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Two HIV-positive British bar workers stand accused of raping a 17-year-old boy after plying him with alcohol. The gay couple, named so far only as Andreu Paul W, 38, and Warren H, 34, are said to have made their victim drink 'large quantities of vodka' after taking him back to their flat in Calpe, eastern Spain. They are then accused of making him sniff an unknown substance and, when he had passed out, stripping him naked from the waist down and taking it in turns to rape him, El Mundo newspaper reports. Read more

A shocking documentary set to hit screens next week will see up to 10 women allege they were sexually abused by TV star Sir Jimmy Savile. The accusations, which range from rape to indecency, are claimed to have occurred during the height of his fame on girls as young as 13. Two of the women featured in the ITV show even allege he gave them money, cigarettes, records and spots in the audience of his shows in return for 'sexual favours'. Read more

A school that caused uproar by banning skirts as part of their uniform has sparked further controversy after girls were sent home because their trousers were considered too tight. Moulton School and Science College, in Northampton, introduced strict new uniform rules at the start of September to 'avoid the sexualisation' of pupils. Skirts were banned after schoolgirls repeatedly wore them above the knee. But now headmaster Trevor Jones has caused further upset with his crackdown on skinny-fit trousers, or those with visible studs, labels, zips, non-black stitching or metal buttons The head has ordered staff to send pupils home or teach them in isolation if they turn up in the legwear, which he claims would be 'more at home in a nightclub'. The school's website also states that anyone not wearing the correct uniform will be offered second-hand clothing if available. Angry parents have described the policy as 'over-the-top' and have even likened conditions a...

The first time you see Dirk Dzimirsky's hyperrealistic drawings, you're convinced they're black and white photographs. But on closer inspection, you realise they are just the work of a very talented artist and his pens and pencils. Using photos just for inspiration, he sets up basic proportions and then draws layer upon layer until he creates his incredibly realistic portraits. Read more

As a billionaire playboy who claims to have bedded 10,000 women, Cecil Chao has no doubts about his own sexuality. Now he is trying to dictate the sexuality of his children too. The 76-year-old property and shipping tycoon is offering a £40million ‘marriage bounty’ to any man who can win the heart of his lesbian daughter – and turn her straight. He announced the reward after his daughter, Gigi, married her same-sex partner in France. Refusing to accept the gay union, he pledged the fortune to any potential male suitor able to walk the 33-year-old University of Manchester graduate down the aisle at a traditional wedding. The famously promiscuous Hong Kong businessman dismissed ‘false reports’ of his daughter’s lesbian nuptials and insisted she was still single. ‘I don’t mind whether he is rich or poor – the important thing is that he is generous and kind hearted,’ he said of the ideal husband for his daughter. ‘Gigi is a very good woman with both talents and looks. She is devoted to he...

As one of London’s leading advertising agencies, MEC might have thought that all publicity was good publicity. But it will be feeling rather differently after a damning resignation email sent by one of its employees caused an internet sensation. In the email, sent to the whole company, senior account manager Kieran Allen makes a series of salacious allegations against his boss. He alleges that his 36-year-old boss ‘took a female colleague out for a drink on the day he interviewed her, then later took her back to the MEC offices that night and had sexual relations with her in the meeting rooms on the 3rd floor’. To the astonishment of MEC’s 5,000 employees, Mr Allen, who has worked for the company for more than two years, said he wanted to ‘expose the failings’ of supervisor Greg Shickle. He claimed the allegations were ‘common knowledge’ among the 30-strong team Mr Shickle leads in his role as Head of Performance. Soon after Mr Allen sent the email on Tuesday morning, it had gone ‘vira...

German schoolchildren preparing for the invasion of the UK during the Second World War were given a textbook portraying Hitler as a man of peace and the British as evil warmongers. The bizarre 1942 publication - which was written in English - attempts to give children an idea of what to expect when visiting the British Isles in the event of a successful Nazi take-over. In it, a variety of bold claims are made, accusing Jews of running the British press and statements about English people secretly supporting Fascism, but it does reflect Hitler's admiration for the work of William Shakespeare. Read more

A father helped deliver his daughter after his wife went into labour in the bath, and he used tips he’d learnt from watching TV series ‘One Born Every Minute’. Lacey Nelson was 10 days beyond her due date when mother Natalie Brett was in the bath at her home in Blaby, Leicestershire, when she went into labour. Realising there was going to be no time to get to hospital father Marcus turned midwife to deliver his daughter as the drama began to unfold in the early hours of Saturday. Read more

Germany's Catholic Church will deny worshippers the right to Holy Communion and religious burials if people do not pay a special church tax. A newly-enforced German bishops' decree says anyone failing to pay the tax - an extra 8% of their income tax bill - will no longer be considered a Catholic. All people in Germany must pay this tax if they want to worship in either Catholic or protestant churches, or Jewish synagogues. Read more

A Polish man who was caught with stockings over his head performing a sex act on himself outside a police station has lost his sight. Rafal Ciesielski, 35, was arrested in broad daylight after he was seen in the car park where he got ‘excited’ outside Spalding police station in Lincolnshire on August 12. He claimed that someone may have spiked his drink and he was ‘ashamed and embarrassed’ by his actions .Read more

When Andrew Debidin moved to a new home with his pack of nearly 50 German Shepherds, his neighbours were understandably concerned. And they claim that their worst fears were confirmed over the next few months when the din from nearby kennels left them depressed and exhausted, forcing the council to seek an Anti-Social Behaviour Order to reduce numbers and control the noise. But yesterday a sheriff dismissed the Asbo bid and allowed Mr Debidin, who she described as the 'pack leader', to keep all his animals. Referring to Mr Debidin’s human rights, Sheriff Susan Raeburn ruled there was no justification to interfere in his 'family life' with his dogs. She said that while his circumstances were 'unusual' - Mr Dedibin sleeps with all but two of his pets in a caravan in a remote rural compound - his lifestyle does not amount to anti-social behaviour. The reclusive 58-year-old already has a history of owning noisy dogs and was jailed and banned from keeping the animals...

