Mid Day International News |
- Canadian cops face axe after watching lesbian cellmates' sex romp
- Man survives plunge from 39th floor
- Sex-starved man gets $18K custom-made sex doll resembling ex
- Asian women on student visas join sex trade in Australia
- Australian minister visited porn sites in office
- Woman kills sons, calls it 'act of love'
- Brit man jailed for infecting girlfriend with HIV
- Brit man jailed for infecting girlfriend with HIV
- Sisters deliver baby boys on same day in same hospital
- Male sex slave ring busted in Spain
- Man kills six because of pact with 'Saint Death'
- Flood refugee gives birth in graveyard in Pak
- Obama declares end to US combat operations in Iraq
- Diana's image used to sell lingerie
- A dress that is also a phone!
| Canadian cops face axe after watching lesbian cellmates' sex romp Posted: Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers could lose their jobs for allegedly watching a sex romp between two lesbian cellmates on CCTV cameras. The four and three prison workers are alleged to have watched the two female inmates "engage in sexual activity" at the Kalmoops Regional Correctional Centre in British Columbia. According to reports, the two women had been placed in the same cell on August 18 and they immediately started getting "frisky" with one another. The session lasted for around an hour and it is alleged that the mounties watched the encounter from a CCTV camera mounted inside the cell block along with prison staff. Bosses at the RCMP have confirmed that an investigation is underway, and the mounties could face the boot. "When matters come to our attention, we don't turn a blind eye. We cannot sweep these things under the carpet. If our people do things wrong, we will not turn a blind eye," the Sun quoted Inspector Yves Lacasse as saying. Staff Sergeant Garry Kerr said the guards had an "obligation" to stop any sort of sexual activity between prisoners. "If a guard sees that there is inappropriate behaviour going on, considering where they are, obviously they would be in obligation to do something," he said. "The only thing I can say right now is they're all under Criminal Code investigation, obviously for criminal offences, and the RCMP members are also under investigation for what we refer to as code of conduct, which is like an internal system," he added.
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| Man survives plunge from 39th floor Posted: In an apparent suicide attempt, a young man in New York leaped from the 39th floor of a West Side building, crashed through the windshield of a sports car and survived. "My leg! "My leg!" Thomas Magill screamed after landing in the red 2008 Dodge Charger, witnesses said. Magill is in critical condition undergoing surgery for two broken legs. "He came down feetfirst at like 100 mph," the New York Daily News quoted a witness Andrew Petrocelli as saying. Petrocelli is a maintenance worker across the street from where Magill jumped. "That''s a miracle if I''ve ever seen one. He should be a goner. It was like that movie ''Unbreakable.'' That was this guy: unbreakable," he added. Guy McCormack, 40, of Old Bridge, N.J., owner of the crushed Charger, was doing construction work across the street when his car broke Magill''s fall. He believes Magill survived on the wings of divine intervention. Holding up a set of crystal rosary beads he retrieved from inside the car, McCormack exclaimed, "Here''s what saved him!" Magill''s father, Thomas Sr., sent friends a text message, asking them to "pray for my son." "We haven''t been told anything," the father said as he waited for his son to get out of surgery at St. Luke''s Hospital. Magill, whose family lives on Staten Island, was once listed as a resident of the building, West End Towers at 75 West End Ave. Neighbors said he studied music at Fordham University.
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| Sex-starved man gets $18K custom-made sex doll resembling ex Posted: A sex-starved businessman was so obsessed with his ex-girlfriend after she dumped him that he recreated her as a life-sized sex doll worth 18,000 dollars. The 50-year-old man put together a collection of photos of his ex and told Italian adult toymaker Diego Bortolin: "I want it just like her but with bigger boobs", revealed Italy's Il Messaggero newspaper. Bortolin, who hasn't named the man, creates extremely realistic sex dolls at the factory behind his shop, named 'Temptations' in English, in Treviso, Italy. "She was a smiling blonde girl but he wanted bigger boobs and a curvier backside," News.com.au quoted Bortolin as saying. "Our normal dolls are very realistic and everything works just like the real thing," he added. Bortolin revealed that a regular doll would cost around 5000 dollars, but this particular project was more expensive "because we had to replicate everything, right down to the shape of her nails and teeth". The doll weighs 58 kg and is about 1.6 m tall. Bortolin said the doll is fully flexible and can take on any movement or position a human can. "She is now the perfect girlfriend as far as I can see," said Bortolin.
