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Saudi man sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes after talking about sex on TV By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 5:50 PM on 07th October 2009 Comments (9) Add to My Stories A Saudi man has been sentenced to five years in jail and 1,000 lashes for publicly talking about sex after he bragged on a TV talk show about his exploits. The program, which aired July 15 on LBC and was seen in Saudi Arabia, scandalised this conservative country where talking about sex is unheard of in public. Some 200 people filed legal complaints against Abdul Jawad, who works for the national airline. The government moved swiftly in the wake of …

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Tiny porkers with a big price tag: £700 'micro-pigs' are the latest celebrity pet craze By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 8:59 AM on 07th October 2009 Comments (86) Add to My Stories With their wrinkled little snouts, tiny trotters and oversized ears, they are irresistibly cute. But while these micro pigs may be minuscule, their price tag is anything but. In exchange for up to £700, owners take home a pet which weighs just 9oz at birth and is the size of a tea cup. Cute: Tiny pigs the size of tea cups are the latest pet craze sweeping across Britain Snout pout: Breeder Jane Croft enjoys a happy moment with one of h…

Nasa telescope discovers largest-ever ring around Saturn... big enough to contain one billion Earths By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 11:01 AM on 07th October 2009 Comments (6) Add to My Stories Saturn's biggest and never-been-seen before ring has been discovered. The 'super-sized' halo was found by Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope. To get a sense of its size it has a vertical height which is about 20 times the diameter of the planet, which is nine times the size of our planet. Furthermore, it would take about one billion Earths stacked together to fill the ring. The bulk of the ring starts about 3.7million miles from Saturn itself and…

So as Ireland votes 'yes' to Lisbon treaty, our 1000 years of history ends like this By Glen Owen Last updated at 1:28 AM on 04th October 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories The creation of a European superstate moved a step closer last night, after the Irish people voted to accept the Lisbon Treaty, paving the way for a powerful new President of Europe. In a result greeted with relief in Downing Street and dismay in the Tory Party, more than two-thirds of the Irish electorate voted Yes in the country’s second referendum on the treaty. The ballot followed a frantic campaign by pro-Europeans to reverse Ireland’s overwhelming No vote last ye…

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Nothing to see here folks, recovery is happening! Remember the Dow was at a all time high 2 month's before the recession stopped. http://www.marke****ch.com/story/gold-hits-record-high-as-dollar-slumps-2009-10-06 EDIT: Why won't the link post?

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Anyone play? The weather is starting to cool down so it's almost the time of year to break out the croquet set.

TV dumped for England's World Cup qualifier - but fans can watch it live on the internet By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 4:00 PM on 05th October 2009 Comments (68) Add to My Stories Millions of England fans will be unable to watch this weekend's World Cup qualifying match against Ukraine on television after negotiations to broadcast it on TV collapsed. But supporters will be able to watch it on the computers on a pay-per-view basis as media group Perform is to stream the game live over the internet. Failed sports channel Setanta had been due to broadcast the game after international football agency Kentaro had sold the broadcast rig…

Anybody else been watching them on channel 4? They are brilliant

My bungee nightmare: Briton hits water at 80mph after elastic cord flies loose By Kate Loveys Last updated at 2:45 AM on 05th October 2009 Comments (0) Videos Add to My Stories As he hurtled towards the water at 80mph on a bungee jump, Rishi Baveja anxiously awaited the moment when the elastic cord snapped him back aloft. It never came. The harness around his feet worked free and he continued accelerating until he hit the surface of a Thai lagoon. Going, going: A video from the platform shows Rishi Baveja jump, left, and the cord almost fully unfurls with him still attached, right Gone: He …

Pilots and cabin crew brawl at 30,000ft after flight attendant claims she was molested By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:07 PM on 05th October 2009 Add to My Stories A brawl erupted between the pilots and cabin crew on an Air India flight at 30,000ft after a stewardess accused a co-pilot of sexual harassment. The scuffle spilled from the cockpit into the galley of the Airbus A320, which was allegedly left unmanned. The pilot of the flight from United Arab Emirates to Delhi threatened to land the plane in Pakistan. Pilots and cabin crew of Air India brawled in the air over allegations of sexual harassment, leaving the cockpit u…

