Monday, February 7, 2011

Mid Day International News

Mid Day International News

Female teacher accused of having sex with five pupils

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A female high school gym teacher in the US has been accused of having sex with five students over a period of five-months.

Stacy Schuler, 32, is said to have had a sexual relationship with the students, who were mostly football players, from last August to December.

Warren County jury heard the sexual acts happened off school grounds, and that the single teacher also bought alcohol for the students at Mason High School in Mason, Ohio.

Schuler, of Springboro in Dayton, Ohio, faces up to 81 years in jail if she is convicted of 16 counts of sexual battery and three offences involving an underage person.

She has been under investigation after an anonymous tip was called in to officials last month, according to a spokeswoman for the school, which has more than 3,000 students.

"I am committed to the safety and well-being of our students, and will not tolerate behaviour that does not conform to that goal," the Daily Mail quoted Principal Mindy McCarty-Stewart as saying.

"Our staff are prepared to help our students during this situation, and know how important it is to continue to build trust with our students and families," she stated.

She added the Ohio Department of Education is expected to tell the Mason Board of Education to suspend Schuler without pay.

'Berlusconi's naked pictures up for grabs for 1 mn pounds'

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Compromising pictures of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are apparently on sale for one million pounds.

Reports in Italian media said that the photographs showed Berlusconi naked in the company of the women and that magazines had refused to publish them as they were taken "inside his private property".

However, Berlusconi's legal team Niccolo Ghedini and Paolo Longo has issued a statement which said that "if the photographs exist they are falsely created and manipulated montages."

Meanwhile, it also emerged that the offices of one of Italy's top paparazzo photographers Fabrizio Corona had also been broken into in Milan-he claimed in a search for the photographs.

"There was cash and cameras in the office but they were ignored and the only items taken were the hard disks with the picture archives. We don't have the Berlusconi pictures," the Daily Mail quoted Corona as saying.

The 74-year-old has been embroiled in a sex scandal for almost a month after it emerged he was being investigated for having sex with an underage prostitute and sex acts at his infamous 'bunga bunga' parties.

Shoe hurled at Musharraf during London conference

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A man threw a shoe at former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf when he was addressing a gathering in London.

According to the News, the shoe fell in the front rows and failed to reach the stage.

The shoe-thrower, who has not been identified so far, was detained and rushed outside the hall by security personnel.

The man reportedly chanted slogans in favour of Pakistani neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui, who was sentenced to 86 years in prison by a US federal court.

Aafia, a mother of three, was found guilty of grabbing a rifle at a police station in the Afghan town of Ghazni where she was being interrogated in July 2008 and of trying to gun down a group of US servicemen and FBI agents.

Prosecutors had said that the 38-year-old had opened fire, shouting "death to America!"

Earlier, in August last year, 63-year-old Mohammed Shamim Khan had hurled shoes at Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari during his Birmingham rally.

Khan had hurled his pair of shoes one after another at Zardari while he arrived to address a Pakistan People's Party (PPP) rally at the International Convention Centre.

The shoes missed Zardari and landed close to him.

Pope believed 'priests should be allowed to have sex'

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Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, had as a young priest, signed a memorandum suggesting Vatican to relax celibacy rules.

He reportedly thought it would attract more people to become priests.

According to AdelaideNow, Father Brian Lucas, general secretary of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, said there was a range of opinions on the matter.

He said the present mind of the Vatican was to keep the current practice, despite a perceived shortage of priests.

"Shortage is a relative term," news.com.au quoted Father Lucas as saying.

"The discipline and practice of celibacy would be an obstacle for some. Others see it as important," he said.

In a similar tone, Father Dean Marin, director of vocations for the Adelaide Archdiocese, said the priesthood was a way of life.

"By remaining celibate, the priest witnesses to the possibility of living totally for God," he said.

