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October 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Millions of men are bombarding Swedish tourism bodies with inquiries regarding a mythical town, which reportedly is home to 25,000 sex-mad lesbians. It is rumoured that a wealthy man-hating widow had founded the town of "Chako Paul City" in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods.

September 22nd, 2009 LONDON - A British lesbian teacher has been sent behind bars after she admitted her affair with a 15-year-old girl pupil. Music teacher Helen Goddard has been given a 15-month sentence after she confessed six counts of sexual activity with a child.

September 21st, 2009 MELBOURNE - Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have returned to the skies of a Northern Territory hotspot, where such sightings have also been reported earlier. Workers and tourists at the Wycliffe Well Holiday Park claim to have seen strange lights in the night sky.ews.com.au quoted park employee Julie Zanker as having told Northern Territory News: "We were looking at the sky and there was a white light with red and blue flashing lights around it.

August 26th, 2009 MELBOURNE - While the mercury will be topping 40 degrees during the school holidays, kids in a desert town in Australia will be seen wrapping on a scarf and a thick pair of socks, for there are plans to make an ice skating rink for them. Northern Territory (NT) Sport and Recreation Minister Karl Hampton has announced 60,000 dollars to help transport and install the 30 by 15 metres rink in Alice Springs.

August 24th, 2009 WASHINGTON - NASA has launched a small rocket using a clean, green and safe propellant comprising aluminium powder and water ice. "This collaboration (with US Air Force) has been an opportunity for graduate students to work on an environment-friendly propellant that can be used for flight on earth and used in long distance space missions," said NASA chief engineer Mike Ryschkewitsch.

August 19th, 2009 LONDON - A music teacher in Britain has confessed that she had a lesbian relationship with a teenage pupil. Helen Goddard, who is called Jazz Lady by her students, could now face a 14-year prison sentence for it.

August 4th, 2009 STOCKHOLM - The European Union (EU) is to be officially represented by Sweden as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is sworn in for a second term as the president of Iran, the Swedish foreign ministry said Tuesday. According to Swedish government statement, Stockholm's ambassador to Iran, Magnus Wernstedt, will participate in Wednesday's ceremony in Tehran as representative of the current EU council presidency.

July 27th, 2009 UN allows gay, lesbian group to join debatesGENEVA — The United Nations granted official status to a gay and lesbian organization from Brazil on Monday, allowing it to participate in U.N. meetings ranging from health to human rights.

July 19th, 2009 LONDON - Silvio Berlusconi's "scandals-filled" nightmare refuses to end. A former actress from Naples has given out details of a New Year's Eve party which was apparently held at the Italian Prime Minister's Sardinian villa, and featured 50 young women including naked lesbians.

June 16th, 2009 LONDON - A newly launched packaged tour is luring Brit lesbians by offering marriage and fertility deal in Spain. And, thus, a large number of lesbians in UK are turning to Spanish fertility clinics, as they seek insemination where sperm donors still have a right to anonymity.

June 15th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Residents of the Northern Territory in Australia are the biggest drinkers in the world, according to a report. Figures published in the Menzies School of Health Research report suggest that Territorians, as the people of the Northern Territory are called, drink 15 litres of pure alcohol each year, which is three times the global average.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - Renowned short story writer Alice Munro has won the third Man Booker International Prize, beating the likes of Mahasweta Devi and VS Naipaul. The award, worth 60,000 pounds, is given every two years to a living author for a body of work that has contributed to an achievement in fiction on the world stage.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - Celebrated Canadian short story writer Alice Munro has won the Man Booker International Prize for 2009, beating a field that included India's Mahasweta Devi, the judges announced Wednesday. Munro, 78, is the third writer to win the 60,000 pound ($95,500) prize, which is awarded every two years, and the judges praised her ability to pack her short stories with the craft and wisdom of entire novels.

April 30th, 2009 Poll: Swedish pro file-sharing party gains supportSTOCKHOLM, Sweden — A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalizing Internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June. The poll published Thursday in the Stockholm newspaper Dagens Nyheter shows the Pirate Party's backing has surged after a court verdict against The Pirate Bay file-sharing site.

March 27th, 2009 MELBOURNE - American country music star Dolly Parton has revealed that she is tired of repeatedly denying that she is a lesbian. Parton, 63, also said that she is tired of having to set the record straight about her sexuality, after her friendship with her best pal Judy Ogle sparked rumours of her being gay.