A FATHER-OF-FOUR who killed his girlfriend’s newborn son by shaking him so hard it caused his brain to haemorrhage has had his parole eligibility date cut by three years.
Matthew Andrew Riseley, 22, was jailed for eight years after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of 19-day-old Isaac James Lazarus on November 10, 2007.
But a Court of [...]
September 21, 2009 | Posted in
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THE new Australian Military Court, a centrepiece of reforms to the military justice system, has been declared constitutionally invalid.
High Court judges have unanimously ruled that legislation establishing the court required it to exercise the judicial power of the Commonwealth.
This was despite it being specifically declared not to be a court under the constitution and that [...]
August 25, 2009 | Posted in
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WORLD champion athlete Caster Semenya has arrived home in South Africa to reports she has recorded “elevated levels of the male hormone testosterone” in testing.
Preliminary medical tests taken on the 800 metres gold medallist before the start of the World Championships indicated she had three times the normal female level of testosterone.
The paper claims the [...]
August 25, 2009 | Posted in
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A NEW YORK blogger who described a model as a “skank” is planning to sue Google for $18 million after the internet giant revealed her identity.
Rosemary Port was sued by former Vogue cover girl Liskula Cohen after Google was forced to reveal her identity following a court order, The New York Daily News reports.
Ms Cohen [...]
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A SAUDI prince has purchased what is being described by the Canadian seller as the world’s most expensive adult novelty item – a solid 18-carat gold penis enlarger worth nearly $US50,000.
X4 Labs, a Canadian manufacturer of medical devices, received the unorthodox request and recruited a Montreal custom jeweller to help with its design and construction.
“This [...]
August 5, 2009 | Posted in
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A 39-YEAR-OLD woman with swine flu has given birth shortly before dying, the BBC has reported, as details of the latest A(H1N1) cases in Britain have emerged.
The BBC has said that the woman, Ruptara Miah, was admitted to a London hospital about three weeks ago with a cough and chest infection.
Her brother Abdul Malik has [...]
July 18, 2009 | Posted in
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A SWAZI man was stoned to death by a mob of schoolchildren after he stabbed a 13-year-old girl to death with a spear and wounded 12 others at their school.
The 25-year-old man stormed into one of the classes on Thursday (local time) carrying a spear and ordered the pupils to leave their room at Ncabaneni [...]
July 17, 2009 | Posted in
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WOMEN wanting to get pregnant should find themselves an ugly man, new research suggests.
Scientists have found attractive males produce less sperm during sex.
Researchers think good-looking males are biologically geared to hold back their sperm in each encounter to increase their chance of impregnating more females.
But unattractive males know they are not going to bed so [...]
July 9, 2009 | Posted in
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A WOMAN has been reunited with her missing cat after watching it wandering around the set of a live political talk show.
British woman Jackie Ellery was sitting at home last Thursday night when a friend called and told her to watch a BBC program, the Daily Mail reports.
Mrs Ellery was then shocked to see ginger [...]
July 2, 2009 | Posted in
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THE remains of the “first Europeans” discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric humans were cannibals who particularly liked the flesh of children.
“We know that they practiced cannibalism,” Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, one of the co-directors of the Atapuerca project, said.
A study of the remains revealed that they [...]
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