UK school bans teachers from smoking - allows pupils to light up!October 3rd, 2009 LONDON - A British school has prohibited teachers from smoking while students are allowed to light up. An outdoor smoking shelter is being considered for children to light up between the classes at Headlands School in Penarth, near Cardiff.
Kama Sutra is just a 'word' in Florida schoolOctober 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Kama Sutra, the Indian tome of love, is creating one huge stir in Florida with a school in Lee county choosing to teach it as a vocabulary word. A handful of parents are shocked about what their kids are reading in their history book with some saying lovemaking and the classroom shouldn't mix, ABC-7.com reported.
Australian footballer assaults Indian cab driverSeptember 25th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A drunk Australian footballer allegedly assaulted and injured an Indian taxi driver after an altercation on Hoodle street here. Michael Hurley, who plays for Essendon, has been arrested for kicking and punching the Indian cab driver outside a fast-food outlet.
Drink driving inspector caught driving drunk himself!August 23rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - A drink driving inspector in China was caught driving drunk himself. Liang Huiming, secretary of the Party disciplinary inspection commission in Lanhe township, under Guangzhou's Panyu district, Guangdong province has now been detained for 15 days.
74 yr old incest father held for raping daughters in ArgentinaAugust 20th, 2009 BUENOS AIRES - A 74-year-old man has been arrested on charges of raping his three daughters over a period of 17 years and also sexually abusing children he fathered with the elder daughter, the police said. The man was arrested after his 29-year-old daughter filed a criminal complaint with police in the city of Itati.
White House asks to pull off ad featuring Obama's daughtersAugust 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The White House counsel had asked the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to withdraw a new unauthorized ad campaign featuring President Barak Obama's two young daughters - Sasha and Malia. Obama's press secretary Robert Gibbs expressed displeasure at unauthorized use for advertising.
Ads targeting Obama girls may anger White HouseAugust 5th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A NGO in Washington may evoke the ire of US President Barrack Obama, by making his daughters the subject of a new advertising campaign. According to a report in the Politico, the ads, placed in Union Station by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, could certainly get White House attention and stir up Obama's anger, who has kept Sasha and Malia Obama largely off limits to the news media.
Two drunk Chinese men tank up car with alcoholAugust 3rd, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two drunk Chinese men were left stranded on the road after they filled their car's tank with alcohol instead of petrol in Jinyang, Shanxi province.he two men were returning from a party last Saturday, when their car broke down on a highway. They had a bottleful of alcohol, which they emptied out in the petrol tank, reports the China Daily.
Meet Sasha and Malia Obama's look-a-likesJuly 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - A pair of Long Island sisters are constantly stopped for autographs - because people keep mistaking them for Sasha and Malia Obama, daughters of U.S. President Barack Obama.
Malay parents, teachers want probe into school principal's karaoke sessions with girlsJuly 6th, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - The Parent-Teacher Association of a secondary school in Malaysia is seeking the help of authorities to investigate claims that the school principal held karaoke sessions with female students at the girls' hostel. According to SM Tok Janggut Parent-Teacher Association chairman Datuk Mohd Jelani Jaafar, they had received numerous complaints on the matter, and some of them were from the teachers themselves.
Wheelchair gunman shot dead by police after stand-offJune 29th, 2009 WELLINGTON - A paraplegic gunman who terrorized a suburban street by firing about random 100 shots from his wheelchair was shot dead by New Zealand police after a three-hour stand-off, police confirmed Monday. They said the drama in the Christchurch suburb of Burnside began Sunday night after Shayne Richard Sime, 42, called his family, saying he was suicidal.
Taliban forcing families to marry daughters' to their operatives in SwatMay 20th, 2009 LAHORE - Besides challenging the writ of the government in Pakistan, the Taliban is also forcing people to marry off their daughters to its operatives. An unit of the Pakistan Army has reportedly rescued a family which claimed that the outlawed group forced them to marry their daughters in Matta tehsil of Swat.
New York's first swine flu victim deadMay 18th, 2009 NEW YORK - New York's first swine flu victim, an assistant principal in a school in the city's Queen's area, has died. Assistant principal Mitchell Wiener of Intermediate School 238 in Queens died Sunday night at Flushing Hospital, a spokesman said.
Washington Times links Obama daughters with a story on Chicago student violenceMay 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - A "technical glitch" in the Washington Times web site caused a photo of backpack-toting first daughters Sasha and Malia Obama to be posted next to a story about the high number of slain Chicago Public Schools students. The story paired up the picture of the Obama girls above the headline "36 Chicago area students killed sets record," Solomon's statement read.
Oz school teachers are 'worst bullies', finds surveyMay 13th, 2009 MELBOURNE - A new survey has shown that teachers entrusted with preventing bullying in Australian schools are instead bullying each other at alarming levels. In the national online survey of more than 800 teachers, 99.6 per cent said that they had experienced bullying in the workplace, with the biggest bullies likely to be the principal or other school executives.
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