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- Man chases out wife for refusing to wear skirt while having sex
- German city to tax prostitutes
- Notorious teenage iPhone hacker gets job at Apple
- LA porn filming halted after performer tested positive for HIV
- Libyan father kills his daughters who were raped by Gaddafi's troops
- Hurricane Irene may be America's costliest catastrophe
- Father, spying on son, caught with child porn
- Surgeons remove pruning shears from man's skull
- DSK apologises to IMF staff
- Hours after fleeing, Gaddafi turns granddad
- 16-yr-old boy arrested over carnival stabbing
- Man tries to sneak 7 snakes and 3 tortoises in pants
- Britain to hold disco night for the deaf
- This car hasn't broken down since 1904!
| Man chases out wife for refusing to wear skirt while having sex Posted: A man is said to have kicked out his wife for refusing to wear a skirt while having sex with him. According to Sin Chew Daily, Wang Wen Yaun from Singapore revealed he was introduced to his Chinese national wife by a roast duck shop owner in September last year and got married a month later. "I fell in love with her at first sight and we got married a month later," the Star Online quoted Yuan as saying. The 40-year-old clerk dumped his 27-year-old wife merely two months later because she refused to wear a skirt and have sex with him but the wife returned to his side in May, agreeing to do all he wanted. "I promised to give her S$100 (RM247) on the first night, and S$300 (RM740) every month after that," he said. Sadly, she still failed to meet his "skirt sex" demand and was again chased out of the house two weeks later.
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| German city to tax prostitutes Posted: Germay's former capital Bonn has introduced parking meters for prostitutes in a bid to tax the world's oldest profession, a media report said here. Prostitutes working the streets of Bonn now have to buy tickets from roadside vending machines that once dispensed tickets to the city's drivers. A night's ticket will set a prostitute back 5.30 pounds, irrespective of the number of clients they have, The Telegraph said. Like parking metres, the machines also tell users the times of day when a ticket is necessary: in this case between the hours of 8.15 p.m. and 6 a.m., Monday to Sunday. The ticket machines would bring street prostitutes into fiscal line with their peers in registered sex establishments, the newspaper quoted Monika Frombgen, a spokeswoman for Bonn city council, as saying. "This is an act of tax fairness," she said. "Prostitutes in fixed establishments such as brothels and sauna clubs already pay tax." She added that with many foreign born street prostitutes previous attempts to tax them had floundered on a widespread inability to comprehend a German income tax form. The machines, Bonn hopes, will provide an easy-to-understand system of taxation, the newspaper added. This is the first time tax tickets have been sold on the streets in Germany, it said.
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| Notorious teenage iPhone hacker gets job at Apple Posted: A 19-year-old hacker who developed an iPhone tool for users to download applications that was not approved by Apple, is reportedly set to start an internship at the software technology giant Nicholas Allegra, who has been a thorn in the side of the technology giant after launching ''JailbreakMe 2.0'' last year, claimed he has been hired as an intern at Apple, the Daily Mail reports. "It''s been really, really fun, but it''s also been a while and I''ve been getting bored. So, the week after next I will be starting an internship with Apple," Allegra, better known as 'Comex' wrote on Twitter. Apple has, however, refused to comment on whether Allegra has been employed or not. Jailbreakme 2.0, introduced last year, works on all iPhones that are running Apple''s iOS4 operating system. The download was the first that can be accessed through the iPhone''s own system rather than via an external computer. The hack allows iPhone owners to legally unlock their devices so they can run software apps that have not been approved by Apple.
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| LA porn filming halted after performer tested positive for HIV Posted: Porn studios across Los Angeles area have been urged to temporarily halt filming after an adult film performer was tested HIV-positive The Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based porn industry trade, asked them to shutdown productions until further testing is completed. "Until we know for sure, we've asked the industry to have a moratorium on production," the Los Angeles Times quoted Diane Duke, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, as saying. Some company officials, including those at well-known studios such as Hustler Video and Evil Angel, have agreed to the temporary shutdown, Duke said. Her group has notified actors known to have performed with the potentially infected person so they could get tested. "Retesting and confirmation is underway as is the process of identifying and testing first- and second-generation partners," she said, referring to those who had sex with the person or with one of that person's sex partners.
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| Libyan father kills his daughters who were raped by Gaddafi's troops Posted: A Libyan father slit the throats of his three teenage daughters in an 'honour killing' after they were raped by Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's loyalists during the siege of the port city of Misrata The shocking incidents have been mentioned in a report by the respected Physicians for Human Rights group into war crimes and atrocities in the embattled city, which faced two months of being cut off from the rest of Libya. The report has suggested that the father carried out the 'honour killings' after facing humiliation and shame over the rape of his 15, 17 and 18 year-old daughters in Tomina, on the outskirts of Misrata. The victims were not named, the Daily Mail reports. This incident is just one among series crimes carried out on civilians by Gaddafi's troops. The human rights group, which is based in Boston has concluded that there was widespread evidence of war crimes during the siege. "Four eyewitnesses reported that (Gadhafi) troops forcibly detained 107 civilians and used them as human shields to guard military munitions from NATO attacks south of Misrata," the report said. A huge controversy emerged earlier this year after a woman named Al-Obeidi claimed that she was raped by Gaddafi's men. She had later moved to the US. Reports had also emerged that Gaddafi troops and loyalists were issued Viagra-type drugs to sustain their systematic rape campaign.
