World's Oldest Dad Has Another Baby At 96

An Indian man has become the world’s oldest father for the second time at the age of 96.
Ramjit Raghav was awarded the title two years ago when he had his first born son Karamjit aged 94.
Although he swore one was enough, the pensioner and his wife Shakuntala, 54, welcomed another son Ranjit, last month.

World's oldest: Ramjit Raghav holding his second baby Ranjit at the ripe old age of 96

Speaking at his home in the state of Haryana, 31 miles from Delhi, Ramjit said: ‘What can I do? This is all God's wish. He wanted me to have another son.’

When Shakuntala gave birth to the healthy boy earlier this month at the Government hospital in Haryana, the doctors laughed when Ramjit said he was the father.
He said: ‘They just laughed but they were very surprised.’
Ramjit, who lives with his family in a studio apartment, has high hopes for his sons.


Daddy duties: Ramjit Raghav, 96, with his wife Shankuntala, 54, and sons Karamjit, 4, and newborn Ranjit, is excited to have become a father again
He said: ‘I have been a farmer all my life. But I want them to become high ranking government workers.
‘It's good that I have another son now. Even if one of them dies, God forbid, I will have someone to carry on my family name."
Ramjit admits that as proud as he is of having two healthy sons at his age, his neighbours are more jealous of his sex drive.

Ramjit admits that as proud as he is of having two healthy sons at his age, his neighbours are more jealous of his sex drive

‘I'm healthy and I enjoy sex with my wife. I think it's very important for a husband and wife to Be Intimate regularly and when she asks I will go on all night but for the sake of my child I've put our needs aside for now.'


Father-of-two Ramjit claims that a daily diet of almonds, butter and milk kept him sexually active.

He said: ‘I care for my wife and I give her everything she needs. She is a very happy woman.'
When Ramjit met second wife Shakuntala, he had been a widower for 25 years.
The pair met 22 years ago on a rainy morning at a Muslim shrine, Ramjit asked her to come home with him and she has never left.
'She didn't have any family or friends around, and I wanted to help her,' he explains.
'I took her under my wing and taught her some yoga and we fell in love. Many of my past girlfriends had died so I had never married and then I asked Shakuntala to be my wife.'

Shakuntala believes she would have been dead by now if it was not for Ramjit's caring ways.
She said: ‘It doesn't matter how old he is, I love him and I care for him dearly even, though he shouts at me sometimes.
‘He doesn't seem old to me, he can make love like any 25-year-old man, even better.


Family: Ramjit and Shankuntala pictured with their oldest son Karamjit in 2010 when Ramjit was named the world's oldest father the first time

Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218588/Ramjit-Raghav-Worlds-oldest-dad-does-96-does-sex-times-night.html

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Taliban justifies attack on Pakistani schoolgirl

ISLAMABAD | Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:16am EDT

(Reuters) - Taliban insurgents said on Tuesday that the Pakistani schoolgirl its gunmen shot in the head deserved to die because she had spoken out against the group and praised U.S. President Barack Obama.
Malala Yousufzai, 14, was flown to Britain on Monday, where doctors said she has every chance of making a "good recovery".
The attack on Yousufzai, who had been advocating education for girls, drew widespread condemnation.
Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet from near her spinal cord during a three-hour operation the day after the attack last week, but she now needs intensive specialist follow-up care.
Authorities have said they have made several arrests in connection with the case but have given no details.
Pakistan's Taliban described Yousufzai as a "spy of the West".
"For this espionage, infidels gave her awards and rewards. And Islam orders killing of those who are spying for enemies," the group said in a statement.
"She used to propagate against mujahideen (holy warriors) to defame (the) Taliban. The Quran says that people propagating against Islam and Islamic forces would be killed.
"We targeted her because she would speak against the Taliban while sitting with shameless strangers and idealized the biggest enemy of Islam, Barack Obama."
Yousufzai, a cheerful schoolgirl who had wanted to become a doctor before agreeing to her father's wishes that she strive to be a politician, has become a potent symbol of resistance against the Taliban's efforts to deprive girls of an education.
Pakistanis have held some protests and candlelight vigils but most government officials have refrained from publicly criticizing the Taliban by name over the attack, in what critics say is a lack of resolve against extremism.
"We did not attack her for raising voice for education. We targeted her for opposing mujahideen and their war," said the Taliban. "Shariah (Islamic law) says that even a child can be killed if he is propagating against Islam."

New Nigeria museum fetes late Afrobeat singer Fela

Seun Kuti, the son of Late Afrobeat Legend Fela Kuti, attends opening of Kalakuta Museum in Lagos, Nigeria, on Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. The family of late Afrobeat singer Fela Anikulapo-Kuti celebrated the opening of the Kalakuta Museum on Monday in Lagos in the home the musician once lived in. The opening of the museum comes during Felabration, an annual music festival honoring the singer. (AP Photo / Sunday Alamba)

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — ‘‘FELA LIVES,’’ reads the Gothic-lettered tattoo on the back of one of the sons of the legendary Afrobeat singer from Nigeria. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti died 15 years ago but his name seems to be mentioned more now than ever.

