The rise in cosmetic vaginal surgery

HEADLINE: The rise in cosmetic vaginal surgery
SOURCE LINK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/20/cosmetic-vaginal-surgery
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Before she had even turned 10, Anna had started worrying that there was something physically wrong with her. "I would look at other girls in the shower, and think, 'They don't have what I have,'" she says, and wearing a pair of jeans became uncomfortable. The issue was her inner labia. Anna felt that they were too large, and as an adult she grew increasingly self- conscious. "During intercourse they would get caught up and go back into my body," she says. "I had one sexual partner who mentioned it [negatively]. He was an idiot, but I knew that it was not the norm. I just wanted to be able to have intimacy without worrying about it."

Now in her mid-30s, Anna [not her real name], from London, recently had a procedure known as labiaplasty, which involves cutting back the inner labia. It costs around £3,000. She says that she is pleased with the results. "It's a weight off my mind. I'm so glad I had it done."

Anna's operation was performed privately and, although there are no industry-wide figures, there are clear signs that labiaplasties in the private sector are increasing. Last year, a representative for the medical group Surgicare said that the company had seen a threefold increase in the procedure in 2007/2008, and that enquiries had risen sevenfold in three years. Perhaps more surprisingly, rates are also rising in the public sector. A study published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology last week revealed that, over the last year, there has been an increase of almost 70% in the number of women having labiaplasty on the NHS. There were 1,118 in 2008, compared with 669 in 2007 and 404 in 2006

HEADLINE: Crying principal jailed for student sex
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26375767-29277,00.html
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A FORMER high school principal faces just nine months more in jail after being sentenced today for having sex with a 16-year-old student in 2007.
Frank Bailey, 46, the ex-principal of a Christian school at Grafton in northern New South Wales, previously pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual intercourse over four days with a 16-year-old under his care.

During sentencing submissions he told the Downing Centre District Court in Sydney he had believed he was in love with the girl, adding that he had mental issues and was lonely and drinking heavily at the time.

HEADLINE: 81-Year-Old Tries to Burn 35-Year-Old Girlfriend
SOURCE LINK: http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21662727/detail.html
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COWETA COUNTY, Ga. -- An 81-year-old man will undergo a mental evaluation after he allegedly tried to set his 35-year-old girlfriend on fire but instead burned his house down.

The incident happened Wednesday afternoon at the couple’s home on Rockaway Road off Elders Mill Road.

Officials said Irvin Riley “IR” Smallwood, 81, doused his girlfriend Barbara Dawn Coker, 35, with gasoline while she was sleeping following an argument, according to the Newnan Times-Herald.

Coker was able to flee the home before being set on fire. The fire gutted the inside of the home.

HEADLINE: Murderers make killing in human fat
SOURCE LINK: http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26375283-401,00.html
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FOUR people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators for cosmetic use in Europe.

The suspects were arrested in central Peru this month and a search is under way for seven others - including two Italian citizens whose names were not revealed - lead prosecutor Jorge Sans Quiroz said.

The fat was purchased "to be commercialised in European (cosmetology) laboratories," he said.

HEADLINE: Giant ancient crocodiles found in Sahara
SOURCE LINK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6923503.ece
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New species of giant ancient crocodiles, one with boar-like tusks another with a duck-like snout, have been unearthed in the Sahara desert, experts announced today.

Palaeontologists say that the diverse array of fossils offers important clues to why the ancestors of modern crocodiles survived while dinosaurs underwent mass extinction.

The expedition that begun in 2000 found specimens of three new species, nicknamed BoarCroc, RatCroc and PancakeCroc. Many of the fossils were found lying on the surface of a remote, windswept stretch of rock and dunes.

HEADLINE: France Admits Cheating in World Cup Clincher
SOURCE LINK: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,575696,00.html?test=latestnews
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PARIS — A deflected goal in Ireland and a handball in France were enough to help the French reach the World Cup, but Raymond Domenech’s team looks far from convincing and the coach even admitted it was “miraculous” to squeeze through.

France will be in South Africa next year in its fourth consecutive World Cup, but many questions remain whether Domenech’s team has what it takes there after being outplayed by Ireland in Wednesday’s 1-1 draw.

“It was difficult, arduous and sometimes miraculous,” Domenech said. “It was a victory by the skin of our teeth.”