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Ann Hathaway speaks about preparing for her role in Les Miserables including extreme weight loss measures to fit the part. About Her Role Anne Hathaway, who plays a malnourished prostitute in new flick Les Miserables, has opened up about how she starved herself for the role. The actress shed 25lbs to portray the poverty-stricken […]
Muhammad Ismail boasts to a reporter. He tells of killing his wife, her mother and her sister, “My wife never made me happy. She was like a prostitute.” In so-called ‘honor’ murders, women are usually accused of being unfaithful or disobedient, by their husbands, fathers, brother or other close male relatives. Human Rights group reported 943 women killed […]
A Melbourne police officer was fired after he was accused of picking up prostitutes while on duty. In May, a woman arrested on prostitution charges told police she had sex with Officer Jose Otero while he was on duty. Investigators then set up a camera in a secluded area where the woman said she […]
“The first thing I noticed was that she was ripped up like a pig in the market,” her entrails “flung in a heap about her neck.” Thus the account in London’s Star newspaper of the policeman who found the body of Catherine Eddowes, a prostitute murdered in the autumn of 1888 by the serial killer the media dubbed “Jack the Ripper.” But if the Ripper’s notoriety was fueled by a fiercely competitive media market with newspapers trying to outdo one another in relaying gory details of the crimes, unearthing clues, floating theories and taunting the police, his killing spree remains an object of fascination more than a century later — not least because it was the exploits of “The Ripper” that first acquainted comfortable middle-class London with life on the city’s dark underside.
Cases before the House ethics committee are stacking up like planes at Washington’s National Airport, and so are the embarrassments for Congress.
The television vans had lined up early Wednesday morning. Telephone cables had been laid.
A videotape on a Russian Web site allegedly showing a State Department employee having sex with a prostitute is a “smear campaign” meant to discredit the man, a State Department spokesman said Thursday.