Radio stations across Africa’s most populous nation continue to play his trumpet-and-saxophone-infused songs, the girlish cries of his female backup singers ringing out of tinny speakers in crowded buses. Leaders he linked in songs to corruption remain close to the levers of power in this oil-rich but poverty-stricken country. He’s a legend among unemployed gang members and academics alike and was the subject of a smash Broadway musical produced by some of the biggest celebrities in the U.S.

Now, the family house where his remains lie has become a government-endorsed museum that offers a look inside his life, as well as the challenges still facing Nigeria years after his death.

‘‘In one of his songs, (Fela) said it takes 10 years for us to catch up to his message,’’ said Theo Lawson, the architect who helped design the new museum. ‘‘The expectation, I think, would be that the people would rise up and demand their rights and this didn’t happen because everybody was scared.

‘‘Fela’s been dead for 15 years and unfortunately, we’re still where we are. It’s probably longer than he anticipated.’’

Fela created Afrobeat in the late 1960s, mixing the rhythm of jazz, the catchiness of pop music and traditions of African mysticism into 10-minute-long songs riffing on politics and sex in a nation only recently freed from colonialism. He embraced the idea of pan-African leadership and openly criticized the military rulers who revolved in and out of power in Nigeria when others had been cowed into silence.

Many in Nigeria, at times a very religious and conservative nation, shied away from Fela over his heavily publicized sexual appetite and marijuana use. His escapades became the fodder for endless and titillating newspaper headlines, including marrying more than 20 women at the same time, living in a free-sex commune and smoking massive spliffs during performances. The military and police, never amused, conducted raid after raid on his home, which he declared the Kalakuta Republic. In one such assault, soldiers so severely beat Fela’s mother, an activist in her own right, that she later died of her injuries.

Those government crackdowns, as well as disapproval of his lifestyle, stopped some Nigerians from accepting Fela, said Lemi Ghariokwu, who designed many of the musician’s album covers. That coldness continued even after Fela died in 1997 of complications brought on by AIDS. The disease sapped his energy to perform in his last years, even though he dismissed AIDS in song and called safe sex ‘‘unnatural.’’ His children since have been advocates of safe sex and AIDS awareness.

‘‘If you go to Jamaica, there’s a Bob Marley museum,’’ Ghariokwu said, mentioning another singer with an affinity for marijuana. ‘‘The government of Jamaica gave Bob Marley (one of) its highest national honors, because they can see beyond.’’

While Fela’s son Femi Kuti performs at The New Afrika Shrine, which is in honor of his father’s former performance space, family and friends wanted a formal place to honor the musician. They decided to remodel the family home, which sits on a narrow street in Lagos’ sprawling Ikeja neighborhood near the city’s international airport. The Kalakuta Museum includes a wall holding Fela’s shoes, photographs of him and his family, murals and album art. It also features his room as he left it at the time of his death, with VHS tapes, a giant inflatable globe and racks of clothes hanging above a simple twin bed. Pillows and a sheet lay nearby, a remembrance of how he slept on the floor, weakened as AIDS slowly killed him, Ghariokwu said.

On Monday, which would have been Fela’s 74th birthday, his sons Seun and Femi and daughter Yeni celebrated the opening of the museum, which will include a boutique hotel and a rooftop lounge and concert space. The opening comes during Felabration, an annual week of concerts put on by his children to honor their father’s musical legacy.

Lagos state government provided $250,000 for remodeling the home into a museum, Lawson said. Yet Femi Kuti made a point to say the family will continue to say whatever it feels like saying.

‘‘We are not a family that is supporting the government, because of what my father stood for,’’ he said. But he applauded local officials for ‘‘being brave enough to be identified with the name that many people fear and shy away from.’’Continued...

US election 2012: citizens to quiz presidential candidates in town hall debate

Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates explains how tonight's town hall debate between President Barack Obama and Republican candidate Mitt Romney poses particular challenges for candidates as they must engage directly with voters.

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US President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent Mitt Romney will face each other for their second debate tonight at Hofstra University, in Long Island, New York.

The format will be a town-hall style, where candidates will take questions from undecided voters selected by the Gallup polling company.

Janet Brown, executive director of the Commission on Presidential Debates, emphasised that the tone would be different – because it would be normal citizens, not professional journalists, asking the questions.

"Most candidates enjoy this because it's quite different, the questions are different, the experience is different, you are surrounded literally by an arc of citizens who are there looking at you and listening to the conversation," she said.

The stakes are high, with much of the pressure in the coming debate on President Obama, who put in a poor performance last time they met.

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While Mr Romney's team will aim to build on a commanding opening debate that gave the Republican new life in a White House race that had once appeared to be slipping away from him.
The debate at Hofstra University falls exactly three weeks before Election Day in what promises to be one of the closest presidential contests in recent US history.
The vote takes place on 6 November.