29 year old Victoria Thorne, a police constable for the Northumbia Police, was convicted on prostitution charges and sentenced to 15 months behind bars. She allegedly accessed information regarding her pimp, his rivals and various other prostitutes from police computers. She clearly violated...
Two journalists are kidnapped along a riverbank in Kundus, Afganistan. New York times reporter, Stephen Farrell and Afgan journalist, Sultan Mundai are taken captive by Taliban hostage-takers on Saturday, September,6-2009. Farrell and Mundai are taken for a total of 4 days. Farell says that...
Seven medics in England were suspended for playing the 'lying down game' where people are photographed lying down in unusual places with the objective that the lying down should be as public as possible and that as many people as possible should be involved. Doctors and nurses were photographed lay...
Lots of news attention last night and this morning has been devoted to Congressman Joe Wilson's outburst during President Obama's health care address. Congress traditionally is a very decorum-full body, which made the event rather shocking- Congressman Wilson was denounced by colleagues f...
Lubna Al- Hussein was released tuesday fom Sudaneese Authorities for wearing trousers. She was issued 40 lashes for her crime and a 209$ fine. She pleaded not guilty and was not allowed to plea her case. Protestors and supporters or Al-Hussein fought Sudaneese security in front of the court offic...
On September 7th 2009 scientists from the United Kingdom, Usa, and Papua New Guinea have discovered many new and unique species in a crater in Papua New Guinea. These species includes a new fanged frog, three new speies of fish, a new bat, and what could be the largest rat in the world.
In the Political Constitution of Argentina, it states that the official recognized religion by the government is Catholocism. It also states that citizens can practice another religion, or none at all but are required to pay taxes that support The Catholic Church. Tax payers supplied over 244 mil...
Currently in South Korea there has been an uproar because of popular band 2PM. In early September korean netizens got a hold of, member and leader, Jay's myspace comments. in the comments there were things written like "I hate Korea" and "Koreans are gay" causing a stir on th...
On Wednesday, September 9, Michael Duvall, an assemblyman from Yorba Linda California, stepped down after being caught talking about his affairs on an open microphone. Shortly after, he denied the affairs saying "my offense was engaging in inappropriate storytelling". He also sta...
A new movie, No Impact Man, is coming out soon. It documents the experiences of a man, and by extension his family (a wife and a young daughter), who lived an entire year without a "carbon footprint" - buying nothing but food, using no electricity, producing no trash, and traveling only by...
Ellen DeGeneres plans to be a "nice" American Idol judge, replacing the "Nice AI Judge" spot currently held by Paula Abdul. Is it important to have one judge who will refrain from comments like "That's the worst singing I've ever heard in my life," or would AI be a bet...
Tom Axworthy, former principal secretary to prime ministerPierre Trudeau and now chair of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University wishes to remove Bloc Québécois(a French speaking Canadian political party) from the televised English-language leaders' debate in future el...
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