Friends reunited: Stars of hit TV sitcom to make movie version By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 5:53 PM on 27th September 2009 Comments (24) Add to My Stories The cast of Friends are to be reunited once again – for a movie version of the hit TV show, it emerged today. The six main stars have agreed to move onto the big screen following the success of the Sex And The City film at the box office. It means Jennifer Aniston, 40, Courteney Cox, 45, Lisa Kudrow, 46, Matt LeBlanc, 42, Matthew Perry, 40, and David Schwimmer, 42, will be back on the same set for the first time since the show ended in 2004. They're back: Friends stars wi…

Into the wild: Photographers go to ends of the earth to capture these amazing wildlife shots By Caroline Graham Last updated at 5:54 PM on 04th October 2009 Comments (25) Add to My Stories They spend weeks, months or even years waiting to track down and shoot their prey. But when wildlife photographers eventually capture their target, the results - as these picture show - are worth it. French photographer Eric Lefranc's White Water Fishing shows a young brown bear in Katmai National Park in Alaska trying to catch fish on the salmon run. White water fishing: A brown bear fishes the salmon run at Brooks Falls in Katmai National Park, A…

Red October: Stunning field of poppies provides summery display... two months late By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 2:16 AM on 05th October 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories A field of late-flowering bright red poppies is so magnificent that drivers have been stopping their cars to have a look. The spectacle near Shaftesbury in north Dorset covers several acres of farmland and hundreds of people have been stopping to take photos. Thought to have been accidentally drilled into the field, the poppy seeds have emerged after the warm spell over the last few weeks. The warm and dry September weather has tricked the poppy seed into …

Tracey Emin set to quit Britain for France over 50% tax rate Last updated at 10:58 PM on 04th October 2009 Comments (27) Add to My Stories La belle vie: Tracey Emin is planning to move to France to avoid higher taxes Britart pioneer Tracey Emin is preparing to pack up her unmade bed and move to France because of Gordon Brown's 50 per cent tax for the rich. The artist, who is a millionairess, told the Sunday Times that she was 'very seriously considering leaving Britain', adding: 'I’m simply not willing to pay tax at 50 per cent.' Ms Emin's revelation comes after Chancellor Alistair Darling announced earlier this year that those earnin…

X Factor: Contestants down to final 12 as pop flops fail to make the grade By Jo Clements Last updated at 2:01 AM on 05th October 2009 Comments (0) Add to My Stories They have already been pop flops once before. So perhaps that’s why the X Factor judges did not deem them finalist material. Daniel Pearce, a former member of failed boy band One True Voice, and Stacey McClean, who used to sing in S Club Juniors, had their dreams shattered once again as they learned they had not made it through to the live finals. ‘You’ve been down this road before,’ judge Simon Cowell told 31-year-old Pearce. ‘I’m trying to put myself in your shoes, wh…

Favourite Comedian?? apologies for threads the same as this. but who's ya fav comedian, who really makes your sides ache and your bladders bust :P ???? For me it's an Australian man by the name of Carl Barron, the first time i saw him was eating icecream and i nearly choked!!! Rodney Rude is a cracker as well!!!!

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A career? Just make us stars, say children in new survey By Laura Clark Last updated at 8:10 AM on 02nd October 2009 Comments (24) Add to My Stories When their parents were children, they imagined a future standing in front of a class of pupils or doing the rounds as a doctor. But today's youngsters seem to have set their sights only on being the next Leona Lewis or Wayne Rooney. According to a survey, they dream of a celebrity lifestyle, perhaps after finding fame through shows such as the X Factor, and of being actors or sports stars. Dreams: Children are more likely to dream of becoming a famous pop star like Leo…

California Nightmaring, With Mass Immigration A Key Demon California is a textbook case of stupid and irresponsible governance, largely because failed political ideologies are still popular in the halls of the state legislature. Economist Milton Friedman famously observed, "You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state". California has surely demonstrated the folly of trying to do exactly that. By Brenda Walker The Golden State has been drowning in a maelstrom of self-created misery. A budget crisis of monumental proportions is exacerbated by one of the country’s worst unemployment rates, 12.2 percent in August. But what’s really disturb…

Ig Nobel awards: A bra that converts into a gas mask and how panda poo helps recycling By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:11 PM on 02nd October 2009 Comments (14) Add to My Stories Can't get milk from a cow? Try calling her Bessie or Buttercup. A pair of British researchers who found that dairy cows with names yield more milk than unnamed cows are among this year's winners of the Ig Nobel awards, the annual tribute to scientific research that on the surface seems daft but is often surprisingly practical. Other winners honoured yesterday at Harvard University's Sanders Theater included scientists who found that empty beer bottles are mu…