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Handcuffed man drives off in police car
2008-04-16 02:39:00 A HANDCUFFED man arrested on suspicion of a crime in Brisbane drove off in a police car today as two officers inspected evidence outside the vehicle. Mark Robert Nolan, 29, was arrested about 10.45am (AEST) today by the two officers at a residence in Spring Hill in relation to break and enter charges. He was handcuffed ... More About: Police , Police Car
Congo Plane crash kills 21 on the ground
2008-04-16 02:37:00 A CONGOLESE airliner crashed into a market district in the eastern city of Goma overnight, killing at least 21 people on the ground, while most of the 79 on board survived. A local governor and the Congo lese Red Cross had initially reported only six survivors and more than 70 dead after the Hewa Bora Airways McDonnell ... More About: Ground , Plane , Crash
Marilyn Monroe sex film to be kept private
2008-04-15 02:19:00 A 15-minute film of Marilyn Monroe engaging in an oral sex act with an unidentified man will be kept from public view by a New York businessman who has bought it for $US1.5 million. Memorabilia collector Keya Morgan said he recently arranged the sale of the silent, black-and-white film from the son of a dead FBI ... More About: Film , Private
Dead teenage girl?s organs missing
2008-04-15 02:17:00 A Fresh row has erupted over the death of a British teenager in India after her organs were found to be missing following a new autopsy in Britain. The autopsy, the third since 15-year-old Scarlett Keeling was raped and murdered in the Indian resort state of Goa in February, revealed that her stomach, uterus and both ... More About: Girl , Dead , Missing , Teenage , Organs
Men?s mag win-a-divorce competition
2008-04-13 18:59:00 FIRST it ran a breast augmentation competition, now a men’s magazine is set to cause outrage again by giving its readers the chance to score a divorce. Zoo Weekly is inviting men to explain why they deserve an all-expenses-paid split from their partner, promising to take care of it for the winner - from the legal ... More About: Divorce , Competition
Vampire Killer wins fight for prison release
2008-04-13 18:56:00 NOTORIOUS “vampire killer” Tracey Wigginton has won her fight to be released after almost 20 years behind bars for the murder of a Queensland council worker that captured world headlines. Queensland’s Parole Board has approved her graduated release from a high-security prison despite correctional services last year declaring she still had social and anger issues. Wigginton, 42, ... More About: Fight , Killer , Vampire , Release , Prison
Lonely Planet author a fraud and a drug dealer
2008-04-13 04:58:00 THE Lonely Planet guidebook empire is reeling from claims by one of its authors that he plagiarised and made up large sections of his books and dealt drugs to make up for poor pay. Thomas Kohnstamm also claims in a book that he accepted free travel, in contravention of the Melbourne-based company’s policy. His revelations have rocked ... More About: Fraud , Author , Drug , Dealer
Grafitti hooligans a bunch of Lunts
2008-04-13 04:55:00 Residents in the graffiti-hit village of Lunt are furious town officials are considering changing the name ? because yobs keep swapping the “L” for a “C” on road signs. The quaint English village, in Sefton, Merseyside, has proudly held the moniker since 1251. But now retired cop Martyn Ball, a prospective Conservative councillor, wants a ... More About: Hooligans
Suspected killer watched snuff films
2008-04-12 04:44:00 A SOUTH Korean man accused of murdering two schoolgirls who disappeared on Christmas Day and cutting up their bodies had watched “snuff” movies downloaded from the internet, prosecutors said. Jeong Seong-Hyeon, 39, had repeatedly watched films purporting to show actual murders, said Chong Byong-Doo, a senior prosecutor based in Suwon in the western province of Gyeonggi. Prosecutors ... More About: Films , Killer
Vicar sacked for spitting at parishioners
2008-04-12 04:34:00 A CHURCH of England vicar has been sacked after a tribunal heard he spat at parishioners, attacked church wardens in sermons and was “arrogant, aggressive and rude”, the church says. The Reverend Tom Ambrose, of St Mary and St Michael Church, Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, was blamed for a “serious pastoral breakdown” that made it impossible for him ... More About: Sacked , Spitting
Suicide encouraged on internet
2008-04-11 02:12:00 People searching the internet for information about suicide methods are more likely to find sites encouraging suicide than those offering help or support, according to a new study. Researchers from the Universities of Bristol, Oxford and Manchester found that nearly half of websites showing up in queries of the four top search engines gave “how to” ... More About: Internet , Suicide
Burned rape victim ?I was a real Bitch?