This is the moment an American drummer keeled over from a heart attack and died mid-concert. Brad Parker, 59, was performing with his band Generation Esmeralda in the Brazilian city of Uba on Saturday evening when he slumped over his drum-kit during the show. Footage aired on Brazilian television shows friends and medics rushing towards him to check if he is all right. But despite later being rushed to hospital in the Minas Gerais state city and receiving medical attention, he could not be saved. Sergio Lopes, a producer for the group in Brazil, said: 'Doctors performed all the emergency procedures but unfortunately there was no solution.' His body will be flown back to his home in California later this week, Globonews reported. Generation Esmeralda is a disco group formed by ex-members of Santa Esmeralda, a Franco-U.S. 1970s outfit. The original band had hits with You're My Everything, Sevilla Nights and Another Cha Cha.

The show is months from curtain up but there is already heightened drama surrounding one Broadway musical - although it has mostly taken place off stage. Rebecca, the musical adaptation of the novel by Daphne Du Maurier, is now in jeopardy after a major but secretive investor pulled out in dubious circumstances. Paul Abrams had promised a staggering $4.5million to lead producer Ben Sprecher to stage the musical at the Broadhurst Theater on Broadway. Read more

A new television series has shed light on the bizarre Japanese trend for 'bagel heads'. The extraordinary look, which is created by injecting saline into the forehead, then pressing in the centre of the swollen area with a thumb, is a hit on the country's underground body modification scene. The dramatic results of the two-hour treatment last just 16-24 hours, after which the saline is absorbed by the body and the forehead reduces back to its normal size. Read more

She threw her message in a bottle into the sea off the edge of Bournemouth Pier in the vain hope it might drift slowly to her aunt in Guernsey. And when four-year-old Jasmine Hudson heard nothing from across the Channel she imagined it had been swallowed by a shark. But incredibly, five months later, her precious note hit land in Largs Bay Beach near Adelaide, southern Australia - 10,000 miles away from where it plopped in the water in Bournemouth, Dorset, where she was on holiday with her family. Read more

A millionaire cocaine addict who retired abroad at the age of just 36 after making his fortune has been jailed after police found a haul of drugs hidden in his luxury car. Property developer James Brown's habit was so bad his nose collapsed after nine years of daily cocaine use. The 45-year-old has now been jailed for five years after a haul of cocaine was found hidden in the air vents and folding roof of his luxury Bentley. Brown was arrested by police in his Bentley Continental convertible as he stayed in a luxury hotel once owned by Men Behaving Badly star Neil Morrissey. He was found with more cocaine and a collection of illegal guns in the hotel. Prosecutor Craig Jones said: 'Brown, through property dealing, became very wealthy and at 36 retired to Portugal where he was introduced to cocaine.' Read more

A 13-year-old girl who told police how she had been groomed and raped by an Asian sex gang wrote a harrowing letter to herself at the age of 14. In the letter addressed to her alter-ego Michelle, she wrote, 'I feel like the asians really hate me even when they say they love me'. The girl, who told police about the rape that took her virginity and the time five men queued outside a bedroom to demand sex from her, added, 'They took all my dreams and my life away from me.' Read more

He said: 'I have made it clear that the United States government had nothing to do with this video, and I believe its message must be rejected by all who respect our common humanity. It is an insult not only to Muslims, but to America as well – for as the city outside these walls makes clear, we are a country that has welcomed people of every race and religion. Read more

Pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing topless have now been seen by seven million Britons, research has found. While only one per cent have seen the shots, taken with a super-long lens, in foreign magazines or a newspaper, one in five adults with internet access have seen them online. And two thirds think the photographer who took the pictures should be prosecuted. The French magazine Closer is being sued by the Royals after it was the first to publish the snaps of Kate sunbathing at the chateau in southern France. Police probing the photographer who took the pictures have been questioning staff at the chateau where the couple were staying. Nearly three quarters of the 1,600 people polled by YouGov said Kate and husband William, both 30, were right to pursue legal action. Read more

A mother has spoken of her horror after a group of naturists turned up at her son's seventh birthday party at a public swimming pool. A group of around 20 nude men began a swimming session at Radcliffe Pool and Fitness Centre in Greater Manchester in plain view of children who were eating in the canteen. Staff had taped bin bags and paper to the windows in attempt to keep the naturist party from view. But the boy's shocked mother said she and other parents had to stand in front of cracks and at the balcony to make sure children didn't see them. Read more

