allege, he used violence and threats to keep her under his control, forcing her to work beside him and telling her she would be deported if she left.

He also and forced her to marry him, and two years ago she had his child, according to police.

Police say the woman recently found her sister on Facebook and gained the courage to come forward.

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Santa Ana police on Thursday pushed back against public statements from neighbors who said the pair appeared to be a loving couple and that the woman did not appear to be under any duress.

Santa Ana Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said those witnesses were not seeing the whole picture, especially the years when she was a minor.

“People are giving the impression that she was an adult,” he said. “She was a minor in a foreign country. That’s a very important part of this.”

During a brief interview with KABC-TV, the woman said she was too scared to seek help during the last 10 years.

“I was 15. I couldn’t do anything,” she said. “I was very afraid about everything, because I was alone. I [thought] I was alone, but I never was. My family was with me.”

But some people who knew the pair recently said they appeared to be a loving couple and that the woman did not appear to be under any duress.

“I just don’t understand how he could have her like that all these years,” Javier Campos, 28, who lived near their Bell Gardens apartment and said he knew them. “The police station is right around the corner.”

Santa Ana police Cpl. Anthony Bertagna said those who knew the pair in Bell Gardens were not seeing the whole picture, especially the years when she was a minor.

“People are giving the impression that she was an adult,” he said. “She was a minor in a foreign country. That’s a very important part of this.”