A MAN who ripped out his wife’s eyes in a fit of rage was sentenced by a French court to 30 years behind bars today.
Mohamed Hadfi, 31, tore out his 23-year-old wife Samira Bari’s eyes following a heated argument in their apartment in the southern French city of Nimes in July 2003 after she refused [...]
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Husband rips wife’s eyes out after she refuses sex
Israel recalls ‘naked ambassador’
Israel has recalled its ambassador to El Salvador after he was found drunk and naked apart from bondage gear.
Reports say he was able to identify himself to police only after a rubber ball had been removed from his mouth.
A foreign ministry official described Ambassador Tzuriel Refael’s behaviour as an unprecedented embarrassment.
The incident, which happened [...]
German man chainsaws house in two in divorce split
A 43-year-old German decided to settle his imminent divorce by chainsawing a family home in two and making off with his half in a forklift truck.
Police in the eastern town of Sonneberg said on Friday the trained mason measured the single-storey summer house — which was some 8 meters (26 feet) long and 6 meters [...]
Farmer tries to dodge planners … by hiding bungalow in barn
To an ordinary passer-by, the farmer’s barn housed nothing more than towering piles of bales of straw.
Yet behind the tightly-bound blocks of dried grass lay one man’s extraordinary bid to build himself a home – without anyone finding out.
Amidst a veil of astonishing secrecy, Graham Head spent six years covertly constructing a three-bedroom bungalow [...]
Topless wife photo ends German man’s pole protest
A German man who spent 10 days in a self-made box atop a 22-metre (72 foot) high pole to protest a looming jail term was lured off his perch by his wife — who sent up a topless picture of herself in his lunch box.
Fred Gregor, 45, was bidding to have his 15-month conviction for [...]
Young Blair’s obscene gesture
The mysterious affair of Tony Blair and the picture he would rather forget began to unravel today when it emerged that it was digitally enhanced to spare the Prime Minister’s blushes.
The photograph of Mr Blair making a regrettable hand gesture was taken when he was a student at Oxford University in the mid-Seventies.
It has [...]
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