AN UPDATE ON A PREVIOUS STORY: MOTHER CUTS OF BOY'S GENITALS

HEADLINE: Mom Gets 99 Years for Cutting Off Son's Genitals
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 18.8.9
CAPTION: AN UPDATE ON A PREVIOUS STORY POSTED

HOUSTON — A Houston-area mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals two years ago was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison.
But minutes after the jury's sentence was read, Katherine Nadal, 28, yelled out that she did not hurt her son, prompting the boy's father to storm out of the courtroom.
Jurors deliberated for two hours Monday night before returning the sentence, which also included a $10,000 fine. The same jury had convicted her last week of first-degree felony injury to a child. ...

HEADLINE: Duodecmom? Woman Allegedly Expecting 12 Babies
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 17.8.9
CAPTION: WHY NOT HAVE 13, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE A BAKER'S DOZEN

A woman is pregnant with a record-breaking 12 babies, the Sun reported Monday.
The teacher, who has not yet been named, is expecting six boys and six girls, according to reports. She conceived the babies following fertility treatments, after suffering a number of miscarriages.
Fertility experts confirmed the extraordinary pregnancy in Gafsa, Tunisia, was possible, but carried "colossal" risks.
"The woman could have been receiving ovulation induction treatment, which stimulates egg production. You don't have the same control as with IVF," said Dr. Mark Hamilton, of the British Fertility Society.

HEADLINE: Man arrested for drive-by faeces attack
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 17.8.9
CAPTION: WHEN IT HITS THE FAN, IT HITS THE FAN

A 39-year-old construction worker has been arrested for throwing his own faeces at women passers-by from a motorcycle in two separate attacks in western Japan, police said today.
The man turned himself in yesterday after making the second drive-by attack in Settsu, a satellite city near Osaka, and was detained on suspicion of assault, a municipal police spokesman said.
The worker, identified as Tatsuya Moriguchi, committed a similar assault in the same city on August 3, the police official said.
"The suspect has told investigators he did it because he felt frustrated when his work didn't go well,'' the official said

HEADLINE: Swimmers are told to wear burkinis
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: telegraph.co.uk 17.8.9
CAPTION: COVER UP OR NO DIVE

Under the rules, swimmers – including non-Muslims – are barred from entering the pool in normal swimming attire. Instead they are told that they must comply with the "modest" code of dress required by Islamic custom, with women covered from the neck to the ankles and men, who swim separately, covered from the navel to the knees. The phenomenon runs counter to developments in France, where last week a woman was evicted from a public pool for wearing a burkini – the headscarf, tunic and trouser outfit which allows Muslim women to preserve their modesty in the water.

HEADLINE: Thief leaves name, address behind
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 17.8.9
CAPTION: ANOTHER STUPID THIEF

A MAN vying for the title of New Zealand's most incompetent criminal left his name and contact details with a shop before robbing it and fleeing.
The man - a regular customer of the music shop in the southern city of Christchurch - grabbed handfuls of banknotes from the till with four surveillance cameras trained on him, the shop's manager told The Press newspaper.
Manager Garry Knight said although the shop assistant was distracted with helping another customer, two other people in the store witnessed the theft on Friday.
"It's comical.''
Just minutes before the robbery, the man had approached the assistant, saying he wanted a copy of Pink Floyd's album The Wall held for him.
He wrote his name and contact details down for the assistant.

HEADLINE: Man Jailed After Burglars Find Child Porn on Laptop
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 16.8.9
CAPTION: THEY MIGHT BE CROOKS BUT THEY DON'T PUT UP WITH THIS CRAP

A British man has been sentenced to three-and-a-half-years in prison after burglars found images of child pornography on his stolen laptop and turned it over to the police.
Richard Coverdale was convicted of downloading pictures of child abuse as well as exposing himself to an unsuspecting teenage girl over the internet while posing as a 14-year-old boy, according to Gazettelive.com.
Police started investigating the 24-year-old convicted arsonist after burglars discovered the images on a laptop they stole from Coverdale's house in August 2008 and contacted police, the Web site reported.
According to prosecutors, the officers found 13 illegal photos and 65 illegal videos on the computer and uncovered online conversations between Coverdale and a 14-year-old girl, during which Coverdale pretended to be a fictitious 14-year-old boy named Danny, Gazettelive.com reported.