A nurse sacked for having sex with a patient killed herself just four days into a misconduct hearing, an inquest has heard. Tragic Elizabeth Watts, 38, was found hanged after lurid details about her sexual encounters with a male patient in his 40s were made public. She was fired from her job after the patient informed hospital officials about their affair, which started after he was admitted to A&E. Read more

The 'Manhattan Madam' has today pleaded guilty to running a high-end prostitution service from her New York City apartment. Anna Gristina, 44, pleaded guilty in Manhattan Criminal Court to a single count of promoting prostitution. The sole charge against her stemmed from a tryst she allegedly arranged between two prostitutes and an undercover police officer, who was posing as a client, in July 2011. She took the deal in exchange for a promised sentence of time already served, DNAinfo reported, meaning she won't be going back to jail as she was in Rikers Island for four months earlier this year. Gristina will be ordered to serve five months probation when she is sentenced on November 20. The judge warned the Scottish-born mother of four that she could also be deported. The punishment is much more lenient than the potential outcome of a trial; she could have faced seven years behind bars if she had been found guilty at a trial scheduled for next month. Read more

This is the shocking moment a man was caught on CCTV leading two young girls into a hotel for sex. The appalling video was shown during the trial of eight men who were yesterday jailed in Derby for a total of 42 years for preying on girls aged 13 to 15, picked up from care homes and the streets. The vile men, aged between 35 and 60, slept with the girls in exchange for as little as £5, cigarettes, drugs, mobile phones and treats - including a child’s toy and rides on a farmer’s tractor. Read More

BBC bosses yesterday made an extraordinary public apology to the Queen after revealing her distress at the authorities’ lack of action against Abu Hamza for ‘denigrating’ her country. The Corporation said it had been guilty of a ‘breach of confidence’ by reporting the remarkable details of a conversation she had with its security correspondent Frank Gardner at a military dinner. Gardner, who has an OBE, disclosed live on air that the Queen had told him of her frustration that the hate preacher had been left free to ‘use this country as a platform for his very violent, hateful views’. He claimed she had even intervened to raise the issue with a government minister. Read more

His arm wrapped possessively around her shoulder, this is teacher Jeremy Forrest with runaway 15-year-old Megan Stammers. The married maths teacher and his teenage pupil were caught on CCTV on a cross-Channel ferry last week. Pictures of Forrest, 30, and Megan were released as French police admitted they could now be ‘anywhere in Europe’. Read more

It is an email that will probably make most senior managers squirm in their seats. An employee at a media agency in London has decided to send a leaving speech detailing his grievances with a company manager to all members of staff. And worse still - that email has now gone viral after it was posted online, with its hashtag trending on Twitter. The phrase - coined by Twitter users - refers to the worker's boss at the UK media agency MEC Global, whose name we have withheld for legal reasons. Employee Kieran Allen, a senior account manager at the company, has lambasted his manager for ruining the past 8 months of his working life. Mr Allen has decided to quit the company after 2 and a half years of 'loyal service' because he alleges the manager blocked his bonus, gave him a verbal warning for poor performance and put him on a performance review, according to the email that was sent this morning. Read more

Parents at Megan Stammers’ school demanded an inquiry into its child protection procedures last night as more under-age sex scandals emerged at the Church of England comprehensive. Incredibly, another teacher at Bishop Bell C of E School in Eastbourne was jailed three years ago for preying on teenage girls after grooming them on a social networking site. In addition, a former chairman of governors at the same school is due to stand trial on alleged child sex offences next month. Some parents said their children were too scared to attend class after it was revealed how staff failed to remove married maths teacher Jeremy Forrest despite warnings that he was having a relationship with Megan seven months ago. Richard Chapman, who has two children at the school, said: ‘Something needs to be done now, otherwise, where will it stop? And who will be next? The school has let everyone down and it is not like this is the first time it has happened. The school needs to be investigated from the ver...

Madonna asked everyone in the audience of her Washington, DC performance Monday night to vote for President Obama because he is a "black Muslim." "Y’all better vote for f**king Obama, OK? For better or for worse, all right?" the shouted from stage while sipping from a bottle of water with a straw. ""We have a black Muslim in the White House! Now that’s some amazing s**t.” Madonna, 54, also stripped down to her bra to reveal "Obama" stenciled in big letters on her back, before promising (or warning?): “When Obama is in the White House for a second term I'll take it all off.” President Obama is not a Muslim.

"We have received more than 300 insulting emails of which several contain death threats," Closer said, adding that it had notified the police. Fourteen of the most violent messages addressed to Pieau were handed over to the police. One vowed to "never let her stay in peace." After their debut in the French weekly, the photos of the Duchess of Cambridge have appeared in magazines in Denmark and Sweden, Ireland's Daily Star and Italy's Chi, which like Closer is owned by former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's Mondari media group. The pictures were taken when the royals were vacationing in southern France at a chateau owned by Viscount Linley, the son of Princess Margaret, the deceased sister of the Queen. After publication, Pieau defended them saying they were not in the "least shocking". "They show a young woman sunbathing topless, like the millions of women you see on beaches," she told AFP. The royal family's lawyers have obtai...

