A young Indian girl sits on a bed in a hospital in this image taken from video in Bahraich northern India Thursday April 6, 2017. Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children from recent years... (Associated Press)

 A young Indian girl sits on a bed in a hospital in this image taken from video in Bahraich northern India Thursday April 6, 2017. Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children from recent years to try to identify the girl who was found in a forest with a group of monkeys. The girl, believed... (Associated Press)

 LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Indian police are reviewing reports of missing children to try to identify a girl who was found living in a forest with a group of monkeys.

 The girl, believed to be 10 to 12 years old, was unable to speak, was wearing no clothes and was emaciated when she discovered in January and taken to a hospital in Bahraich, a town in Uttar Pradesh state in northern India.

 She behaved like an animal, running on her arms and legs and eating food off the floor with her mouth, said D.K. Singh, chief medical superintendent of the government-run hospital.

 After treatment, she has begun walking normally and eating with her hands.

 "She is still not able to speak, but understands whatever you tell her and even smiles," Singh said.

 Some woodcutters spotted the girl roaming with monkeys, police officer Dinesh Tripathi told The Associated Press on Thursday. They alerted police.

 "They said the girl was naked and was very comfortable in the company of monkeys. When they tried to rescue the girl, they were chased away by the monkeys," the officer said.

 She was rescued later by a police officer in the Katarniya Ghat forest range. "When he called the girl, the monkeys attacked him but he was able to rescue the girl. He sped away with her in his police car while the monkeys gave chase," Tripathi said.

 He said police are trying to determine how the girl got into the forest and who her parents are.

 She will be sent to a home for juveniles until she is identified, Singh said. ||||| Image caption The condition of the little girl, who reportedly struggles to communicate, is said to be improving

 Police in northern India are searching lists of missing children to try to identify a girl believed to have been living with monkeys.

 The little girl, aged between eight and 10, was found a few weeks ago in a forest in Uttar Pradesh.

 Doctors said she could not communicate and displayed "monkey-like" traits.

 A senior police official told BBC Hindi she had been playing with a pack of monkeys and imitating their behaviour when police went to rescue her.

 The little girl was spotted by villagers in the Katarniaghat wildlife sanctuary, on the Indian border with Nepal.

 The police official, Suresh Yadav, said the monkeys attacked his squad when they arrived to take her away.

 Doctors said she was malnourished when she was brought in, with long hair and nails, and wounds on her body.

 She was also unable to communicate but would screech and initially walked on all fours.

 Her condition is said to be much better now, however, and in the long term she is expected to be handed over to child welfare agencies and other medical specialists to slowly reintroduce her to the world.

 The hospital's chief medical officer, DK Singh, told BBC Hindi that although she was still in hospital, she would be transferred to the Lucknow Medical College once she had been given a clean bill of health so that she could get better medical care.

 Local District Magistrate Ajaydeep Singh has also visited the girl in hospital and has named her "Forest Durga", a reference to a Hindu warrior goddess.

 Many in India are comparing the little girl to Mowgli, the character from Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book who was raised by wolves. It is not clear, however, how long the little girl has been living in the forest. ||||| Lucknow: A ten-year-old girl, now known as the ‘Mowgli girl’, has been brought to a hospital in Bahraich district after she was found living in the Katraniaghat forest area in the company of monkeys. The girl, who has apparently been brought up by monkeys, does not speak or behave like humans.

 The girl was first spotted two months ago by some villagers who had gone to collect firewood in the forest. The girl, without any clothes, was seen scampering around with a group of monkeys. When a villager tried to get close to the girl, the monkeys surrounded him and forced him to beat a retreat.

 The villager returned and informed the local people but each time the locals went to rescue the girl, who was apparently injured, the monkeys would attack them. Gradually the number of monkeys guarding the girl also increased.

 A police team also ventured into the jungle but could not find the girl. Later, a team of UP 100 service was passing through the forest area when they spotted the girl.

 The cops managed to pick up the girl and put her into the car and brought her to the primary health centre. The girl was reportedly semi-conscious and she was then shifted to the district hospital.

 “We are not allowing visitors because the girl reacts violently if she sees someone. She growls like a monkey and tries to claw them. She has become familiar with a doctor and some nurses. She refuses to eat in a plate and spreads the food on the bed or the floor before she eats it,” said Dr D.K. Singh, CMS in the district hospital.

 The girl, who had long tangled hair and long unkempt nails when she was rescued, is gradually improving. Her hair has been washed and cut and her nails have been clipped.

 The wounds on her body are healing and her behavior is also slowly changing. She now walks on two feet, but eats directly from her mouth and cannot speak. Dr Singh said that it is not known how long the girl has been living in the jungle and the police are trying to see if she is in the missing persons’ list.

 The local people feel that she may have been abandoned by her parents because she is a girl child. “Her behavior shows that she has spent several years in the jungle in the care of monkeys,” he added.

 Officials in Lucknow who were unaware of the ‘Mowgli girl’ till now, are now preparing to put her in a special medical facility when she can be treated psychologically be a team of medical experts. However, this will take some time before she is removed from the hospital in Bahraich. |||||
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– Unbelievable as it may sound, authorities in northern India say they've rescued a young girl who appears to have been living with monkeys. Villagers first spotted the naked child looking "very comfortable in the company of monkeys" in January in the Katarniya Ghat forest range, a police officer tells the AP. They tried to approach but the monkeys chased them away, reports the Deccan Chronicle. Police were later able to seize the girl, though monkeys also chased an officer as he "sped away with her in his police car," the officer says. The "highly aggressive" girl was then taken to a hospital in Bahraich, Uttar Pradesh, where doctors say she initially walked on all fours, ate off the floor with her mouth, and ran from humans, per the Telegraph. She's described as being wound-covered, with long hair and nails. She is now walking upright, eating with her hands, and responding to humans, authorities say. She doesn't appear to speak any language (the Telegraph says she makes only "unintelligible muttering[s]"), but is warming up to her doctors and nurses—a possible sign that she retains memories of living with humans, a doctor says. A psychological assessment also indicates she likely had human contact before her time with monkeys, according to doctors. Though media outlets are calling the child Mowgli in a nod to Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, doctors have given her the name of Durga, after the Hindu warrior goddess. Doctors believe she is 8 to 12 years old. Officials say they're reviewing missing child cases in the hope of identifying the girl, per the BBC. (Kipling admitted something about his book in this 1895 letter.)


Detained China artist Ai Weiwei gets first family visit

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 The detained Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been allowed his first contact with his family since his arrest more than 40 days ago.

 The artist met his wife at an unknown location on Sunday and told her he is well, his sister told the BBC.

 Mr Ai is said to be under investigation for suspected "economic crimes".

 The artist is a vocal critic of the government, complaining about a lack of basic freedoms and often incorporating these political themes into his work.

 Ai Weiwei's wife Lu Qing was taken by Chinese police to meet her husband on Sunday afternoon.

 The artist's sister told the BBC Lu Qing was summoned to a police station and taken to another location where she was allowed a brief meeting with her husband.

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 Mrs Lu does not know where that location was, but thinks it was only used for the meeting - she said she did not believe her husband was being held there.

 She reported that Mr Ai told her those holding him were taking good care of him, he was healthy and she should not worry.

 However the meeting was very brief, she said, and there were many other people present, some of them taking notes, so she was afraid to talk much more with her husband.

 The family were then warned by police not to discuss the visit with the media as they were told it could "be bad for Mr Ai's case".

 His family had been demanding to know if he was safe and well as more than 43 days have passed since Mr Ai was detained by police at Beijing's airport, says the BBC's Damian Grammaticas in Beijing.

 He had not been allowed any contact with his lawyers or his family.

 Calls by artists and governments worldwide for information had not produced any response from China's authorities.

 China's foreign ministry has insisted that Mr Ai's case has "nothing to do with human rights or freedom of expression". ||||| Groundbreaking Chinese artist Ai Weiwei appeared healthy but tense during his first meeting with family since he was detained more than a month ago, and authorities still haven't explained why he was seized, his wife said Monday.

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 Lu Qing told The Associated Press she was allowed to meet with her husband at an unknown location for about twenty minutes Sunday afternoon and that he seemed conflicted and upset, though insisted he was healthy and that his physical needs were being met.

 "I could see redness in his eyes. It was obvious that without freedom to express himself he was not behaving naturally even with me, someone from his family," Lu said.

 The avant-garde artist and fearless government critic was taken into custody April 3 and has been held incommunicado though not yet charged with any crime. His case has prompted an outcry in the art world and among officials in the U.S. and EU who say his treatment is a sign of China's deteriorating human rights.

 The Foreign Ministry has said Ai is being investigated for suspected economic crimes, but his detention comes amid a crackdown on dissent apparently sparked by fears that uprisings such as those in the Arab world could erupt in China. Ai had been keeping an informal tally on Twitter of the dozens of bloggers, writers and other intellectuals who were detained or arrested in the campaign before he was taken away.

