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BY ERIK SHUTE
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Iraqi officials report more than a dozen blasts went off in Baghdad, leaving at least 60 dead. Euronews explains the attacks were orchestrated only days after the U.S. took its boots off the ground in Iraq.
“Around 60 people are dead and more than 180 reported injured. Apparently coordinated attacks in up to 18 separate locations have brought carnage, four days after the last US soldiers left Iraqi soil... Mainly Shiite areas were targeted in the blast during morning rush hour”
A missing Kansas woman is found after she disappeared on Friday. 19 year-old Aisha Khan was reportedly harassed by a drunk man before her disappearance, but returned home safely. Good Morning America reports there are still unanswered questions, and Khan’s family is not speaking to the press.
REPORTER: “Today, it seems their wish has come true. But with so many questions unanswered and many wondering, just where was she for the past five days?”
KHAN: “At this time, we're not going to be taking any questions, as we don't have the answers at this moment.”
REPORTER: “Well, police said they're not releasing any information on where Aisha may or may not have been. They would only say that the case is closed and no further action will be taken.”
A Texas jury has ordered a man to pay a record-breaking $150 billion in compensation to the family of a man who died 12 years after being set on fire.
But, CNN explains the family will not see a penny from the man convicted of the crime.
“Well, it's a largely symbolic gesture and the jury knows this. Again, the defendant, Mr. Collins, he's already in prison on an unrelated sexual assault charge. The idea of collecting that $150 billion, with a ‘B’, is extremely remote. However, one of the many functions of civil law is to send a message to express public outrage.”
Fears are on the rise after a French manufacture of breast implants claims its product could cause harm to women who have gone under the knife. Reuters reports 300,000 of these were sold just within the last year. Here’s HLN with the details.
“France will pay for tens of thousands of women to have their breast implants removed. Health officials there are concerned about a possible link to a rare form of cancer. They say that more than 1,000 implants have ruptured... The french government will decide tomorrow whether women must have their implants removed.”
Finally -- a man has a short lived love affair with a Lamborghini. Just hours after winning the sports car in a contest, David Dopp of Utah crashed it. KSL reports his real concern -- what’s he going to tell his wife?
ANNETTE DOPP: “My heart pretty much fell out. You know that feeling when your heart just drops and you’re just like ‘Oh my gosh, what do we do now?’”
DOPP: “The front got hit, there’s a puncture in the wheel, there are scratches all along the side.”
REPORTER: “Now the good news in all of this, if you can say anything about this is good news -- is that he had the car insured. In fact that was one of the stipulations of the contest, if you win it you had to get it insured.”
Stay with Newsy for more analysis on new throughout the day. For Newsy Now, I’m Lauren Gores -- highlighting the top headlines making you smarter, faster.