HEADLINE: Girl Fined For Selling Lemonade Without a Permit
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 16.8.9
CAPTION: SOON, ONE WON'T BE ABLE TO SHIT WITHOUT A PERMIT

Three sourpuss Parks Department agents put the squeeze on a 10-year-old girl in Riverside Park yesterday, slapping the tyke with a $50 ticket for hawking lemonade without a permit.
Clementine Lee, who lives just blocks from the Upper West Side park, had dreamed of opening a lemonade stand since last year and took advantage of yesterday's beautiful weather to set up shop.
"It was such a hot day I figured people would want a cold drink," the aspiring juvenile juice mogul told The Post.
Business was booming for Clementine and her photographer dad, Richard, 49, for the first 20 minutes at the stand on West 73rd Street and Riverside Drive.
The father-daughter team was able to sell 10 glasses of the ice-cold drink for 50 cents each and the dozen chocolate chip cookies they baked.
But their day turned into the pits at 3 p.m. when the heartless pack of city sticklers iced their operation.
"They approached us nonchalantly but then surrounded us," the peeved papa recalled. "They were very hostile as soon as they approached, saying 'Where's your permit? Where's your permit?' "
When Richard admitted he didn't have the right to sell on Parks property, the agents immediately slapped the dad and daughter with a summons for selling food without a license, which carries a maximum fine of $200.

HEADLINE: Caffeine the Australian drug of choice
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 16.8.9
CAPTION: It's the world's drug of choice, not just Australia

AUSTRALIANS are more addicted to caffeine than to any other substance, with research showing many people enjoy the equivalent of four cups of coffee a day.
Experts say the ritual morning coffee is the nation's top addiction, beating vices like problem gambling, alcohol and illicit drugs - "ice", cannabis, ecstasy, cocaine and heroin.

A University of NSW National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre (NDARC) spokesman said the average daily caffeine intake was 240mg - equal to four cups of coffee a day.

HEADLINE: Cop chops off love rival's genitals
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 25.5.9
CAPTION: Tough Law Enforcement

A FRENCH policeman has been charged with "a barbarous act of torture and mutilation" after he lopped off his wife's lover's genitals with a box cutter, Strasbourg prosecutors said today.
The 43-year-old father-of-five faces a maximum of 30 years in jail and is on suicide watch after handing himself in to his colleagues following Saturday's attack, according to officials involved in the inquiry.

HEADLINE: Serial peeping perverts terrorise city
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 24.5.9
CAPTION: Peekaboo I see you

ZANNY Howe and Katrina Maclean live with the fear that someone is watching them - all of the time.

They are two victims of scores of peeping Tom perverts terrorising young women in Sydney.

Police say men have been preying on young women in their homes, spying on them through ground floor windows and lurking outside apartments in a two-year campaign of fear.

Sydney police say a growing number of peeping and prying offences have been reported in the city's upmarket east in the past two years and fear the number of actual cases has been under-reported.

HEADLINE: 'CSI' Writer Accused of TV Revenge Plot
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 24.5.9
CAPTION:Fiction Meets Reality

LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles couple filed a lawsuit Friday against a writer for the CBS show "CSI," alleging she named two shady characters in an episode after them to get revenge for a real estate deal gone bad.

Real estate agents Melinda and Scott Tamkin are suing writer and producer Sarah Goldfinger for defamation and invasion-of-privacy. They allege the show hurt their real estate business and are seeking $6 million in damages.

The lawsuit references an episode that featured a real estate agent named Melinda, who dies under mysterious circumstances, and her husband Scott, a mortgage broker who watches pornography, drinks and is suspected of killing his wife...

HEADLINE: Growth of unwanted underwear
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: telegraph.co.uk 24.5.9
CAPTION:

Bras, briefs and boxer shorts were donated to this year's Chelsea Flower Show to be used in display of how to grow your own fruit and vegetables in unwanted underwear.

