Secretaries, Teachers and Schoolgirls, Oh My!
A teenage girl from Sydney’s most exclusive co-educational school has been suspended after sexually suggestive photographs were sent to fellow and former pupils.
Barker College suspended 17-year-old Francesca Willis, a part-time model and HSC student, after two photographs featuring poses in uniform in a year 12 common room appeared in emails [...]
And now for something completely different… a film review!
Went and saw Spiderman II today. I wasn’t really among the fans of the first film, I thought it was a decent effort but was let down by an overly talky script and one of the worst villains since God tried to nick Captain Kirk’s spaceship in [...]
KANO, Nigeria — A suspected large-scale polio outbreak was reported Friday among children in a heavily Muslim northern Nigeria state that had boycotted immunization campaigns, and local authorities appealed for urgent action to stop the spread.
The suspected outbreak was in Kano state, one of several in northern Nigeria that had shunned polio vaccination drives [...]
Some bloggers are so influential that politicians will go to extraordinary lengths to get them onside. Gay blogger Andrew Sullivan recently withdrew his support for Bush in 2004 over his support for a ban on gay marriage. Colin Powell to the rescue:
US Secretary of State Colin Powell donned a hard hat and tucked a hammer [...]
The attitude of the WA police force is an amazing thing to behold:
One of WA’s top policemen insisted yesterday that brothers Ray and Peter Mickelberg committed the 1982 Perth Mint gold swindle, despite a Court of Criminal Appeal decision which quashed the brothers’ convictions for the crime.
Assistant Commissioner Mel Hay was adamant there would be [...]
Extinct (adj): No longer existing or living: an extinct species.
Most people take this word to mean that an animal has been completely wiped off the face of the Earth. Like a Dodo, or a Thylacine. It’s a very sad event when that happens. Nobody can ever again see one of those creatures again, they are [...]
You can thank Tony for this one:
A teacher in a Zimbabwe elementary school has been suspended for giving unruly pupils a choice between being caned or suckling her breasts.
Apparently, 14 of the teacher’s third-graders chose the latter, the Zimbabwe Herald reported Tuesday.
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One student told his parents he was given the choice between 100 lashes with [...]
Ian Thorpe obviously isn’t giving enough face time to channel 9 staff:
Now, as Ian Thorpe launches his latest male underwear collection today, the Olympic swimmer will learn he is part of a Queer Eye for the Straight Guy send-up set to air on Channel 9.
While the nation’s wonderboy is spared a role as part [...]
The South Korean government has gone into dissent-crushing overdrive in an attempt to stop anyone in Korea from downloading the video or pictures of the murder of Korean hostage Kim Sun-il.
In its fervour, it firstly blocked the blogger domain from being viewed from inside Korea, followed closely by blogs.com and typepad. Korean blogger Marmot [...]
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