An Australian man was denied permission to board a connecting flight within Australia unless he removed the T-shirt titled "World's #1 Terrorist" with a picture of U. S. President George W. Bush. The incident occurred on December 2 when Allen Jasson, who lives in London, was stopped by security personals at an airport while he was en route to meet his family. He was at the terminal hoping to catch a connecting flight from Adelaide to Melbourne when his ordeal began.

The holidays can bring tension for families when college students return home. The problem comes because of differing expectations of parents and their now adult offspring.

A junior at Brooklyn's Leon M. Goldstein High School caused a fuss Tuesday when he arrived at school dressed as Adolf Hitler for Halloween. School administrators demanded he take off his beige coat decorated with a swastika armband, telling him he would have to spend the day in detention if he failed to do so. But 16-year-old Walter Petryk, who went so far as growing a mustache to complete his get-up, refused. He said his costume was a satire of Hitler and was protected by his right to freedom of expression.

According to a research, more and more career women are freezing their eggs as they look it as a 'insurance' for having children in future. The research involved interviews of more than 20 women at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York who had chosen to freeze their eggs for future use.

A leading female lawmaker in the Netherlands is asking the government to sent Dutch prostitutes abroad for deployment with Dutch troops to help the soldiers relax. Annemarie Jorritsma, a member for the center-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy and the mayor of the town of Almere in the Netherlands, went on national TV to campaign for the "extra benefits" for the Dutch troops.