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| Asian women on student visas join sex trade in Australia Posted: The Australian immigration department has found that young Asian women who come to the country on student visas are instead working in brothels. In its investigation, it found that the women are earning up to 10,000 dollars a week as sex workers, and that brothel websites openly advertise 'new fresh girls' arriving regularly from countries like South Korea, Thailand, China and Japan. One Asian woman under investigation was discovered to have not attended even a single lesson at the English course she signed up for. She had instead been working 12-hour shifts, seven days a week at a group of four city brothels, while a fellow prostitute attended courses in her place by using her name. In Australia, holders of student visas are allowed to work up to 20 hours a week while their course is in session and unlimited hours during course breaks, but must attend their nominated course. DIAC fraud officers were alerted to widespread abuse of student visas, with some of the sex workers paying corrupt immigration agents in their own country up to 8000 dollars to arrange their visas under the foreign student programme. Many worked as prostitutes in their home countries and came to Australia freely to make more money to send to their families overseas - using dodgy cash brokers so they do not alert AUSTRAC, which must be notified of transactions of 10,000 dollars or more. Moreover, a huge number of the women are encouraged by the brothel owners to earn extra money by performing unsafe sex without condoms. "One woman reported to me that she doesn't bother with regular health checks for HIV and Hep B and C and she happily provides 'natural' sex services to clients that pay her well if she thinks they look 'clean' because she doesn't believe HIV is prevalent here in Australia," the Daily Telegraph quoted one man, who knows several of the women, as saying. The man, who asked not to be named, has also spoken to immigration department investigators. "They don't have tax file numbers, they are paid cash in hand. It is totally immoral. The worst girls are making 2000 dollars a week and the top girls earn 10,000 dollars," he added.
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| Australian minister visited porn sites in office Posted: A state cabinet minister in Australia's New South Wales who used his office computer to visit pornographic and gambling websites has resigned. Ports and Waterways Minister Paul McLeay resigned after confessing to Premier Kristina Keneally that he had "used a computer supplied by the parliament to visit gambling and adult sites". Keneally confirmed Wednesday that McLeay had resigned from his post at her request, The Age reported. "This behaviour is not the standard I expect of a minister. I have made clear to Mr McLeay that I expect ministers to use the resources of office appropriately. Some people may choose to undertake similar activities in their personal lives, but I cannot condone the use of parliamentary resources by a minister in this way," she said. Keneally apologised to the people of New South Wales, saying, "I am sorry that this situation has occurred". "I will continue to make clear that I expect the highest integrity from ministers." "There are too many examples of ill-disciplined behaviour among individual members of parliament and it destroys people's confidence and people's trust that the government is focusing on their needs," Keneally said. McLeay was first elected to parliament in 2003, and still holds the southern New South Wales seat of Heathcote. He was appointed to the ministry in 2009.
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| Woman kills sons, calls it 'act of love' Posted: A woman in Melbourne was on Wednesday jailed for 27 years for killing her two minor sons in what she termed as her 'greatest act of love'. Qualified nurse Donna Fitchett, 51, drugged, strangled and smothered her two sons - Thomas, 11, and Matthew, nine - at their home on September 6, 2005. She admitted she murdered her children but pleaded not guilty by reason of mental instability. She said her depression led to their deaths because she intended to take her own life and felt she could not leave the boys behind. But Supreme Court Judge Elizabeth Curtain on Wednesday termed Fitchett's actions as her 'greatest act of betrayal', the Sydney Morning Herald reported. "You were their mother. Your responsibility was to nurture, care for, love and protect them and over the years you did that," Curtain said. "But in the greatest act of betrayal and in a profound breach of trust, you robbed each of them of their precious lives... in an act of unfathomable selfishness." Curtain said the murder was premeditated, citing a letter Fitchett had written to her psychologist before she killed the boys. "You knew what you were doing, you contemplated it, planned it and wrote about it, before you did it," the judge said. Curtain said Fitchett had "altered for all time the lives of David Fitchett and created unbearable, unforgiving pain for him and his family". "No sentence this court gives can restore life to their sons, or peace to their father," she said.
