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Faizel Ali Enait refuses to shake hands with women and prefers them to wear burqas. But on the website of his law firm, two hard-core porn actresses posed as its secretaries. Faizel Ali Enait claims to be a lawyer. He works for Jairam Advocaten, a law firm for Muslims in the Netherlands. Ali Enait lost a court case last week against Rotterdam municipality, which he accused of discrimination. The municipality rejected the Muslim for a job as client manager at the Social Services department because he refused to shake hands with women. The judges ruled that Rotterdam had the right...

Man bitten by Walmart rattlesnake From correspondents in Miami July 08, 2008 09:33amA POSIONOUS rattlesnake hidden among leafy plants in the garden section of a Walmart store in Florida sprang out and bit a man who was shopping there. The man was taken to hospital after the 30cm pygmy rattlesnake bit him in the right hand while he was looking at the plants at the store in Pembroke Pines, Florida, about 50km north of Miami. "This is an isolated incident and we're taking precautions to make sure that it doesn't happen again," said Walmart spokeswoman Ashley Hardie. "To ensure the...

MIAMI, US - A POISONOUS rattlesnake hidden among leafy plants in the garden section of US retail giant Walmart sprung out and bit a man who was shopping there, a company spokeswoman said on Monday. The man was hospitalised after the 30-centimeter pygmy rattlesnake bit him in the right hand while he was perusing the plants at the store in Pembroke Pines, Florida, about 50 kilometers north of Miami. 'This is an isolated incident and we're taking precautions to make sure that it doesn't happen again,' Walmart spokeswoman Ms Ashley Hardie said. 'To ensure the well-being of our customers, we...

FORT WORTH -- A man moving into a new apartment today may have found a bag containing two human hands.A prospective tenant in the 1100 block of Grainger Street in southwest Fort Worth was cleaning out a garage apartment in anticipation of moving in when he found a plastic grocery sack in the freezer, according to Fort Worth police.The man opened the sack and found what looked like "two mangled up frozen hands," according to a statement from Fort Worth Police spokesman Lt. Paul Henderson.The man called police. Some officers who arrived on the scene agreed that the items could...

Formal approval has been granted for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transsexual personnel in HM Armed Forces to march in No.1 uniform (RN/RAF) No. 2 uniform (Army)through Central London on 5th July 2008, as part of the annual Gay Pride event. Whilst the Royal Navy has marched in uniform in previous years, Army and RAF personnel will also be marching in uniform for the first time this year. A large number of personnel have already committed to attend. Personnel will be considered to be on-duty for the uniformed element of the event. RAF personnel who wish to attend in uniform are...

Olympia, Washington: Dee Williams wanted a simpler, greener life -- so she built her dream house, an 84-square-foot cottage on wheels, which is currently parked in a friend's backyard. Not only did she save money using salvaged materials (the front door came from a dumpster, for instance), but the entire house is small enough to fit into a standard parking spot. Says Williams, 'Right now, there's nowhere else I want to be.' Williams’ trailer cottage is surprisingly roomy inside, largely thanks to its clever use of height. For example, Williams’ bed is in a loft above her kitchen. Williams is...

GAINESVILLE, Fla., May 24 (UPI) -- Burmese pythons are multiplying rapidly in the Everglades and moving north in Florida and south to the Keys, a University of Florida researcher says. Frank Mazzoti said the pythons can live anywhere alligators can, which would include all of Florida and swamp areas in Georgia and Louisiana, Science Daily reported.

A tornado has been reported in downtown Atlanta...some injuries.

Sweden's welfare board has criticized a hospital in Stockholm after a 40-year-old woman caught fire during a hemorrhoid operation, Aftonbladet reports. While the woman's piles were successfully removed by doctors at Ersta Hospital, she ended up leaving the surgery in September with a partially burned backside. In addition to the hemorrhoids, the woman was also in hospital to have a lump removed with the aid of electrosurgery. The accident took place after a nurse had cleaned the woman's skin with an antiseptic solution. With some of the highly flammable liquid having trickled under the women's body, the patient caught fire...

