Australia’s Next Top Model contestant ‘not embarrassed’ by topless pics

September 30th, 2009 LONDON - A dozen women paraded through Manchester topless to show their support for British troops fighting abroad. The women stunned shoppers, builders and office workers as they marched wearing only tight leather trousers and camouflage body paint across their chests, reports the Sun.

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit Labour politician has drawn up laws banning topless calendars and Page 3 photos from being displayed in the workplace. Labour's deputy leader Harriet Harman, dubbed Hattie Har-person by critics, claims that it is harassment to put up saucy pics at work.

August 31st, 2009 LONDON - A contestant on a Pakistani reality TV show died while meeting a challenge for the show, a spokeswoman for the show's sponsor has revealed. Fareshte Aslam, the information officer for Unilever Pakistan, said that Saad Khan was swimming across a lake in Bangkok with a 7 kg backpack, when he shouted for help and drowned.

August 3rd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - Korean newscasters, who dropped their layers as part of their news reading, are demanding their salaries for their bare-all efforts. Newscasters of Naked News Korea, the first online news that featured topless female anchors, alleged the company abruptly suspended operations after subscribers complained over lack of change in the news content.

July 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Locals in Cyprus have reacted with anger after alleged photos showing tourists having wild orgies on ferries emerged. The lewd pictures were published in the Norwegian press, and show tourists engaged in a series of explicit sex acts on a ferry bound for the island's party hotspot Ayia Napa.

July 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A Brit topless model has revealed that along with her modelling career she loves to get down and dirty by working as a street sweeper by day. Kimberley Miners, 20, is a popular sight on the streets of Bradford, West Yorks, where she is seen on her giant green machine cleaning the streets of Britain.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has been going through a divorce, has decided to solve the problem of not having a First Lady to play host to other leaders' spouses by appointing a former topless model to play the part. Former calendar girl Mara Carfagna, who is now Italy's Equal Opportunities Minister, will be looking after the wives of the world's top leaders at the G8 summit next week, reports the Scotsman.

June 25th, 2009 LONDON - A collection of 5,000 photos said to be showing guests frolicking at Silvio Berlusconi's villa in Sardinia should be confiscated for infringing privacy laws, an Italian court has ruled. The pics were allegedly taken by a freelance photographer between 2006 and early 2009, reports The Telegraph.

June 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - After being accused of being pervs, workers at the Darwin Waterfront development have shot back with accusations that topless European backpackers deliberately try to grab their attention. They say that they are being distracted from their work by the backpackers who favour the Waterfront's new safe swimming beach and recreational lagoon opened in April.

June 13th, 2009 LONDON - Antonello Zappadu, the photographer whose controversial photos of topless young women bathing in Silvio Berlusconi's Sardinian villa appeared in a Spanish newspaper, has hinted that there are more pictures to come. In his first interview with a British newspaper, Zappadu has revealed that the unseen pictures show guests at Berlusconi's private paradise of Villa Certosa, and some snaps include a "mock marriage" between the Italian Prime Minister and a woman in her twenties.

June 7th, 2009 SYDNEY - A contestant in Australia's Next Top Model has been hit by a nude photos scandal. Lola Van Vorst has admitted to posing naked for an ex-boyfriend as news emerges that the images will be published by Famous magazine tomorrow.

June 6th, 2009 LONDON - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has vowed he will quit if it is shown he lied over his relationship with Noemi Letizia, an 18-year-old aspiring model. Last night, the multi-millionaire premier pledged that he will step down from his post after Spanish newspaper El Pais published photos of topless women and a nude man at his Sardinian home.

June 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A controversial topless cafe in Maine, US, was gutted by fire on Wednesday. Fire officials believe that the fire at the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop in Vassalboro, just north of Augusta, was intentionally set.

June 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Controversies involving Silvio Berlusconi refuse to die out, with the latest revelation being that celebrities and showgirls who were regular guests at the Italian Prime Minister's Sardinian villa called him Papi, or Daddy, as a codename in case their telephones were being tapped, it has emerged. The revelation was based on the first accounts from guests at the infamous New Year party.

April 23rd, 2009 MELBOURNE - Nadya Suleman a.k.a Octomum might have denied that she's obsessed with Angelina Jolie but she did use the alias 'Angelina' while working as a stripper. According to Perez Hilton, Suleman, who became a history-making mum after giving birth to octuplets on January 26, was a stripper for at least a year, and she went by the pseudonym Angelina.