Cuban actors in a Cuban film about people escaping Cuba for the US, on tour for the US opening defect to the US
Egyptian daily Al Ahram Thursday published an opinion piece that contained news about a new law known as the "Farewell Intercourse Law" which Egypt's parliament is considering to enact. The law would allow husbands to have sex with their dead wives up to six hours after death. The opinion piece was written by Amr Abdul Samea, a strong supporter of Hosni Mubarak. News of the proposal of the controversial law has sparked outrage among women's rights group, especially within Egypt's National Council for Women blaming the government of "marginalizing and undermining the status of women" that would affect the country's human development negatively. Jaber al-Qarmouty, prominent Egyptian TV anchor, criticized the whole idea of "allowing husband to have sex with dead wife. This is unbelievable. It is a catastrophe to give the husband such a right! Has the Islamic trend reached that far? Is there really a draft law in this regard? Are there people thinking in this manner?"
Wat Rong Khun, a Buddhist temple under construction is poised to become one of the most stunningly beautiful in the world, rich with symbolism derived from Buddhist and Hindu traditions, including: Superman, Batman, and Neo from The Matrix.
Please have Lynae describe the photos.
Actress Suzanne Dodd, 43, who once had a role on popular soap "Eastenders," recalled to The (London) Daily Telegraph how the bird of prey grabbed one of her two Jack Russell terriers as they walked near Benalmadena on Saturday afternoon.
"Suddenly this enormous bird swooped across the path. With one talon it grabbed her nose and the other her collar and I thought that was it for the dog but it struggled for a moment and I moved in," she said.
"I had just a moment to act and grabbed hold of its enormous wing. It turned and bit me but released the dog."
Dodd, who lives in Benalmadena, said the failed attempt didn't stop the eagle from trying again as she ran with her dogs for cover.
"It swooped down on us about 20 times," she said. "It was a surreal and terrifying experience."
In the early 1940s, the United States Army was testing the idea of parachuting from planes as a way of deploying troops. The first group to really experiment with it and begin developing paratrooper techniques was a unit of 50 men known the Parachute Test Platoon.These guys were based out of Fort Benning, Georgia, and spent most of their summer working through grueling training sessions in the afternoon heat, wearing parachutes on their backs along with the rest of their standard gear. When training was done for the day, the troops liked to loosen up and cool down a little. Usually, most of the guys went to the air-conditioned Main Post Theatre in the evenings to see whatever movie was playing. One night in August 1940, that movie happened to be the Paramount western, Geronimo, about the Apache chief.After the movie, there was beer. After beer, there was, as there often is, a boast. On their way back to their bunks after the film, the group got to talking about the jump they were...
Residents of the Scots village of Dull have proved they have a sense of humour by forging a plan to create formal links with the US town of Boring.
In a move which is unlikely to set pulses racing, the Perthshire village and the Oregon logging town are discussing linking to become Dull and Boring.
Kazakhstan's foreign minister says the fictional Borat character has been good for tourism, increasing the number of visas to the ex-Soviet state by ten times.
Not News: Man finds a ball on an Alaskan beach. News: With the name of Japanese boy on it. Fark: His wife is Japanese. Ultrafark: They contact the boy who lost everything in the tsunami, and arrange to have the ball sent back. Holyfark: Twice.
The woman met her latest victim, a 31-year-old African man, on her way home from a sex addiction clinic in Munich. She invited him back to her flat where she kept him hostage and forced him to satisfy her sexual demands.
The victim eventually managed to break out of the apartment after his attacker fell asleep. He was later found weeping on the street by police. He fought back tears to tell them: “I met her on a bus. She invited me back here. It was hell. I can’t walk. Please help me.” Munich police confirmed his ordeal in a press statement. The woman has now been taken to a hospital for psychiatric observation.
The man escaped from her apartment like the first victim last month—when she fell asleep.
The previous victim guided police to her flat using his phone. The naked and frightened man told cops: “You have got to help me. She is trying to kill me with sex. I cannot get out—and I cannot go on!”
When police arrived to question the woman she invited 2 officers in for a "quickie".
A $500 million lawsuit was filed by the Oglala Sioux Tribe against some of the world's largest beer makers, as well as their distributors, and four beer stores in the reservation border town of Whiteclay. Whiteclay has a population of 11 people and sold the equivalent of 4.3 million 12-ounce cans of beer last year. Tribal leaders and activists blame the Whiteclay businesses for chronic alcohol abuse and bootlegging on Pine Ridge Reservation, an area the size of Connecticut with approx 40,000 residents. The lawsuit asks that breweries, retailers and distributors pay damages for health care and law enforcement costs, developmental problems in children and other alcohol-related problems on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The tribe also wants a judge to restrict alcohol sales in Whiteclay.
One in four children born on the reservation suffers from fetal alcohol syndrome or fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, and the average life expectancy is estimated between 45 and 52 years.