Hundreds of female activists, some dressed in little more than their underwear, protested outside Downing Street yesterday in protest over attitudes towards rape victims. The march, organised by the London branch of the global 'Slut Walk' campaign group, called on the Prime Minister to ensure the criminal justice system takes rape and sexual assault cases more seriously. The global campaign was seeded by a policeman in 2011 in Toronto, Canada, after a policeman controversially said women should 'avoid dressing like sluts' if they don't want to risk being sexually assaulted. The event in London on Saturday followed a similar semi-clad march of women in Paris this week. Women from Ukraine who have become world famous for protesting topless against sexism, prostitution and the exploitation of women, ran a training camp in the French capital on Tuesday The growing Urkainian movement formed in 2008, known as Femen, and the global Slut Walk campaign which has gained wor...

A father's amazing project to send his son's favourite toy to the edge of space has become a YouTube hit. Santa Cruz video producer Ron Fugelseth decided to document the heartwarming project The video has been a huge success, receiving 200,000 views in 48 hours, and currently stands at over 770,000 views - and it expected to hit a million within hours. Read more

Staff at missing teenager Megan Stammers’s school were warned of her relationship with a married teacher seven months before the pair ran away to France. The 15-year-old was seen holding hands with 30-year-old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest as they sat together on a flight home from a school trip to the U.S. Worried friends of the teenager said yesterday that they reported their concerns to another teacher after returning from the five-day visit to Los Angeles in February. Read more

It was the baggage with bite - a crocodile escaped from its cage on a domestic flight in Australia. The reptile, which was not fully grown, was found roaming free in the cargo hold when the plane touched down in Melbourne, it has been revealed. A shocked baggage handler made the discovery last week. Fortunately, the reptile was recaptured without incident. Read more

Tied to a moped, this 13-year-old girl is forced to trudge after her grandfather as he gathers rubbish to recycle on the streets of China. Jiang Manqi's family cannot afford to seek medical help to treat the teenager's epilepsy, so she is tied to a moped so her relative can look after her. Abandoned by her parents, denied access to schools and too poor to receive care, this is the only option Manqi has. Read more

France is set to ban the words 'mother' and 'father' from all official documents under controversial plans to legalise gay marriage. The move which has outraged Catholics means only the word 'parents' would be used in identical marriage ceremonies for all heterosexual and same-sex couples. The draft law states that 'marriage is a union of two people, of different or the same gender'. Read more

Shamed former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is set to escape gang rape charges after a vice girl told police they were playing 'sex games'. The alleged victim had now changed her story to tell police that the group sex with prostitutes at an orgy in Washington DC was 'consensual', it has been revealed. Strauss-Kahn, 54, had faced 20 years in prison over the claims by the prostitute named Marion that he used force against her and other girls during the sex session in December 2010. Read more

Friends of a 14-year-old boy who died after a long battle with cancer are being sent home from school for refusing to remove wristbands worn in his memory. Jordan Cobby, from Nuneaton, was diagnosed with a tumour behind his eye in 2008 and died aged 14 last March Tribute wristbands in memory of Jordan were sold at his school, the Nuneaton Academy, following his death, with all proceeds donated to the Teenage Cancer Trust charity. Friends of the teenager bought the bands and have worn them ever since, but now the school has banned pupils from wearing them, saying they are not part of the uniform, his mother Joanne Meuse said .Read more

A transplant patient has stunned medics after his heart mended on its own before he was set to receive potentially life-saving surgery. Michael Crowe, 23, was admitted to hospital last month with an inflammation of the heart muscle which left the vital organ barely functioning. Having been diagnosed with acute myocarditis, doctors decided Mr Crowe needed a transplant and he was hooked up to a machine which filtered his blood and kept his heart and lungs working. Read more

Health officials say children should be banned from jumping on trampolines because they are too dangerous. Citing nearly 100,000 injuries in 2009 alone, the American Academy of Pediatrics has also dismissed the recent addition of safety nets around trampolines. The Academy claims the nets do not make much difference in terms of safety, but instead lull parents into a false sense of security. Read more

A woman who was sexually abused as a child by a family friend has spoken out about her ordeal in court as her attacker was jailed. Sally Maby, 37, was just 10-years-old when she was targeted by Mark James, now 54, who befriended her through a church in Bristol in the 1980s and then abused her. Now, nearly thirty years later and as James was jailed for the offences on Friday, Miss Maby has waived her right to anonymity in the hope that it will give others the strength to come forward and report similar offences. Read more

A 24-year-old U.S. woman has been arrested for creating a live child porn show and screening it to a British man over the internet. A joint investigation by the FBI and Interpol led to the arrest of Misty Reneedawn Wofford at her Texas home on Thursday. She is alleged to have forced a three-year-old girl to expose her genitals on the webcam being watched by Paul Hanlon at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland. Read more

Scientists have found a sure-fire way for men to live longer - but most red-blooded males will find the method unpalatably painful. Researchers in Korea have shown that eunuchs - castrated men living centuries ago - outlived other men by a significant margin. They say their findings suggest that male sex hormones are responsible for shortening the lives of men. Read more

Gay people are seven times more likely to take illegal drugs than the general population, a new study conducted over two years has found. And one in five show signs of dependency on drugs or alcohol. The report, conducted by the Lesbian and Gay Foundation (LGF) and the University of Central Lancashire, sampled more than 4,000 people over two years. Read more

