English teacher sacked for using real students’ names in sex book

October 4th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A new book written by University of Alabama at Birmingham researcher claims to offer a novel way to teach evolution without offending students who have strong religious convictions against the theory. According to Professor Lee Meadows, Ph.D., author of a new book titled The Missing Link: An Inquiry Approach for Teaching All Students About Evolution, School districts, politicians and church leaders have debated for decades as to whether Charles Darwin's theory of evolution should be taught in schools.

October 4th, 2009 LONDON - A new survey has found that overseas students make less error in English than the British. A checking of written work produced by final-year British undergraduate students found that, on average, they made 52.2 punctuation, grammatical and spelling mistakes per paper compared to only 18.8 by the international students.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Deipnosophists, stridewallops and shot-clogs - wondering what these words mean? Well, these are some of the lost words in English language assembled by Adam Jacot de Boinod. Shot clog is an Elizabethan word for a drinking companion who is only tolerated because he pays, while stridewallop is a Yorkshire term for a tall and awkward woman.

August 29th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan Punjab province's Crime Investigation Department (CID) has released its 12th 'Red Book' containing names of most wanted high profile terrorists. The book, which also includes the names of those involved in sectarian violence, mentions a combined head money of 54 million rupees announced by the Punjab government for the militants.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - After a detailed meeting with Dr Shabir Choudhry in London, Professor Khawaja Abdul Rehman has been appointed Regional Director of Institute of Kashmir Affairs, Azad Kashmir Chapter. Rehman is a professor of English in Muzaffarabad and is conducting research on languages at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.

June 30th, 2009 LANCASHIRE - Two students and their teacher from Islamic school in Lancashire were asked to remove their face veils in order to visit a Roman Catholic school in Blackburn. The three were visiting St Mary's College to attend its annual open day function.

June 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A teacher at a private academy in Lahore District has admitted that he had sexually abused several of his students over the last two decades and later blackmailed them with videotapes of the incident. Abdul Rehman has been taken into custody after one of his victims reported the matter to the Shalamar Police, saying Rehman had been sodomising him for the last three years.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - A school in Devon, England that banned bananas from children's lunch-boxes has left parents livid. The school's decision is a precautionary measure keeping the safety of a teacher in mind who suffers from latex fruit syndrome, which is potentially fatal.

May 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A teacher in New York was put behind bars and charged with rape, sexual abuse and child endangerment after she was allegedly caught having sex with a 14-year-old student in the classroom. It was the student's mother who tracked the teacher named 27-year-old Melissa Weber down.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - Ashton and Keira are the celebrity names that most British parents choose for their children, according to a study. Debra Chatfield at findmypast.com, which carried out the study, revealed that the research team analysed birth records, and found Brits to be using a lot of celebrity names.

May 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A Chinese school is offering a rather unusual advice to its students, "Adjust your body rhythm as soon as possible to completely rule out needing toilet breaks during class." Sanmenxia No.1 High School has put the red banner emblazoned with the bizarre advice across the campus toilets. According to the Chongqing Times, banner that appeared on a Baidu.com forum was photographed by a Xi'an university sophmore, user name "Wrffrw", at his Henan Province alma mater on April 5.

April 1st, 2009 LONDON - Students speak 64 languages at one of Britain's most multi-cultural schools with majority of them not speaking English, the native language of the country. our in five children at Woodside High in north London do not peak English as their first language he Daily Star reports that many arrive at the school gates in Tottenham for the first time with virtually no understanding of our native tongue.

March 27th, 2009 LONDON - A Sri Lankan-origin postmaster, who refused to serve non-English speaking customers and was sacked, has said he has no regret over the stand he took. Bosses of Deva Kumarasiri, 40, told him that his "services were no longer needed".

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - A Scottish teacher has been sacked for surfing porn websites while teaching a class of 13-year-olds. Dr Jeremy Dobson, a Physics teacher at one of country's leading fee-paying schools, used to access restricted websites that featured pictures of naked and half-naked women.

December 24th, 2008 LONDON - Former 'Baywatch' actress Pamela Anderson is planning to gift outgoing US President George W. Bush and his successor Barack Obama a copy of her favourite book - Ingrid Newkirk's 'One Can Make A Difference'.