 Ai is famous in artistic circles for performance pieces that explored the dizzying change of contemporary China and for irreverent, avant garde works such as a photo series that shows him giving the middle finger to landmarks such as Tiananmen Square in Beijing and the White House in Washington.

 He is known more popularly as one of the designers on the iconic "Bird's Nest" national stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and in recent years, has emerged as an advocate for victims of social injustice.

 Lu said two other people were present during the brief meeting, including one person "who seemed to be in charge of Ai," and another who took notes.

 "He seemed conflicted, contained, his face was tense," Lu said.

 Lu said Ai was not handcuffed and was wearing his own clothes instead of a detention center uniform. His trademark beard had not been shaven. Lu said the people that arranged the visit, who showed her no identification, made it clear that no questions other than health related ones were allowed.

 "We could not talk about the economic charges or other stuff, mainly about the family and health," she said. "We were careful, we knew that the deal could be broken at any moment, so we were careful."

 Ai, 53, suffers from high blood pressure and diabetes. He told his wife that he takes long walks everyday, has his blood pressure checked 7 times a day, and that he eats and sleeps very well.

 Despite the visit, much about Ai's case remains murky. Family visits are rarely allowed for suspects under criminal investigation until after they are formally charged.

 Liu Xiaoyuan, a lawyer and friend of Ai's who met with Lu Monday to discuss the visit, said it sounded like Ai was being held under residential surveillance somewhere outside Beijing.

 Chinese law allows police to impose residential surveillance for up to six months before requiring them to make a decision about how to proceed with a case, as opposed to 30 days under criminal detention, said Joshua Rosenzweig, a Hong Kong-based research manager for the U.S. human rights group Dui Hua Foundation.

 Such surveillance usually takes place at the suspect's home and is "supposed to be a less restrictive measure than detention," Rosenzweig said in an email. "Instead, the police seem to be using residential surveillance as a way to legitimize extended, incommunicado detention outside of a regular detention facility."

 Ai's elder sister Gao Ge said that her family is relieved to know that Ai is well, but hopes the government can clarify what is going on with his case.

 U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and officials from the European Union and elsewhere have called on China to release Ai and criticized Beijing for what they say is backsliding on human rights.

 Ai's influence has ranged far beyond that of the usual contemporary artist. His outrage at the deaths of so many students in the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 turned him into a social activist and tapped into anger among many Chinese at official corruption and indifference. He took to Twitter, prolifically tweeting not only his social criticism but his everyday doings, attracting more than 70,000 followers, even though Twitter is blocked by China's Internet filtering.

 Since his disappearance, art museums such as the Tate in London, collectors and artists have rallied behind him. At the launch of an exhibition of Ai's sculpture earlier this month, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said fearlessness in the face of official intimidation spoke to "the indomitable desire for freedom that is inside every human being." |||||

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– Imprisoned Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was granted his first family visit yesterday, 43 days after he was taken into custody, reports the BBC. Ai's wife, Lu Qing, was brought to a secret location to meet with him for about 20 minutes, under the condition they did not talk about sensitive issues, only family and health. "He seemed conflicted, contained, his face was tense. I could see redness in his eyes. It was obvious that without freedom to express himself he was not behaving naturally even with me," says Lu, who adds that Ai otherwise appeared to be in good health. "We could not talk about the economic charges or other stuff," she says, and tells the AP that others were present when they met, and some of them were taking notes. "We were careful, we knew that the deal could be broken at any moment, so we were careful." Lu says Ai was not handcuffed and was wearing his own clothes instead of a detention center uniform. His trademark beard had not been shaven. Chinese authorities have not specified the charges against him, except to say he was being investigated for "economic crimes," but it is generally believed Ai is actually being investigated for his criticism of the government.


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The estate of the late artist Dash Snow is fighting to protect his legacy against the dreaded label of “sellout.” Jade Berreau, the late artist’s former girlfriend and current estate manager, is suing McDonald’s for copying Snow’s graffiti tag, and using it to decorate a number of restaurants without permission.

 In June 2016, Burreau first asked McDonald’s to remove Snow’s recognizable graffiti tag, “SACE,” from the locations that had been redesigned in the graffiti-covered, industrial theme, to no avail. Burreau is now formally suing McDonald’s for “copyright infringement, trademark infringement, unfair competition, falsification of ‘copyright management information’ under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and negligence,” reports the Fashion Law.

 The artist, who died in 2009 at the age of 27, began his career as a street artist in the 1990s, part of a graffiti crew known as IRAK. In a memorial essay, photographer Ryan McGinley wrote that Snow was “number one on the vandal-squad’s most wanted list,” tagging ambitious locations like New York’s Brooklyn Bridge and High Line, and even paying homeless people $20 to tag the clothes on their backs.

 In the McDonald’s in question, the lawsuit claims, the appropriated “SACE” tag is “so prominently placed,” and “was the only element singled out and spotlighted in media coverage surrounding McDonald’s display campaign.” The plaintiff claims that media coverage implied that Snow authorized the use of his work on the walls of the corporate chain.

 The McDonald's in Brixton has been covered in fake graffiti https://t.co/yoa8qVML96 pic.twitter.com/mWGY1s9biI — Evening Standard (@standardnews) March 4, 2016

 Unsurprisingly, Snow, although born into a privileged life, took an anti-commercial stance, and it is safe to assume that he would never have aligned himself with a brand like McDonald’s.

 “He has never made his original art available on the internet, in retail stores, or in restaurants—partly for artistic reasons but also because doing so would diminish the value of his work. Nothing is more antithetical to Mr. Snow’s outsider ‘street cred’ than association with corporate consumerism—of which McDonald’s and its marketing are the epitome,” the lawsuit continues.

 Memo to Brixton McDonalds – your new graffiti lampshades SUCK pic.twitter.com/T1gyGLZWjV — Hannah T-W (@hannahteedub) March 4, 2016

 Back in March, a refurbished McDonald’s in the gentrifying district of Brixton, South London generated controversy for the questionable graffiti-covered décor. Locals took to Twitter to vent their frustration about the “edgy” designs. One twitter user, @bernehxoxo, replied to a tweet from the Evening Standard, “stoked about the sace throw! Rip”. Needless to say, SACE’s family is not so “stoked.”

 Follow artnet News on Facebook: ||||| The late American artist Dash Snow may not be a household name to the average McDonald’s customer—but his artwork might look familiar to frequent diners.

 Seven years after the artist passed away, his estate has filed a lawsuit against the fast food chain, alleging McDonald’s used several of Snow’s signature designs as fake graffiti décor in numerous locations around the world.

 One of the designs in question is actually Snow’s spray-painted pseudonym “S-A-C-E.”

 The images below both appear in the lawsuit as evidence of copyright infringement. On the left is a Snow original "SACE" signature, and the right features a similar-looking design from the wall at a McDonald's location in London:

 “Inexplicably, Defendants [McDonald's] are using Mr. Snow’s artwork as décor in hundreds of McDonald’s restaurants, and are using his name and signature in a manner suggesting that Mr. Snow created all of the surrounding artwork (which adorns the entirety of McDonald’s graffiti themed restaurants),” reads the suit, filed by the late artist’s girlfriend Jade Berreau with whom he has a daughter, and is the administrator of his estate.

 In addition to claiming that the fast food chain violated Snow’s copyright by using his work without permission, the plantiff argues that McDonald’s use of the late artist’s designs could harm the value of Snow’s original artworks—which have sold for hundreds of thousands at auction houses like Sotheby’s.

 Snow, born Dashiell Snow, “carefully avoided any association with corporate culture and mass-market consumerism… He has never made his original art available on the internet, in retail stores, or in restaurants,” argues the lawsuit. McDonald’s is “clearly attempting to trade on Mr. Snow’s name and reputation."

 The lawsuit, filed Oct. 3 in a federal court in Los Angeles, claims that Snow’s family previously asked McDonald’s to remove the graffiti artwork in June but that the chain “arrogantly refused to comply” with the request.

 More from Page Six. ||||| Seven years after artist Dash Snow passed away, his estate is accusing McDonald’s of brazenly swiping one of his signature designs to use as fake “graffiti” decor on eateries around the world.

 When we say “signature,” we don’t just mean that this particular work was intimately associated with Snow; we also mean that the design was actually the spray-painted signature for Snow’s pseudonym “SACE.”

 The two images below are taken from the complaint [PDF]. On the left is a Snow original SACE signature. On the right is a very similar design as seen in a London McDonald’s:

 This image from the Evening Standard shows that the lookalike graffiti isn’t actual tagging by vandals, but is part of the restaurant’s decor:

 The McDonald's in Brixton has been covered in fake graffiti https://t.co/yoa8qVML96 pic.twitter.com/mWGY1s9biI — Evening Standard (@standardnews) March 4, 2016

 In addition to claiming that the fast food chain violated Snow’s copyright by using his work without permission, the late artist’s estate argues that the value of the rest of his artwork — which has sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars at auction, according to the complaint — could be harmed by possibly giving people the impression that the other faux spray paint on the wall was created by Snow.