A San Francisco hacker says he has cracked the new iPhone 5, less than eight hours after its release to the public. Grant Paul, who develops software for Apple's iOS operating system, posted photos on his Twitter page of a 'jailbroken' iPhone 5. Apple ships its iPhones and other mobile devices with restrictions that only allow Apple-approved software to be installed. Read more

A man who posed as a pilot and joined cabin crew in a plane cockpit has been arrested, Italian police said today. The unemployed 32-year-old man, whose real identity was not released, created a fake profile for himself on Facebook and called himself Andrea Sirlo, even posting pictures of himself wearing a uniform and Aviator sunglasses. To complete the illusion he made up fake identity cards and even sent himself imaginary comments from dozens of fake cabin crew friends who expressed their 'delight' at being rostered with him on flights. Read more

A Nevada man who lost his iPad on an airplane used an app called 'Find My iPad' to locate it inside the home of a flight attendant in Oregon, according to police. Wendy Ronelle Dye, 43, a flight attendant for Horizon Air, was arrested in Oregon City on Friday evening. The iPad's owner said he had downloaded the anti-theft app only days before the September 11 flight to Los Angeles, and forgot about its installation until activating it on Wednesday. While being questioned by police, Dye initially denied having the iPad or knowing one was missing. The flight attendant then confessed that a passenger brought her the tablet, which cost around $500, saying it had been left on a seat. Read more

Far right politician Marine Le Pen has caused outrage across France by calling for the banning of the Jewish skullcap in public. The leader of National Front won a fifth of the popular vote during the first round of May’s presidential election on a largely anti-Muslim immigration agenda. Now in an interview she has called not just for a ban on the wearing of Islamic veils in public, but also the kippah – leading to France’s most senior Rabbi to describe her view as ‘deeply deplorable’. Her inflammatory words come at a time of heightened tensions caused by a Paris satirical magazine’s decision to publish a series of cartoons mocking both Islam and Judaism. Read more

Topless pictures in tabloid newspapers should be banned because they fuel domestic violence, a senior Lib Dem minister claimed today. Lynne Featherstone, the party’s most senior female MP in government, is backing a ban on Page 3 claiming it has it had a ‘deleterious effect’ on women. She conceded that should would be dismissed as ‘sour-faced’ but insisted the newspaper feature could not be justified as ‘harmless’ fun. But she said the sight of topless models in newspapers was part of a culture of the sexualisation of women which influences public attitudes and domestic abuse. Risking a backlash from tabloid readers, the international development minister said: ‘There is a real argument about what is OK in the public space. Read more:

The vast majority of foreign students who come to the UK attend ‘lower level’ universities and colleges, a study has revealed. Just five per cent of the students who enter Britain each year go to a university rated in the top ten. Around one in eight goes to one of the top 24 Russell group universities. Think tank MigrationWatch, which carried out the study, said the figures exploded the myth that the non-EU students coming to the UK were the ‘brightest and the best’. Read more

A nationwide paedophile ring, including a Scout leader, a bank manager and a retired sheep farmer, have been jailed indefinitely for a string of shocking sex crimes against young children. Girls as young as nine were filmed being abused and shared among the twisted the individuals. The gang were also linked to an isolated country farmhouse, owned by ex-farmer Nicholas Cordery, where group sex parties and bestiality took place. Read more:

The Roman Catholic Church in the Australian state of Victoria has confirmed that more than 600 children have been sexually abused by its priests since the 1930s. The Archbishop of Melbourne, Denis Hart, described the figures as "horrific and shameful". They were released in a submission to a state parliamentary inquiry into the handling of abuse cases. Campaigners say the true number of abuse victims could be up to 10,000. In its submission, the church said the 620 cases went back 80 years with the majority taking place between the 1960s and the 1980s. It says it is still investigating a further 45 cases. In a statement, Archbishop Hart said it was important to be open "about the horrific abuse that has occurred in Victoria and elsewhere". Read More

Liberal senator Cory Bernardi has resigned as Tony Abbott's parliamentary secretary amid a fierce backlash over comments he made linking gay marriage to the social acceptance of having sex with animals. Mr Abbott has described the comments as "ill-disciplined" and has accepted Senator Bernardi's resignation. "They're views I don't share," the Opposition Leader told reporters in Canberra. "They're views that I think many people would find repugnant. "I had a conversation with Senator Bernardi [and] as a result of that conversation, he offered his resignation and I've accepted his resignation. "I think it's pretty clear that I have sent a very strong message to every member of the team that ill-discipline is unacceptable. Read More Australia: Same Sex Marriage Debate Unleashes Beast

Sheikh Saleh Al-Talib, imam and khatib at the Grand Mosque, condemned yesterday the unfair approach of Western countries denigrating the Prophet (peace be upon him). “What is the meaning of freedom of expression when international organizations and Western governments chase and prosecute anyone who denies the Holocaust or even expresses any doubt about the Jewish ordeal?” Al-Talib said during the Friday sermon. “On the other hand, anyone who ridicules and vilifies the great Prophet (pbuh) are protected by law.”  The sheikh’s sermon follows the release of the recent anti-Islam film mocking the Prophet (pbuh), which was circulated on YouTube and produced in the United States, and the publication of similarly themed French cartoons. Although many Western countries have hate speech laws, the United States has none. The sheikh said it is impossible for a “civilized human being with (a minuscule of) intelligence” to hate Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). The sheikh warned Western ...