An Australian who went for a drunken dip in the sea got more than he bargained for when he dived into the jaws of a large crocodile. Matt Martin was camping alone near a beach in northern Queensland when he decided to go for a dusk swim, despite having drunk what he later admitted was "half a slab", or 12 cans of beer. When the 35-year-old construction worker dived into a wave, he butted heads with a submerged saltwater crocodile. "I thought I was dead. It was sort of like when you hit rocks but the rocks had give and...

CARACAS (Reuters) - A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face. "I woke up because the pain was unbearable," Camejo said, according to a report on Friday in leading local newspaper El Universal. His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband's...

Corrina Vargas, 26, was cooking breakfast morning in her mother’s airport district home this morning when she heard an explosion. Her son, Carlos Mendez, 10, was sitting on a bed in the living room watching cartoons when something came through the roof. A small piece of the debris hit him in the back of the head. Both ran out of the house, and her mother, Mary Montano, gathered the rest of the adults and children in the house and got them out. No one was injured by what turned out to be a bowling ball-sized chunk of ice that crashed...

"Madonna is reported to have started injecting herself with vitamins to boost her energy levels. The singer, who turns 49 on Thursday, is said to have surprised passengers on a recent flight from New York to London by injecting herself with a vitamin shot in her arm."

CAIRO (Reuters) - A Saudi passenger tried to smuggle a large number of reptiles, including cobra snakes and infant Nile crocodiles, out of Egypt in his luggage, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported Sunday. The discovery of the reptiles in the passenger's bags triggered a brief panic among security personnel at the Cairo International Airport, witnesses said. The 22-year-old passenger, identified only as Anas, said he needed the reptiles, which also included chameleons, for scientific research at his university in Saudi Arabia. His collection will be handed over to Egypt's main zoo in Cairo.

INDUSTRY - Sheriff's bomb squad experts evacuated 500 people and removed a live rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) from a trash processing plant on Friday afternoon, officials said. The grenade was discovered at about 10:30 a.m. Friday at Athens Service's Materials Recycling Facility in the 14000 block of Valley Boulevard. "An employee spotted the device, we shut the plant down and employees were evacuated," said Chris Carlos, the company's director of governmental affairs. Sheriff's officials said the grenade, painted blue, was removed to a remote facility Friday afternoon. The grenade was of unknown origin. "(The FBI was) notified but we did not...

PAW PAW, Mich. — Why did the 21-year-old cross the road?Benjamin Carpenter, 21, was crossing a Michigan highway in his wheelchair when he became stuck in a semitrailer's grille and pushed for miles before the unknowing driver was pulled over, police said on Thursday. Carpenter escaped unharmed, saying, "It was quite a ride," police said. Carpenter was attempting to cross on Wednesday when the light turned green and his wheelchair became hooked onto the front grille of the truck, which reached 50 mph during the 4-mile trip down Red Arrow Highway, Michigan State Police Trooper Michael Sinke said witnesses reported....

THE way was cleared today for scientists to conduct experiments using hybrid animal-human embryos after the UK Government bowed to a storm of protest from researchers who said a proposed ban could hurt British science. The Department of Health said it would accept a recommendation from the Commons Science and Technology Committee that inter-species embryos could be created for research. Scientists want to use the hybrid embryos to find cures for illnesses such as Parkinson's, stroke and Alzheimer's. In December, the Government had proposed a ban on creating the hybrid embryos, due to what it called "considerable public unease," with...

When a court-appointed special master last year rejected the claim of an Alabama couple that their daughter had suffered seizures after a vaccination, she explained her decision in part by referring to material from articles in Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia. The reaction from the court above her, the United States Court of Federal Claims, was direct: the materials “culled from the Internet do not — at least on their face — meet” standards of reliability. The court reversed her decision. Oddly, to cite the “pervasive, and for our purposes, disturbing series of disclaimers” concerning the site’s accuracy, the same...

This is just crossing my desk now; nothing follows yet. According to some sources this is the subject of the noon presser.

