Baby on Board

Headline: Baby born on plane, left behind by mum
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 19.3.9
Caption:

A WOMAN gave birth on a flight to New Zealand today then allegedly left the baby on board.

A cleaner reportedly found the baby in a rubbish compartment in one of the plane's toilets more than an hour after it had landed at Auckland airport.

The mother is understood to be a 30-year-old Samoan woman who was on Pacific Blue flight DJ94 from Apia to Auckland, which landed at 3.20am.

It is not known whether any of the 150 passengers or crew members onboard noticed the mother go into labour.

The mother allegedly abandoned the baby on landing, but returned later.

Headline: 67-year-old's job hunt tip: Get up, get out
Origin of Clip: CNN.com 19.3.9
Caption: A MUST READ STORY - CLICK LINK FOR FULL STORY

Jean Lindsay, a spunky 67-year-old with two masters' degrees, panicked after she failed to land a job in the garden center of a Lowe's home-improvement store.

She started to wonder whether a woman of her age ever would be able to find work. She worried about her debt, and weeks of unemployment were turning into months.

After the job interview, she stayed up most of the night in the fits of an anxiety attack -- vomiting and huddling under the bedcovers with her two dogs.

"God, I felt like I was falling off the ends of the earth," she said.

A few days later, though, she tossed on a red sweater, plopped down in front of her computer, flipped on her Web camera -- and, suddenly, while streaming her story onto the Internet, things seemed OK.

Headline: Teen fined after pants fall down
Origin of Clip: mews.com 19.3.9
Caption: Keep Your Pants On

A TEENAGER has faced court after his baggy trousers fell so low that he exposed himself - just as a female police officer was walking past.

Trent Joseph Wroe has learned the hard way that he should wear underwear after a night out in Mooloolaba on February 28, The Sunshine Coast Daily reports.

The 19-year-old faced Maroochydore Magistrates Court on a charge of public nuisance, after his pants fell down and exposed his bare bottom as he walked along the Esplanade just after midnight.

The case even managed to get a chuckle out of magistrate Tom Killeen, who advised Mr Wroe to wear a belt in future.

“I wore a belt today,” Mr Wroe said in court as he indicated to his shorts.

Headline: Texas 'Sex' Jail Reopens After $1M Renovation
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 18.3.9
Caption: Sorry No More Hotel

MONTAGUE, Texas — A notorious Texas county jail where some cells didn't lock and inmates allegedly had sex with female guards has been reopened following $1 million worth of repairs and renovation.

Montague County started moving its 63 inmates back this week after inspectors from the Texas Commission on Jail Standards approved the corrective work.

Sheriff Paul Cunningham closed the jail for the renovations on Jan. 1, just after he was sworn in to office.

Authorities said inmates openly took drugs, used cell phones that were supplied by friends or guards, disabled some surveillance cameras and made weapons out of nails.

Headline: Police: Mother Allegedly Bites Son's Principal
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 18.3.9
Caption: The Principal Bite

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Rhode Island woman is facing charges after allegedly punching and biting her 11-year-old son's school principal after being told the boy was being suspended.

Police say 30-year-old Aleyda Uceta also bit an officer trying to arrest her after Friday's incident at Roger Williams Middle School in Providence.

She is charged with assault on school officials, assault on police officers and resisting arrest.

Principal Rudolph Moseley Jr. was allegedly assaulted after he told Uceta that her son would be suspended for three days for refusing to go to a room for misbehaving students.

Police say Uceta punched Moseley in the face and bit his left arm.

Headline: Cops: Conn. Teacher Made Boy Eat From Garbage
Origin of Clip: FOXNews.com 18.3.9
Caption: Read This While Eating

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A kindergarten teacher in a Bridgeport school has been arrested for allegedly forcing a 5-year-old boy to eat his lunch from a garbage can.

Sixty-seven-year-old Anne O'Donnell of Fairfield, a teacher at Park City Magnet School, was arrested Tuesday on a charge of risk of injury to a minor.

School officials say the charge stems from an incident last week when the boy apparently tossed out his lunch of chicken nuggets and a banana from the school cafeteria.

The teacher is accused of retrieving the items from the garbage can and forcing the boy to eat them in front of her.

Headline: Pole dancer blamed for kid's pole bump
Origin of Clip: news.com.au 18.3.9
Caption: No Private Dancer Here

RAUNCHY strip club signage is posing a moral and physical danger to Hobart schoolchildren, critics say, after one youngster walked into a pole while ogling a picture of a "rude lady".
Hobart Hooters Bar owner Peter Johnson was today refusing to replace two signs causing some offence, saying the controversy was "a storm in a D-cup''.

