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July 23, 2007
Topics magazine, family, cartoon, spain, spanish, wife, news, princess, prince, cover, pregnant, ebay, birth, love, face, law, life and people
A magazine which featured a cartoon mocking the heir to the throne of Spain making love with his wife was ordered to be removed from news stands. Copies were seen for sale on eBay last Saturday. The cover price of the weekly magazine El Juevez is $3. 46, but copies but were seen on a Spanish eBbay website selling for up to $138 per copy. High Court Judge Juan del Olmo said last Friday that the cartoon "struck at the honor and the dignity of the people represented" has ordered authorities to confiscate and apprehend all news stands that sells the copy of the magazine. The current government in Spain announced that each new born child in a family will receive $3500. 00 to raise the birth rate in Spain. Thus, the magazine used this as feature in cartoon to mock the royal family. In the caricature, Prince Felipe was seen smiling and telling his wife Princess Letizia, "Do you realize that if you get pregnant it will be the closest that I come to working in my life!" Under Spanish law, anyone found guilty of insulting and mocking the royal family can face up to two years in prison and be slapped with substantial fines. Spain's royal family, unlike those from other European nations, received only little attention from the press.
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July 16, 2007
Topics women, fashion, prostitutes, sex, ladies, secretary, cover, clothing, homes, lost, head, money, city and police
In an attempt to blend in with their surroundings, sex workers in Mombasa are undergoing a drastic fashion makeover. Most have traded in their scanty work attire for the buibui, a modest, loose, flowing gown and head covering favored by Muslim women. In the city's red-light district, several buibui clad ladies of the night walk the streets. Some gave reasons for this change in clothing styles.
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July 5, 2007
A four-year-old boy who some claim displays the same talent and skill as current Formula 1 points leader Lews Hamilton, has been offered a four-year driving contract. Ben Kasperczak, 4, cannot ride a bike without training wheels but is a natural with a go-kart according to The Sun. "He's just got a natural ability for it" says Ben's dad Paul, 42, a landscaper.
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June 26, 2007
The prisoners at the Scott City Jail in Missouri invented a new method to cover up a hole in a prison cell when they used pancake batter and toothpaste. The inmates reportedly used this new method to cover a hole they made to allow a female inmate to slide into the next cell and join a male inmate. They first removed a block from the wall, after making a digging tool with a nail. They also used a wire from a light fixture and a toothbrush as their other tools.
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June 11, 2007
Topics mexican, homeless, douglas, mexico, cover, clothing, canada, sun, beach, help, people, man and arizona
An 81-year-old man has taken up a tough mission for his age to be able to help an aid organization for homeless people. Bill Anderson of Yuma will be bicycling around Arizona's perimeter; a 2,000-mile trek that he expects will take two weeks to cover. According to Anderson his biking tour is dedicated to raise awareness about hunger and homelessness, while collecting donations from volunteers on the way.
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