Shocking pics show US Fritzl’s filthy house

September 21st, 2009 LONDON - The scandal of MPs' expenses in Britain made the "most shocking story of last 50 years", according to a poll. Several politicians had to resign after the story was disclosed, including the Speaker of the House of Commons.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was in 'American Fritzl' Philip Garrido's clutches for 18 years, wanted to become a model, it has emerged. Cheyvonne Molino, 35, who owns a wrecking business and was a client of Garrido's printing firm Printing 4 Less, has revealed that Garrido even handed out pictures of his 'daughter' Dugard, who he called 'Allissa', to his clients.

September 1st, 2009 LONDON - The house where 'American Fritzl' Philip Garrido and his wife Nancy held Jaycee Lee Dugard captive for 18 years is surrounded by dozens of sex offenders. More than 120 men with convictions for offences against kids live within five miles of the property where Dugard was forced to live in a ramshackle collection of tents and sheds in the back yard, reports the Telegraph.

August 30th, 2009 LONDON - A filthy, ramshackle secret garden, hidden inside 'American Fritzl' Phillip Garrido's house in the small town of Antioch, east of San Francisco, has been revealed to be the place where he kept Jaycee Lee Dugard as sex slave for 18 years and fathered two children with her. Jaycee - kidnapped from a bus stop by Garrido, 58, when she was just 11 -was just 14 when she had the first of his two daughters, now 11 and 15, reports News of the World.

July 24th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Locals in Cyprus have reacted with anger after alleged photos showing tourists having wild orgies on ferries emerged. The lewd pictures were published in the Norwegian press, and show tourists engaged in a series of explicit sex acts on a ferry bound for the island's party hotspot Ayia Napa.

July 4th, 2009 NEW YORK - Sarah Palin's shocking announcement of stepping down as Alaska Governor has doomed her chances of ever becoming a President, Republican insiders have claimed. "She has an incredibly thin résumé, a serious lack of gravitas, no coherent philosophy and the people around her are amateurs.

July 2nd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Iranian claims that the shooting death of a young Iranian woman was staged during the demonstrations to tarnish the government's image is "shocking" and equate to a "campaign of misinformation", the White House said Wednesday. "That is the ongoing campaign of misinformation about what's going on," spokesman Robert Gibbs said.

June 8th, 2009 MELBOURNE - Australia's Next Top Model contestant Lola Van Vorst seems to be least bothered by her nude photo scandal. She insists that the unfolding drama hasn't threatened her chances in the program.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - A headmistress has grabbed eyeballs as well as headlines ever since photographs showing her in underwear have been circulated on school computers. Police are now investigating how embarrassing pictures of Sue Brearley, were accidentally loaded onto a computer at Whitecross School, in Lydney, Glos.

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - It's good news for Bruce Springsteen's fans, as they can get their hands on his rare, exclusive photos through a charity competition. Fans, who give 17 pounds or more to the Community FoodBank of New Jersey, might get the vintage pics of the 'Dry Lightning' hitmaker, reports The Daily Express.

April 4th, 2009 LONDON - Photographs showing British group 'The Beatles' at the height of their fame have been published in a new book. The pictures, taken during the time they held the top five positions in the US singles chart in 1964, show the extent of the band's popularity and the mania that enveloped them both in the US and the UK at the time.

March 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl is expected to chose a former nunnery converted into a comfortable modern prison as the place in which he will serve his life sentence. The 74-year-old has been jailed for murder, rape, enslavement, coercion and incest after caging his daughter in a rat-infested dungeon for 24 years and fathering seven children by her, six of whom survived.

March 21st, 2009 LONDON - Local council in Amstetten, Austria, is reportedly planning to buy the "House of Horrors"- the three-storey house where Josef Fritzl kept his daughter Elisabeth as a sex slave for 24 long years. The move is being made to prevent the house from being turned into a ghoulish tourist attraction, it has emerged.

March 19th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit man has taken a photograph that shows strange shapes hovering over London, leading to speculation they could be UFOs. Derek Burdon, 40, of Leverington, Cambs, says he was just aiming for a scenic photo of London and was stunned when he spotted what he says are four flying saucers on the far right of the pic.

January 20th, 2009 LONDON - British football star David Beckham has stripped to his underclothes along with wife Victoria for an Armani ad. Thesun.co.uk reports that in the ad Beckham is seen in white briefs, while Victoria sports a lacy polka-dot push-up bra.