HEADLINE: Town says dying people not welcome
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 24.5.9
CAPTION: No Death At Our Doorstep

IT JUST might be the most uncaring neighbourhood in Australia.
Some residents of Doonan, near Noosa on Queensland's Sunshine Coast, are protesting against a small hospice for the terminally ill being set up in the semi-rural area, The Sunday Mail reports.
They say they don't want death on their doorstep, and have asked its council to block a plan to turn a four-bedroom cottage into a free hospice.
"I don't want to be sitting there saying, 'There goes another coffin, and another, and another'," said Ron Klieger, whose living room faces the driveway of the hospice.
Deborah McGovan, a palliative care nurse who lives in the street where the hospice is planned - Redwood Rd - said she supports the concept but doesn't want a hospice in her neighbourhood.

HEADLINE: Passer-By Pushes Suicide Jumper Off Bridge
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 23.5.9
CAPTION: Ironic near death event

BEIJING — Chen Fuchao, a man heavily in debt, had been contemplating suicide on a bridge in southern China for hours when a passer-by came up, shook his hand — and pushed him off the ledge.

Chen fell 26 feet onto a partially inflated emergency air cushion laid out by authorities and survived, suffering spine and elbow injuries, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

The passer-by, 66-year-old Lai Jiansheng, had been fed up with what he called Chen's "selfish activity," Xinhua said. Traffic around the Haizhu bridge in the city of Guangzhou had been backed up for five hours and police had cordoned off the area.

HEADLINE: Car swerved as drunk driver had sex
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 22.5.9
CAPTION: DRUNK, SEX AND DRIVING

A MAN was caught having sex while driving because he and his girlfriend could not wait until they reached their destination, a court has heard.

Bradley Dean Milne, 33, was charged with not wearing his seatbelt, driving without due care and drink-driving when a witness called police after seeing his car swerving all over the road, The Northern Territory News reports.

Darwin Magistrates Court heard that the couple were planning to drive to East Arm Wharf in the Mazda ute to have sex.

Police prosecutor Leigh Cahill said Milne "became aroused" and the woman gave him oral sex while he was driving.

Milne was swerving from one side of the road to the other until the car stopped at traffic lights.
When they turned right onto Berrimah Rd, the woman straddled Milne while he kept driving, swerving into the kerbside and back into the middle lane.

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ORIGIN & DATE: telegraph 21.5.9

DVDs that store 10,000 films 'on sale in five years'
ORIGIN & DATE: telegraph 21.5.9

Student Who Sold Virginity May Pay Half in Taxes
ORIGIN & DATE: FOXNews.com 21.5.9

HEADLINE: Girl's Organs 'Disheveled,' Heart Beats in Back
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 22.5.9

HEADLINE: Toddler buys earthmover in auction

HEADLINE: Practice Makes Imperfect: Lockdown Drill Leads To The Real Thing
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: citynews.ca 21.5.9

HEADLINE: Man Uses Google Earth to Pick Suicide Location
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 21.5.9

HEADLINE: Couple flees after $7.8m bank blunder
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: News.com.au 20.5.9

HEADLINE: Pa. Teen Accused of Using Snake as Jump Rope
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 20.5.9

No Nipple Ring For Junior

HEADLINE: Nipples out in new piercing rules
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 29.12.8
Caption: No Nipple Ring For Junior

MINORS will be banned from having their nipples and genitals pierced and children under 16 will need parental consent for any other body piercings under new Victorian laws.
From January 1, piercers who give a person aged under 18 an intimate body piercing will risk a $6600 fine.
The same penalty will apply to those who give minors a tattoo or perform scarification, tongue splitting, branding or beading on someone aged under 18.
And piercers who give children under 16 a non-intimate body piercing without parental consent will be slapped with a $2200 fine.
Attorney-General Rob Hulls said the new laws would help protect young people as body art increased in popularity.
"The possible health implications associated with body piercing can include the transmission of blood-borne viruses, infection, scarring and nerve damage," he said.

Headline: Study: Cocaine Alters Judgment in Humans, Bees
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 29.12.8
Caption: NO KIDDING

An Australian scientist is doping up honey bees with cocaine to study how their brains react to the drug, and possibly find a way to stop addiction in humans.
The research found similarities between honey bees and humans, in that they are both are driven by rewards and both have their judgment altered by cocaine.
"This is the first time that it's been shown that cocaine has been rewarding to an insect," Andrew Barron, co-author of the report published this month in the Journal of Experimental Biology, told Reuters.