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| Brit man jailed for infecting girlfriend with HIV Posted: A British man has been jailed for 12 months after he infected his girlfriend with HIV and made her pregnant. Nicholas Richards, 32, admitted committing grievous bodily harm by hiding the 19-year-old that he had the virus. She only discovered she was infected after blood tests during pregnancy, a court heard. Her baby did not contract HIV. Richards claimed he did not know the risks of unprotected sex. However, prosecutor Roy Brown said he had been warned. "It was terrible and wicked behaviour," the Sun quoted Judge David Caddick as telling Richards. Richards, of Sittingbourne, was given a five-year sexual offences prevention order, banning him from having unprotected sex or failing to tell partners about his HIV status. He got a further 12 months for GBH over a separate assault on a man at bookies.
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| Brit man jailed for infecting girlfriend with HIV Posted: A British man has been jailed for 12 months after he infected his girlfriend with HIV and made her pregnant. Nicholas Richards, 32, admitted committing grievous bodily harm by hiding the 19-year-old that he had the virus. She only discovered she was infected after blood tests during pregnancy, a court heard. Her baby did not contract HIV. Richards claimed he did not know the risks of unprotected sex. However, prosecutor Roy Brown said he had been warned. "It was terrible and wicked behaviour," the Sun quoted Judge David Caddick as telling Richards. Richards, of Sittingbourne, was given a five-year sexual offences prevention order, banning him from having unprotected sex or failing to tell partners about his HIV status. He got a further 12 months for GBH over a separate assault on a man at bookies.
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| Sisters deliver baby boys on same day in same hospital Posted: Two sisters in Britain have delivered baby boys on the same day at the same hospital. The odds of their giving birth in the same hospital on the same day were 125,000 to one, according to bookmakers. The sisters Catherine Morris and Dawn Potts amazed midwives at the University Hospital of North Staffordshire with the timing of the births, both within seven hours of each other, reports the Daily Mail. Morris, who went into labour first but gave birth second, was given the room reserved for her sister's caesarean section. On being told that the room originally intended for her had been taken, Potts sent a text message to her sister joking that she had "pinched my bed". The sisters had been expecting their babies within four days of each other at the start of September. Potts, 31, a hairdresser, had her caesarean brought forward 11 days, and gave birth to Brody Lee, weighing 3.49 kg, last Wednesday. On the same day, Morris, 34, was taken to hospital to have her labour induced after an ante-natal appointment revealed she had a low-lying placenta. Originally scheduled for delivery Sep 9, Ethan Fletcher, who weighed in at 3.83 kg, now shares the same birthday as his cousin. Morris, a cardiac physiologist from Kidsgrove, Staffordshire, already has a two-year-old son, Finley. She said of her sister: "We're really close and share our problems. Now we're sharing something amazing by having babies on the same day."
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| Male sex slave ring busted in Spain Posted: Police in Spain have busted a ring engaged in sexually exploiting men recruited from Brazil and forced to work round the clock under death threats. A total of 64 men and a few transvestites were brought to Spain from Brazil's Maranhao state. Some of the men, aged 22 to 29, knew they were coming as prostitutes, while the rest had no idea what was in store for them. They thought they were getting jobs as dancers or models, police said on Tuesday. Under the threat of death, the men were kept available as sex workers 24 hours a day, and to be able to indulge in non-stop sexual activity they were given sexual stimulants like Viagra and cocaine, police said. The victims lived in overcrowded quarters with as many as six in a bed. For their services they charged 60 euros ($75), but had to hand over half the money to their bosses. Besides handing over half the money they collected, the male prostitutes had to pay the criminals 200 euros ($250) as accommodation charges. The ring had five apartments in different Spanish provinces, though the victims also practised prostitution in a brothel. The men attracted clients through advertisements in newspapers and websites, police said.
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| Man kills six because of pact with 'Saint Death' Posted: A 22-year-old Argentine man said he killed six people because he made a pact with 'Saint Death' in exchange for "protection and prosperity", police said. Witnesses said the unidentified suspect became a serial killer to keep the promise he made to a popular pagan saint also known as 'San La Muerte', who is venerated in jails and among criminal gangs. The man is accused of having slain six men this year over a period of four months. "One witness gave us the details of the pact (of the prisoner) with San La Muerte," a police spokesman said. "We're studying a total of about 10 cases. In some cases we have already obtained positive photographic recognition," another police official said.