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen called Friday for a ban on the wearing of Muslim veils and Jewish skullcaps in public, adding to religious tensions sparked by cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. In an interview with the newspaper Le Monde, Le Pen called for religious headwear to be banned “in stores, on public transport and on the streets.” Asked whether the ban should apply to the Jewish skullcap, known as the kippah or yarmulke, as well as Muslim headwear, she said: “It is obvious that if the veil is banned, the kippah is banned in public as well.” Le Pen, who shocked the French elite by winning almost 18% in the first round of this year’s presidential vote, also repeated calls for bans on public prayers, kosher and halal foods in schools and foreign government financing of mosques in France. President Francois Hollande denounced her comments, saying: “Everything that tears people apart, opposes them and divides them is inappropriate, and we must apply the rules, the only rul...

A small ancient Coptic papyrus fragment was major news this week. And if you followed any of the reports on the fragment you might have become convinced that there is new evidence that Jesus was married. Based on the reporting, you might also believe that this news should make Catholics and other Christians who believe in the Bible very nervous. There are two problems with this line of thinking. First, proof of a married Jesus wouldn't make most Catholics and Christians nervous. Second, the evidence just isn't there that Jesus was ever married. Christians have no reason to be scandalized by the thought of a married Jesus because there is nothing in Christian theology that would eliminate the possibility. Jesus was pro-woman and pro-marriage. He attended weddings and even did his first miracle at a wedding feast by turning water into wine. When asked about marriage and about men who wanted to divorce their wives, Jesus defended the marriage bond with no equivocation: ...

Pastors around the nation are bracing for questions from curious congregants, after a Harvard professor claimed a fragment of text from the fourth century suggests Jesus may have been married. Karen King, a professor of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School, announced Tuesday that the tiny scrap of papyrus contains dialogue that includes the words "Jesus said to them, 'My wife..'" The text, written in Coptic and likely translated from a second-century Greek text, was produced by an unknown author roughly 300 years after Jesus' death. It is the "only extant ancient text which explicitly portrays Jesus as referring to a wife," according to King. Read more : http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/21/pastors-brace-for-questions-on-jesus-marital-status-after-newly-discovered/?test=latestnews#ixzz27A6Wfms2

Religious groups are blasting President Obama for not condemning am anti-Christian art display set to appear in New York City and one Republican lawmaker said he is “fed up with the administration’s double standard and religious hypocrisy. “Piss Christ,” once branded as a “deplorable, despicable display of vulgarity,” will be displayed at the Edward Tyler Nahem Gallery in Manhattan on Thursday. The artwork features a “photograph of the crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine.” The artwork debuted in 1989 and was funded through prize money provided by the National Endowment for the Arts. The art gallery hosting the retrospective salute to Andres Serrano is privately owned. Religious groups and some lawmakers have already started sounding off – and making comparisons to the controversy over a recent anti-Muslim film. The low budget movie “Innocence of Muslims” sparked violent and deadly clashes across the globe. It also brought strong rebukes, condemnations and apologies from President ...

The Duchess of Cambridge has taken legal action to prevent further pictures of her sunbathing topless on holiday being published - but the embarrassment may never have happened if she was more like the majority of her compatriots. Just 14 per cent of British women sunbathe without their bikini tops on, according to a new survey. The main reason why they said they don't want to bare their breasts is that they are not confident enough about their figures. Six out of ten women questioned said they preferred to keep their bikini top on because they don't feel they have a 'perfect' body. A further 54 per cent of respondents said they would rather stay covered up because they didn't want strangers seeing them semi-naked while 32 per cent said they would not strip off if children were present. But 61 per cent of women said they would undo their bikini if they were lying on their front to prevent tanlines. Only 6 per cent of the women polled by dating site MissTravel.com ...

Anyone looking to cut out air pollution in their town may have to look no further than their local burger joint. A new study out of the University of California, Riverside, has found that commercial charbroilers – like the ones used in the country's fast food restaurants, are doing more harm to the air quality than an 18-wheeler. Researchers claim that the charbroilers send a staggering quantity of particulate matter into the ecosystem, more than any truck or factory smokestack. Bill Welch, principal development engineer for the study at UC Riverside's Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-Cert) said in a statement: 'Emissions from commercial charbroilers are a very significant uncontrolled source of particulate matter…more than twice the contribution by all of the heavy-duty diesel trucks.' He added: 'For comparison, an 18-wheeler diesel-engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particles as a single cha...

Prostitutes in the Belgian city of Ghent have been told to cover up and stop suggestive gyrating in their windows as of next month. As of October 1, the "working girls" will have to abide by the rules or else face a 120-euro (£95) fine. A new local police order will force prostitutes working day and night behind Amsterdam-style, neon-flashing windows, a feature of the trade across north-eastern mainland Europe, to cover up and quit sexually-charged posing before passers-by. Mayor Daniel Termont told AFP he was not "anti-prostitutes." "I'm not a puritan," he said. "Far from it! A city like Ghent needs prostitutes, but they have to respect certain rules." These now include the prohibition of women appearing "naked, in underwear, in bikinis or in see-through clothes," or of "dancing in windows" or "miming sexual acts," the decree states. "Neighbours have been complaining, even the prostitutes themselves, about...

