Monday, December 20, 2010

Mid Day International News

Mid Day International News

Now, third woman who was seduced by WikiLeaks founder emerges

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is at the centre of sex assault allegations by two women, is said to have seduced a third right from under her boyfriend's nose in Sweden.

Assange, 39, allegedly walked away with the girl, who had arrived with the American journalist, as they all dined together at a Stockholm restaurant.

An American revealed that he had gone out to dinner at Stockholm's Beirut restaurant with the WikiLeaks Swedish co-ordinator, the co-ordinator's girlfriend, and the journalist and his English girlfriend.

The journalist claims Assange ignored him and instead focused intently on his girlfriend, even following her out for a cigarette.

"When they hadn't come back after 45 minutes I went to see what was happening. They were standing very close together a little way down the street, and Julian was whispering in her ear," the Daily Mail quoted him as saying.

He later saw the two walking hand in hand, and when he challenged Assange, "he dropped into a classic fighter's pose, with his fists up".

"Assange seemed to take pleasure in humiliating me," he added.

The incident had taken place just two days before he had sex with Miss A, one of his two accusers, and five days before he bedded the second, Miss W.

Assange a high-tech terrorist, says Biden

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US Vice President Joe Biden has said that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was "closer to being a high-tech terrorist", and acknowledged the fact that the leak of classified US diplomatic cables have damaged foreign relations.

In an interview with the NBC's Meet the Press programme, when Biden was asked if what Assange had done was criminal, the vice president said it would be considered criminal if it could be established that the WikiLeaks founder had encouraged or helped Bradley Manning, the US intelligence analyst suspected of being behind the leak.

Biden said this was different from a journalist receiving leaked material, another media report said.

"If he conspired to get these classified documents with a member of the US military, that's fundamentally different than if somebody drops on your lap here... you're a press person, 'Here is classified material'," Biden was quoted as saying.

On being told by the show host that a Republican senator considered Assange to be a "high-tech terrorist", while many others say his document release was more like the 1971 publication of the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War, Biden said: "I would argue that it's closer to being high-tech terrorist than to the Pentagon Papers."

"This guy has done things that have damaged and put in jeopardy the lives and occupations of people in other parts of the world," he said.

"He's made it more difficult for us to conduct our business with our allies and our friends. For example, in my meetings, you know I meet with most of these world leaders. There is a desire now to meet with me alone rather than have staff in the room. It makes things more cumbersome. And so it has done damage."

The vice president had earlier told the channel, "I don't think there's any substantive damage" as a result of the WikiLeaks disclosures.

"Some of the cables that are coming out here and around the world are embarrassing," but that they contain "nothing that I am aware of that goes to the essence of the relationship" between the US and foreign governments.

Oz teacher banned for telling kids to 'f- off and go home'

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A former Queensland teacher has been banned from reapplying for teaching registration for at least a year after he was found misbehaving with his students.

According to evidence presented to a tribunal, David Doherty, of Wondal told Year Three students they should "f- off and go home", reports the Brisbane Times.

The 49-year-old was also under scrutiny for snapping a Year Seven girl's bra strap and joking about a Year Nine boy's sexuality.

The incidents were among nine cases cited by the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal last month when it banned Doherty from reapplying for teaching registration for at least a year.

Doherty, who had been employed by Education Queensland until his resignation in October 2007, was conducting a physical education class for Year Three students when one of the incidents occurred.

"During the lesson, one of the students was physically bullied by the other students and this incident required management by Mr Doherty," the tribunal said in a written decision, published last week.

"At the end of the class, Mr Doherty said to the class words to the effect that they were 'little shits' and to 'f- off and go home'," wrote the tribunal.

In another incident referred to by the tribunal, Doherty approached a Year Seven girl from behind and pulled on her bra strap while in the presence of a student's parent.


Liz Hurley 'begs forgiveness' from hubby Nayar

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A devastated Liz Hurley is pleading with her husband Arun Nayar to take her back after she dumped cricketer Shane Warne.

The 45-years-old actress dumped the Aussie love-rat after finding that he had sent more than 100 sex texts to a married woman at the same time he was having an affair with her.

According to an Oz man, Denis Angeleri, his wife, Adele, was wooed by Warne with a series of explicit texts like: "Very very horny today thinking of you" and "I want to see you riding me."

Now, Hurley wants to call off her divorce from her 46-year-old hubby, but her desperate bid to revive the marriage doesn't seem to be working out.

"Liz knows she's been a fool and has phoned Arun to say sorry and beg forgiveness. But Arun wants no part of it and is still going for quickie divorce," the Sun quoted a source as saying.

Liz Hurley 'dumps Shane Warne over sex text scandal'

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Liz Hurley has apparently dumped Shane Warne after learning that the cricketer had sent sexual text messages to a married Australian woman.

An Australian man, Denis Angeleri, claims his wife, Adele, was wooed by Warne with a series of explicit texts, according to the News Of The World and The Sunday Mirror.

The pair had met when Warne called into her leather goods shop opposite his office at the Shane Warne Foundation in Melbourne.

According to the paper, they exchanged numbers and Warne began texting her, becoming progressively more suggestive. Adele grew worried and eventually told her husband, Denis, on December 3.

Warne had begged him to keep the matter secret for the sake of his family, however, Warne was "also clearly terrified Liz would discover his double-dealing".

"There weren''t that many texts anyway," The News Of The World quoted Warne as telling Angeleri.

But the paper said Warne sent her more than 100 messages, while simultaneously cultivating his relationship with Hurley.

According to the paper, it was only a few days after his confrontation with Angeleri that Warne met up with Hurley in London.

Warne, now in Perth commentating on the Third Ashes Test for Channel Nine, hit social networking site Twitter to lament the latest saga.

"The journey of life is about riding the ups/downs," the Daily Telegraph quoted him as Tweeting.

"We all are childish, immature at times. It''s about how you bounce back when things are tough."

On Friday night he tweeted: "4.45am here in Perth. Not really a wink of sleep. Tossed and turned all night, feeling extremely grumpy."

Hurley also wrote on Twitter to shut down reports she would spend time with Warne in Australia in the coming weeks.

And, in a further blow to Warne, she said she had no plans to divorce her estranged husband, Indian textile heir Arun Nayar any time soon.

"Bored now of silly speculations: no one is divorcing anyone yet, no one is fighting over money and I have no plans to go to Australia. Enough!" she wrote.
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