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| Hurricane Irene may be America's costliest catastrophe Posted: As the US East Coast struggled to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, rising floodwaters forced thousands of evacuations in New Jersey and Connecticut with 13 flooded Vermont towns already cut off Irene will most likely prove to be one of the 10 costliest catastrophes in American history, the New York Times said, citing industry estimates putting the cost of the storm at $7 billion to $10 billion, largely because the hurricane pummelled an unusually wide area of the East Coast. The death toll stemming from Irene continued to rise Tuesday. At least 43 deaths were linked to the storm, from Florida to North Carolina to New England, CNN reported. An estimated 2.85 million customers remained without power Tuesday afternoon, the US Department of Energy said. That included more than half a million each in Connecticut and New York, more than 400,000 in Virginia, more than 300,000 in New Jersey and more than 250,000 in Maryland. Nearly 6.7 million customers initially were left without power by the storm, the department said. "This storm covered a tremendous amount of territory," Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters in Virginia. She said most states are now in recovery, though a few states-like Vermont and New Jersey-are still in response mode. In New York City, which was largely spared by the storm, the authorities had cleared three-quarters of the nearly 2,000 trees knocked down by the storm. About 8,000 customers remained without power, mostly in Queens, home to largest concentration of Indian-Americans in the US. Transportation also remained limited, with large swaths of train tracks submerged. Amtrak said it was hoping to restore most service between Washington and New York Wednesday.
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| Father, spying on son, caught with child porn Posted: A British father, who spied on his teenaged son for a TV show about sex, has been convicted himself after being found possessing pornographic pictures of children Fortynine-year-old Richard Watson had appeared on BBC3's Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents programme, The Sun reported. Watson and his wife Barbara used hidden cameras to keep an eye on their 18-year-old lad on holiday in Ibiza island in Spain, and watch him enjoy a sexy lapdance. Watson even appeared shocked by the antics, spluttering: "Good God! Can you do that?" But when cops raided Watson's home in Workington, Cumbria county in North West England, after a tip-off, he was found to be keeping a stash of nearly 250 indecent images of children under his possession. He admitted 12 charges of making indecent images of children. He has been put on the sex offenders register for five years. Watson, who is banned from working with kids, said: "There are worse things going on in the world. It's been a nightmare for my family, I can't get any lower than this." "It's my son I'm concerned about - I don't want his life ruined because of this." He said he only looked at the snaps on his laptop out of curiosity, Carlisle Crown Court heard.
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| Surgeons remove pruning shears from man's skull Posted: Hospital officials say an 86-year-old Arizona man is lucky to be alive after he accidentally impaled himself in the head with a set of pruning shears.
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| Posted: It was his first return visit to the organisation he once ran since sexual assault charges were dropped. Dominique Strauss-Kahn took the chance to apologise to staff of the International Monetary Fund for any troubled caused after sexual assault charges against him were dismissed last week. Strauss-Kahn (62) drove himself and his wife Anne Sinclair to the IMF headquarters in Washington DC and met briefly with his successor and fellow French national Christine Lagarde.
Strauss-Kahn told staff he wanted to 'apologise to those who have been hurt' by the scandal and was sorry that the case had a negative impact on the IMF, said one employee. Staff broke into spontaneous applause before Strauss-Kahn began speaking - but he did not talk about his case. However, he did note the US justice system had been fair, one witness said. An IMF spokesman said the visit by Kahn was personal and arranged at his request. His visit had been greeted ahead of time with dismay by some IMF staff, while others said they felt sorry for Strauss-Kahn and wanted to pay tribute to his time. 'Won't Sack Maid'
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| Hours after fleeing, Gaddafi turns granddad Posted: Libyan leader's daughter Aisha Gaddafi gives birth to baby girl in Algeria after escaping rebel forces Colonel Gaddafi's daughter Aisha (in pic) has given birth to a baby girl just hours after fleeing to Algeria, it was reported yesterday. "Aisha gave birth very early this morning. She had a little girl. Mother and daughter are doing fine," said a government official.  Aisha, her mother Safiya and brother Mohammed and Hannibal arrived in Algeria after a dramatic escape across the desert to avoid rebel forces. They were smuggled out in a cloak-and-dagger operation, arriving on Monday morning in a convoy of six armoured Mercedes. Mourad Benmehidi, the Algerian UN representative, said that a woman gave birth near the border without any medical equipment or assistance. It has not been confirmed whether that person was Aisha. Algerian authorities earlier said that the family were allowed into the country on purely 'humanitarian grounds'. Father's little girl The foreign ministry gave no indication that it knew the whereabouts of fallen dictator Moammer Gaddafi. He is thought to be heading south towards Sabha, one of the last strongholds of Gaddafi loyalists, with his sons Saadi and Saif al-Islam. Gaddafi's only biological daughter, Aisha, has been vocal in support of her father's regime. Known as 'North Africa's Claudia Schiffer' because of her long blonde hair, she is close to her father. She often speaks at public rallies whipping pro-Gaddafi supporters into a frenzy. The 36-year-old lawyer has taunted the West with a series of defiant speeches during the six-month civil war. In April, she said President Obama had 'achieved nothing' and mocked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for not leaving her husband, Bill, after his affair with Monica Lewinsky. Dressed in tight jeans and Gucci shoes, she said, "Why didn't you leave the White House when you found out about the cheating of your husband?" Nanny's Burns A nanny who worked for one of Colonel Gaddafi's sons has told how boiling hot water was poured over her head after she refused to beat his daughter. Shweyga Mullah's entire body is covered in scabs after she was allegedly burned by Hannibal Gaddafi's wife, Aline Skaf. She was found abandoned in a room at one of the family's luxury seaside villas in western Tripoli.