Police were seeking help Thursday locating a stolen truck that was carrying radioactive material. The white 2001 Ford F-350 was taken Wednesday morning from the Sunlight Food Mart at 1935 South Jupiter Road in Garland. Garland police Lt. Scot Bunch said the truck has a cab-over camper and flames painted on the hood and front quarter panels. It has the name Bonded Inspections Inc. on the sides, and Texas license plate 5YL-T51. ------------------------------------------------------- Anyone with information about the theft or the suspect can call the Garland Police Department at 972-485-4840 or the investigating officer at 972-205-2060.

Two live diamondback rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona movie theater during a showing of the new film "Snakes on a Plane," according to Local 6 News.

Two live rattlesnakes were released in an Arizona theater during a showing of the new film, 'Snakes on a Plane.' The snakes were released after the film began rolling in the dark theater at the AMC Desert Ridge multi-plex at Tatum and the 101 in north Phoenix.

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"NEW YORK (Reuters) - A "Presidential Bust" of U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton was unveiled on Wednesday at New York's Museum of Sex, where sculptor Daniel Edwards hopes it will spark discussion about sex, politics and celebrity. Edwards, the artist who also created a life-size nude of Britney Spears giving birth on a bear-skin rug, said he wanted to capture Clinton's age and femininity in the sculpture."

A MUSIC teacher and Baptist preacher who has admitted having a lesbian relationship with a teenage student 20 years ago is being sued by the woman for assault and negligence. Louise Audet, 39, told the District Court yesterday she was 15 when the three-year sexual relationship began in mid-1982 with Cheryl Groth at Picton High School. Ms Groth, who is nine years older, befriended the girl as a "special daughter" and told her to call her Mum after she confided in her that she had been sexually abused by her grandfather and siblings and beaten by her father, Mrs Audet...

Recording artist Cindi Lauper performs during the closing ceremony of the Gay Games VII at Wrigley Field in Chicago. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green) (July 22, 2006)

Letter left by dying man gives clue to investigators· Dozens of others thought to have perished en route The white ghost ship rolled in the Atlantic swell as the rescue boats approached it 70 nautical miles off Ragged Point, one of the most easterly places on the Caribbean island of Barbados. The yacht was unmarked, 6 metres (20ft) long, and when Barbadian coastguard officers boarded it, they made a gruesome find. The boat's phantom crew was made up of the desiccated corpses of 11 young men, huddled in two separate piles in the small cabin. Dressed in shorts and colourful...

PADUCAH, Ky. --The next time Dan McBride rents a car, he may want to inspect it not just for dings and dents but also for snakes. The assistant athletic director at Eastern Kentucky University found a two-foot-long ball python in his rental car this week as he left the Ohio Valley Conference baseball tournament in Paducah. McBride got into his car Wednesday night with a colleague and saw the snake draped across the console. McBride said he thought it was a rubber snake someone put there as a joke. He even gave the snake a pat and put the car...

Another case of plastic surgery gone bad?

A man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief Thursday after he allegedly broke into a funeral home and fell asleep in a coffin. Joel Fish, 20, of Queensbury, was arrested after he was discovered at the O'Leary Funeral Home in Canton, 127 miles north of Syracuse. Debra White, wife of the home's funeral director Joe White, said she noticed a broken window and open door to the casket display room when she awoke at 6:30 a.m. Inside, she saw a boot and pair of pants on the floor and a pair of knees sticking out of a stainless steel...

They tore up the terrazzo dancing salsa at South Beach's Pearl. They jammed to electronica and played make-believe news anchors and firefighters at the Miami Children's Museum. They did the Dirty-South grind, chains of them in bikinis and surfer shorts, around the pool at the Surfcomber on Collins Avenue. More than 7,000 lesbians, from South Florida, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, even Canada, France and South America, came together over the weekend for the blowout fundraiser Aqua Girl. They didn't stop dancing until well into Sunday evening. They also didn't stop surprising themselves with their ease in blending together. In...

A patient's "gas leak" is being blamed for bringing a hospital operation to a fiery end. The man suffered minor burns in a brief but "dramatic" operating theatre fire which is believed to have been caused by flatulence, The New Zealand Herald reported today. The man was at the Southern Cross Hospital in Invercargill to have haemorrhoids removed and was singed in the "exceedingly rare" incident involving his own gas. "This was thought to be flatus containing methane igniting," a health source told the newspaper. "There was a sort of flashfire and that was it, but it was fairly alarming...

