Wellington, February 03: A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky for her to follow through on the deal, police warned Wednesday.
Beijing, January 30: A nine-year old girl has given birth to a healthy child in northeast China, making it possibly the first case of childbirth at such a young age.
The mother and the 2.75kg baby are doing well after the caesarean operation at a hospital in Changchun in Jilin province.
The Changchun-based City Evening News reported the girl’s parents have sought legal help. Under Chinese law, anyone having sex with a girl under the age of 14 is convicted of rape.
Wellington, January 30: A 19-year-old New Zealand student is offering her virginity for sale to the highest bidder on an auction website to raise money for her university fees, a newspaper reported Saturday.
“Unigirl,” as she calls herself, says she is attractive, has never had a sexual relationship and is still a virgin.
“I am offering my virginity by tender to the highest bidder as long as all personal safety aspects are observed,” she says on the I Need website ineed.co.nz, which is based in the North Island city of Hamilton.
Bangalore and Belgam ,January 27:Winning elections and losing intrest in the issue is BJP habit they have taken the idgah issue to the boiling point before elections and one in power in karnataka BJP has totally forgotten the idgah issue.
THE BJP has lost an important item on its agenda in Karnataka after the administration hoisted the Tricolour on the Hubli Idgah grounds, following a Supreme Court order restoring the ownership of the land to the local municipality.
Bangalore and Belgam ,January 27:Winning elections and losing intrest in the issue is BJP habit they have taken the idgah issue to the boiling point before elections and one in power in karnataka BJP has totally forgotten the idgah issue.
THE BJP has lost an important item on its agenda in Karnataka after the administration hoisted the Tricolour on the Hubli Idgah grounds, following a Supreme Court order restoring the ownership of the land to the local municipality.
Kolkata, January 27: Furious relatives of a patient admitted in a state-run hospital held an impromptu agitation after it wrote out a wrong death certificate when she was actually battling for her life.
Mariam Bibi was admitted to SSKM hospital with ulcer Monday. “At around 7.30 p.m. we received a call from hospital officials informing us that Mariam’s condition was serious. When we reached the hospital we saw a death certificate has already been issued although Mariam was alive and doing fine,” said a relative of Mariam Bibi.
Wellington, January 25: A New Zealand man admitted in court Monday to tossing five kittens to his pit bull dog to kill.
Te Ahu Mankelow, 30, pleaded guilty in the Gisborne District Court to five charges of wilfully ill treating an animal in September.
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which brought the charges, told the court that Mankelow took the 6-to-10-week-old kittens from a cardboard box on the back of a truck at a party.
Clevelanda, January 24: A Woman weighing 136kg has pleaded guilty to killing her much smaller boyfriend – by sitting on him.
Police in Cleveland said Mia Landingham and Mikal Middleston-Bey, who have three children together, got into an argument in August.
During the altercation Landingham sat on Middleston-Bey, who weighed 54.4kg.
Landingham was sentenced to three years probation and 100 hours community service on Wednesday after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter, Fox8 reported.
She was immediately released from jail.
New York, January 23: State police in New York said an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself.
State police found the body of 59-year-old Dean Pierson in his Copake barn Thursday.
A visitor found a note Pierson had left on the barn door that said not to come in and to call police.
The Register-Star reported state police would only say that Pierson was having personal issues.
The upstate hamlet of Copake is about 115 miles (185 kilometers) north of New York City.
Washington, January 22: That children need both a mother and a father is a belief universally ingrained in human beings. However, a study challenges the idea that “fatherless” children are necessarily at a disadvantage or that men provide a different, indispensable set of parenting skills than women.
“Significant policy decisions have been swayed by the misconception across party lines that children need both a mother and a father,” said sociologist Timothy Biblarz of the University of Southern California (USC).
Abu Dhabi, January 22: His plane, the symbol of his dream to fly around the world without using any fuel, ensures he stays slim and fit.
Bertrand Piccard, a 51-year-old Swiss, is a psychiatric doctor and aeronaut by training, but an adventurer by passion.
Over a decade ago, Piccard alone ventured on the first non-stop circumnavigation of the earth in a balloon. However, 19 days, 21 hours and 47 minutes later, the balloon had to be landed before completion of the mission when it ran out of fuel.
Paris, January 22: Obese passengers who are unable to squeeze into a single plane seat are to be charged double to fly with Air France.
Overweight flyers will be asked to pay for two seats, or not be allowed on board for ‘safety reasons’, the airline announced today.
Air France spokeswoman Monique Matze added: ‘People who arrive at the check-in desk and are deemed too large to fit into a single seat will be asked to pay for and use a second seat.
