Apparently the bus driver hijacked the bus in a depot and sped out into the busy streets in the city of Pune, at the time it was rush hour so there were lots of children heading to school and office employees who were on the way to work.

The commissioner of police for Pune, Meeran Borwankar, told local television: “He just went berserk. He went on ramming whatever vehicles were plying the road. Citizens came forward and literally threw children away from the road. He was in such a dangerous mood. Ultimately he was held (by police) but the damage has been tremendous.”

There were at least forty vehicles damaged by the rampage including damage auto-rickshaws and overturned cars. AFP was informed by an officer in the police control room that nine people had been killed and 27 injured.

A police officer who attended the scene but did not wish to be names said: “He was a nut-case, had completely lost his head. He caused a lot of damage. Most of the damage was to parked taxis, private vehicles, cycles and stalls,”

The crazed driver was identified by police as Santosh Mane and they believe he is a driver for a local bus operator.

According to police reports, the rampage began as Santosh left the depot, here he reportedly crushed two pedestrians. Santosh was only stopped when members of the public wrestled him from the controls half an hour later after he had rammed into another bus.

One witness said: “Whoever came in his way, he just rammed into them.”

Another witness also told NDTV television: “I was out jogging, there was a noise, I jumped immediately that is why I was saved. This is my second life, I would have been dead.”

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The female body was discovered last week and police believe whoever it is died on or around New Year’s Day. It was found 30ft up a tree and officers do not believe that the woman fell from a window from one of the nearby buildings into a tree nor do they believe that the body was placed up into the tree because it would be too difficult to do so.

The most logical explanation is that the woman climbed up the tree then died in its branches. Although there were no reports of anyone ‘living’ in the tree a young boy from the area had commented to his father that he thought he had seen someone in the branches a few months ago. The father, who did not wish to be identified, said: “It’s weird to have someone in such close proximity. It’s got us all wondering who this lady is.”

Other residents however have said that when they have used the laneway to put out their garbage bins they haven’t seen anyone in or near the tree recently. At the beginning of the month many of the residents did start to notice a foul smell lingering around the area however many believed it to be a decomposing animal like a possum had died in the area somewhere nearby.
Another resident, Miss Danyane Bowing, who lives next to the tree believed the mystery woman may have walked through her garden around New Year’s Eve and climbed her fence into the tree. She told the Sydney Morning Herald: “My assumption is it started to smell on Wednesday (January 4), I’m no expert on decomposing bodies in summer time, but when I went out around the start of the New Year I remember thinking that something smelled dead.”

The tree and the surrounding fence have now been removed because both had been contaminated by the woman’s decaying body.

So far extensive inquiries into who the woman may be have drawn a blank, Chief Inspector Dave McBeath said: “We’re matching the body against the missing persons list, but as you can appreciate the ID’s not a good one. The body has decomposed to such an extent that I’m not sure the fingerprints are useable.”

According to details from a post mortem of the dead woman, she was 5ft 8in tall, with long brown hair – held back with a black hair clip with a plastic flower on it, there weren’t any visible tattoos either. The clothes she was wearing were described as a green hooded jumper, a green singlet top, and three-quarter-length black leggings.

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Unfortunately for the man the tattoo resulted in nonischemic priapism, according to doctors from the Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences. They stated that he suffered an arteriovenous fistula in his penis as a result of a tattoo needle being plunged too deep, the doctors who treated the unnamed man wrote ‘In our case, most probably, the handheld needle penetrated the penis too deep, creating an arteriovenous fistula,’  in the Journal of Sexual Medicine.

The definition of a fistula is: A connection between two organs or vessels that are not normally linked. For the young man this was between an artery and a vein in his penis caused by the tattoo.

The doctors also stated in the Journal of Sexual Medicine that: ‘For eight days after tattooing, the penis was painful, and thus there were no erections. After that, the patient noticed longer-than-usual sleep-related erections. This progressed, within a week, to a constantly half-rigid penis, day and night.’

Normally when a man’s penis becomes erect, blood rushes in through the arteries and later leaves through the veins. However when a nonischemic priapism occurs , blood continues to fill the penis faster than it can leave which results in pressure remaining constant and the penis permanently erect.