 This is particularly problematic, argues his estate, because Snow “carefully avoided any association with corporate culture and mass-market consumerism… He has never made his original art available on the internet, in retail stores, or in restaurants.”

 McDonald’s is, per the complaint, “clearly attempting to trade on Mr. Snow’s name and reputation.” His estate points out that the allegedly infringing design is the largest and most prominent part of the McDonald’s wall decor, and the “only element ‘created’ by a famous artist.”

 The estate claims that Snow’s family asked McDonald’s in June 2016 to remove the allegedly offending work, but that the fast food chain has “arrogantly refused to comply.”

 [h/t Page Six] |||||Summary:

– McDonald's is being sued for allegedly appropriating the work of a deceased graffiti artist without his estate's permission, Consumerist reports. According to Artnet, Dash Snow, who went by the tag SACE, was known for spray painting high-profile locations like the Brooklyn Bridge and even clothes being worn by homeless people. He died in 2009 at the age of 27. Years later, McDonald's redecorated hundreds of its locations with a graffiti motif, Fox News reports. A lawsuit filed Monday by Snow's former girlfriend and current estate manager, Jade Berreau, accuses McDonald's of using Snow's SACE signature as the major element in that redesign without permission. The lawsuit points out that the SACE-ish tag is not only the largest element of the graffiti-themed decor but also the "only element 'created' by a famous artist." It says Snow "carefully avoided any association with corporate culture and mass-market consumerism," of which McDonald's is the "epitome." The lawsuit claims Berreau originally asked McDonald's to remove the offending tag in June, but it "arrogantly refused to comply." She's now suing the company for copyright infringement, trademark infringement, unfair competition, and more. In addition to going against what Snow stood for, the lawsuit claims McDonald's' use of his art could hurt the value of his actual pieces, which have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars.


– There's been a wave of new developments this morning regarding Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz and the downed flight. German prosecutors say that it appears Lubitz researched both suicide methods and cockpit door security during the period from March 16 to March 23, reports the AP; the crash occurred on March 24. The announcement stems from prosecutors' discovery of an iPad in Lubitz's apartment and a review of its browser history, report the New York Times, which has this statement: "During this time the user was searching for medical treatments, as well as informing himself about ways and possibilities of killing himself. On at least one day the person concerned also spent several minutes looking up search terms about cockpit doors and their safety measures." The revelations come along with the news that the second black-box recorder has been found, reports the AP. Meanwhile, CNN talks to a law enforcement source who says Lubitz went doctor-shopping in advance of the crash: The source says Lubitz saw five to six doctors—including a sleep specialist—and frames that as reflective of his fear that his medical woes would end his career and his desire to find a doctor who could help.

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Dusseldorf, Germany (CNN) Analysis of a tablet device belonging to Germanwings Flight 9525 co-pilot Andreas Lubitz shows he researched suicide methods on the Internet in the days leading up to the crash, a German prosecutor said Thursday.

 Dusseldorf prosecutor Christoph Kumpa said that on one day Lubitz also "searched for several minutes with search terms relating to cockpit doors and their security measures."

 Police analysis of the correspondence and search history on the device, retrieved from Lubitz's Dusseldorf apartment, demonstrated that the co-pilot used it from March 16 to March 23, Kumpa said.

 The search history was not deleted and also revealed searches concerning medical treatment, the prosecutor said.

 Lubitz is suspected of deliberately bringing down Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps on March 24, killing all 150 on board. Investigators have since focused on his health as they try to establish his motivation.

 Noting he's made a criminal request to German authorities but is for now conducting his own investigation, the prosecutor in Marseille, France, said he is tasked with an involuntary homicide investigation. But prosecutor Brice Robin noted that Lubitz made voluntary actions -- such as guiding the plane toward the mountain and reducing its speed to prevent alarms from going off -- and was "alive and conscious" to the very end.

 A European official government official with detailed knowledge of the investigation said that Lubitz's actions amount to"premeditated murder."

 While cautioning that there are still many holes in understanding Lubitz's motivation, the disclosures about his Internet searches show that he planned to do what he was going to do, according to this official.

 Second 'black box' found

 As authorities try to figure out what was on Lubitz's electronic devices, they got another big break about what was happening inside Airbus 320 that went down -- its flight data recorder.

 The jetliner's cockpit voice recorder was located shortly after the plane crashed. Now, investigators have both "black boxes," as the devices are called, and the details that they might provide.

 A female police officer digging by hand for clothes in a ravine that been searched previously found the flight data recorder on Thursday afternoon about 8 inches (20 centimeters) below the surface, Robin told reporters.

 Normally white with florescent orange, this discovered recorder lived up to its name as a black box because fire had darkened it with ashes. Even with this damage, the Marseille prosecutor said that investigators should be able to get useful information out of it.

 "We will be able to identify the speed, the altitude and the way the pilot acted ... which will be critical," said Robin.

 Prosecutor: 150 sets of DNA recovered

 The voice data recorder is one of many items uncovered at the crash site in the southern French Alps.

 Authorities have found 470 personnel effects there, according to Robin. That number includes 40 cell phones, though all those were badly damaged. Robin cast doubt that any useful information could be retrieved from those phones, given their condition.

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 This is consistent with French officials' claims Wednesday insisting that two publications, German daily Bild and French Paris Match, were wrong to report that cell phone video showed the harrowing final seconds from on board the flight.

 More importantly, investigators have isolated 150 different sets of DNA -- a number that corresponds with the number of people on Flight 9525. Still, the Marseille prosecutor cautioned, "It doesn't mean we have identified 150 victims. We need to compare (the recovered DNA to) DNA from the families and the deceased."

 Robin estimated "it will take between three to five weeks, if all goes well" for the passengers' loved ones to get the remains.

 But the mourning is already underway.

 A memorial stone set up in the village of Le Vernet, the nearest accessible point to the crash site, has become a place of pilgrimage for those with relatives and friends on board the plane.

 People in the German town of Haltern recently came together for a memorial service to remember 16 students and two teachers lost in the crash.

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 Push to take steps to prevent a repeat

 Providing some closures to the families of those passengers and crew members is a top priority for authorities.

 So, too, is doing what they can to figure out why this happened and prevent similar tragedies.

 There are new calls from aviation experts to develop and deploy enhanced crash avoidance software that could take control of an aircraft away from a pilot and steer it to a safe altitude.

 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A recovery crew works among debris of Germanwings Flight 9525 at the crash site near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on Friday, April 3. The crash killed all 150 people aboard and has raised questions about the co-pilot's mental state. Hide Caption 1 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France French Gen. David Galtier holds up a picture of the second black box from Germanwings 9525 during a news conference in Marseille, France, on Thursday, April 2. The flight data recorder shows that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz purposely used the controls to speed up the plane's descent, investigators said. Hide Caption 2 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Rescue workers recover debris from the crash site in the French Alps on Tuesday, March 31. Flight 9525 was traveling from Barcelona, Spain, to Dusseldorf, Germany, when it crashed. Hide Caption 3 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A helicopter drops rescue workers next to crash debris near Seyne-les-Alpes, France, on Sunday, March 29. Hide Caption 4 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Forensic experts work near the crash site on Thursday, March 26. Hide Caption 5 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Journalists stand in front of the Westerwald airfield in Montabaur, Germany, on March 27. Lubitz reportedly learned to fly here. Hide Caption 6 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Investigators carry a computer from the home of Lubitz's parents in Montabaur, Germany, on Thursday, March 26. Hide Caption 7 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A police officer stands guard March 26 at an apartment building where Lubitz was thought to have lived in Dusseldorf. Hide Caption 8 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A helicopter lifts a rescue worker from the crash site on March 26. Hide Caption 9 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Rescue workers continue to search the site of the crash on March 26. Hide Caption 10 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Search-and-rescue teams land near the crash site on Wednesday, March 25. Hide Caption 11 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Debris from the plane is seen along a mountainside on March 25. Hide Caption 12 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France French military personnel move up a mountainside March 25 near Seyne-les-Alpes. Hide Caption 13 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France The cockpit voice recorder of the Germanwings jet appears in this photo provided by the French air accident investigation bureau on March 25. The device is designed to capture all sounds on a plane's flight deck. Hide Caption 14 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A helicopter comes in to land near Seyne-les-Alpes, the staging ground for search efforts, on March 25. Hide Caption 15 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Rescue workers and members of the French Gendarmerie gather in Seyne-les-Alpes on Tuesday, March 24, as search-and-rescue teams struggle to reach the remote crash. Hide Caption 16 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Wreckage is seen at the crash site on March 24. Hide Caption 17 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Response teams gather in Seyne-les-Alpes on March 24. Hide Caption 18 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Relatives of the flight's passengers arrive at the airport in Barcelona on March 24. Hide Caption 19 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France People hold hands walking through the Dusseldorf Airport on March 24. Hide Caption 20 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France The arrivals board at the Dusseldorf Airport shows Germanwings Flight 9525 without a status on March 24. Hide Caption 21 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France People arrive at the Dusseldorf Airport on March 24. Hide Caption 22 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France An employee of Swissport, the handling agent of Germanwings flights from Barcelona, speaks by phone at the Barcelona-El Prat Airport on March 24. Hide Caption 23 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France Relatives of people involved in the crash arrive at the Barcelona airport on March 24. Hide Caption 24 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France A man in Madrid looks at a monitor with a map, released from the Flightradar24 website, showing the point where the plane's radar signal went missing. Hide Caption 25 of 26 Photos: Germanwings plane crashes in France This undated file photo shows the Germanwings Airbus A320 that crashed. Germanwings is a low-cost airline owned by the Lufthansa Group. Hide Caption 26 of 26

 The idea is not new. In fact more than 10 years ago following 9/11, Airbus, the manufacturer of the doomed aircraft, was working to develop aircraft crash avoidance software with tech giant Honeywell -- in part to prevent jetliners from being flown into large buildings or mountains. But the project was ultimately scrapped.