If diseases like AIDS and bird flu scare you, wait until you hear what's next. Doctors are trying to find out what is causing a bizarre and mysterious infection that's surfaced in South Texas. Morgellons disease is not yet known to kill, but if you were to get it, you might wish you were dead, as the symptoms are horrible. "These people will have like beads of sweat but it's black, black and tarry," said Ginger Savely, a nurse practioner in Austin who treats a majority of these patients. Patients get lesions that never heal. "Sometimes little black specks that...

Police are investigating the theft of 19 vials of HIV-positive blood from St. Paul's Hospital in downtown Vancouver over the weekend. The blood samples had been stored in a locked freezer on the sixth floor of the hospital's UBC virology lab. They weren't discovered missing until Monday, when staff noticed the freezer had been pried open. But police say the theft could have taken place as early as Saturday morning. The vials, which were used for research, were labelled with the patient's name and marked with the lettering "HIV VL." Hospital spokesperson Shaheen Shivji said this is the first time...

This Worm Is Nasty, Brutish, And Sneaky As a data security specialist, Jeremy Pickett sees all kinds of digital tricks. So on Mar. 20, when he was tracing the origins of a computer worm that had been blocked the night before from entering a client's computer network, Pickett wasn't too surprised that it tried to connect with four sleazy Web sites, most of them, he believes, in Russia. Or that it then tried to load victims' PCs with as many as 30 new pieces of "malware," ranging from spam programs to those that automatically dial in to expensive phone-sex services....

One trillion barrels. Well, its a new game, isn't it?

(Nutley-WABC, March 28, 2006) - It appears parts of a cargo plane fell from the sky. Tim Fleischer is in Nutley with the story. Some very, very scary moments for a Nutley New Jersey family. They actually did not hear the piece that fell on their sidewalk, but it still came dangerously closes to their home. Bob Suchocki, Nutley Resident: "Well, I guess this is where it fell originally." Bob Suchocki has the pictures to prove it. A piece, about three by four feet long fell right on the front lawn narrowly missing his house.

Do parents ever look at their kids and think, gee, what ugly kids I have? Answers 1. Only mothers can think their children are beautiful after birth - they have to have some good reason for going through all that work. Fathers tend to think their children's heads look squashed, red, and ugly. A child's appearance gradually improves, becoming absolutely perfect after they leave home permanently. 2. If the parents are in an "ugly" mood they might think their kids are ugly too. In reality it's only a reflection of how they feel inside. If they have low self-esteem and...

A gay man with full-blown Aids donated blood on Friday -- after lying about his sexual practices, the SA National Blood Transfusion Service (SANBTS) has been told. This, after the blood bank reiterated its refusal to accept donations from men who have had sex with men in the past five years. Reassuring the public that the infected blood would not be used, SANBTS spokesperson Ianthe Exall said every donation was still being tested for HIV/Aids and hepatitis. She said Gay and Lesbian Alliance spokesperson David Baxter had told SANBTS marketing manager Gail Nothard that about 120 of its members had...

25. Close My Eyes Forever-- Lita Ford 24. When It's Love-- Van Halen 23. It's Been Awhile-- Staind 22. Still Loving You-- Scorpions 21. Silent Lucidity-- Queensryche 20. Love Song-- Tesla 19. Only God Knows Why-- Kid Rock 18. Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone)-- Cinderella 17. These Dreams-- Heart 16. How You Remind Me-- Nickelback 15. I Remember You-- Skid Row 14. Keep On Loving You-- REO Speedwagon 13. Again-- Lenny Kravitz 12. Home Sweet Home-- Mötley Crüe 11. Nothing Else Matters-- Metallica 10. Is This Love-- Whitesnake 9. Sister Christian-- Night Ranger 8. Love Bites-- Def...

A 95-year-old man was moved from a hospital morgue in Portugal to a care unit after he was heard coughing several hours after a doctor declared him dead, Portuguese media reported today. Family members called an ambulance to bring Manuel Lino to a public hospital in the town of Abrantes, some 120km northeast of Lisbon, on December 1 because he was not feeling well, daily Jornal de Noticias said. When Lino arrived at the hospital the doctor who examined him inside of the ambulance said he could not find a pulse and ordered his body sent to the morgue, it...