Nonischemic priapism takes its name from the Roman deity Priapus who was a rustic fertility god and protector of livestock, gardens and male genitalia. He is seen depicted with an absurdly oversized, permanent erection.

For the unnamed Iranian man, researchers stated that the problem resolves itself naturally 62 per cent of the time. But if it doesn’t men have the option of selective arterial embolism which is a procedure that blocks the offending artery. In the case of the unfortunate young man he apparently chose to have a shunt implanted to drain the excess blood. According to researchers: ‘Predictably, the procedure was unsuccessful,’ the authors wrote. But happily the man was left with no lasting damage.

They stated: ‘Because of the painless nature of erections, moderately good preservation of erectile function during intercourses, and disappointment with former surgery, the patient has declined to undergo further therapies, and lives with his condition. The patient has no regrets, despite his permanent erection. Nevertheless, the authors warned against others considering the same. Based on our unique case, we discourage penile tattooing.’

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Singh had arrived at the hospital complaining of abdominal pains, following x-ray investigation doctors found numerous objects in his stomach however it wasn’t until they operated on him that they realised how much was actually in his stomach. In total doctors removed thirteen pounds of metal which included 431 coins, 196 pellets and 17 small bolts.

Bhojram Dewangan, Director of Shreesti Institute of Medical Science and Research Centre, where Mr Singh was treated, said: “The patient had been consuming small iron objects for the last nine months. He visited us complaining of intolerable abdominal pain. After sonography and X- ray tests, the doctors carried out the major surgery.”

Dr Yadav, who led the team that operated upon Mr Singh, said: “All the iron objects were lying at the base of his stomach. When we started the surgery, we thought we would find a few items. But as we progressed, we were amazed to find such a huge number of coins and pellets had passed into his intestines. Signs of chronic ulceration were apparent in the stomach.”

Doctors believe that Mr Singh suffered from schizophrenia however his family and friends were not aware of his eating habits.

His wife, said: “My husband complained of frequent stomach ache and spent sleepless nights in the past four weeks. But he kept us in the dark about swallowing iron objects. He stopped going to the field citing weakness and was even unable to have his regular meals.”

Doctors also believed that the young man also suffered from additional psychiatric problems which gave him an appetite for non-nutritional foreign objects as well as schizophrenia.

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A study conducted on 492 Brazilian men who were aged between 18 and 80 found that 35% of them have had sex with an animal. The men questioned were from rural Brazil and researchers also found that 118 of them were penile cancer patients. Some of the animals the men had sex with included mares, cows, pigs and chickens.

Those who admitted to having sex with animals reported a variety of frequencies for their sex acts, ranging from monthly to daily, 59 per cent of men who had sex with animals had done so 59 per cent of men who had sex with animals. 21 per cent of those asked had continued to have sex with animals for over five years.

The term used to describe the odd behaviour of having sex with animals is call zoophilia in some countries it is not outlawed, however in most countries it is illegal under animal abuse laws.

Researchers found that zoophilia could be linked to penile cancer however they found no association between penile cancer and the number of animals the men had “used,” or a link between penile cancer and the species of the animals. The research which was published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine states that sex with animals causes penile cancer, only that sex with animals “SWA” was associated with the malignancy.

Stenio de Cassio Zequi, an urologist in Sao Paolo, told LiveScience: “We think that the intense and long-term SWA practice could produce micro-traumas in the human penile tissue. The genital mucous membranes of animals could have different characteristics from human genitalia, and the animals’ secretions are probably different from human fluids. Perhaps animal tissues are less soft than ours, and non-human secretions would be toxic for us.”

Back to zoophilia, another study published in 2003 which looked at 114 zoophiles in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and Europe found that 36 per cent lived in large cities and 83 per cent had completed at least some college and some even reported high incomes.

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It’s thought that Moskvin who is said to speak 13 languages dug up the bodies at several cemeteries in the region of Nizhny Novgorod. Originally his identity was not known when the case first came to light however the local media soon uncovered the identity of the historian and journalist who is said to be a genius.

