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- Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal to be turned into porn film
- Meet US girl with world's longest tongue
- Churches can host same-sex weddings
- Baby, baby, baby... noooo!
- Spy Anna Chapman accused of plagiarism
- Bye England,hello Sweden
| Strauss-Kahn's sex scandal to be turned into porn film Posted: The internationally publicized allegation of rape by a New York hotel maid against former International Monitory Fund head Dominique Strauss Kahn will now turned into a porn movie.
The film tilted "DXK", will be produced by the company My Porn Production that has urged public to help fund the film's 200,000 Euros production. The film will star Roberto Malone as the lead character "David Sex King." Porn star Sandra Romain will play his wife and actress Katia De Lys will portray the hotel maid. According to the producers, the film will be a "parody" of the scandal that saw Strauss-Kahn accused of sexually assaulting Nafissatou Diallo, a Guinean hotel maid, The Local reports. The scandal dashed Strauss-Kahn's hopes of becoming the Socialist Party's challenger to President Nicolas Sarkozy in upcoming election. The French politician is still facing a US civil suit brought against him by Diallo.
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| Meet US girl with world's longest tongue Posted: A girl from Houston has made it to Guinness for having the world's longest tongue Chanel Tapper, 21, who has a whopping 9.7cm tongue, shot to fame at the age of 13, when she was spotted sticking out her long tongue in a YouTube video. In September, Guinness invited Tapper to Los Angeles, where they measured her tongue and she closely beat two other female contenders to the record. Tapper said she loves her record-breaking tongue. "I have always been silly and goofy. I love sticking my tongue out at people," the Sun quoted her as saying. "I started doing that back in school. I've never had a problem with having a long tongue, it's just fun," she added.
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| Churches can host same-sex weddings Posted: Same-sex couples are to be allowed to hold civil partnership ceremonies in churches and other places of worship in England and Wales. Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone said no religious group would be forced to host them, but those who wished to could apply by the end of the year.  Much-needed changes: Activists hail the new plan saying it was long overdue and was an important step towards complete equality. Representation Pic The Church of England said it has "no intention" of blessing gay couples. Previously, gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the change was "long overdue". The announcement was made in a written response to a consultation. Featherstone, a Liberal Democrat MP, said, "The government is advancing equality for LGB (lesbian, gay and bisexual) people and ensuring freedom of religion for people of all faiths. No religious group will be forced to host a civil partnership registration, but for those who wish to do so this is an important step forward." Civil partnership ceremonies are currently entirely secular. Marriage between people of the same gender is not legal in the UK but civil partnerships were introduced in 2005 to give couples the same legal protection as if they were married. A Church of England spokesman said it had no intention of allowing civil partnerships to be registered in its churches. However, the spokesman said the church would study the draft regulations to check ministers had delivered "genuine religious freedom" by way of denominational opt-in, and if so, there would no reason to oppose the regulations. The legislation would also cover synagogues and mosques, although homosexual relationships are forbidden under Islam and Orthodox Judaism. The Office Of National Statistics reported 6,385 civil partnerships by same-sex couples in the UK in 2010.
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| Posted: 20-yr-old fan of Justin Bieber files paternity suit stating that he fathered a child with her; star denies claims Teen idol Justin Bieber allegedly lost his virginity -- and impregnated a young woman -- during a 30-second tryst after a concert in Los Angeles late last year, according to a paternity suit filed on Monday.  Mariah Yeater (20), filed court papers on October 31 stating that Bieber is the father of her three-month-old child. In her affidavit, Yeater claims that she was at the Staples Center on October 25, 2010, where Bieber had just performed a sold-out show. A guard approached Yeater, asking if she wanted to meet the pop star. She said yes, and the guard escorted her backstage, where she met Bieber. "Immediately, it was obvious that we were mutually attracted to one another, and we began to kiss," Yeater wrote in her complaint. "Shortly thereafter, Justin suggested that I go with him to a private place where we could be alone. I agreed to go with him and on the walk to a private area, he told me he wanted to make love to me and this was going to be his first time." The "private area" in question was allegedly a bathroom. "At the time I asked him to put a condom for protection, but he insisted that he did not want to. In his own words, he said that because it was his first time he wanted to feel everything." Meanwhile, Bieber's rep strongly denies the charges, saying, "While we haven't yet seen the lawsuit, it's sad that someone would fabricate malicious, defamatory, and demonstrably false claims. We will vigorously pursue all available legal remedies to defend and protect Justin against these allegations."
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| Spy Anna Chapman accused of plagiarism Posted: Russian ex-spy Anna Chapman finds herself at the centre of a plagiarism scandal after prominent bloggers accused her of "copy-pasting" from a book by a Kremlin spin doctor.  It was reported yesterday that her column in the best-selling Komsomolskaya Pravda daily is an almost word-for-word copy of an article in a book by Oleg Matveyechev. Chapman who was deported from the United States last year along with nine other Russian sleeper agents, has been keeping a high profile in Russia, modeling, editing a magazine, giving lectures and taking a role in the pro-Kremlin youth movement. In her column about the 19th-century poet Alexander Pushkin who died in a duel with a French officer in 1837, Chapman argued that the 1917 revolution and the ensuing bloodshed could have been prevented if Pushkin, who died at the age of 37, had lived to provide moral guidance. "Just half a century later, liberals and socialists flooded Russia and killed the czar, heading for the revolution," she wrote. "I'm confident that things would have been different if Pushkin had had time to write his mature works." The text is almost a direct copy of a passage from Matveyechev's book, which is available online. Unlike Matveyechev, who also serves as deputy governor of the Volgograd Region, Chapman stops short of describing Pushkin's death as a European plot to undermine Russia's global standing. Chapman's office did respond to requests seeking comment. Plagiarism charges In 2009, then Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was accused of paraphrasing at length from an article co-written by Newt Gingrich when she gave a speech, but her lawyer said that proper credit was given.
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| Posted: WikiLeaks founder Assange loses appeal against extradition to Sweden over sex crime allegations, to carefully consider his next step in the days to come WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his High Court bid to block extradition to Sweden where he faces sex crime allegations. Two judges rejected claims that extraditing the 40-year-old Australian would be "unfair and unlawful". Speaking outside court after the verdict, Assange said that "we will be considering our next step" in the coming days.
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