Twitter sets you free

This is the story of James Karl Buck, a student from the University of California-Berkley who got arrested during a trip to Mahalla, Egypt. On April 10 James and his translator, Mohammed Salah Ahmed Maree were covering an anti-government protest when Egyptian police came and arrested them. The two were photographing outside a police station [...]

Anorexia makes another victim

A couple of weeks ago I told you about Hayley Wilde, the woman who defeated anorexia. Well, unfortunately not all the ladies suffering from this dreadful disease were as lucky as Hayley was. Rosemary Pope, a professor, weighing less than 5 stone had died after torturing herself with a diet of sweets and coffee. She [...]

Too thin to be true

Remember Jordan? Katie Andre is wife of Peter Andre, English glamour model, magazine columnist, business woman and a television personality. But I guess most of you know her by her enormous breasts. A couple of months ago she used to look pretty good. She was curvy and cute but lately she’s too skinny. The other [...]

Hayley Wilde – the woman who defeated anorexia

Her name is Hayley Wilde and she’s been fighting anorexia for 8 years. Last month Hayley gave birth to a beautiful baby boy named Michael who weighed 7 lb 14oz and is perfectly healthy. Hayley is from Blackpool, is 20 years old now and she loves her body but in the past she suffered from [...]

Miss England 2008

The first teenage beauty queen to break the patterns by becoming the first size 16 queen is Chloe Marshall. She made it to the finals of the Miss England beauty contest. She’s 17 and she’s proud of her size 16. Chloe won the Miss Surrey title and now she’s ready for Miss England finals. She [...]

Stupidity of the day – 28/03/2008

A British guy from Devon (South West England), who had won £6.9million at the National Lottery, lost his prize because he didn’t come to claim it. The winners are given 180 days to claim their prizes otherwise they will lose any rights to claim it after. A National Lottery spokesman said: “We were desperate to [...]

Geert Wilders’ film about the Quran

I feel the need to comment upon this subject! Maybe the Quran is talking about killing and destroying the enemy (I don’t know, I’ve never had any interest in reading it) but I don’t think that we should blame only the Arab terrorists for the 9/11 events. Anyway, I’m not a religious person and I [...]

Sexist attitude in a clinic in Spain

Punishment! About 20 nurses from a clinic in Cadiz, Spain who are wearing pants during work are payed with 30 euro less than the rest of the fellow colleagues. The San Rafael clinic nurses are outraged after they were told their paychecks were going to be cut back with 30 euro due to the fact [...]

Stupidity of the day – 27/03/2008

“We apologize for the error in last week’s paper in which we stated that Mr. Arnold Dogbody was a defective in the police force. We meant, of course, that Mr. Dogbody is a detective in the police farce.” -Correction notice in the Ely Standard, a British newspaper

Quote of the day – 25.03.2008

“I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.” George W. Bush