A couple was caught having sex up a clock tower in Sydney, in full view of watching crowds, in the middle of the day.

Thus far, nobody know who these two people are but newspapers in Australia is wanting them to come forward to "reveal themselves".

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A prisoner claims his human rights are being breached when he was told to get rid of his pet bird.

Paul Brown, 42, serving life in prison for stabbing a man to death outside a pub in 2002.

Apparently he talks to the bird all day.

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A fake 47-year-old British aristocrat has been detained in Spain for allegedly conning women out of millions of dollars by promising to marry them.

The con man collected money from the victims telling them he needed the money to cover lawyers' fees and other miscellaneous expenses in relation to inheriting a multi-million dollars.

Some of his victims, who believed he was going to marry them, gave him up to $1 million. But upon obtaining the money, he would disappear.

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Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill.

The bank teller who refused to open the account called police while Smith started to curse at bank workers.

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A ghostly image of Father Henry Garnet who was executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book bounded in his skin.

The book will be auctioned at Wilkinson's Auctioneers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, on Sunday.

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This is the Boxster RS 60 Spyder Limited Edition. It pays tribute to the winning Type 718 RS.

Just 1,960 of these cars will be made available at a price of approximately $78,000.

Hurry up - this is definately a "while stocks last" offer.

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Existing next to the black market trade older white women are visiting Kenya for sex with young black boys. This is obvious at the bars and on the sand once the sun goes down. Thousands of elderly white women are seeking romantic short term relationships with very much younger Kenyan men.

The women are in their 50s and 60s and the boys are mostly in their early 20s. Experts say some of these older women thrive on the social status and financial power that comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers - its like returning a colonial past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black minions.

One 22 year old Kenyan boy who is built like an Olympic basketball star, said he has slept with more than 100 white women, most of them 30 years his senior.

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An anonymous collector has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation.

The coin collection consists of approximately 1,000 coins that is referred to as pattern coins — trial designs that never went into production because the U.S. Mint chose other designs.

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Aragawa (Tokyo): Expect to spend at least $550 a person at this exclusive but modest little steakhouse in Tokyo's Shinbashi District--most of that on steak, which is the only entrée.

L'Arpege (Paris): A meal here will set you back $495 for the mandatory nine-course tasting menu.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (London) At $224 (not including a 12.5% gratuity) the seven-course tasting menu here is the priciest dinner in town.

Joel Robuchon (Las Vegas) At this restaurant at the Mansion at the MGM Grand, expect to pony up $360 for his legendary 16-course tasting menu. The wine list is astronomically priced, with few wines below the $100 mark.

La Pergola (Rome) Its nine-course tasting menu runs $285, (choose six courses and the meal will only set you back $250--still a much better value than ordering a la carte).

Alinea (Chicago) Its 24 courses menu will cost you $195. The wine list starts at around $40.

Masa (New York) Fresh fish and shellfish flown in daily from Tokyo is just one of the reasons a meal at Masa will cost you $400 right off the bat.

The French Laundry (San Francisco): There is no a la carte dining here, only a $240 nine-course menu.

El Bulli (Roses, Spain): The restaurant closes six months out of the year so that the chef, foam king Ferran Adria, and his crew may spend time inventing new dishes at their Barcelona "kitchen lab." Fans know to always expect the unexpected from the $270 30-plus course menu.

Tetsuya's (Sydney, Australia): The 10-course minimum will set you back about $195.

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Biologists in Oregon have already been using cloning to produce a monkey embryo and extract stem cells. Now, the possibility is very much higher than before that a human embryo will be cloned and that, inevitably, a cloned human will be born.

Whilst American and European scientists have made the most progress in biotechnology, God as defined by some Western religions is still a very large obstacle, in further pursuit of biotechnology.

Scientist in Asia, however, do not seem to face any religious restrictions.

“Asian religions worry less than Western religions that biotechnology is about ‘playing God,’” says Cynthia Fox, the author of “Cell of Cells,” a book about the global race among stem-cell researchers. She says, “Therapeutic cloning in particular jibes well with the Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation.”

“Most people in Hindu and Buddhist countries, have a root tradition in which there is no single creator God. Instead, there may be no gods or many gods, and there is no master plan for the universe. Instead, spirits are eternal and individual virtue — karma — determines what happens to your spirit in your next life. With some exceptions, this view generally allows the acceptance of both embryo research to support life and genetically modified crops.” says Dr. Silver, a molecular biologist at Princeton. Dr. Silver analysed the clashes of spirituality and science in his book “Challenging Nature”.

