Saturday, October 31, 2009 LONDON: A young woman who was rushed to hospital with agonizing burns following an extreme reaction to a home hair dye kit has told of her frightening experience.Zoe Vernon, 22, was put on a drip and told by medics she had some of the worst burns they had ever seen caused by hair dye.The call centre worker from Didsbury, Manchester, had dyed her hair previously but not with the kit in question, which was a Boots Colour kit.The morning after she coloured her hair she woke up with a red and swollen face and developed more blisters and pains over the following days.Nurses feared her swollen neck would affect her breathing and called an ambulance to rush Miss Vernon to hospital.At the burns unit at Manchester’s Wythenshawe Hospital she was placed on a drip and spent three days recovering.She is now back home but suffers blurred vision in one eye and has to take medication, including steroids.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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