Topic: POLITIK - on September 2, 2004 at 8:47:00 PM CEST
DEMONSTRATIONEN IN NEW YORK
Rekordzahl von 1760 Festnahmen
Die New Yorker Polizei hat seit Beginn des Parteikonvents der US-Republikaner in New York bereits 1760 Demonstranten festgenommen - die bislang höchste Zahl in der Geschichte von US-Parteitagen. Nach den Massenfestnahmen regt sich Kritik an der Polizeitaktik.
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Topic: SEX - on September 2, 2004 at 7:38:00 PM CEST
German caught having sex with doll
A man caught having sex with a blow-up doll in a busy public shopping arcade had to be physically parted from his rubber lover and escorted away, police in Stuttgart say.
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Topic: SEX - on September 2, 2004 at 7:37:00 PM CEST
Amorous Students Warned Against Bus Sex
Bangkok transport officials posted notices on some of the city's buses Wednesday urging young passengers not to have sex while riding in the vehicles.
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Topic: SEX - on September 2, 2004 at 7:33:00 PM CEST
Chinese women queue up to test orgasm medication
Chinese women are queing up to test a new medicine that aims to help them achieve orgasm, in another example of the more open attitudes to sex being adopted in a traditionally conservative country.
More than 200 female volunteers had registered by the end of August to act as guinea pigs for clinical testing by the Beijing University No.1 Hospital of the "female viagra" drug, the Beijing Morning Post said Wednesday.
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Topic: NATURE - on September 2, 2004 at 7:31:00 PM CEST
Bears could keep kids from school
Some 30 brown bears have been terrorising a Transylvanian mountain village and could delay the start of the school year, local authorities say.
Villagers are afraid to let their children go outside, with the bold bears are making off with domestic animals in broad daylight, mayor Nicolae Codreanu told state radio said on Thursday from Poiana Marului, 106 miles north of the Romanian capital Bucharest.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2004 at 7:30:00 PM CEST
Prison Guards Find Basketball Full of Pot
Basketballs are usually puffed up with air, but somebody found a way of inflating one with a substance usually associated with puffing of another kind.
Oklahoma State Penitentiary officials cut into an exercise-yard basketball and found nearly two pounds of what is believed to be marijuana stuffed inside.
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Topic: Space - on September 2, 2004 at 7:28:00 PM CEST
Writing Better Than the Phone to Contact ET?
Writing, rather than phoning, is probably the best way to contact extraterrestrials, American scientists said Wednesday. So instead of phoning home, it could have been more energy efficient if ET had inscribed information and physically sent it, because radio waves disperse as they travel.
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Topic: Space - on September 2, 2004 at 7:19:00 PM CEST
Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact?
An unexplained radio signal from deep space could -- just might be -- contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico.
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Topic: NEWS english - on September 2, 2004 at 7:18:00 PM CEST
Kenya Has Problem With Stolen Babies
Investigators are focusing on Kenya's main maternity hospital, police said Wednesday, following allegations that some parents were told their newborns had died but the babies were really stolen by an international child trafficking ring.
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Topic: DRUGS - on September 2, 2004 at 7:15:00 PM CEST
Altered Plants Pose New Drug War Threat
Authorities suspect a new threat is lurking in the mountains and jungles of Colombia: Not a new rebel cadre, but altered coca plants that are bigger, faster-growing and produce more of the compound that gives cocaine its kick.
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Topic: TV - on September 2, 2004 at 4:12:00 PM CEST
Sweet Jesus, I hate Bill O'Reilly, International
is an organization dedicated to the dissemination of information that exposes Bill O'Reilly for what he is: an ego-driven, biased individual who spreads fear, hate and misunderstanding. His views are firmly anchored to the political right. He works tirelessly to enrage Americans and pit them against anything he considers "liberal" or, worse yet, "secular". Mr. O'Reilly uses highly manipulative forms of presentation, phrasing and, yes, "spin".
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on September 2, 2004 at 2:23:00 PM CEST
Jacko's $1M Conspiracy Slush Fund
Michael Jackson allegedly authorized that $1 million in "petty cash" be used to fund an illegal conspiracy to silence the boy who has accused him of sexual abuse, according to a judicial order docketed today.
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