 Still, there's also a widespread view that the best way to understand what happened in this case is to understand Lubitz.

 Source: Lubitz saw multiple doctors

 It is becoming increasingly clear to investigators that Lubitz was "very afraid" he would lose his license to fly because of his medical issues, a law enforcement source with detailed knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

 It's already emerged that Lubitz had battled depression years before he took the controls of Flight 9525 and that he had concealed from his employer recent medical leave notes saying he was unfit for work.

 But the law enforcement source said that after a severe depressive episode in 2009, Lubitz relapsed with severe depression and stress in late 2014.

 In the weeks leading up to the crash, Lubitz was shopping doctors, seeing at least five, perhaps as many as six, the source said, as he kept going from one doctor to the next seeking help.

 The 27-year-old was having trouble sleeping, and one of the doctors he saw recently was a sleep specialist, the law enforcement source said. Lubitz apparently told some doctors that he was afraid of losing his pilot's license because of his medical issues.

 The doctors knew he was a pilot and gave him a "not fit to work" notice, which he was apparently required to give to his employer, even though he didn't, the source said. Officials have found doctors handled the matter the way they were supposed to and found no negligence on their part.

 Thinking he would stay home from work based on the sick notes, Lubitz was prescribed a lot of medication, including "heavy depression medicine" that would have been "very heavy" on the body and "critical to a pilot," the source said.

 However, the law enforcement source doesn't think Lubitz was using the medicine while working, because investigators interviewed a pilot he flew with the day before who said he was "completely normal" with no problem whatsoever.

 Inside Lubitz's apartment, investigators found a couple of notes with only a few words, involving stress and his pilot's license, the source added. He didn't know if Lubitz wrote these down while talking to someone on the phone or wrote the memo to remind himself of something.

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 Lubitz told his Lufthansa flight training school in 2009 that he had a "previous episode of severe depression," the German airline confirmed Tuesday. Lufthansa is the parent company of budget airline Germanwings.

 Confidentiality issues

 German officials announced that a new task force would look at issues including medical procedures for pilots and cockpit door locking mechanisms after the devastating crash.

 The cockpit voice recorder revealed that Lubitz had locked the pilot, Patrick Sondenheimer , out of the cockpit before putting the plane into its fatal descent, said Robin, the Marseille prosecutor.

 Cockpit doors on planes were strengthened following the events of September 11, 2001, making it impossible for the captain to force his way in.

 German Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt told the news conference Thursday that the task force would prioritize questions around the cockpit door locking mechanism and procedures for checking pilots' medical and psychological well-being.

 It would seek to move quickly, he said, but would not make rash decisions.

 Klaus-Peter Siegloch, head of the German Aviation Association, emphasized issues around confidentiality when it comes to a pilot's medical records.

 "The confidence our pilots have in our medical doctors is of high importance," he said. "I believe if there is a lifting of doctor-patient confidentiality, then possibly pilots will not trust in medical doctors and that will make the situation worse."

 The task force will bring together government officials with representatives of the German airline companies, the German Aviation Association and the Federation of German Airlines. ||||| Mountain troop members prepare to leave for the crash site, Thursday, April 2, 2015 in Seyne-les-Alpes, France. Investigators believe co-pilot Andreas Lubitz intentionally crashed the Germanwings A320... (Associated Press)

 BERLIN (AP) — German prosecutors say the co-pilot of Germanwings Flight 9525 appears to have researched suicide methods and cockpit door security in the days before the plane crashed last week.

 Duesseldorf prosecutors said Thursday investigators found a tablet computer at Andreas Lubitz's apartment. They said they were able to reconstruct searches from March 16 to March 23.

 Investigators believe the 27-year-old Lubitz locked his captain out of the A320's cockpit on March 24 and deliberately crashed the plane. All 150 on board died.

 Prosecutors' spokesman Ralf Herrenbrueck said in a statement that search terms included medical treatment and suicide methods. On at least one day, the co-pilot looked at search terms involving cockpit doors and their security methods. ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period. ||||| Mr. Robin also said that 40 cellphones had been found at the crash site. “These phones are in a very, very damaged condition, which will make exploiting them very hard,” he said.

 The discovery of the second black box, the flight data recorder, should enable the authorities to determine more precisely what actions Mr. Lubitz took to put the plane into its fatal descent and to prevent the captain from re-entering the cockpit.

 Prosecutors in Düsseldorf declined to release any information on the exact search terms found on Mr. Lubitz’s iPad. They said such details must remain confidential until all the evidence had been evaluated. They also said they were working with the local and state police to evaluate the documents and electronic devices found in Mr. Lubitz’s apartment. The police spent several hours searching his home last Thursday, removing two moving boxes and large plastic bags full of possible evidence.

 Among the items found was the iPad, which prosecutors said contained “personal correspondence and search terms that lead to the conclusion that the device was used by the co-pilot” in the days before the crash.

 “Everything that helps to understand better what happened is something we welcome,” Gernot Waha, a spokesman in Frankfurt for Lufthansa, the parent company of Germanwings, said in response to the information provided by the Düsseldorf prosecutors and the discovery of the flight data recorder. He said he could not comment further.

 The flight data recorder tracks hundreds of performance statistics from the plane, including its position, speed, altitude and direction. Officials said the recorder would be transported to the offices of France’s accidents investigation bureau near Paris.

 Image French rescue workers at the scene of the Germanwings Airbus A320 crash on Tuesday. Credit Yves Malenfer/French Interior Ministry

 An official involved in the investigation said that the recorder’s protective case did not appear to have been significantly damaged, raising hopes that the data contained on its flash memory card would be successfully retrieved and synchronized with the voice recorder recovered soon after the crash. The official, who requested anonymity because the inquiry was continuing, confirmed that the flight data recorder had been found intact.

 Last week, searchers found a severely damaged device that they initially believed was the flight data recorder’s external case, leading them to conclude — and President François Hollande to announce — that the recorder’s memory card had been dislodged by the force of the crash. However, the official said that device had subsequently been determined to be an antenna.

 Investigators are likely to spend the next several weeks conducting a detailed analysis of the two black box recordings in order to assemble a fuller picture of what happened in the flight’s final moments.

 A team of German aviation experts and industry representatives plans to examine whether to introduce changes to cockpit door controls and to the medical assessment of pilots because of the crash, Germany’s transportation minister said Thursday. Investigators believe that Mr. Lubitz prevented the captain from returning to the cockpit by activating security mechanisms, introduced after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, that are designed to prevent outsiders from entering and seizing the controls.

 A thorough exploration of what changes, if any, could be made to cockpit doors will be one of the first tasks taken up by the German experts, said Alexander Dobrindt, Germany’s transportation minister. He noted, however, that any changes would require consultation with European and international agencies.

 Last week, airlines in Germany and elsewhere in Europe rushed to introduce a requirement that two crew members be present in the cockpit at all times, a rule that American carriers have had in place for many years.

 Germany is also debating whether to systematically require passengers on flights within Europe to show a piece of personal identification in addition to their ticket before boarding planes. The authorities initially struggled to determine exactly who had been aboard the flight when they ran checks on whether any of the passengers had links to terrorism. |||||


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By Adrian Cho, ScienceNOW

 If it’s true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe reports. If so, the observation would wreck Einstein’s theory of special relativity, which demands that nothing can travel faster than light.

 In fact, the result would be so revolutionary that it’s sure to be met with skepticism all over the world. “I suspect that the bulk of the scientific community will not take this as a definitive result unless it can be reproduced by at least one and preferably several experiments,” says V. Alan Kostelecky, a theorist at Indiana University, Bloomington. He adds, however, “I’d be delighted if it were true.”

 The data come from a 1,300-metric-ton particle detector named Oscillation Project with Emulsion-tRacking Apparatus (OPERA). Lurking in Italy’s subterranean Gran Sasso National Laboratory, OPERA detects neutrinos that are fired through the Earth from the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland. As the particles hardly interact at all with other matter, they stream right through the ground, with only a very few striking the material in the detector and making a noticeable shower of particles.