Man throws shoe at Pervez Musharraf

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A man threw a shoe at former Pakistan president Pervez Musharraf when he was addressing a gathering. The shoe didn't hit the former military dictator, it was reported here.

Geo News reported that the shoe fell in the front rows and didn't reach the stage.

Security personnel quickly nabbed the shoe-thrower and whisked him out of the venue.

Musharraf ruled Pakistan for nine years after taking power in a bloodless coup in 1999. He stepped down in 2008 and left Pakistan. He now lives in London.

The detained man raised slogans in favour of Afia Siddiqui, who is presently in US detention. Siddiqui, a US-educated Pakistani woman, has been found guilty of trying to kill American servicemen in Afghanistan.

An Iraqi journalist Muntazar al Zaidi threw his shoes at then US president George Bush, sparking a string of copy-cat attacks.

Later, shoes were tossed at Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram, Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.

Zamani: I've never met Pak president

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An American surgeon has issued a public denial to reports that she has secretly married Pakistan President, Asif Ali Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto.

Reports have swirled around Pakistan that President Zardari was married in Dubai, just over three years after the assassination of his wife, the former PM.

However, the president's lawyers have now begun legal proceedings against a newspaper group that published details of the alleged romance.

The woman at the centre of the rumour, Tanveer Zamani, a 47-year-old doctor, has denied she married him in a ceremony last month.

"I have never met President Zardari and the only reason I have refrained from commenting on an internet hoax involving me is because I deemed it against my dignity to respond to such a hoax.

Bloggers and journalists do not have the right to make up stories and disrupt the lives of people," she said in an email message.


Royal nod for King's speech

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Queen Elizabeth II approves film on her father's battle with speech impediment

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II is said to have given her blessing to the Oscar-nominated film The King's Speech after watching it in a private screening.

The movie portrays her father King George VI's battle against his speech impediment and also features a young Princess Elizabeth.


Queen Elizabeth II (then Princess Elizabeth, centre) with her parents King George VI and Queen Elizabeth I

The Queen was given a private screening of the film and sources have said she found the portrayal "moving".

Actor Colin Firth stars in the lead role, which depicts King George VI's attempts to overcome his acute stutter in the lead up to his coronation in 1936.

Screenwriter David Seidler, who was asked by the Queen Mother to delay writing the script, said approval from the Queen was the ultimate honour.

"When her mother asked me 30 years ago to wait, because the memory of these events were still too painful, I understood the intense feelings that were involved," he said.

"And now that the film has been written and made with love, and respect, and admiration, the fact that Her Majesty has recognised this is incredibly and wonderfully gratifying."


Day 12 in Egypt: Mubarak resigns from ruling party

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Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP), including President Hosni Mubarak and son Gamal, resigned en masse on Saturday, in a new gesture apparently aimed at convincing anti-government protesters that the regime is serious about reform.


Protesters tear down a poster of President Hosni Mubarak in Cairo

Protesters entered into the 12th day of unprecedented street demonstrations, saying they will settle for nothing less than the immediate ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's ruler for nearly 30 years.

Party secretary-general Safwat el-Sharif also stepped down to be replaced by Hossam Badrawi who is reported to have good relations with opposition figures, the regime's channel announced amid ongoing opposition street protests.

Gamal Mubarak, who was a member of the Steering Committee, was widely seen as being groomed by his father Hosni Mubarak to succeed him as president. But Vice President Omar Suleiman promised earlier in the week that Gamal would not run for president in elections due in September.

Saturday morning saw a failed assassination bid on Suleiman that left two of his bodyguards dead as the mass revolt against President Hosni Mubarak entered the 12th day.

Mubarak had named Suleiman as Vice President only recently in an effort to quell the unrest and possibly line up a successor. The announcement was greeted with scorn by some of the tens of thousands of protesters gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square. Wael Khalil, a 45 year-old activist, said it would "reinforce their (protesters) resolve and increase their confidence because it shows that they are winning, and the regime is retreating inch by inch."
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