Plymouth, January 20: A CAT which became famous for catching the same bus every day for four years has been run over and killed — while crossing the road to catch its daily lift.
Crafty Casper died in a hit – and- run accident as he tried to board the No. 3 service. He hopped on the bus around 10 am every morning and sat on the back seat throughout its entire 11 mile route.
The freeloading feline would travel around his home city of Plymouth, Devon, for up to an hour before arriving back at the same stop.
Washington, January 20: In a trend that researchers call “the rise of wives,” women are increasingly better-educated than their husbands and have emerged as the dominant income-provider in one of five marriages, according to a new report released today.
New Delhi, January 20: HISTORICALLY, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it’s men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data.
Badayun,January 20 :A trial court judge from Badaun district in Uttar Pradesh has been accused of sending obscene SMSes to a woman in Bareilly.
Judicial magistrate Pramod Gangwar and his friend Vivek Gupta are named in an FIR lodged by one Annaju Singh.
Gupta and Singh teach in a college. Singh reported to a mahila thana that she was receiving salacious SMSes and objectionable calls from a mobile number belonging to judge Gangwar.
New delhi ,January 10 :”The term khurchan is usually associated with milk products. It can mean different things but one common usage is that when you reduce milk, the khurchan is the stuff you scrape off from the bottom. And indeed, the term khurchan comes from khurachna or to scrape and therefore suggests the scrapings from the bottom of the pot.
Paris, January 06: Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments.
Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ‘ psychological violence’ within marriage.
The law would apply to cohabiting couples and to both men and women.
couple arguing
It would cover men who shout at their wives and women who hurl abuse at their husbands – although it was not clear last night if nagging would be viewed as breaking the law.
Jerusalem, January 05: A 50-year-old Israeli man has been granted his 11th divorce and in doing so, he has set a new record of sorts. This is said to be a new Jewish Israeli record. The man said that he likes to get a new wife about every two years.
London, January 03: Sean and Lisa Kelly can barely tear their eyes away from the four babies snuggled up together in the Moses basket beside them.
They describe the girls as their New Year miracles — and it’s easy to see why. For Heidi, Annabelle, Hannah and Jessica have made British medical history.
They are the first set of quads made up of two sets of identical twins born in Britain — the odds of this happening are ten million to one.
London, January 01: The pesky buzz of mosquitoes may just bug you, but the much-maligned insects “sing” in perfect harmony only to identify their sex partner, says a new study.
Researchers, led by University of Greenwich at Medway, have got the new insight into the sex lives of the mosquitoes — those tones are produced and varied based on frequency of their wing beats in flight, the ‘Current Biology’ reported.
“Everyone must be familiar with the maddening whine a mosquito makes as it hones in for a bite.
Swine flu kills many
The Swine flu pandemic that scared the entire world rocked the city causing hysteria among the denizens. Even a bout of cold sent people rushing to the clinics and the mask sellers present at every traffic signal made a roaring business.
CM YS Rajasekhar Reddy dies in a chopper crash
The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh who led his party to a roaring victory in the elections comfortably securing his second term, died in a chopper crash leaving a void in the Congress leadership and the administration in doldrums.
A R Rahman in city with Jai Ho
Lucknow, December 24: Uttar Pradesh is notorious for its affluent politicians and bureaucrats. Now a new report by the state vigilance department says even clerks in the state government have been found owning assets far beyond their known and legitimate sources of income.
According to the report, “as many as 364 clerks have been identified as ‘crorepatis’ (multi-millionaires) at the state headquarters alone”.
A senior vigilance official told IANS Thursday that “the list of these clerks would shortly be submitted to higher-ups for suitable action”.
Melbourne, December 22: A black market in breast milk is booming as parents Down Under are desperate to feed their babies the natural elixir.
They are being charged up to $1000 a litre on the internet. Breast milk provides antibodies that protect babies against diseases and is especially important for premature babies.
One of the mothers contacted the Gold Coast based Mother’s Milk Bank to ask what the real “going rate” was for breast milk after online sellers sought an exorbitant amount when she placed a web advert seeking human milk.
London, December 20: Women’s fascination for new clothes has long been established. Now, a new study has said that nearly 80 per cent of them buy something knowing that they would never wear them.
The survey, which interviewed 1,623 women aged 18-30 in Britain, also found that 91 per cent of women have an item in their cupboard that still has the tags on.
More over, a quarter wear only 10 per cent of the clothes in their wardrobes, according to the findings of the survey commissioned by Mycelebrityfashion.co.uk.