Saudi clerics demand ban on women appearing in media

October 9th, 2009 LONDON - The demand for bigger breasts by women in the UK has been reaching new heights. According to the UK-wide Mybreast clinic, requests for the size of implants had jumped 25 per cent since 2002 from an average 240cc to 300cc.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - A cop in the UK is said to have invited women to have sex with him on his police motorbike. Divorced James Appi, 43, posted pictures on a sleazy swingers' website of himself astride his BMW, next to President Obama's armoured limo, and also wrote that he fancied group romps and a "sexually adventurous" partner.

August 20th, 2009 LONDON - An increasing number of British women are giving up costly make-up in favour of longer-lasting Botox. The demand for the 175-pound to 300-pound anti-wrinkle jabs has risen by 14pct.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - The Saudi Arabian princess, who is in secret British asylum after giving birth to an illegitimate child, told the British Asylum Tribunal that her country's law would award her killing by flogging and stoning if she was made to return home. The young woman, who has a love child with a British man, won her claim for refugee status after telling a judge that her adulterous affair made her liable to death by stoning under Sharia law, The Telegraph reports.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - A Saudi Arabian princess has been granted secret asylum in Britain after she claimed that her country would award her death penalty for having an illegitimate child. The young woman, who has a love child with a British man, won her claim for refugee status after telling a judge that her adulterous affair made her liable to death by stoning.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - The reputation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is set to receive a further blow after the release of new photographs showing the Italian Prime Minister grinning while two young women kiss in front of him. After two months of battling the allegations about his private life, the new photographs clicked at his Sardinian estate threaten to defame Berlusconi ahead of G8 summit of leading industrialised nations this week, reports Times Online.

July 5th, 2009 LONDON - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been assured by the chief of the country's intelligence agency Mossad, Meir Dagan, that Saudi Arabia would turn a blind eye to Israeli jets flying over the kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear sites. Dagan held secret talks with Saudi officials to discuss the possibility of such a raid earlier this year.

June 19th, 2009 DHAKA - Bangladesh opposition leader and two-time prime minister Khaleda Zia may get her politician son Tarique Rahman to return from Britain to rejuvenate the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), a media report here said Friday. Tarique, who faces graft charges, had given an understanding that he would quit politics when the previous military-backed caretaker government freed him from jail to go abroad for medical treatment.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - Identity of the naked man, who was caught in a state of arousal next to Silvio Berlusconi's swimming pool at his Sardinian villa, has been revealed - it's Mirek Topolanek, the former Czech prime minister. Spot on the Italian prime minister's reputation became darker after the publication of explicit photographs taken at his villa that showed topless women and a naked man, reports the Guardian.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - A British air stewardess was sacked for refusing to fly to Saudi Arabia after she was ordered to wear a traditional Islamic robe and walk behind male colleagues. Lisa Ashton, who worked for BMI, was told that she was expected to wear in public in Saudi Arabia the abaya, a long black robe that leaves only the face uncovered.

April 27th, 2009 LONDON - A record number of women have been rushing to the UK's National Health Service (NHS) for cervical smear tests since Jade Goody lost her life to the disease on March 22. According to Sara Hiom from Cancer Research UK, the tragic demise of the late reality star, who passed away aged 27, had sent the number of examinations soaring sky high.

April 10th, 2009 LONDON - A Saudi man divorced his wife by uttering 'I divorce you' thrice through a text message. According to the Arab News, the man was in Iraq to participate in "what he described as 'jihad' when he sent the SMS telling his wife that he's divorcing her, reports The Telegraph.

March 16th, 2009 LONDON - US President Barack Obama's recent call for a 'reconciliation process' in Afghanistan has led to spurt in informal contacts between Taliban militants and other stakeholders in a series of capitals, including New Delhi, a newspaper reported Sunday. Key players in the move include Abdullah Anas, an Algerian who was once close to Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden but now preaches moderation to young Muslims in British mosques, Saudi intelligence chief Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz and Qayum Karzai, the Afghan president's brother and his representative in the talks.

March 15th, 2009 LONDON - Soccer ace Cristiano Ronaldo will now be allowing his mum Dolores Aveiro to pick his girlfriends. "They say men look for their mother in the women they fall for.

February 15th, 2009 LONDON - American actress and model Sienna Miller who faced a backlash from her female fans after she began dating married actor Balthazar Getty has hit back at her detractors and said she doesn't understand women. 'I have been at war, without a doubt.