Former Neighbours star Kym Valentine is suing the producers of the long-running soap, alleging they subjected her to sex and disability discrimination. She is also demanding they rehire her in the role of Libby Kennedy, which she played between 1994 and 2011
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Do Sex Workers in Mexico City Need Their Own District?
As twilight falls over Mexico City’s Buenavista neighborhood, the traditional night shift begins. A woman in suspenders and a pink dress takes up right outside the doors of an American-owned bank.
The 100% Solution
You’ve got to give Donald Trump credit: he’s everywhere, and everywhere he goes, he manages to offend in new and different ways. Take his quotes in the latest book by MSNBC Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski, Knowing Your Value: Women, Money, and Getting What You’re Worth.
Nation: THE LITTLE STRIKE THAT GREW TO LA CAUSA
ITEM: At a dinner party in New York’s Westchester County, the dessert includes grapes.
Building On Rock, Not Sand: Riots in Liberty City, Florida
On May 17, 1980, all hell broke loose in Liberty City, Fla. A Tampa jury acquitted four white policemen in the beating death of a black insurance agent, and the heart of Miami’s black community burst into violence
Madoff investor drowns in Florida pool
A key investor with convicted swindler Bernie Madoff drowned in his swimming pool Sunday afternoon, police said.
France Telecom replaces deputy chief amid suicide storm
France Telecom, which faces a political storm over a spate of employee suicides, on Monday appointed Stephane Richard, a former top aide of France’s economy minister, as deputy chief executive of the telecoms group. “Louis-Piere Wenes, the current deputy chief executive in charge of operations in France, has asked Didier Lombard, chairman and chief executive of France Telecom, to relieve him from his responsibilities,” the statement said
Durbin:’Time for President Bush to face the reality of Iraq’
Below is the text of Illinois Sen. Richard Durbin’s speech on Wednesday, the Democratic response to President Bush’s address to the nation on a revised strategy in the Iraq war: Such has been the Internet’s phenomenal and dizzying growth that much of the technology which supports it has grown organically and without much forward planning
Transcript: Obama says there are no quick fixes
President Obama held his second prime-time news conference Tuesday. Before taking questions, he gave a brief speech