2008-04-11 02:11:00 A Woman whose house was set alight while she lay unconscious after being raped has blamed herself for the attack. The woman’s husband drugged and raped her three times in about two weeks. But the victim says she would do anything to make things right with her attacker. She has not provided a victim impact statement to authorities ... More About: Bitch , Real , Rape , Victim
Online criminals target social networking sites
2008-04-10 02:05:00 SOCIAL networking websites are fast becoming a key target for online fraud, according to a new report. The latest Symantec Internet Security Threat Report for the second half of 2007 reveals there were 87,963 “phishing hosts” for that period, an increase of 167 per cent from the first half of 2007. Phishing hosts act as fake websites, ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Sites , Online
Sect primed children for sex with adults
2008-04-10 01:55:00 A POLYGAMIST compound with hundreds of children was rife with sexual abuse, child welfare officials allege in court documents, with girls spiritually married to much older men as soon as they reached puberty and boys groomed to perpetuate the cycle. The documents released yesterday also gave details about the hushed phone calls that broke open ... More About: Children
Baby Lali born with two faces in cranofacial duplication
2008-04-09 02:24:00 The parents of an Indian infant girl born with two faces say she is eating and breathing normally despite having two pairs of eyes and lips and two noses. The one-month-old baby, named Lali, is the first child of factory worker Vinod Kumar and his wife Sushma. She has caused a sensation, attracting a stream of curious observers ... More About: Baby , Faces , Duplication
Man offers face as tattoo advertising space
2008-04-09 02:23:00 Jason Niebling wants to be a “human advertising billboard” and work for whichever company is permanently tattooed on his head. And the 37-year-old from Ipswich, west of Brisbane, doesn’t care if people think he’s an idiot ? just as long as the crazy scheme pays off and he can better provide for his wife Amy and ... More About: Space , Tattoo , Advertising , Offers , Face
1800Flowers - Pick the Best
2008-04-08 14:15:00 If you?re looking for same day delivery of flowers, chocolate, balloons or gift baskets, there is only one place you should shop: 1-800-FLOWERS.COM With more than 100 stores from coast to coast there?s sure to be one near you. There?s even a handy store locator that you can search by State or Zip code. What I found ... More About: Pick
Mother finds children stabbed to death
2008-04-08 02:14:00 A Mother returned from buying groceries over the weekend to find all three of her young children slain in their trailer park home in westernmost Canada, media said today. According to reports, the siblings - a girl and two boys believed to be under 10 years old - were stabbed to death. Police in the forestry town ... More About: Children , Death
Teen assaulted with hedgehog
2008-04-08 02:02:00 A NEW Zealand man has been charged with assault after he threw a hedgehog at a teenage boy. “It hit the victim in the leg, causing a large, red welt and several puncture marks,” police sergeant Bruce Jenkins told the Herald on Sunday. Shortly after throwing the animal, William Singalargh, 27, of Whakatane was arrested for assaulting ...