An Egyptian man discovered on his wedding day that his fiancée of three years was a man who had been concealing his identity behind a veil, the daily Al-Gomhuria reported Wednesday. The 26-year-old groom-to-be, Tamer Shehata, was notified by a female guest attending his wedding that his would-be wife was a man in women's clothing. When Shehata confronted his fiancée, the latter broke down and revealed that 'she' was actually an 18-year-old man called Ahmed Abo Zeid, the newspaper said. Abo Zeid confessed that he had tried several times to undergo a sex change but had failed to secure doctors'...

A young woman from the Russian city of Volgograd has been detained for deliberately trying to infect 40 men with HIV, the Moskovsky Komsomolets daily reported Wednesday. The woman, aged 24, knew she was HIV-positive but continued to have unsafe sex without warning her partners. Russian laws penalize the deliberate spreading of HIV with a jail sentence of up to five years, a fact which the woman was aware of. She nevertheless embarked on a period of unprotected sexual relations with 40 men. One of her partners has been diagnosed with HIV, the rest are being tested for the virus....

With Santa's help, I have taken the liberty to set up a freeper gift exchange. I put all the names into Blurblogger's 10 gallon hat and drew the names out. (No worries, I disenfected the hat first!). Of course, being Pissant, I decided that I would also provide a gift purchase recommendation, knowing how all the freepers are having trouble even selecting that gift for Aunt Mildred. All freepers were included, but I am only providing a sample below: FROM........................TO............................PA RECOMENDS CedarDave...................Pissant.......................Case of Guiness Paula B.........................MaximusofTexas.......Used nylons Laney............................JoeSixPack1.............Framed"Glamour shot" DashingDasher...............Skooz.......................Gift cert. for Dasher's Dungeon Owl Eagle......................JRBikerChick...........The Best of U2 Tijeras...

EFFORT, Pa. -- A black bear has picked a bad spot for his long winter's nap. A couple of kids in Monroe County, Pa., found the bear sleeping under their porch. Pedro Sainvil said two of his children started screaming "Dad, Dad! There's a bear under the house!" He has four kids and the home is near where 20 children wait for the school bus. Wildlife officials estimate the snoozing bear could weigh as much as 700 pounds. State Game Commission officers said they will relocate the bear to a den on public land where it can sleep until spring.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Argentina's Congress passed a law on Wednesday classifying all citizens as organ donor candidates unless they explicitly reject the idea. The measure, the first of its kind in Latin America, was introduced to Congress last year by Argentine President Nestor Kirchner and approved unanimously by the Senate on Wednesday after it was passed by the Chamber of Deputies. Before the new law, only people who expressly volunteered to donate their organs after they died would contribute to organ and tissue transplants. "This law means more lives will be saved," said Vice President Daniel...

The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee. Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), arrived at her suburban Virginia home after work Wednesday about 6:30 p.m. As she was unloading belongings from her car, a 6-foot-1-inch white man dressed in black struck her repeatedly with an unidentified object believed to be a baseball bat. After she screamed to her family inside the house, the assailant fled. DiSanto was transported...

Teju Lizards Can Hold Breath For 30 Minutes A 3-year-old boy and his mother in Bergen, Norway, received a shock Wednesday when they lifted the lid of the toilet and found a large South American Teju lizard with its head sticking out of the bowl. # The Teju is capable of holding its breath for half an hour, which probably explains how it managed to navigate its way through the sewer and up into the family toilet. When the pair saw the carnivorous black and yellow lizard, they screamed, according to the report. The family called a local reptile expert...

Central Oregon, in an area covered by forest, is a growing bulge in the terrain that eager scientists say could be the beginnings of a volcano. The bulge covers 100 square miles and is rising at a rate of 1.4 inches a year. The shape resembles a dome... Geologists say the bulge represents a unique opportunity to study what could be a volcanic formation in its earliest stages... The bulge, in the Three Sisters Wilderness Area -- named after three volcanic peaks -- was detected in March 2001 by a geologist using a new imaging technology called radar interferometry, which...