Wednesday, November 30, 2011

World's first sex school opens in Austria

World's first sex school opens in Austria


World's first sex school opens in Austria

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 04:00 AM PST

The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers 'hands on' lessons in seduction for 1,400 pounds a term. The 'headmistress' says anyone over the age of 16 can enrol at 'the world's first college of applied sexuality'.


UK embassy attack: France recalls ambassador to Iran

Posted: 01 Dec 2011 03:06 AM PST

France's Foreign Ministry says the country is recalling its ambassador to Iran for consultations after an attack on the British Embassy in Tehran.


Four dead, 30 missing in Indonesia landslide

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 05:04 PM PST

Four people were killed and 30 others were missing after heavy rain triggered a landslide on the Indonesian island of Nias on Wednesday, officials said.


Long wait for green cards could soon be over

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 01:16 PM PST

The bill eliminates limits on the number of green cards based on employment that is available annually to each country.


Phone-hacking 'perfectly acceptable': Ex-NOTW journalist

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 12:34 PM PST

A former News of the World journalist Tuesday told Britain's phone-hacking inquiry the practice was "perfectly acceptable", while a reporter who helped reveal the scandal accused some media of bullying. On a day when the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics switched its focus from alleged victims of hacking to journalists, the probe heard tabloid journalist Paul McMullan defend hacking as a legitimate means to obtain stories.


Pakistan releases video of NATO airstrikes, says apology not enough

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:58 AM PST

Pakistan's military on Wednesday released footage showing what they said was the aftermath of the NATO airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The video shows, what appear to be, several damaged buildings in a mountainous area and a cloud of smoke rising.


So far, Heathrow escapes chaos despite huge strike

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 11:30 AM PST

Airline passengers arriving in Britain escaped chaos early Wednesday despite dire predictions of long waits, as border staff joined teachers, hospital workers and weather forecasters in the country's largest strike in decades. The one-day strike has been called in protest at the government's plan to make public sector pensions less generous in the years ahead. The pension reforms are part of a package of austerity measures designed to get a grip on the country's high borrowing levels.


Two million public sector workers in Britain strike over pension cutbacks

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 10:16 AM PST

Public sector workers in Britain staged what is being billed as the biggest strike in decades on Wednesday to protest the cash-strapped government's plans to recast their pensions in an effort to reduce the cost to taxpayers.


Cannot attend Bonn meet without assurance: Gilani

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:35 AM PST

Following appeals from the US and Afghanistan, Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani today said the country cannot attend the crucial Bonn meet on the future of Afghanistan if Islamabad did not receive assurances from the world community about its security and sovereignty.


American airlines, crash landing of 'something special in the air'

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 08:05 AM PST

American Airlines used to bill itself as "something special in the air," and it was. It was the first airline to offer curbside check-in. The first with computerized reservations. It invented the frequent-flier program and came up with the deeply discounted Super Saver fare to fill empty seats on its planes. But it was disastrously behind on one thing - recognizing that its finances were unsustainable.


Pakistan wants UK to mediate with US in row over NATO attack

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 07:40 AM PST

Reeling under anti-US public sentiments, Pakistan has asked Britain, which has "undoubted influence" over Americans, to mediate with the Obama administration in its dispute over the killing of 24 of its soldiers in a NATO attack that has frozen their ties.


NATO strike: In protest, Pakistan will skip Afghan conference

Posted: 30 Nov 2011 05:33 AM PST

Pakistan announced on Tuesday that it would not attend an important international conference on Afghanistan's security and development that is scheduled to begin in less than a week in protest over the weekend strikes that killed two dozen Pakistani soldiers.


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