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Jul 24 2009
Two men appeared in court today charged with attempted murder after a man was stabbed, beaten with bricks and had sulphuric acid forced down his throat during an apparent “honour” attack. The 24-year-old victim, believed to be a Danish man...
Jul 23 2009
A young woman living in Valencia has put her virginity up for auction to pay for care for her mother who is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Evelyn Duenas, 28, originally from Ecuador, is selling her virginity to the top bidder on a Latin American...
Jul 15 2009
Several rioters and at least nine officers were injured, none seriously, when Irish nationalists in Ardoyne, a militant Catholic enclave of north Belfast, tried to block a parade Monday by the Orange Order, Northern Ireland’s major Protestant...
Jul 6 2009
The Defence Department has confirmed it is investigating claims Australian sailors engaged in a sex-for-money competition. Channel Seven News aired claims sailors from HMAS Success ran a contest to see who could sleep with the most female crew...
Jul 2 2009
Analysis of figures from the European Commission showed a 77 per cent increase in murders, robberies, assaults and sexual offences in the UK since Labour came to power. The total number of violent offences recorded compared to population is higher than...
Jun 22 2009
Unrepentant after assaults by its own security henchmen claimed the lives of at least 10 more demonstrators on Saturday, the authorities in Iran yesterday blamed “terrorists” and rioters for the fresh unrest, giving every indication that the...
Jun 17 2009
More than 100 Romanians fleeing racist attacks in Belfast have been moved to a council-run leisure centre after taking refuge overnight in a church. The 115 Romanians were transferred to the O-Zone complex this morning. The sports centre in the...
Jun 12 2009
Growing numbers of children in Zimbabwe are turning to prostitution to survive, the charity Save the Children says. The aid agency says increasing poverty is leading girls as young as 12 to sell their bodies for as little as a packet of biscuits. It...
May 29 2009
There is an electronic musician in Pristina called Toton. He has written a track called Coca Cola, which petitions the owner of the world’s most popular beverage to buy Kosovo, paint it red, plaster the Coke logo on to everything, do whatever the...
May 25 2009
Silvio Berlusconi’s relationship with an 18-year-old Neapolitan woman dominated Italy’s campaign for the European parliament yesterday as critics demanded the conservative Prime Minister, 72, explain how he came to know Noemi Letizia. The...