 Over three years, OPERA researchers timed the roughly 16,000 neutrinos that started at CERN and registered a hit in the detector. They found that, on average, the neutrinos made the 730-kilometer, 2.43-millisecond trip roughly 60 nanoseconds faster than expected if they were traveling at light speed. “It’s a straightforward time-of-flight measurement,” says Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern and spokesperson for the 160-member OPERA collaboration. “We measure the distance and we measure the time, and we take the ratio to get the velocity, just as you learned to do in high school.” Ereditato says the uncertainty in the measurement is 10 nanoseconds.

 However, even Ereditato says it’s way too early to declare relativity wrong. “I would never say that,” he says. Rather, OPERA researchers are simply presenting a curious result that they cannot explain and asking the community to scrutinize it. “We are forced to say something,” he says. “We could not sweep it under the carpet because that would be dishonest.” The results will be presented at a seminar tomorrow at CERN.

 The big question is whether OPERA researchers have discovered particles going faster than light, or whether they have been misled by an unidentified “systematic error” in their experiment that’s making the time look artificially short. Chang Kee Jung, a neutrino physicist at Stony Brook University in New York, says he’d wager that the result is the product of a systematic error. “I wouldn’t bet my wife and kids because they’d get mad,” he says. “But I’d bet my house.”

 Jung, who is spokesperson for a similar experiment in Japan called T2K, says the tricky part is accurately measuring the time between when the neutrinos are born by slamming a burst of protons into a solid target and when they actually reach the detector. That timing relies on the global positioning system, and the GPS measurements can have uncertainties of tens of nanoseconds. “I would be very interested in how they got a 10-nanosecond uncertainty, because from the systematics of GPS and the electronics, I think that’s a very hard number to get.”

 No previous measurements obviously rule out the result, says Kostelecky, who has spent 25 years developing a theory, called the standard model extension, that accounts for all possible types of violations of special relativity in the context of particle physics. “If you had told me that there was a claim of faster-than-light electrons, I would be a lot more skeptical,” he says. The possibilities for neutrinos are less constrained by previous measurements, he says.

 Still, Kostelecky repeats the old adage: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Even Ereditato says that one measurement does not extraordinary evidence make.

 This story provided by ScienceNOW, the daily online news service of the journal Science.

 Image: OPERA experiment ||||| A pillar of physics _ that nothing can go faster than the speed of light _ appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around Albert Einstein's theories.

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 Scientists at the world's largest physics lab said Thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light. That's something that according to Einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity _ the famous E (equals) mc2 equation _ just doesn't happen.

 "The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said James Gillies, a spokesman for the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The organization, known as CERN, hosted part of the experiment, which is unrelated to the massive $10 billion Large Hadron Collider also located at the site.

 Gillies told The Associated Press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.

 "They are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said Thursday.

 Scientists at the competing Fermilab in Chicago have promised to start such work immediately.

 "It's a shock," said Fermilab head theoretician Stephen Parke, who was not part of the research in Geneva. "It's going to cause us problems, no doubt about that _ if it's true."

 The Chicago team had similar faster-than-light results in 2007, but those came with a giant margin of error that undercut its scientific significance.

 Other outside scientists expressed skepticism at CERN's claim that the neutrinos _ one of the strangest well-known particles in physics _ were observed smashing past the cosmic speed barrier of 186,282 miles per second (299,792 kilometers per second).

 University of Maryland physics department chairman Drew Baden called it "a flying carpet," something that was too fantastic to be believable.

 CERN says a neutrino beam fired from a particle accelerator near Geneva to a lab 454 miles (730 kilometers) away in Italy traveled 60 nanoseconds faster than the speed of light. Scientists calculated the margin of error at just 10 nanoseconds, making the difference statistically significant. But given the enormous implications of the find, they still spent months checking and rechecking their results to make sure there was no flaws in the experiment.

 "We have not found any instrumental effect that could explain the result of the measurement," said Antonio Ereditato, a physicist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, who was involved in the experiment known as OPERA.

 The researchers are now looking to the United States and Japan to confirm the results.

 A similar neutrino experiment at Fermilab near Chicago would be capable of running the tests, said Stavros Katsanevas, the deputy director of France's National Institute for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research. The institute collaborated with Italy's Gran Sasso National Laboratory for the experiment at CERN.

 Katsanevas said help could also come from the T2K experiment in Japan, though that is currently on hold after the country's devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami.

 Scientists agree if the results are confirmed, that it would force a fundamental rethink of the laws of nature.

 Einstein's special relativity theory that says energy equals mass times the speed of light squared underlies "pretty much everything in modern physics," said John Ellis, a theoretical physicist at CERN who was not involved in the experiment. "It has worked perfectly up until now."

 He cautioned that the neutrino researchers would have to explain why similar results weren't detected before.

 "This would be such a sensational discovery if it were true that one has to treat it extremely carefully," said Ellis. ||||| Image caption Enormous underground detectors are needed to catch neutrinos, that are so elusive as to be dubbed "ghost particles"

 A meeting at Cern, the world's largest physics lab, has addressed results that suggest subatomic particles have gone faster than the speed of light.

 The team has published its work so other scientists can determine if the approach contains any mistakes.

 If it does not, one of the pillars of modern science may come tumbling down.

 Antonio Ereditato added "words of caution" to his Cern presentation because of the "potentially great impact on physics" of the result.

 The speed of light is widely held to be the Universe's ultimate speed limit, and much of modern physics - as laid out in part by Albert Einstein in his theory of special relativity - depends on the idea that nothing can exceed it.

 We want to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy Antonio Ereditato, Opera collaboration Light speed: Flying into fantasy

 Thousands of experiments have been undertaken to measure it ever more precisely, and no result has ever spotted a particle breaking the limit.

 "We tried to find all possible explanations for this," the report's author Antonio Ereditato of the Opera collaboration told BBC News on Thursday evening.

 "We wanted to find a mistake - trivial mistakes, more complicated mistakes, or nasty effects - and we didn't.

 "When you don't find anything, then you say 'well, now I'm forced to go out and ask the community to scrutinise this'."

 Friday's meeting was designed to begin this process, with hopes that other scientists will find inconsistencies in the measurements and, hopefully, repeat the experiment elsewhere.

 "Despite the large [statistical] significance of this measurement that you have seen and the stability of the analysis, since it has a potentially great impact on physics, this motivates the continuation of our studies in order to find still-unknown systematic effects," Dr Ereditato told the meeting.

 "We look forward to independent measurement from other experiments."

 Neutrinos come in a number of types, and have recently been seen to switch spontaneously from one type to another.

 The Cern team prepares a beam of just one type, muon neutrinos, and sends them through the Earth to an underground laboratory at Gran Sasso in Italy to see how many show up as a different type, tau neutrinos.

 In the course of doing the experiments, the researchers noticed that the particles showed up 60 billionths of a second earlier than they would have done if they had travelled at the speed of light.

 This is a tiny fractional change - just 20 parts in a million - but one that occurs consistently.

 The team measured the travel times of neutrino bunches some 16,000 times, and have reached a level of statistical significance that in scientific circles would count as a formal discovery.

 Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Professor Antonio Ereditato of Cern: "An understatement that these are unexpected results"

 But the group understands that what are known as "systematic errors" could easily make an erroneous result look like a breaking of the ultimate speed limit.

 That has motivated them to publish their measurements.

 "My dream would be that another, independent experiment finds the same thing - then I would be relieved," Dr Ereditato told BBC News.

 But for now, he explained, "we are not claiming things, we want just to be helped by the community in understanding our crazy result - because it is crazy". |||||

– It's enough to make Einstein's hair stand up: Physicists at CERN think they've spotted neutrinos traveling faster than light, reports AP. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity—his E=MC2 equation—nothing should be able to go that fast. At Wired, Adrian Cho doesn't mince words: "If it’s true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century." It's so jarring in the world of science—the BBC explains that modern physics depends on the notion that the "the speed of light is the universe's ultimate speed limit"—that the researchers themselves are asking other scientists to try to duplicate the findings before proclaiming them to be true. "The feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," says a CERN spokesman. Chicago's Fermilab says it will begin its own experiments immediately.


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 It was such a pleasure to chat with Andrew Keen for TechCrunch’s INNOVATE 2016 Series.

 AK: So we do most of our INNOVATE 2016 interviews at the Innovation Hanger in San Francisco, a very cool venue. We are here today with Josh Browder, a very innovative young entrepeneur. We are using this background, which, actually, the Innovation Hanger is promoting in association with its Hunger Games exhibit: “what future will you create?” A lot of this show has been about the idea of Washington D.C creating the future, but in Silicon Valley we are very good at creating the future. One guy who is doing a remarkable job, especially for someone of his tender age, is Josh Browder. Josh, welcome to INNOVATE2016.

 JB: Thanks so much for having me.

 AK: So Josh, you are an undergrad at Stanford and second year student?

 JB: Going into my second year, yes.