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| 16-yr-old boy arrested over carnival stabbing Posted: A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in west London on suspicion of assault following the stabbing of a 20-year-old man at the Notting Hill carnival, police have said. Three men aged 20 and a 21-year-old have already been arrested and are in custody at various police stations in London in connection with the incident, which happened towards the end of the two-day event.  The 16-year-old boy was captured on camera stabbing the victim and getting away The victim whose condition is described as serious but stable was found with stab wounds to the stomach and hand in Ladbroke Grove on Monday and taken to a central London hospital. The stabbing was one of only a small number of isolated incidents to mar Europe's biggest street festival amid an unprecedented security operation following the riots in London and other cities earlier this month. More than 6,500 police officers, a record number, patrolled the carnival streets on Monday, up from 5,500 on Sunday. A total of 245 people were arrested during the carnival weekend, up slightly from 243 last year. Police had targeted potential troublemakers, making more than 40 pre-emptive arrests last week. Boris Johnson, Mayor of London said during a visit to the carnival that it was right to allow the festivities to go ahead despite worries about street violence following the riots. "I thought it was very important that we should go ahead," he said. "Obviously there were quite a few people who wrote to me saying 'for heaven's sake, scrap it'. But we said 'no, that would be wrong, because that would be an admission of defeat, if you like, after what happened earlier in the month'." The London Ambulance treated a total of 494 carnivalgoers over the weekend, with 59 requiring hospital treatment. 245 Number of people arrested during the biggest European street festival 6,500 Number of cops present on the streets during the festival
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| Man tries to sneak 7 snakes and 3 tortoises in pants Posted: A man was caught with exotic snakes and tortoises stuffed in his pants trying to board a flight from Miami to Brazil, an official of the US transportation security has said. It was almost a case of snakes on a plane but as a result of security intervention, the man was caught with seven exotic snakes and three tortoises stuffed in his pants in a nylon bag, Sun Sentinel newspaper reported. Using a body scanner, Transportation Security Administration officers in Miami spotted all the reptiles stuffed inside nylon bags concealed in his pants. The unidentified man was trying to get through a checkpoint on his way to Brazil on TAM Airlines, TSA spokesman Jonathon Allen, said yesterday. US Department of Fish and Wildlife officers took custody of the animals and arrested the passenger. It's not the airlines' first weird wildlife encounter. In 2007, a man tried to smuggle a tiny monkey under his shirt on a flight from Fort Lauderdale to New York. And a woman attempted to sneak 75 live snakes in Sweden in 1996.
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| Britain to hold disco night for the deaf Posted: It's good news for those unable to hear. Britain will soon organise its first disco night for the deaf, a media report said Tuesday. The "multi-sensory" disco night would use a variety of features -- vibrating floors, sign language rappers and aroma jockeys -- to help the deaf enjoy the music being played, the Daily Mail reported. The Sencity London 2011 will be held Oct 8. The vibrating dance floor responds to the music's bass frequency, and there are "aroma jockeys" who spread scent in an attempt to interpret the music through smell. There will be sign dancers who visually interpret the music. There will also be free masseurs, hair stylists, make-up artists and even circus performers. "It is all about using all your senses -- hearing, feel, sight, smell and taste," said Nienke van der Peet, an organiser. The night is expected to attract around 1,500 people. It is supported by the British Council's Youth in Action Programme. Sencity programmes have been held since
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| This car hasn't broken down since 1904! Posted: A couple in Britain are proud owners of a car which hasn't broken down in the last 107 years. The one-cylinder motor vehicle, which can run at a top speed of over 46 km per hour, averages around 17 km per litre. Built in 1904, the two-seater Wolseley 6 is in mint condition and recently passed its Ministry of Transport (MoT) test, Daily Express reported. The annual MoT test of automobile safety, roadworthiness aspects and exhaust emissions is required for most vehicles over three years old used on public roads in the United Kingdom. Brian Caseley, 65, of Dorset county in South West England, purchased the car from a collector friend in 2004. Caseley's wife Pat, 63, said: "The car has never broken down and is still as good as the day it was first made."
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