Headline: Hubby: Men Who Slept With My Wife, Get HIV Test
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 29.12.8
Caption: Busy Wife

A Canadian man is urging others who may have slept with his Thai stripper ex-wife to get tested for the HIV virus after she passed it on to him, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.

"I know there were other men she slept with," Percy Whiteman told the Sun on Sunday. "I am lucky that I was able to find out early."

Whiteman has presented no public evidence to back up his allegations that his former wife, Suwalee Imkhong, 39, had sex with other men.

Headline: NYC Man Sells Bubbly Calendars For Popping Fans
From: CBSnews.com
Date of clip: 29.12.8
Caption: A Popping Good Time

A New York City man has designed a calendar that will drive Bubble Wrap fanatics popping-mad.

The Daily News of New York reports in Thursday editions that Stephen Turbek is selling a poster-size calendar covered with the plastic bubbles. Customers can pop a bubble each day to mark the passage of time.

The Brooklyn man says he has sold thousands of Bubble Calendars. A handmade calendar with paper backing is available online for $30 and a plastic version costs $50.

Headline: Man Arrested After Days Spent Hiding in Family's Attic
From: FOXnews.com
Date of clip: 29.12.8
Caption: House Guest of the Unknown Kind

A family did not realize they had an unexpected Christmas guest until a man who had been in their attic for days emerged wearing their clothes, police said.

Stanley Carter surrendered Friday after police took a dog to search the home in Plains Township, a suburb of Wilkes-Barre about 100 miles north of Philadelphia. He was charged with several counts of burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal trespass.

"When he came down from the attic, he was wearing my daughter's pants and my sweat shirt and sneakers," homeowner Stacy Ferrance said. "From what I gather, he was helping himself to my home, eating my food and stealing my clothes."

Police said the 21-year-old Carter had been staying with his friends, who are Ferrance's neighbors in a duplex. But when they told him to leave, he apparently accessed the shared attic through a trap door in a bedroom ceiling.

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.

Burning Balls - Funny but Tragic

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: news.com.au
Date of clip: 27.12.8
Caption: Virgin Toast

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.

Headline: Kitchen dentist used wine to numb pain
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: OUCH!!

MAN operated an illegal dental surgery in the kitchen of his New York home and gave patients wine to help them cope with the pain.
Police arrested Carlos Flores after raiding his home at Peekskill, in northern New York.
Investigators say he had all the tools and treated patients in the kitchen of his home.
They said he had a chair next to a radiator and antiquated instruments caked in blood.
Police say there were two birds loose in the house, and on the kitchen table was a jug of wine Flores allegedly gave patients to help deal with the pain.
They said a man who went there for a toothache ended up in hospital after Flores broke the tooth while trying to pull it out.

Headline: Woman Awarded $198,000 for 'Horse Teeth'
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Mr. Ed

A Bridgeport jury has awarded more than $198,000 to a woman who claims her dentist promised her a celebrity smile, but gave her what her attorney called "horse teeth."
Attorney Richard Meehan Jr. says his client, Marvalyn Foster sued Stamford dentist Darren Martinez because he promised her a "big, beautiful Hollywood celebrity smile." Foster wanted Martinez to give her a permanent bridge to replace a false tooth.
Meehan says that Foster woke up from the procedure to discover that Martinez extracted three teeth and made a large bridge that resembled horse teeth.

Headline: Give 'em Viagra
From: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Up, Up, and Away

In an effort to win over fickle warlords and chieftains in Afghanistan and get information from them, CIA officials are handing out Viagra pills in exchange for their cooperation, the Washington Post reports.
"Whatever it takes to make friends and influence people - whether it's building a school or handing out Viagra," an agency operative, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told the Post.

Headline: Christmas charity workers attacked
From: news.com.au
Date of clip: 26.12.8
Caption: Merry Christmas??

A CHARITY worker and his wife were attacked by a gang of youths as they investigated a disturbance outside their Melbourne home on Christmas Eve.
The couple, who gave their names only as Paul and Ilse, said they heard a loud bang outside their home in Noble Park, in the city's southeast, around 11.30pm on Wednesday.
Paul said he went outside to see four men who had kicked over a bin and after confronting them he was attacked in front of his wife.
The attackers kicked and punched the 56-year-old man about the face and head before one of the attackers turned on his wife, 68.
The gang laughed and mocked the couple throughout the attack...