 AK: And the quintessential startup guy. You have developed a number of successful apps. One of which is an app for paying and fighting parking tickets, which maybe you will talk about later in the show. But the one I really want to talk to you about is your application of blockchain with HIV. I know this is a particularly interesting issue. We have had the Tapscotts on the show talking about the impact of blockchain, but they never talk specifically. What are you doing using blockchain to innovate and create a future that we all want?

 JB: Sure. Well in this country there’s a huge problem at the moment with discrimination against those with HIV and AIDS. If you have HIV — I have several friends who have HIV —

 AK: HIV positive?

 JB: — HIV positive exactly. There’s this huge problem where you have to prove to all your sexual partners that you have disclosed. Often, there are these huge miscarriages of justice where there’s some mix-up and it’s not clear whether the person has actually said, “I’m HIV positive.” So what I’ve done, using the blockchain, is to allow those who are HIV positive to prove in under 30 seconds that they have disclosed through a permanent and anyonymous record. It requires no technical knowledge.

 AK: So, in this way, blockchain is being used in an incredibly innovative way for the social good?

 JB: Exactly. The thing is with these cases is that they often arrive 20 or 30 years after the incident. The problem with that is companies disappear, records disappear, but the blockchain is permanent, which is why it is so powerful.

 AK: So, you agree with the Tapscotts that the blockchain is essentially the thing that’s going to change everything?

 JB: Absolutely. I think that it has already changed financial technology a lot, but it also can have a big impact in the law and that’s just starting to surface.

 AK: Talk a little bit also about your app. We first met at DLD New York where you were talking about your parking ticket app, which was incredibly innovative.

 JB: Sure. At the age of 18, the legal driving age in the UK, I got a few parking tickets…

 AK: A few? How many Josh in truth.

 JB: Too many to count. I think around 30 at the end of it.

 AK: So, you were this tech guy who was so absent minded that wherever you park you pick up tickets?

 JB: Yes. I decided that instead of paying for them, I should try and fight. Some were correctly issued and I paid for those. But for the ones that were incorrect, I decided to create an app to help people find the reasons why they were incorrectly given and fight them. I created it for a few family and friends and could never have imagined that in a few short months it would have appealed over $4 million.

 AK: So you got traction?

 JB: Yes. The government don’t like me very much, but people with parking tickets do!

 AK: And it’s a real business?

 JB: Well, it’s currently free.

 AK: No business model then…

 JB: In Silicon Valley, there’s no such thing as business models! It’s just traction or not. People are loving and it’s great to be able to help them.

 AK: As an innovator, someone who is reinventing the world, whether it’s by paying or not paying parking tickets, or disclosing or not disclosing HIV, what do you make of the 2016 election?

 JB: It’s a complete disgrace.

 JB: It’s been taken over by harmful rhetoric. We have so many problems in our society that I have noticed. People being imprisoned for years over just not paying fines, poverty, the healthcare system and the environment. And a few politicians, specifically one politician, is ignoring all of that and inciting racist hatred.

 AK: But can innovation take place in parallell with the absurdity, ugliness and uselessness of the political process, or do you need it to help shape a better future?

 JB: I think that the political process should try and stay as far away as possible from innovation. From my experience, governments tend to be big bureaucratic messes. The further they stay away from any sort of action, the better it is.

 AK: So any kind of regulation you think is unhealthy from your point of view as an entrepreneur?

 JB: Well I think you need regulation sometimes, but ultimately regulation is harmful to innovation.

 AK: So, when you are sitting down as an app developer coming up with your brilliant new idea, the less the government is involved the better?

 JB: Well, for example, in Texas where they banned Uber, how can anyone take that city seriously if they ban Uber, a symbol of innovation. So, absolutely, yes.

 AK: And could the government become involved in your HIV screening? I mean particularly a conservative state that didn’t want to acknowledge still the AIDS virus.

 JB: I think that it’s unfortunate and they are probably part of the problem. Part of the reason I needed to create this in the first place. So, I wouldn’t want them anywhere near it.

 AK: Josh, you are an undergrad at Stanford. What is it at Stanford that is producing this assembly line of innovative young entrepreneurs like you? Is it cause and effect with smart entrepeneurs going to Stanford? Or is it once you go there, you suddenly become this remarkable young entrepreneur?

 JB: Well I think at Stanford, it’s the people once you go. The Bay Area is really horrible, with expensive housing and everything like that. But one thing that the Bay Area has, which no other place in the world has, is amazing people. Just being around those people is inspiring and it inspires me to do more.

 AK: Aren’t there kids at Stanford though who want to innovate in politics? People in your class who want to become President. Won’t that be the solution to the problems in DC.

 JB: Absolutely! Even Elon Musk says that he would consider running for President some time in the future. So I would’t be against a President Musk.

 AK: But of your generation, people who are still undergraduates, in their teens and early twenties, are they also thinking what you think. If we really want to change the system, we need to get into politics?

 JB: I certainly have lots of friends who want to become prominent politicians. That’s one way to do it. Another way is to work outside of the system in Silicon Valley. I am too young to know which way is best, but I am trying to to work outside of the system at the moment.

 AK: Josh, finally, for people who want to look into your apps, where do they find them?

 JB: It’s currently DoNotPay.co.uk.

 AK: DoNotPay.co.uk. And they find the HIV app there also?

 JB: Yes.

 AK: Josh, I want to commend you. I think you are doing a great job as an innovator. It is always nice to have real innovators on the show, rather than people who simply talk about innovation. Best of luck with all your work.

 JB: Thanks so much! ||||| Free service DoNotPay helps appeal over $4m in parking fines in just 21 months, but is just the tip of the legal AI iceberg for its 19-year-old creator

 An artificial-intelligence lawyer chatbot has successfully contested 160,000 parking tickets across London and New York for free, showing that chatbots can actually be useful.

 Dubbed as “the world’s first robot lawyer” by its 19-year-old creator, London-born second-year Stanford University student Joshua Browder, DoNotPay helps users contest parking tickets in an easy to use chat-like interface.

 The program first works out whether an appeal is possible through a series of simple questions, such as were there clearly visible parking signs, and then guides users through the appeals process.

 The results speak for themselves. In the 21 months since the free service was launched in London and now New York, Browder says DoNotPay has taken on 250,000 cases and won 160,000, giving it a success rate of 64% appealing over $4m of parking tickets.

 “I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society. These people aren’t looking to break the law. I think they’re being exploited as a revenue source by the local government,” Browder told Venture Beat.

 The bot was created by the self-taught coder after receiving 30 parking tickets at the age of 18 in and around London. The process for appealing the fines is relatively formulaic and perfectly suits AI, which is able to quickly drill down and give the appropriate advice without charging lawyers fees.

 Joshua Browder (@jbrowder1) It always brightens my day to receive these emails. I wish the local governments would just follow the rules pic.twitter.com/1gz6NjYSs3

 Browder intends to expand DoNotPay to Seattle next. But having started with parking tickets, Browder’s next challenge for the AI lawyer is helping people with flight delay compensation, as well as helping the HIV positive understand their rights and acting as a guide for refugees navigating foreign legal systems.

 At the same time, Browder is exploring a developer platform that only requires legal knowledge, not a coding background, which could spawn further useful chatbots to help dispense simple legal advice without exorbitant fees.

 At the very least, Browder’s robot lawyer shows that chatbots can be used for more than just ordering pizza or being spammed by news organisations. |||||
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– By the time he was 18, London native Joshua Browder had already racked up 30 parking tickets, the Guardian reports. That's even more impressive considering the legal driving age in the UK is 18. “I decided that instead of paying for them, I should try and fight," Browder says in a blog post. Less than two years later, the 19-year-old Stanford student's artificially intelligent chatbot—"the world's first robot lawyer"—has successfully appealed 160,000 parking tickets in London and New York. “I created it for a few family and friends and could never have imagined that in a few short months it would have appealed over $4 million [in parking tickets]." Browder's DoNotPay guides people through appealing tickets with simple questions, such as whether parking signs were clearly visible, at no charge. In 2015, New York City issued a record $1.9 billion in traffic fines. “I think the people getting parking tickets are the most vulnerable in society,” Browder tells Venture Beat. “These people aren’t looking to break the law. I think they’re being exploited as a revenue source by the local government.” With a success rate of 64% so far, DoNotPay is cutting into that revenue stream. “The government don’t like me very much, but people with parking tickets do," Browder says in the blog post. DoNotPay is scheduled to expand to Seattle next, but Browder isn't stopping there. He hopes to launch robot lawyers for refugees, people who are HIV positive, and more. (Busted on Facebook, a police chief issued himself a parking ticket.)


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The gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old girl on school grounds after her homecoming dance was horrific enough. But even more shocking, police say, was that up to two dozen people watched and did nothing to stop it.

