INDONESIAN authorities have suspended a prison warden after a model claimed she routinely met her boyfriend, who is on death row, in a private room at the jail to have sex and take drugs.In the latest scandal to hit the country's notoriously corrupt prison system, Vanny Rossyane, 22, said she had visited drugs kingpin Freddy Budiman three times...
A MAINTENANCE worker surprised passers-by near a Chinese railway station when he started watching a banned porn film, not realising his computer was connected to a giant screen, state media said.The worker, identified only by his surname Yuan, was supposed to repair the screen, on a building near the main railway station in Jilin in northeast China, the...
Harry Stonecipher, Boeing Harry Stonecipher submitted his resignation upon request of the Boeing Board of Directors on March 6, 2005, due to an improper relationship with Boeing executive Debra Peabody. Boeing said an internal investigation revealed a "consensual" relationship between Stonecipher and the female executive that "would impair his ability to lead the company" John Browne, BP In...
Moss phlox, or shibazakura, is a flower that grows close to the ground in brilliant colors of magenta, pink, and white. Over 0.4 million Shibazakura plants of eight varieties blossom, creating an elegant spring carpet at the Hitsujiyama Park. The 10,000 m² park attracts thousands of visitors every year between May and June when the flowers are in...
It is the flagship store of the Sembikiya fruit emporium. Run by the same Samurai-descendant family since 1834, Sembikiya began as a discount fruit store. But the wife of the second-generation owner decided they could make more money the other way around.It is a gift shop. Sembikiya management estimates that 80-90 percent of their products are bought as...
“What’s love got to do with it?” Tina Turner asked nearly 30 years ago. Apparently, quite a bit because the 73-year-old legend is set to marry longtime beau Erwin Bach next week.According to the New York Post, the couple will marry on July 21. Turner and Bach have been together for over 25 years and reportedly got engaged...
Eight-month-old Xiao Bao is lucky to be alive after he was stabbed 90 times by his mother, mostly in the face, for biting her while she was breastfeeding him.He needed more than 100 stitches after the incident in Xuzhou, eastern China’s Jiangsu Province. The infant lives with his mother and two uncles, who make a living recycling rubbish....
Remember the infamous sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee? Well, they’re back, but this time they have clothes on. The duo – Alvin Tan Jye Yee and Vivian Lee – who caused a scandal here and across the Causeway with their explicit sex blog in October last year, now appear to be out to nudge the sensitivities of Muslims during...
Being a dentist is not always an easy job. Performing painful surgery on grumpy patients can test the patience - and nerves - of even the most experienced.But when that patient is a six-tonne elephant needing root canal or a lion with toothache, it makes the task all the more trickier.However, for Dr. Gerhard Steenkamp, it is all...
Although the visually impaired have been able to read everything from epic tomes to business cards using the Braille system, a visual medium like a comic book seriously suffers in translation. At least until now: German design student Philipp Meyer has created a comic book with a visual story that's so simple, yet so poignant, that it can...
At the start of the school day, teacher Lia Tsiklauri takes the register. But the morning task is over in a flash - because there's only one name to tick off.Bacho Tsiklauri, nine, is the only pupil at the primary school in the remote mountain gorge village of Makarta, Georgia, 62 miles north of the capital Tbilisi. He...