Police had been investigating the desecration of graves in the region, at first they suspected extremist groups. However when Moskvin’s parents visited him in the town and discovered his ghastly obsession, police made a link. According to local media Moskvin dug up the corpses from hundreds of cemeteries and took them to his small, three-bedroom flat in Nizhny Novgorod, carrying them in plastic bags. He then dressed the bodies and skeletons in stockings and dresses, not only that he made one of the bodies look like a teddy bear.

Neighbours described the 45 year old as a ‘genius’ however they did say he had a tendency to sleep in a coffin or on graveyard benches. Moskvin is thought to speak thirteen languages and a vast knowledge of history, he also would sometime speak at the local museum giving lectures.

The offices of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo were attacked around 1am with a petrol bomb which was thrown through a window, gutting the offices. The bomb set alight to the computer system as well as burning most of the contents in the office and blowing out windows.

The “sharia” edition was to hit newsstands this morning however it was described rather mockingly as a “celebration” of the victory of the moderate Islamist party An-Nahda in the Tunisian elections and the Libyan transitional executive’s statement that Islamic sharia law would be the country’s main source of law. The magazine chose to feature on the front cover a cartoon prophet Muhammad stating: “100 lashes if you don’t die of laughter!”

Ever one to court controversy the magazine has faced problems in the past when they have previously published cartoons of Muhammad, which in Islam is forbidden. But in 2007 a case brought by two Muslim organisations against the magazine when it reprinted the prophet Muhammad cartoons that had been published by a Danish newspaper and caused controversy around the world was thrown out of a Paris court.

On France Inter radio the magazine’s editor, known only as Charb said that for the past few days the paper had received threats on Twitter and Facebook and by post, which had been passed on to police. He said he was sickened and angry that “violence could be used to counter drawings”.

Charb also told Agence France Presse he rejected accusations that he was trying to provoke, saying the magazine was “just doing our job as usual”.

New offices for Charlie Hebdo are being sort with the help of the Socialist-run Paris City Hall. Christophe Girard, a deputy mayor of Paris tweeted: “We’d never leave an organ of the free press without offices. It’s the duty of the republic. Charlie Hebdo should be able to continue to work.”

The head of the French Council for the Muslim Faith (CFCM) Mohammed Moussaoui stated that he “strongly condemned” the fire if police did confirm it was a criminal attack.

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The boy was found over 100 hours after a massive earthquake had hit Eastern Turkey, destroying many buildings, and killing around 550 people.

Pictures showed Ferhat Tokay out of the debris, wearing a neck brace. He appeared conscious and to be looking at his rescuers. The rescue came 108 hours after the 7.2-magnitude earthquake, on Sunday.

The boy was injured. However, no other further details on the boy’s condition have been given. Tokay was rescued from a collapsed building in Ecris, the town hit worst by the quake.
As well as the 550 dead, 2,300 others have been described as ‘injured.’ As well as the dead an injured, there is also the homeless to consider. Thousands of homeless people lay freezing in tents, fighting against the harsh weather conditions.

Television footage showed a rescue team cheering and clapping as another young man was also carried out of the ruins, on Thursday. The mean was identified as 18-year-old, Imdat Padak. He was rescued by an Azerbaijani crew.

Emergency officials stated that 187 people have been rescued from the rubble, 2,000 buildings have been destroyed and 3,700 buildings are now unfit for habitation.
There have also been a number of aftershocks. Thursday saw a 5.4-magnitude tremor hit neighbouring Hakkari, which sent people out onto the streets. No damage was reported. However, some people were slightly injured when they tried to escape through the windows.

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Apparently the ref Tomas Fidra had been celebrating his birthday before the game and reportedly ‘smelt like a brewery’.  He spent the first few minutes of the game stumbling around the pitch before deciding to send off three Jestrabi Lhota players for no reason.

After spending much of the early minutes of the match stumbling around the pitch and falling over, the official then decided to send off three Jestrabi Lhota players for no reason.

An official from the Jestrabi Lhota club Karel Dusek told the Lidove Noviny newspaper that the boozed-up referee ‘didn’t try to hide that he had been celebrating’. He said that undercurrent rules there is nothing that bans a drunken referee from taking charge of a fixture which is why the game continued even though one team only had eight players.