 The picnic area at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif. where police said a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009, is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. According... (Associated Press)

 CORRECTS DAY OF DANCE TO SATURDAY Police cars sit parked outside Richmond High School on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Richmond, Calif. Authorities are investigating the rape and beating of a 15-year-old... (Associated Press)

 CORRECTS DAY OF DANCE TO SATURDAY -- Sergeant Eddie Russell escorts a possible witness to his patrol car outside Richmond High School on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009, in Richmond, Calif. A 15-year-old girl... (Associated Press)

 This undated booking photo provided by the Richmond Police Department shows Manuel Ortega. Ortega, 19, is charged with rape, robbery and kidnapping in connection with the assault of a 15-year-old girl... (Associated Press)

 The picnic area at Richmond High School in Richmond, Calif. where police said a 15-year-old girl was allegedly raped and beaten Saturday night, Oct. 24, 2009, is pictured on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. According... (Associated Press)

 The attack over the weekend rattled this crime-ridden city of 120,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, where one police official called it one of the most heinous crimes he has ever seen. Some students have already left the school in response to the attack.

 "It's not safe there at all," said 16-year-old Jennie Steinberg, whose mother let her transfer out of the school Tuesday. "I'm not going back."

 The victim, a sophomore, had left the dance and was drinking alcohol in a school courtyard with a group when she was attacked, police said.

 Two suspects were in custody Monday, but police said as many as seven ranging in age from 15 to mid-20s attacked the girl for more than two hours at a dimly lit area near benches Saturday night. As many as two-dozen people saw the rape without notifying police.

 Officers found the girl semiconscious and naked from the waist down near a picnic table. She remains hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.

 "This was a barbaric act. I still cannot get my head around the fact that numerous people either watched, walked away or participated in her assault," Lt. Mark Gagan said Tuesday. "It's one of the most disturbing crimes in my 15 years as a police officer."

 Gagan would not comment on rumors that observers took video of the attack on cell phones and may have posted it online.

 Manuel Ortega, a 19-year-old former student, was arrested after trying to flee the scene. He is being held on $800,000 bail for investigation of rape and robbery. Attempts to reach Ortega at the jail Tuesday were unsuccessful.

 A 15-year-old student also was booked late Monday on one count of sexual assault, Gagan said.

 Late Tuesday, SWAT teams were preparing to make more arrests as police are also offering a $20,000 reward they hope will bring more people forward with any information.

 Even though he said as many as two-dozen people were witnesses, Gagan said officials are still trying to determine the exact number of people involved.

 "I'm confident that the list will expand and at the end of our investigation we will get a clear indication of who was there and who did what," Gagan said.

 The attack occurred in a city that has dealt with its share of vicious crimes in recent years, and the school recently approved surveillance cameras after a series of violent crimes. In one case a few years back, a student was shot outside the school, ran inside and died in the then-principal's hands, said Marin Trujillo, a spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

 Richmond is an industrialized conclave near the San Francisco Bay that is known as one of the nation's most dangerous cities. In 2007, Richmond had 47 homicides, and the murder rate led the state for cities with populations of 100,000 or more, surpassing Los Angeles and Oakland.

 That number dropped to 27 in 2008 but has spiked to 44 killings so far this year, amid drug dealing and gang activity that has engulfed the town, Gagan said.

 Gagan said the girl left the dance and was walking to meet her father for a ride home when a classmate invited her to join a group drinking in the courtyard. The girl had consumed a large amount of alcohol by the time the assault began, police said. Gagan said the girl's father tried to call her cell phone, but no one answered.

 Gagan said police received a tip about a possible assault on campus from a young woman who heard two males bragging about it. She was found nearly an hour after the dance, which more than 400 people attended, had ended. ||||| One of the suspects, a 21-year-old Richmond man whose name was not released, was arrested Tuesday night on suspicion of sexual assault and rape, said police Lt. Mark Gagan.

 The other suspect is a 15-year-old boy who attends the school and knew the victim. The youth was arrested Monday and booked on suspicion of sexual assault at Contra Costa County Juvenile Hall in Martinez. His name was withheld because he is a minor.

 The first suspect arrested, Manuel Ortega, 19, who dropped out of Richmond High in 2007, was arrested as he ran from the scene of the attack at the school about midnight Saturday, police said. He was booked on suspicion of rape, kidnapping and robbery, and could be formally charged today.

 Police initially said about six young men were involved in the attack. But investigators said Tuesday that they now believe that as many as 10 assailants, ranging in age from 15 to their early 20s, committed a "slew of crimes" against the girl - including raping her and stealing her jewelry.

 The men laughed and took photos as they took turns assaulting the girl, police said.

 Police expect to make more arrests, Detective Ken Greco said Tuesday. Authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the conviction of any of the assailants.

 Officers passed out flyers in the area of the campus Tuesday and served search warrants at undisclosed locations.

 Greco said Ortega and the arrested teenager have shown no remorse during police interviews. He called the incident "disgusting" and "a sad state of affairs."

 "This is the worst thing I've heard of," said Greco, who has been in law enforcement for 29 years. "It just shocked the conscience of responding officers."

 The girl knew at least one of the assailants, the 15-year-old boy, investigators said.

 The attack began when someone in the group invited the girl to join in a drinking session after she left Richmond High's homecoming dance early about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said.

 The girl quickly became drunk, and the attack began. During the next two hours, as many as two dozen people may have witnessed the rapes or been aware of what was happening, but didn't report it, police said.

 Officers were finally alerted by a woman "who was several blocks away who heard people discussing what was occurring" at the school on 23rd Street and called police, police Lt. Mark Gagan said.

 Officers found the girl semiconscious beneath a picnic table. She was airlifted to a hospital.

 The attack has raised questions about campus security. Richmond High has surveillance cameras, but none is working, school officials said. They said a new system should be in place in the next few months.

 Four police officers and several school security staffers were on hand at the homecoming dance. But two of the staffers, known as site supervisors, left about 9 p.m. because of a "prior commitment," said Marin Trujillo, spokesman for the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

 Police also believed they had enough officers on hand to provide security, Trujillo said.

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– San Francisco-area cops have arrested three more young men in the savage gang rape, beating, and robbery of a 15-year-old girl outside her homecoming dance while dozens more watched. Five youths are being held, ranging from a 15-year-old boy who knew the victim to a 21-year-old. The girl was drinking outside the dance Saturday night, reports the San Francisco Chronicle, and the group turned on her when she became drunk. Charges are expected today. "This was a barbaric act. I still cannot get my head around the fact that numerous people either watched, walked away or participated in her assault," a Richmond cop tells the AP. "It's one of the most disturbing crimes in my 15 years as a police officer." Some students began transferring out of the school. "It's not safe there at all," said a 16-year-old girl. "I'm not going back."


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HOLLYWOOD (CBSLA.com) — Hooters is known for their attractive servers and tasty wings, but two men who worked at the establishment claim their male boss sexually harassed them for years.

 “Repeated, intense acts which were intended to cause mental harm to the plaintiffs, to humiliate them, to undermine them,” said Jason Oliver, an attorney who is representing both men.

 Oliver’s clients PJ Cagnina and Scott Peterson filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging multiple instances of harassment.

 One of those instances accuses their boss of throwing one of the men “down to the parking lot ground” and forcibly engaging in simulated sodomy, according to the suit.

 They also claim the defendant would “touch male employee’s buttocks when standing behind them.”

 Oliver says both his clients were Hooters’ managers at multiple locations around the Southland, including downtown Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, and Hollywood.

 They claim they confronted their boss about the behavior and the company investigated him. Within months, he was fired with no explanation as to why.

 But soon after, Peterson was also let go, which his attorney argues was in retaliation.

 “When they stood up to him, they paid the price. They were punished even more in terms of other types of mistreatment,” Oliver said.

 Hooters released a statement that said: “This matter involves a franchised location and its employees in California. We have no independent knowledge of the facts and are therefore unable to comment.”

 Neither men work for Hooters anymore and could not speak with CBS2 on-camera Wednesday night, but Oliver says this is not just about money, but is to want to make sure this kind of behavior doesn’t happen again. ||||| Two men who allege they were sexually harassed by a male boss while working for Hooters are suing the restaurant chain and the supervisor, court papers show.

 The lawsuit filed on behalf of Paul "PJ" Cagnina and Scott Peterson against Hooters and Rick Leukert states that Peterson was fired, but is unclear on Cagnina's current status with the company.

 Their attorney, Jason Oliver, did not immediately return a call for comment.

 The suit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court seeks unspecified damages, as well as a court order directing Hooters to stop allowing sexual harassment and retaliation in the workplace.

 Hooters of America released a statement Wednesday in reaction to the lawsuit.

 "This matter involves a franchised location and its employees in California," the statement read. "We have no independent knowledge of the facts and are therefore unable to comment."

 According to the complaint, Leukert was Cagnina's supervisor and CEO at various locations where the plaintiff worked, including Hollywood. After a bikini contest at the Hooters in Costa Mesa, Leukert "threw Mr. Cagnina down to the parking lot" and engaged in a simulated sex act with the plaintiff in front of others, the suit alleges.

 Leukert also "continually tried getting Mr. Cagnina to go skinny dipping with female employees" who were the plaintiff's subordinates, but Cagnina refused, according to the suit.

