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• Paris Hilton's boyfriend attacked outside court
• Twitter banned at Wills-Kat royal wedding
• Chinese man threatens suicide over long working hours

Paris Hilton's boyfriend attacked outside court Posted: Paris Hilton's businessman boyfriend, Cy Waits was attacked outside court by a stalker of the socialite. The 30-year-old heiress was on her way to testify against Nathan Parada, a trespasser, when this man jumped at Cy, punched at the back of his head and tried to grab his neck, reported Contactmusic. The man was later identified as James Rainford, has also been arrested for trespassing on Hilton's property in October 2010. He was wrestled to the ground by the couple's security team outside the courthouse in Van Nuys, California. "On my way to the court house to testify against the intruder. I'm very nervous to see him face to face again," Hilton tweeted her shock. A representative for Hilton later said, "After the attack, they realised he is the same intruder that showed up to her home on a bicycle a few months ago. They are both a bit shaken up but thankfully the security men acted quickly." The attacker was taken into police custody, and later claimed he had only been trying to get an autograph from Paris and to ask her father, Rick, for permission to ask her to marry him. Rainford is currently still on probation for misdemeanour assault and there is also a restraining order against him that he stays at least 200 yards away from the hotel heiress.

Twitter banned at Wills-Kat royal wedding Posted: Twitter has been banned at the wedding venue of Prince William and his bride-to-be Kate Middleton. The social networking site has effectively been barred from the royal wedding with signal-blocking technology to be installed at Westminster Abbey, reports the Herald Sun, According to Yahoo, the move was suggested by members of the royal family and approved by security. A police official confirmed the technology, which also blocks calls and therefore untimely ringtones, will be turned on early Friday morning local time and will run for the duration of the ceremony

Chinese man threatens suicide over long working hours Posted: Fed up with inordinately long working hours, a man climbed on to the roof of a six-storeyed building here and threatened to jump off it. He was eventually coaxed to come down. Sun went to the roof of a building in Puyuan Technology Park and he was spotted by a worker, who clicked photographs and posted them online, Shanghai Daily reported Thursday. He threw down leaflets that said he had been working in the city for 18 days as a security guard for an online game company. He said he worked for over 12 hours a day but hadn't received a day off from his employer. Sun then decided to draw attention to the heavy workload and low wages of security guards. The police negotiated with him for nearly two hours to coax him to come down.

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