The club is close to a cinema and a private girls' school and its 2m-high exterior signs are visible from 100m away.

They show a woman's naked torso and a bikini-clad pole dancer.

The Advertising Standards Bureau has received complaints about the signs and the girls' school principal says they are inappropriately placed.

Sorry?

Headline: Hospital Apologizes After Woman Gives Birth on Floor
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 28.12.8
Caption: This is nutty.

A pregnant woman in the U.K. was left unattended for hours and had to give birth on a hospital floor despite her desperate appeal for a bed.

Health board officials have apologized to Lynne Neilson, 36, whose baby started to arrive as she stood, still clothed, in an assessment room at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, a major teaching hospital in Scotland, after hours of waiting to be admitted. As the baby's head appeared, a midwife ran in just in time to put a paper mat on the floor and catch the baby, who had the umbilical cord around her neck.

Neilson and her husband Gavin filed an official complaint after the incident. The U.K.'s National Health Service in the Lothian region of Scotland, which oversees the hospital, is investigating the complaint and has apologized to the woman.

Headline: Thieves run off with $100,000 in nuts
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 28.12.8
Caption: This is nutty.

POLICE are appealing for help after cashew nuts worth an estimated $100,000 were stolen from a business in Sydney's southwest.
Police were alerted to the theft of nuts from a business on Forge Street in Blacktown by an alarm activation about 5.30am (AEDT) yesterday.
On arrival they found the back roller door of the premises raised and 10 pallets of nuts missing.

Headline: Lonely island dweller wants a Girl Friday
From: NEWS.scotsman.com
Date of clip: 28.12.8
Caption: Island lover

HE may look like Robinson Crusoe but, after 12 years of living alone on a tropical island, David Glasheen now wants to play Romeo.
The former Sydney high-flyer who left the rat race and bought himself a tropical island near Australia's Top End is looking for a "Girl Friday".
He is now advertising online for love, offering the ultimate sea change for the right woman who doesn't like shopping or neighbours.
Mr Glasheen and his dog Quasi are the only residents on tiny Restoration Island, off Cape York. While he has the occasional visit from tourists or passing yacht, he admits it gets a little lonely in paradise..

Headline: Thieves sell bottles of altar wine after church break-in
From: NEWS.scotsman.com
Date of clip: 27.12.8
Caption: Spreading The Cheer

THIEVES who broke into a Catholic church in the run-up to Christmas later tried to sell the communion wine.
Canon Hugh White said his congregation let out "gasps of horror" after he told them about the theft – the second break-in in three years – following a service on Christmas Day.
A number of religious artifacts used during communion at St Margaret'ADVERTISEMENTs Church in Gorebridge, Midlothian, were stolen during the raid.
Fortunately, police managed to recover the property worth around £5000 in time for the three services held to celebrate Christmas at the 104-year-old church in Lady Brae.

Headline: Man Sets Self on Fire During Stunt to Impress Date
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 27.12.8
Caption: Look, See What I Can Do

A Swedish man's attempt to impress his date went horribly awry Friday, as he ended up lighting himself on fire and going into shock.

The 33-year-old man also faces allegations of endangering the public as he recovers from serious burn injuries in a hospital in Vastervik, The Local reported.

The unidentified man's girlfriend said he was attempting a stunt when he poured gasoline over his arm and set the fuel on fire.

Headline: Police catch four-year-olds over assault and fireraising
From: Scotsman.com.au
Source: Edinburgh Evening News
Location: Edinburgh
Date of clip: 27.12.8
Caption: The world is bad

CHILDREN as young as four have been caught by police committing crime in the Lothians, it emerged today.
New figures reveal three four-year-olds were among 17 youngsters under the age of seven who were responsible for crimes including vandalism, minor assault and fireraising.

Headline: Man dies after genitals allegedly set alight
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.12.8
Caption: Burning Balls

A MAN whose wife allegedly set fire to his genitals while he slept has died.
Satish Narayan, 47, an engineer, lost his battle to survive at the Royal Adelaide Hospital yesterday, 20 days after sustaining burns to most of his body.

Headline: Eat your toast - or lose your virginity
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 28.12.8
Caption: Sorry?

PEOPLE who skip breakfast tend to lose their virginity earlier, according to researchers in Japan.
In a study of 3000 people, those who did not regularly eat breakfast in their early teens said they lost their virginity at an average age of 17.5, versus an overall average age of 19 for all Japanese.
Those who had a morning meal when they were younger had their first sexual experience at 19.4 years.
The study, backed by Japan's health ministry, was aimed at finding ways to curb unwanted pregnancies. It concluded that a stable home life discouraged early sex.