On the other hand, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is the master creator who gives out new souls to each individual human being and gives humans “dominion” over soul-less plants and animals. To traditional Christians who consider an embryo to be a human being with a soul, it is wrong for scientists to use cloning to create human embryos or to destroy embryos in the course of research.

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Female Hysteria

The prescription for female hysteria was usually a good vaginal massage.

Seizures And Migraines

Historically trepanation was most commonly used as treatment. Trepanation is a fancy word for drilling holes in your head.

Being Fat

Taking capsules filled with dehydrated tapeworms or tapeworm eggs.



Flu

Bloodletting. If you were feeling under the weather back in the day there's a good chance it was because you just had too much damn blood.

For General Health

Drink urine. It was believed that the key to good health (and terrible body odor) was drinking one's own urine. It was said to cure an endless list of ailments and promotes good health if drank and was also applied to the skin.

Mercury - rub it where it hurts.

Depression And Mental Illness

The cure for depression was lobotomy. Lobotomy is a process where a 10-inch-long ice pick is inserted to your brain through your eye socket, then, wiggled it around to shred part of your brain.

Impotence

The remedy for impotence used to be mildly electrocuting your penis using strange devices such as penis electric belts.

Cough

The remedy for cough used to be heroin. Heroin, by the way, was originally developed by Bayer.

Problem Children

If you had a disobedient child, give it some morphine. Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, popular then, contained 65 mg of pure morphine.

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Saint Bartholomew's church in London has begun charging visitors an entrance fee of more than $8 per person. It is the first British parish to do so.

The church officials, however, have offered parish members an annual pass for under $62.

The Church affectionately called Great St Barts was the location of the fourth wedding in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral and of some scenes in Shakespeare in Love.

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Beijing may present a huge 2,293 pound pig at the Beijing Olympic Games next year. Xiao Shaohong, a Chinese farmer, turned down a $6,735 offer from the Chinese government to purchase his pig for the event. He intends instead to donate his giant pig, a 5-year-old white sow, to Beijing's Olympic Games.

The Chinese believe pigs bring nobleness and good luck.

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In the Kelantan state of Malaysia, thieves have stolen an entire railway stop.

In Assam, India, "organised" Troupes monkeys are stealing mobile phones and breaking into homes to steal soft drinks from refrigerators.

An Assam lawmaker said that monkeys are causing havoc in his constituency by taking away mobile phones, toothpastes, sipping coke after opening the refrigerators. He adds that the primates were even slapping women who try to chase them.

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The Vienna Vegetable Orchestra, a unique ensemble which performs on instruments made of fresh vegetables, including those shown in the photo above, is scheduled to perform at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival in the UK next week.

The orchestra was founded in 1998 and the 11 member group perform using celeriac bongos, carrot recorders and the multi-vegetable 'cucumberphone' playing contemporary to house, jazz to classical music.

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These polymer preserved two humans bodies was exhibited in Barcelona, Spain for the Bodies Exhibition. Link.

Five-time champion John "Johnny Liar" Graham, 69, has been crowned again the "world's biggest liar" after he claimed to have stumbled upon a German World War II submarine invading Whitehaven, the first town in Britain to switch from analogue to digital television.

John "Johnny Liar" Graham won the annual competition of tall tales, which was held at the Bridge Inn in Santon Bridge, in the heart of the Lake District national park.

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James Miles, founder of the London International Vintners Exchange (www.liv-ex.com), said its benchmark index, the Liv-ex 100, which monitors the most actively traded fine wines, has risen by 41 per cent this year.

Bonhams an auctioneer is selling historic stock from the Imperial Russian winery at Massandra on November 28 in New Bond Street, London.

Another sale from the same source - including vintages that survived the communist revolution and Nazi invasion - will follow next month in San Francisco.

According to James Miles, the reason for the increased in commercial activity and in prices of fine wine is that, fine wine has outperformed most equities and commodities in the past three years.

He also adds that the rich are getting richer, and wine investment has become a lot more transparent, which has led to an increased level of confidence and has brought new money into the market.

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The Yab Yum club, one of Amsterdam's best-known sex clubs has had its permit revoked.

The Yab Yum Club, located in a historic canalside mansion in Amsterdam, has a reputation for being an expensive hangout for rich businessmen and foreign travelers, but the government now suspects Yab Yum's owners to be engaging in "criminal transactions" and have revoked its permit.

Whilst prostitution is legal in the Netherlands, Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen wants to root out the organised crime links to the city's famed Red Light District.

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