High winds toppled a statue of Jesus Christ off its base on a school roof in northern New Jersey. Newark Archdiocese spokesman James Goodness says the statute stood at the St. John school in Orange for about 20 years. It came to rest at about a 90-degree angle, and workers took it down Wednesday afternoon. The statue was a replacement for the school's original statue, which also was toppled during a storm. The St. John school was closed in June because of declining enrollment. Goodness says the Orange Board of Education leases classroom space in the building, but no students were in danger. Classes at the school were canceled Wednesday. Read more :  http://cristina-mundialnoticias4.blogspot.com/2012/09/high-winds-topple-jesus-christ-statue.html

Beggars at a religious folk festival in southern China have been ordered to stay in purposely built cages, or be removed from the festivities. Organisers gave the beggars an ultimatum saying their presence ruins the experience for visitors at the temple fair in Nanchang, Jiangxi province and if they wished to beg they had to do so from inside small cages. The zoo-like cages are so small adults are unable to stand and although they are free to leave at will, they are immediately banished from the festival area and have to leave the town if they do so. The annual fair celebrates a religious holy day with a funfair, market and entertainment as pilgrims come to the temple from all over China. Due to the thousands of visitors it has become a magnet for down-and-outs looking for charity from tourists. ‘This year we decided we would no longer accept beggars wandering everywhere, distressing our guests and spoiling it for everyone else,' explained one organiser before adding that no one i...

Intelligence sources tell Fox News they are convinced the deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, was directly tied to Al Qaeda -- with a former Guantanamo detainee involved. That revelation comes on the same day a top Obama administration official called last week's deadly assault a "terrorist attack" -- the first time the attack has been described that way by the administration after claims it had been a "spontaneous" act. "Yes, they were killed in the course of a terrorist attack on our embassy," Matt Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said during a Senate hearing Wednesday. Olsen echoed administration colleagues in saying U.S. officials have no specific intelligence about "significant advanced planning or coordination" for the attack. Read more:

A small fragment of faded papyrus contains a suggestion that  Jesus may have been married . The fragment, with just eight lines of text on the front and six lines on the back, is from a fourth-century dialogue, written in the Coptic language, between Jesus and his disciples. In it, Jesus speaks of “my wife,” according to Harvard professor Karen L. King, who discovered the fragment. “The most exciting line in the whole fragment…is the sentence ‘Jesus said to them [his disciples], my wife…” King said  in a video  posted to Harvard’s YouTube channel. The next line of text reads, “She will be able to be my disciple.” “This is the only extant ancient text which explicitly portrays Jesus as referring to a wife,” King wrote in  her paper on the discovery . The discovery, if it is validated, could have major implications for the Christian faith. The belief that Jesus was not married is one reason priests in the Catholic Church must remain celibate and are not a...

King issued decree banning men from underwear stores Aims to make women feel more comfortable buying intimate attire Saudi Arabia has ordered the closure of around 100 lingerie shops in the capital Riyadi which have violated new regulations banning men from working on their sales staff, it emerged today. A labour ministry official was quoted by the newspaper  Al-Eqtisadiah  as saying all shops which flouted a decree on the 'feminisation and nationalisation of jobs' would be shut down. The measure aims to 'provide a safe environment for working women,' he said. At the start of this year, the ministry banned male assistants from working at lingerie shops as a first step to be followed by women-only sales assistants at cosmetics outlets. King Abdullah issued the decree to end the 'embarrassment' suffered by women who don't want to give men their measurements. It was also part of an effort to  reduce high female unemployment in the conservative ki...

A French court has blocked the future publication of topless photos of the Duchess of Cambridge sunbathing while on holiday. The injunction came after the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge took action against France's Closer magazine for selling and distributing the images. The publishers must give the originals to the couple within 24 hours. It will also face a fine of 10,000 euros (£8,000) for every breach if it re-publishes or distributes the photos. The photographs were taken while the duchess was sunbathing on a private holiday with her husband at the French chateau of the Queen's nephew, Lord Linley, in Provence, earlier this month .Read more

  Police and family services records have given a startling insight into the heartbreaking childhood of a 13-year-old boy accused of beating his two-year-old brother to death. Cristian Fernandez reportedly suffered neglect at the hands of a teenage mother and a drug-abusing grandmother, sexual abuse by a cousin and physical assaults by a stepfather who went on to kill himself. Fernandez, who was just 12 when he fatally smashed his brother's head against a book shelf, could become America's youngest ever 'lifer' after being charged as an adult over the murder. But the case has ignited a fierce debate over whether the punishment is too strict for a child - particularly for one who was left to languish in a poisonous upbringing littered with abuse. Fernandez was born in Miami, Florida in 1999 to Biannela Susana, who was just 12. The boy's 25-year-old father received 10 years' probation for sexually assaulting her. Two years later, both mother ...

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are to make a criminal complaint against the photographer who took topless pictures of the duchess. The couple's lawyers will make the complaint to French prosecutors on Monday, St James's Palace has said. The images have appeared in French magazine Closer and the Irish Daily Star. An Italian magazine has said it also plans to print the photographs. Read More

When most people think of international spies, they probably imagine hyper-masculine figures such as James Bond or Jason Bourne. But Israel's fearsome secret service has developed a new breed of super-spy - seductive young women. And the highly trained agents say that 'any means is valid' when it comes to deploying their feminine wiles - though they would draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. The world has never previously heard from the female spies of the Mossad, who have been crucial to some of the agency's greatest triumphs. But now five of them have spoken out for the first time, telling Israeli magazine Lady Globes about their extraordinary lifestyle which makes them feel as if they are 'living in a movie'. The most notable deployment of the women's unique talents came in 1986, when one agent seduced a turncoat former nuclear engineer and lured him into a trap so he could be taken back to Israel. A current agent calling herself Yael tells the magaz...