A Mother of a Grandma

Headline: Woman has first child ... at age 70
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: A Mother of a Grandma

AN Indian woman has given birth to her first child at the age of 70 after IVF treatment, local media reports.
Rajo Devi, who married 50 years ago, gave birth to a baby girl on November 28 after in vitro fertilisation, said Anurag Bishnoi, a doctor at the Hisar fertility centre in Haryana state.
"Rajo Devi and (her husband) Bala Ram approached the centre for treatment and the embryo transfer was done on April 19," he told the Hindustan Times.
"Both the mother and child are in good health."
Ms Devi's husband, aged 72, had also wed his wife's sister after 10 years of his first marriage did not result in children.
His second wife also failed to become pregnant.
It was not clear whose egg and sperm were used in the successful treatment.
"We longed for a child all these years and now we are very happy to have one in the twilight years of our life," Ms Devi told the Times of India.

Headline: Men Are Red-Faced, Women Greenish
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Green Under The Gills

There's a new color palette for sex, and it's Christmas-y.
New research suggests while male faces are red, female faces have a greenish tint.
The results, detailed online this week in the journal Psychological Science, suggest that along with other facial cues, such as shape, color can be used to pick out a guy from a gal.

Headline: Field Trips Nixed After Students See Classmate Autopsy
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: We Know That Stiff

PONTIAC, Mich. — A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.

The Detroit News reports Monday that Oakland County officials decided to stop the tours in Pontiac after they were contacted by the girl's parents, who were very upset about the March tour.

Mike Zehnder, the county's director of public services, says it was "a poor decision" to let the tour go on.

Headline: Rhino escapes zoo pen in search for love
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Horny

A RANDY rhinoceros escaped its enclosure today and went looking for love - but has been sedated near a perimeter fence.
The escapee - an 18-year-old male white rhino named Satara - was reported to have escaped Monarto Zoo, east of Adelaide, around just after 1pm (CST) today.

Relieved zoo keepers then reported the amorous animal lacked an adequate sense of direction and was not able to gain access to the female object of his desire, AdelaideNow reports

Headline: Man stole police car to sell its tyres
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Dumb Ass

A MAN who stole an empty police car crashed it into a garbage dumpster at the end of a two-hour joy ride
"When I found the car and I saw it had the key in the ignition, well, I just got in," foiled car thief Alejandro Juarez said in Aguascalientes, Mexico.

"I was thinking about taking off the tyres so I could sell them," he said.

"But then I was thinking first I would take it for a spin - and then bam, I got a bit distracted and crashed," Mr Juarez said.

Headline: 'Tis the season to dump grannies - doctors
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 8.12.8
Caption: Bye, Bye Grannies

ELDERLY Victorians are being dumped in hospital emergency departments as their relatives go on holidays.

Frontline hospital staff have lifted the lid on the shocking practice of "granny dumping", saying it is on the increase and peaks over the Christmas period.

There are calls for an urgent inquiry as worried emergency department workers warn the practice is robbing genuine patients of vital beds.

Last Monday, a woman in her 70s was delivered by ambulance to the Northern Hospital's emergency department, where her relatives requested she stay for three weeks.

Headline: By order of the Grinches of Granite City...Christmas is cancelled
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 7.12.8
Caption: A Council of Grinches

Published Date: 07 December 2008
By Eddie Barnes
DING DONG Miserably On High. Welcome to Christmas Aberdeen-style.
Local politicians in the Granite City have slashed £100,000 from their annual Christmas budget this year, claiming they need to save money rather than lay on extravagant celebrations to mark the festive period. A new nativity scene has been axed, free panto tickets for the poor have been stopped and the council children's party has been suspended amid claims that in previous years the public didn't get involved. But critics last night accused the councillors responsible for the decision of having "cancelled Christmas". They also contrasted the decision to cut £100,000 from Christmas spending with council plans to lavish £80m on a new headquarters.

Headline: Crimials watching CSI for tips
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 7.12.8
Caption: CSI Crime 101

AUSTRALIA's top forensic investigator believes criminals are watching CSI-style television shows to learn how to outsmart detectives.
Dr James Robertson, head of Forensic and Technical Services with the Australian Federal Police, said the programs were helping criminals become more "forensically aware" of crime and better informed about covering their tracks.

He made the concession last week as he prepared to give a keynote address on DNA testing in homicide investigations.

Dr Robertson also said DNA analysts around the country "need to do their job better" and avoid collecting DNA samples in an "unintelligent" way.

The emergence of popular crime dramas, like CSI: Miami and City Homicide, which feature the latest techniques and analysis, have "let the rabbit out of the hat" for criminals, he said, giving savvier crooks a tactical advantage over police investigators.