 Leukert once took the cellphone of a female Hooters general manager Cagnina was dating and viewed "private, intimate photos" of the plaintiff on the device, the complaint alleges.

 While Cagnina was being honored as a new general manager, Leukert said in front of others that he told his assistant to write an unflattering name, "PGay," on the plaintiff's trophy instead of his actual name, the suit alleges. Leukert also referred to Cagnina often as "cagina" because it rhymed with "vagina," the suit states.

 Leukert once started an executive store meeting by asking Cagnina if he "had been impregnating any Hooters' girls lately" and suggested he was the father of an expectant company employee's baby, the suit alleges.

 Peterson alleges Leukert repeatedly touched him in an inappropriate way and talked about him in a sexually demeaning manner during meetings of general managers. Leukert also sent Peterson photos of a female co-worker with whom he claimed to have slept and also told him about a two-year relationship he had with another woman employee, the suit alleges.

 Both Cagnina and Peterson maintained they were retaliated against after they complained about Leukert's alleged misconduct. Peterson says he was ultimately fired.

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– It might not be shocking to read that two Hooters employees are suing the company for sexual harassment. But what if we told you the two employees were men? A lawyer for PJ Cagnina and Scott Peterson tells CBS Los Angeles his clients were subjected to years of "repeated, intense acts which were intended to cause mental harm…to humiliate them" at the hands of their former boss while they worked as managers at various Hooters locations in the LA area. The lawsuit claims their boss, Rick Leukert, would inappropriately touch Peterson and talk about him in a sexually demeaning way, NBC Los Angeles reports. It also states he sent Peterson photos of a female employee he claimed to have slept with and would touch Peterson's butt while standing behind him. But according to the lawsuit, Cagnina got the worst of it. It claims Leukert threw him to the ground following a bikini contest and pretended to have sex with him while people watched. It also states Leukert would try to get him to "go skinny dipping with female employees" and ask if he'd impregnated any of them. The lawsuit claims Leukert took a cellphone belonging to Cagnina's girlfriend—a Hooters' manager—and looked at her "intimate photos." It states he had his assistant write "PGay" on a trophy being given to Cagnina and would pronounce his name "Cagina" to rhyme with "vagina." The lawsuit claims Cagnina and Peterson were retaliated against after complaining about Leukert's behavior, with Peterson losing his job. The lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks unspecified damages.


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FILE - In this July 20, 2015, file photo, Actor Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson attends the premiere of "Southpaw" at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. The rapper says in a Connecticut bankruptcy court... (Associated Press)

 FILE - In this July 20, 2015, file photo, Actor Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson attends the premiere of "Southpaw" at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square in New York. The rapper says in a Connecticut bankruptcy court... (Associated Press)

 HARTFORD, CONN. (AP) — Rapper 50 Cent says in a Connecticut bankruptcy court filing he spends $108,000 a month on his expenses, including $5,000 for gardening.

 He has a monthly income of $185,000, mainly from royalties and interest on his investments. But he's paying $72,000 a month to maintain his suburban Hartford mansion.

 He filed for bankruptcy last month after New York City jurors ordered him to pay $7 million to a woman who said he posted online a crudely narrated sex tape she made with a boyfriend.

 His Monday court filing says he also owes money to his stylist, his barber and his fitness coach.

 The rapper was born Curtis Jackson III. His album "Get Rich or Die Tryin'" helped make him one of the world's best-selling artists. He's due back in bankruptcy court Wednesday. ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. ||||| Is Fiddy really broke?

 Details of 50 Cent’s financial standing filed in a Connecticut court Monday claim he’s underwater, with $25 million in assets but $33 million in liabilities.

 The rapper, actor, business mogul and boxing promoter filed for bankruptcy last month on the heels of being ordered to pay $7 million to Lastonia Leviston, who sued him after he allegedly posted a sex tape featuring her online.

 Fiddy (real name: Curtis Jackson III) claims in court he has $25 million in assets, including an $8 million Connecticut mansion, a $572,000 home in Valley Stream, LI, and an Atlanta home worth $464,000.

 But the “bankrupt” rapper is also claiming $33 million in debts, most from the $7 million judgment owed to Leviston and an $18 million debt to electronics company Sleek Audio after they sued Fiddy after a deal to produce headphones went sour.

 He makes $3 million a year from his performing and recording career, according to the filing.

 He also rakes in another $370,000 from his boxing-promotions company SMS Promotions, and another $771,000 from books, films and touring under his G-Unit, and other, entities.

 The filing also claims Fiddy has $10 million in cash, and $500,000 worth of cars including three Chevy Suburbans and a 2010 Rolls-Royce.

 But he also has about $108,000 in monthly expenses, including a $5,745-per-month Bentley car lease and $12,000 in child support for two kids.

 Since April, the well-dressed rapper has paid more than $330,000 to American Express and another $52,000 to his stylist Erin McSherry.

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– 50 Cent might have stretched the truth a bit in court when he told a lawyer all his Lamborghinis, Bentleys, and Rolls Royces were rented. New bankruptcy filings show he actually owns seven cars, including a Rolls Royce and three Chevy Suburbans, worth $500,000, report People and Page Six. But apparently he still doesn't have a ton of cash to throw around—relatively speaking, anyway. The AP reports the rapper pulls in about $185,000 per month but has $108,000 in monthly expenses, including $72,000 a month for the utilities, mortgage, property tax, and insurance on his 50-room Hartford mansion. Where else is his money going? He spends $9,000 on security, $5,000 on gardening, $1,000 on grooming, and $3,000 on his wardrobe each month. Another $5,745 goes toward a car lease, while $14,600 is used to support his two children and grandfather. On top of all that, he reportedly owes his stylist $5,245 in back pay, as well as unspecified debts to his barber and personal trainer. His biggest debt of all: $18 million to electronics company Sleek Audio—the result of a lawsuit over a failed headphones deal—in addition to the $7 million 50 Cent has been ordered to pay in a sex-tape lawsuit. The rapper is due back in court tomorrow.


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Speaking at a conference in Sweden's third-largest city of Malmö, home to a large immigrant population, the Dalai Lama – who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 – said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life".

 "Receive them, help them, educate them… but ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan who fled the capital Lhasa in fear of his life after China poured troops into the region to crush an uprising.

 "I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he said, adding they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country".

 The Dalai Lama at the conference in Malmö. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

 Revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, and regarded by his many supporters as a visionary in the vein of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama was speaking three days after the far-right populist party Sweden Democrats made gains in the country's general election on Sunday.

 The anti-immigration party came in third, behind Prime Minister Stefan Löfven's Social Democrats and the opposition conservative Moderates in the Nordic nation which in 2015 took in the highest number of asylum seekers per capita in Europe. ||||| The exiled spiritual leader of Tibet said Wednesday that, while Europe can help refugees, “Europe belongs to the Europeans” and migrants should rebuild their homelands.

 The Dalai Lama made the comments at a conference in Malmo, Sweden, which has struggled with an increase in rape and violent crimes correlating to an increase in refugees from Syria and other predominantly Muslim countries. The Dalai Lama argued that European countries were “morally responsible” for assisting “a refugee really facing danger against their life,” but that refugees should ultimately go back and rebuild their home countries. (Pope’s ‘Don’t Close Your Doors’ Refugee Initiative Begins On The 445th Anniversary Of Papal Army Driving Out Islamic Invaders)

 “Receive them, help them, educate them … but ultimately they should develop their own country,” the Dalai Lama said, according to AFP.

 “I think Europe belongs to the Europeans,” he added, saying “they ultimately should rebuild their own country.”

 The spiritual leader’s comments likely struck a chord with locals, as Sweden has experienced an explosion in violent migrant gang-related incidents, many of which involved military-grade explosive devices, since 2014 when over 100,000 asylum seekers from predominantly Muslim countries settled in the area.

 The Dalai Lama also made similar comments concerning refugees in Germany in 2016, saying that “Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country.”

 “Germany is Germany. There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult,” he said, according to Independent.

 “From a moral point of view, too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily,” he added.

 The Dalai Lama clarified at the time that he had compassion for refugees, especially those fleeing from war, but said now the goal of aid should be their return to their homelands.

 “When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering,” he said. “The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries.”

 The Dalai Lama has remained in exile since 1959, when he escaped Tibet and settled in India with tens of thousands of followers after Chinese communist troops took over the region. The Indian government agreed to grant asylum to him and his followers and also granted voting rights to Tibetans born in India. The Indian government also bore all expenses related to establishing schools for Tibetan children in the country.

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– Addressing a conference in Malmö, Sweden, home of many immigrants, the Dalai Lama said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping refugees who are in danger—but that ultimately those refugees should return to their homelands. "Receive them, help them, educate them ... but ultimately they should develop their own country," he said, per the Local. "I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," and that refugees "ultimately should rebuild their own country," he added. The 83-year-old Buddhist spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner fled Tibet as Chinese communist troops took over the area in 1959, and settled in India, where he was granted asylum, the Daily Caller notes.