| German TV show tests exactly how low people will go |
Munich-based Neun Live's TV show is intended to test exactly what people will do for money.
So far the show's host has persuaded Germans to remove most of their clothes before being taken for a walk on dog's lead around a shopping centre on all fours.
Other contestants have agreed to eat dog food and lick an escalator as well as consume drinks stolen from passers-by.
HOLLYWOOD
John Zuccarini has learned the high price of misspelling Disneyland.
The Internet ''mouse-trapper,'' who registered websites like www.dinseyland.com and www.teltubbies.com and redirected unsuspecting children and others to porn, was sentenced Thursday to 30 months in federal prison.
Zuccarini, 53, registered more than 3,000 Internet sites that were close misspellings of A-list sites for celebrities and retailers. Bob the Builder, Kevin Spacey, Victoria's Secret and Betty Crocker all were targets.
There were 16 different registered variants of the legitimate site www.britneyspears.com.
Zuccarini took in as much as $1 million a year. Porn advertisers paid Zuccarini every time a customer clicked through to their site.
 Handwashing is the main way of preventing infections |
Deaths from methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus increased from 51 in 1993 to 800 in 2002.
The Office of National Statistics said cases of MRSA increased from 210 to 5,309 over the same period.
In December, the government announced a crackdown on poor hospital hygiene.
It introduced a raft of measures including an director of infection for each hospital who should talk to staff about the importance of handwashing - the main method of transmission.
The missing people-shredder
Brendan O'Neill
Wednesday February 25, 2004
The Guardian
Forget the no-show of Saddam Hussein's WMD. Ask instead what happened to Saddam's "people shredder", into which his son Qusay reportedly fed opponents of the Ba'athist regime.
Ann Clwyd, the Labour MP, wrote of the shredder in the Times on March 18 last year - the day of the Iraq debate in the House of Commons and three days before the start of the war. Clwyd described an Iraqi's claims that male prisoners were dropped into a machine "designed for shredding plastic", before their minced remains were "placed in plastic bags" so they could later be used as "fish food".
It remains to be seen whether this uncorroborated story turns out to be nothing more than war propaganda.
Stern blames suspension on Janet Jackson's breast
By Larry Fine
NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Radio shock-jock Howard Stern on Thursday blamed a conservative backlash prompted by the exposure of singer Janet Jackson's breast on television for the suspension of his show
"I'm under attack. They've been after me since 1992, and they're having their way with me," he said referring to repeated troubles he has had with regulators. "Then Janet Jackson whipped out her boob and it's all over."
| Oral Sex Carries Mouth Cancer Risk | ||
 | An infection that is sexually transmitted and is a precursor to cervical cancer has been linked to mouth tumours. The human papilloma virus (HPV) has been detected in tumour sufferers at three times the incidence in patients who have had oral sex. | |
 | A study by the French International Agency for Research on Cancer compared 1,600 patients from Europe, Canada, Australia, Cuba and the Sudan with 1,700 healthy individuals. | |
| It is hoped that current and future vaccine research and development in the area of cervical cancer may help in the battle against oral tumours. | |
ROME (Reuters) - According to a new bill regulating the treatment of animals that will be implemented next week in the wealthy town of Reggio Emilia, canary owners will have to buy a significant other for their bird, who otherwise might suffer from loneliness. Dog owners will have to provide sufficiently spacious dog houses in shady, sheltered locations and pet owners of all stripes will be prohibited from dyeing the fur of their animals. The rules, spelled out in 39 different articles, also make it illegal to throw live lobsters in boiling water. Fines for breaking the rules run from 25 to 495 euros.
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By ANDY WILKS
TEN million monster crabs are heading towards British shores from Russia — eating everything in their path.
The Kamchatka, or Red King crabs, have crawled 400 miles along Norway’s coast, leaving an “underwater desert”.
The Red Army is annihilating clams and other shellfish and threatening the sea’s ecosystem.
Each can weigh 25lb with a 3ft claw-span and can take a man’s finger off in one go.
“It can survive on almost anything — kelp, dead fish, seaweed and fish eggs.
They are dubbed Stalin crabs after the tyrant who introduced them to the Barents Sea from the Pacific to feed coastal towns.
Their numbers rocketed because they have no natural predators.
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