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| Flood refugee gives birth in graveyard in Pak Posted: Jannah Soorjo was forced to give birth in a sprawling Muslim graveyard in southern Pakistan filled with hundreds of thousands of flood victims, a reminder of the pain and despair gripping the country even as the floodwaters begin to flow out to sea. The feverish 26-year-old mother is one of 500,000 women affected by the floods whom the UN expects will give birth in the next six months. Many of their children will enter a world where food and water are scarce and the risk of deadly disease is high. "I gave birth to this baby, but how can I arrange food for him here," Soorjo said, cradling her newborn son on yesterday. "He seems to be sick, and we don't have money for his treatment." Soorjo fled to the cemetery on top of a hill in Makli four days ago to escape the floodwaters, which inundated dozens of villages and towns in her southern Sindh province. The floods began over a month ago in the northwest after extremely heavy monsoon rains and surged south along the Indus River. The floodwaters finally started emptying into the Arabian Sea yesterday, hours after swallowing the two final towns in its path, both of which had been evacuated, said disaster management official Hadi Bakhsh. But the challenges of delivering emergency aid to 8 million people remained. "The situation is extremely critical," said Josette Sheeran, the head of the World Food Programme, after touring flood-stricken areas with other top UN officials. Her agency has managed to deliver food to three million people, but another three million require food aid, and that number could grow as authorities assess the damage the floods have done in the south, said Sheeran. While the UN's children's agency has delivered fresh water to two million people, it still needs to reach six million more, and aid workers have only managed to vaccinate 10 to 15 per cent of the children in need, said UNICEF director Anthony Lake. He warned that without quick action the country was headed toward a second wave of tragedy marked by outbreaks of cholera and waterborne disease. "This is likely to get much worse," said Lake during a joint news conference with other UN officials in Islamabad. The scale of the disaster has raised concerns about the stability of nuclear-armed Pakistan, which is already reeling from Al-Qaeda and Taliban violence and massive economic woes. Foreign countries have pledged hundreds of millions of dollars to help Pakistan respond to the floods. Even the country's archenemy, India, has offered assistance and announced on Tuesday that it was increasing its aid from USD 5 million to USD 25 million.
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| Obama declares end to US combat operations in Iraq Posted: US President Barack Obama on Tuesday declared an end to the US combat mission in Iraq, more than seven years after the US-led invasion of the Middle Eastern country. In live address from the White House less than two weeks after the last US combat brigade left Iraq, Obama said it was time for Iraqis themselves to take responsibility for their security. "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," he said in an evening speech televised from the Oval Office. "Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country." "Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the US and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it is time to turn the page." Fewer than 50,000 US troops remain in Iraq and will be responsible for training the Iraqi military and some counterterrorism operations. The US State Department will take over direction of the new mission - called "New Dawn" - from the military. Nearly 100,000 troops have left Iraq since Obama took office in January 2009. The president has instead sharpened the military focus on Afghanistan. Obama, who opposed the US-led invasion of Iraq, highlighted the "huge price" in lives and treasure of the seven-year war effort and pledged a renewed focus on boosting the US' flagging economy as troops come home. "Today, our most urgent task is to restore our economy and put the millions of Americans who have lost their jobs back to work," he said. More than 4,400 US soldiers have been killed since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
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| Diana's image used to sell lingerie Posted: 13 years after her death, Chinese firm advertises new range of underwear using lookalikes
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| Posted: Have you always complained of the time that your black dress could not accomodate your mobile phone? Well, you can bid adieu to your worries. A company from Britain has come up with a dress that doubles up as a mobile phone. The garment, branded the M-Dress, lets wearers make and receive calls by slipping their sim card under the label, allowing them to keep their usual numbers. Cool right? Gesture recognition software allows users to pick up a call by raising their hand to their ear and end a conversation by letting it fall to their side. The M-Dress, designed by fashion company CuteCircuit, will ring when an incoming call is received and different ringtones can be assigned to different numbers. Technical problem The only glitch with the latest technology is that the garment can only call a limited number of pre-programmed contacts. The dress is described as being made of "a dark, richly textured, form-fitting silk jersey" and will be released in 2011. Its price remains undisclosed. The antenna, described as "super-tiny", is stitched into the bottom hem of the dress, which rests at about knee-height, to reduce the amount of radiation that the wearer is exposed to. A message on the CuteCircuit website said, "Very often phone calls are missed because mobile phones are quite awkward to carry, especially for women, that have garments with small or no pockets.To allow women to stay connected while remaining stylish, CuteCircuit designed the M- Dress. A mobile phone in its own right but built out of soft circuitry." However, there are a couple of questions the garment raises. What happens if you get pushed into the swimming pool at the end of the night at that posh party bash? And indeed, how do you wash this dress?
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