A British couple walked away uninjured after their car plunged 120ft down a cliff. Matt Woods, 24, and his 22-year-old girlfriend Chelsea Eastwood crashed through the safety barrier in the Mitsubishi as they returned to their home in Benidorm, Spain. Their vehicle shot down the rocky cliff face before smashing into a tree and landing on its roof by a walkway, below which there was a 300ft fall to the sea. Read More

Sitting in the prison where she's spent nearly half of her life, Elizabeth Ramirez is stunned by the words that could help exonerate her and three friends of the sexual assault of her two nieces, a crime she said she couldn't fathom let alone commit. It never happened, one niece now says of the debauched, orgy-like nightmare that she and her older sister described to San Antonio police in 1994 when they were 7 and 9. ReadMore

This picture shows the horrifying moment an Amish man grabbed the long, white beard of a 79-year-old Amish bishop in eastern Ohio and used his other hand to violently slice it off. The attacker in the image has been identified as defendant Johnny Mullet, the son of the alleged ringleader of a series of vicious beard-cutting ambushes on members of the community last year. As he chopped off the beard of Raymond Hershberger, pictured trying to push away his attacker, the bishop's wife screamed and a boy cried: 'Don't cut grandpa's beard,' according to his attorney. The image, which has now been released by the U.S. attorneys office, paints a horrifying picture of the fear inflicted by 16 aggressors by a breakaway Amish group. The sixteen defendants are accused of hate crimes in hair-cutting attacks on nine fellow Amish due to religious differences. Andy Hershberger testified that his father pleaded for the men not to shear him. But within minutes, the hair from his ...

An Oxford graduate has set up an erotic website aiming to promote a tasteful style of adult video in a challenge to hardcore pornography. British businesswoman, Cindy Gallop, wants to urge more people to 'make love, not porn', believing her site is the sex education aid of the future. The 52-year-old claims that too many people - particularly young men - are learning their bedroom techniques chiefly from viewing hardcore porn on the internet, which makes them inconsiderate lovers. She aims to 'reform porn' and 'rehabilitate' the younger generation with an alternative campaign for tasteful erotica. 'When you have sex with younger men you see the creeping ubiquity of hardcore porn in the culture, in an era where it is more freely and widely available than ever before and kids are accessing it younger and younger,' said Gallop to The Observer newspaper. Miss Gallop, who studied English literature at Oxford and now lives in New York, believes parents and sex...

Visitors using the restrooms on the 18th floor of an exclusive New York hotel may get a fantastic view through floor-to-ceiling windows - but passersby can't say the same. Bathroom users at the Boom Boom Room club at the swanky Standard Hotel in Manhattan are entirely visible to people on the street thanks to the 10-foot windows lining the walls. And it's a discovery that has alarmed some unaware toilet-goers as there is no warning sign that their bare behinds will be seen In 2009 people walking along the High Line park were treated to free peep shows from guests - including couples having sex and porn films being recorded - in the rooms above. One shopworker in the area said she saw 'a naked girl jumping up and down on a trampoline right in front of the window', while others were shocked to see men pleasuring themselves. In 2008, the hotel won an award from the Municipal Arts Society of New York for best new building erected that year. www.nydailynews.com

Former escort Jenny Thompson, who famously enjoyed a sexual liaison with Wayne Rooney, has revealed she is pregnant. But it is claimed Miss Thompson, 23, who admits sleeping with more than 100 men, said she will have to take a DNA test to confirm the identity of the father. The former vice girl, who claimed she bedded Manchester United star Rooney while his wife Coleen was five months pregnant with their son Kai, is already six months pregnant. She told The Sun newspaper: ‘Quite a few men will be trying to work out if it is them.’ She also admitted it ‘made her laugh’ to think different men would be trying to decide if they were the father. She rated Balotelli as one of her top 10 best lovers but was less complimentary about Rooney, who she claimed in 2010 paid her £1,200 a night for sex.

Texas parents are concerned after a local youth soccer coach was arrested earlier this month on charges of molesting one of his players. Bernardo Mondragon-Guzman, a 41-year-old illegal immigrant, was charged with continual sexual abuse of a child after one of his 10-year-old players told his parents about the abuse. Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/09/15/more-cases-abuse-suspected-after-texas-youth-soccer-coach-is-arrested/#ixzz26ZzxYwzq

He defended the decision to publish them in Italy, saying the photos are tasteful and respect Kate's dignity. "I don't see anything morbid or damaging in them," he said. "Chi pays attention to respecting people's dignity. I don't think they hurt Kate's image." He added in a statement that the pictures actually were in line "with the modern concept of the monarchy." "It shows in its total naturalness the daily life of a young, famous, modern couple in love," he said. Read more :  http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/09/15/berlusconi-owned-magazine-to-publish-topless-kate-middleton-pictures/#ixzz26Ygk9hQB