Dad rapes girl in hospital bed next to sick son
2008-04-07 02:08:00 A Major children’s hospital has been forced to introduce new security measures after a man visiting his ill son raped a teenage patient in the next bed. Raouf Philopos sexually assaulted the girl for more than an hour as his six-year-old son slept and while nurses tended to patients in the ward at The Children’s Hospital ... More About: Girl , Sick
Dad, daughter have child together
2008-04-07 02:06:00 A South Australian father and daughter have revealed they are a couple, and have had a child together. John and Jenny Deaves of Mount Gambier reunited 30 years after Mr Deaves separated from Jenny’s mother. Jenny was 31 and just two weeks after meeting, father and daughter had sex. “John and I are in this relationship as consenting ... More About: Child , Daughter
Abused girls rescued from polygamous sect
2008-04-06 01:11:00 US authorities have removed 52 girls from a polygamous sect’s compound in western Texas and questioned the remaining members of the breakaway Mormon church. Those removed yesterday were aged from six months to 17 years old, according to the Child Protective Services (CPS) in Schleicher County. The raid on Friday was triggered by reports that a 50-year-old ... More About: Girls , Abused
Youzhny?s Bloody tennis tantrum a YouTube hit
2008-04-06 01:08:00 RUSSIAN tennis player Mikhail Youzhny has become an unlikely star on YouTube after he battered his head with a tennis racket at the Sony Ericsson Open. A video shot by the host broadcaster Sky Sports showed Youzhny violently whacking his head three times in a row, sending blood streaming down his forehead and nose. The world ... More About: Youtube , Tennis , Tantrum , Bloody
Jew threatened through Facebook
2008-04-05 03:00:00 COUNTER-TERRORISM agents have launched an investigation into a multi-national terror threat made against an Australian using social networking website Facebook . The first investigation of its kind was prompted by a death threat emanating from the Middle East against a Jewish woman and her family from an alleged member of the Iranian-backed terror group Hezbollah. The woman received ...
Terrorists porn plot to fool airport security
2008-04-05 02:56:00 A Chilling “blueprint” for terror was found scrawled in a diary seized by police from an alleged bomb plotter, a British court heard today. Eight men are on trial at Woolwich Crown Court in South-East London accused of conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to commit an act of violence likely to endanger the safety of an ... More About: Security , Airport , Fool , Terrorists , Plot
Naomi Campbell in airport arrest
2008-04-04 02:47:00 POLICE handcuffed British supermodel Naomi Campbell on board a plane and removed her from a flight at London’s Heathrow airport today, an airport spokeswoman and witnesses said. Earlier, reports said Campbell had been arrested for allegedly spitting at a police officer. “We can confirm that a passenger was removed by police from a BA (British Airways) flight ... More About: Airport , Arrest , Humorous
I felt the flesh ripped off my face
2008-04-04 02:45:00 A SUNBAKER who was run over by a lifeguard driving a four-wheel-drive has told how he felt as the wheels rolled over his face, chest and legs. Last November Joel Faulkner, 22, a Bond University law student fell asleep while sunbaking between the flags on the Gold Coast. But he woke with a rude shock when a Gold ... More About: Bad News , Face , Felt , Ripped
TV technician airs porn movie
2008-04-03 02:10:00 A Technician at a French Polynesian television station has been suspended from work after accidentally screening a porn movie he thought he was watching alone. The incident on March 3 sparked about a dozen angry calls to the Tahiti Nui television network. General director of TNTV Haupert Ives said the technician was suspended from work without pay ... More About: Movie
Kids? terror plot motivated by revenge
2008-04-03 02:07:00 A group of children who allegedly planned to knock their teacher unconscious with a glass paperweight, bind her with handcuffs and duct tape and then stab her with a broken steak knife, were motivated by revenge, police said. Police Chief Tony Tanner told Associated Press the third-graders at Centre Elementary School in south Georgia were angry ... More About: Kids , Terror , Revenge , Plot
Cher Returns - Caesars Palace, Las Vegas
More articles from this author:2008-04-02 11:21:00 Breaking news: Cher is happy and proud to announce her return to the stage at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace , Las Vegas ! Her brand new show will feature 18 dancers and aerialists, fabulous new Bob Mackie costumes, dazzling video and special effects. The extravaganza will debut on May 6th and initially run for a month. Cher ... 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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