SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 20.6.9
CAPTION: YOUR DEAD BODY IS GOOD PLANT FOOD
AN MP wants Queenslanders to be buried in cardboard coffins in natural bush cemeteries where the decomposing bodies can promote vegetation growth.
The "green in death" approach has been advocated by Labor's Barbara Stone who told Parliament about a body's "natural nutrients."
She suggested that more local authorities follow the lead of the Gold Coast City Council which is planning the state's first natural bushland cemetery.
"The site will be an old quarry to be filled with suitable soil so that bodies can decompose and provide valuable nutrients that encourage the rejuvenation of native flora," she said.
HEADLINE: IPod Saved My Life, Says Girl Hit By Lightning
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 19.6.9
CAPTION: Saved by iPod
An Essex teenager who was hit by lightning in a storm says that her life was saved by her iPod – and the fact that she was holding her boyfriend's hand at the time.
Sophie Frost and Mason Billington, both 14, took shelter under a tree in King George V Playing Field, in Rayleigh during a thunderstorm on Monday night when they were hit by the 3,000-volt lightning bolt.
Sophie passed out as the current travelled through her iPod headphones, which were hanging from her school uniform, and burned her chest and stomach. ...
Although his eyesight was affected by the bolt, Mason put Sophie over his shoulder and carried her to nearby Websters Way to get help. A female motorist stopped and drove the pair to Southend Hospital.
HEADLINE: 12-year-old to be sentenced for rape
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 19.6.9
CAPTION: 12-year-old rapist
A 12-year-old boy who raped a young child will be sentenced after failing to convince a court he was wrongly convicted.
The boy - who cannot be named - was found guilty of rape and attempted rape at the end of a judge-only trial in the Children's Court at Townsville earlier this year.
During the trial, the court was told the boy raped a four-year-old boy in May 2007, and tried to rape his own three-year-old brother a short time later.
The boy told his father he had raped the child because he was "horny'', it was revealed at the trial.
Under Queensland law anyone under 14 years cannot be held criminally responsible for an offence unless it can be shown they had the capacity to know they ought not have done the act.
The trial judge found the boy did have the capacity to know he should not have committed the offences.
The boy's lawyers took the case to the Court of Appeal in Brisbane in May in an attempt to have the conviction quashed.
HEADLINE: One in four men admit rape - survey
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 19.6.9
CAPTION: RAPE SEEMS TO BE A PASTIME
MORE than a quarter of South African men surveyed have admitted to raping a woman or girl, with 9.8 per cent forcing themselves on a victim for the first time before the age of 10, a study has found.
The Medical Research Council (MRC) study of 1738 men found that nearly half had done so more than once, driving home South Africa's reputation as one of the world's worst rape capitals.
Among the men surveyed, 27.6 per cent admitted to raping a woman or girl. One in five of confessed rapists had HIV, added the study, which canvassed men of all race groups, different socio-economic backgrounds, and urban and rural areas.
Nearly 10 per cent of the men said they had forced a woman or girl into sex for the first time when aged under 10 years old.
HEADLINE: Woman fined $2.4m for song downloads
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 18.6.9
CAPTION: Expensive Recordings
A US JURY has ordered a 32-year-old woman to pay $US1.92 million in damages for illegally downloading 24 songs in a high-profile digital piracy case.
Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a single mother of four from the US state of Minnesota, was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.
The jury took just under five hours yesterday to reach its verdict.
It ordered Thomas-Rasset to pay $US80,000 per song to six record companies: Capitol Records, Sony BMG Music, Arista Records, Interscope Records, Warner Bros. Records and UMG Recordings.
Thomas-Rasset had been convicted previously, in October 2007, and ordered to pay $US220,000 in damages but the judge who presided over that trial threw out the verdict calling it "wholly disproportionate" and "oppressive".
HEADLINE: Dad of 'Idol's' David Archuleta Busted in Hooker Ring
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 18.6.9
CAPTION: ALMOST SCREWED SON'S CAREER CAUGHT SCREWIING SOMEONE ELSE
The father of "American Idol" star David Archuleta was busted for hiring a massage parlor prostitute following a January raid in Utah.
James Jeffrey Archuleta, the father of the “Idol” season 7 runner up, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge and paid a $582 fine after he was caught at a police raid of the Queens of Reiki on January 14 in Midvale.
According to a report from RadarOnline, the investigation of the massage parlor began after a concerned citizen called police. Detective Sgt. John Salazar of the Midvale Police told Radar that they determined that the parlor was operating without a business license and ordered the raid.
When the officers arrived, they found only one client, Archuleta.
HEADLINE: Hot cars 'don't equal sex appeal'
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 18.6.9
CAPTION: HOT CAR NO SEX
Girls aren't necessarily attracted to men with expensive cars, say the guys from SBS's Top Gear Australia...
HEADLINE: Collection Agency to Go After School Lunch Money
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 18.6.9
CAPTION: NO FREE LUNCH
Iowa residents who owe the Marshalltown Community School District lunch money soon will have more than the school bully to answer to.
The Board of Education approved a proposal Monday to hire an agency to collect unpaid lunch debts, according to the Marshalltown Times Republican, in the hopes that the agency, PSD Receivables, will be able to recover $25,900 from past-due school meal accounts..
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