In the end the game finished 1-1, the opposition, Tynec-nad-Labem, agreed not to attack their opponents after the bizarre dismissals by the drunken ref.
‘If we had refused to continue to play, we could have been sanctioned,’ Mr Dusek added.

However after all that the regional football authority annulled the game on the basis of fair play. The drunken ref who had a 1.94 per cent alcohol level in his blood is now facing a possible 12-month suspension for his actions.

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The man told doctors in Viareggio, Italy, he “heard voices” telling him to rip out his eyes. He has now been admitted to a psychiatric hospital, where he is receiving treatment. According to medics, Aldo had been in treatment for a psychiatric illness however he had not wanted to take the pills prescribed to him.

After the events had unfolded Priest Lorenzo Tanganelli, did manage to carry on with the Sunday Mass, he said of the events: “I’ve never seen so much blood. In the Bible, Jesus says: “If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

The doctor who treated Also said the man did not complain or show any signal of physical pain, and answered correctly when asked his name. He said: “In the 26 years I have been practising, I have never seen anything like it. He would have needed absolutely super-human strength to pull his own eyes out with his hands.”

The poor man’s mother who had tried to comfort her son said: “He got up and started banging his head against the floor, he was covered in blood – I did not know what was happening, he didn’t say anything.”

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The judge ruled that the law implies that “sexual relations must form part of a marriage”. This unusual decision came about after the woman filed for divorce two years ago; she blamed the breakup of the relationship on her husband’s’ lack of activity in the bedroom.’

A divorce was granted by a judge in Nice, southern France, which ruled that the husband named only as Jean-Louis B. was solely responsible for the split. After that the ex-wife then took her now ex-husband back to court for an extra €10,000 in compensation because of the “lack of sex over 21 years of marriage”.

According to the husband he had suffered from “tiredness and health problems” which had prevented him from being as attentive between the sheets as his wife wanted. However the ruling from the judge in the south of France’s highest court in Aix-en-Provence ruled: “A sexual relationship between husband and wife is the expression of affection they have for each other, and in this case it was absent. By getting married, couples agree to sharing their life and this clearly implies they will have sex with each other.”

The home built from wood and stone and which had visitors staying their including Kate Winslet and her children was quickly engulfed by flames forcing the guests to flee, many of whom were still in their pyjamas. According to Sir Richard about 20 people, including Kate Winslet, were staying in the eight-bedroom Great House on Necker, his private isle in the British Virgin Islands.

The guests were alerted and rescued from the fire by Sam Branson, Richards’s son, who had heard explosions coming from the house and raised the alarm he said the house was ‘completely destroyed’ by the fire. Sir Richards also said that Miss Winslet acted like a true Hollywood heroine as she swept his 90-year-old mother Eve who was staying in the house into her arms and helped carry her to safety.

Sir Richard, 61, was staying in another villa around 100 yards away with his wife Joan and son Sam said: “Around 20 people were in the house and they all managed to get out and they are all fine. We had a really bad tropical storm with winds up to 90mph. A big lightning storm came around 4am and hit the house. It took hold incredibly quickly, with flames 100ft high. It ripped through the house very quickly. Sam heard explosions in the main house and raised the alarm. He and my nephew Jack rushed to the house and helped get everyone out. Kate Winslet, her boyfriend and her family were there and Holly and some of her friends were also staying. My mother was there and they managed to get her out and she is fine. The main house is completely destroyed and the fire is not yet completely out. My office was based in the house and I have lost thousands of photographs and my notebooks, which is very sad. But all family and friends are well – which in the end is all that really matters.”

Sir Richard told ITV News about how Kate Winslet’s help during the fire, he said: “It was she who carried my mother out of the house. She said it was like being on a film set where you’re waiting for the words “cut” but they just don’t come. So it was quite surreal for her to be in a real-life situation. She carried my Mum out of the house. My Mum is 90 and can walk but it was more just to speed the process up than anything else but anyway, she was great. She swept her up into her arms and got them out of the house as fast as possible.”

Sir Richard Branson bought the island back in 1979 for £180.000 and he and his family and friends use the island, as well as renting it out for £34.000 a night too.

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