Driver’s ’sexploits’ on bus come to an end after rape claims

September 28th, 2009 KABUL - Taliban militants have attacked a convoy of trucks in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province, killing six drivers, the interior ministry said in a statement Monday. "Enemies of Afghanistan attacked a convoy, set fire to six trucks and killed the drivers in Marawora district Sunday," the statement said.

September 26th, 2009 NEW YORK - Cab drivers in Chicago are not only making a demand for a rate hike, they are also asking that riders who throw up in their cabs get slapped with a 50-dollar fee. The cabbies said on September 24 they want the city impose the penalty because of the work, and hours lost, which comes with cleaning a passenger's vomit, reports the New York Post.

September 18th, 2009 TEHRAN - The father of an Iranian student, who died in jail after being arrested for protesting against President Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election, has claimed that his son was beaten, got his bones broken and toenails pulled out while in prison. Amir Javadifar, 24, was so badly beaten that he had to treated in hospital before being taken to the notorious Evin prison, Times Online reports.

September 12th, 2009 TEHRAN - A special judicial committee has rejected allegations by the opposition of rape in Iranian jails, Fars news agency reported Saturday. The committee said in a report that Mehdi Karroubi, the leader of the opposition party Etemad Melli, could not present any proof of his allegations of rape being committed against jailed opposition supporters.

September 7th, 2009 LONDON - Road accident records in the UK show that computer engineers are the worst drivers on the road, while farmers are the best. Authorities at the Churchill Car Insurance say that computer engineers have made maximum claims for road crashes in the past three years.

August 17th, 2009 LONDON - Nobel-prize winning British novelist William Golding confessed that he tried to rape a girl when he was in his teens, claims a new biography. John Carey, the author of "William Golding, The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies", who had intimate access to some of Golding's private works, alleges that Golding admitted to the incident in an unpublished memoir.

August 12th, 2009 TEHRAN - Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani Wednesday dismissed allegations that protesters detained in the post-election unrest were raped as "sheer lies". "Following a precise and comprehensive inquiry into (the treatment of) detainees at Kahrizak and Evin prisons, no cases of rape or sexual abuse were found," Larijani was quoted as saying by the Press TV.

July 29th, 2009 LAHORE - In Pakistan outraging a woman's modesty is not considered a crime if the women is paid later to not register a police case. According Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, there are two types of rapes.

July 22nd, 2009 SYDNEY - Risky driving habits are more likely to injure or kill youths in car crashes than older drivers, said a study based on a survey of 20,000 young drivers. Researchers at The George Institute investigated the relationship between risky driving behaviour, risk perception and the risk of crash.

July 20th, 2009 NEW YORK - Eating and/or drinking while driving has been blamed for 80 percent of car accidents in the US, according to a new study. The study conducted by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has shown that about 80pct of the car accidents, and 65pct of near misses, were caused by drivers more focused on their burgers than the road.

June 18th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - A research undertaken by South Africa's Medical Research Council (MRC) has exposed the country's widespread culture of sexual violence. The study has revealed that one in four men in the country have admitted to rape and many have attacked more than one victim.

June 10th, 2009 LONDON - The concept of "postcode lottery" for rape convictions still exists in the UK, as the gap in rape conviction rates between different British police forces is growing, according to new research by an equality campaign group. The Fawcett Society found that some police forces had rape conviction rate of less than five percent in 2007.

June 1st, 2009 DARFUR - A human rights charity survey has found that one in three women fleeing from the civil war hit region of Darfur in Sudan risk being rape victims. The US-based, Physicians For Human Rights, interviewed 88 women who had fled from Darfur and came to a conclusion that rape against women was widespread, Sky News reports.

May 8th, 2009 BRISBANE - Indian origin taxi drivers have held an emergency meeting here to discuss a proposal to demand that the Queensland Government tighten its licensing laws to prevent new drivers from receiving a taxi permit until they have lived in Australia for one year. The demand follows The Courier-Mail's findings that drivers from overseas were gaining open Queensland licences without proof they had driven a car in their homeland.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - Russian police is investigating a lusty chimp, named Otello, after it tried to rape a female zookeeper. Valentina Kirilova was trying to give the animal a banana at Rostov Zoo, but instead of taking the food Otello grabbed her hand.