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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 week at the Cipinang penitentiary complex in the capital, Jakarta.

Rossyane's account has led to a flurry of salacious media reports and comments on Twitter, some denigrating the couple and others calling for the warden to be sacked.

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 Global Times reported.

But when he began playing "The Forbidden Legend: Sex and Chopsticks", hundreds of local residents stopped to watch as well, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

The company which owns the screen called him after about 10 minutes, and he immediately disconnected the computer before throwing the disc out of a window, the Global Times said. 

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 2010, BP PLC`s Chief Executive John Browne resigned, hours after a judge allowed a newspaper to publish allegations from a former boyfriend that the executive misused company resources.Browne was accused of using BP computers and staff to help Chevalier, of using support staff to set up and then wind down a company Browne created for him to run, and sending a senior BP employee on a personal errand to deliver cash to him.

Steven J Heyer, Starwood Hotels

In 2007, Steven J Heyer, the CEO of Starwood Hotels (an American hotel and leisure company), was ousted by the hotel company`s board amid allegations that he had sent ‘inappropriate and suggestive e-mails and text messages’ to a female employee. He also had an "inappropriate physical encounter" with a woman outside a restaurant restroom.

Mark Hurd, Hewlett-Packard (HP)

In 2010, Hewlett-Packard Co CEO Mark Hurd unexpectedly resigned after a sexual harassment probe found he had a "close personal relationship" with an HP contractor who received improper payments

David Davidar, Penguin Books Canada

In 2010, David Davidar, the CEO of Penguin Books Canada, was asked to leave the company after a sexual harassment complaint by a former director of the company, Lisa Rundle. She had accused him of harassing her for three years with a flood of "inappropriate e-mails and text messages" and then assaulting her at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Jang Suk Woo, Open World Entertainment

In 2012, Jang Suk Woo, the CEO of Open World Entertainment (an entertainment agency), was charged with sexual assault against female trainees in his agency and was sentenced to six years in prison. Since the end of 2010, the CEO sexually harassed six trainees over 10 times. He was charged with rape and violation of child protection laws.

Mark McInnes, David Jones

Mark McInnes, the CEO of David Jones (Australian department store chain), was terminated after a female staff member filed a sexual harassment complaint. "As a chief executive officer and as a person I have a responsibility to many, and today I formally acknowledge that I have committed serious errors of judgment and have inexcusably let down the female staff member. I have also let down my partner, my family, all my staff, the board and our shareholders. I apologise to everyone I have let down,” he said in a statement.

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 full bloom.

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 gifts as it’s customary in Japan to give high-end fruits as presents for formal occasions like weddings, business transactions, and hospital visits.
$21 per apple “Sekai-ichi”

“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 in April.

Turner once said in a video interview that they didn’t need to be married. “We are as married now as if it were legal.” But after living together in Switzerland for 18 years, it seems they have changed their tune. The two met when Bach, who is 16 years her junior, was an executive at her record label.

This will be the eight-time Grammy winner’s second marriage. She was married to her first husband, Ike Turner, for 14 years before they divorced in 1976. She chronicled their abusive and drug-filled relationship in her book, “I, Tina: My Story.”

Rumors are circulating that the wedding will either take place at their home on Lake Zurich or the French Riviera, and that fashion designer Giorgio Armani will be in attendance.

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. It was one of the uncles who discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital.

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 the holy month of Ramadhan.
 
In a photo posted on their Facebook fanpage, the pair is seen enjoying a meal of ‘bak kut teh’, a dish popularly known to consist of pork. The words “Selamat berbuka puasa (dengan bak kut teh…wangi, enak menyelerakan!)’ (Happy breaking fast (with bak kut teh….aromatic, tasty and appetizing) appear at the top.

These words captioned the photo: Izinkan kami memperkenalkan cara kami memupuk semangat 1Malaysia dengan bertukar-tukar makanan antara kaum-kaum Malaysia pada musim perayaan yang mulia ini. Hak untuk menikmati juadah enak tempatan seharusnya merentasi batasan bangsa dan juga agama. Kepada saudara-saudari yang beragama Islam, selamat berbuka puasa dan Salam Aidilfitri!  - Sahabatmu, Alvin dan Vivian.

[Allow us to introduce our way of inculcating the the spirit of 1Malaysia and that is by exchanging food between the races in Malaysia during this holy celebration. The right to enjoy local delicacies should cross the boundaries of race and also religion. To Muslims, happy breaking fast and Salam Aidilfitri - Your friends, Alvin and Vivian).
 
Needless to say the post drew the wrath of not just Muslims, but Facebook users of various races and faiths who joined the bandwagon and slammed the couple for using the Halal logo on their photo and insulting Muslims.

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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 in a days work. The South African is one of the world's top vet dentists, operating on some of the wilds most ferocious predators.


Dr Steenkamp's work has seen him travel to China, Egypt, the UAE, and across Africa - performing around 500 surgeries a year.The dentist, from Pretoria, said: 'I've been really blessed in my career so far to work on a variety of animals.
'I've operated on everything from a small bat right up to a six tonne elephant.

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 be understood and appreciated by both the sighted and the blind. Called "Life," the wordless story takes the most basic elements of two individuals meeting, falling in love, having a child and passing away. With its basic textures and arrangement, Meyer hopes that "Life" can be the first step toward more complex visual stories for the blind.

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 is one of only four children in the village, which is home to about 30 people. The older children, including his brother Dato, attend a high school in a nearby village two miles away.

Reuters photographer David Mdzinarishvili travelled along 12 miles of dirt track through the Gudamakari gorge, which separates Makarta from the rest of Georgia, to meet Bacho.
The journey through the gorge took as long as it did to cover 50 miles on the main road.

He found a village of abandoned houses left behind by those who have left Makarta for better opportunities in more developed areas of the country.The young boy wakes early and prepares breakfast at about 7am before doing homework with the help of his mother Lela Machkhashvili, 39.