For hundreds of years in Japan geishas were a man’s companion on a night out. That tide is shifting a bit as women are now paying for the services of geisha men.
A night out with a geisha man isn’t cheap. The rates for the service range from $1,000 to $50,000 for a night of total [...]
The Canadian Cancer Society says that more children are surviving cancer today than in the past but that doesn’t mean the battle is over for them.
82 percent of Canadian children have survived cancer, living at least five years after the date of their diagnosis. That figure is an 11% increase from 15 years ago.
This year [...]
From the recent discoveries at the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) Ranch to the endless tales of Catholic priests who prey upon children pedophiles are using God as a guise to have sex with children. Are these crimes more heinous than other child abuse cases?
Religion is supposed to be a safety net for people’s souls. Those [...]
In 1990 health officials started giving children a second booster of the vaccine to prevent mumps. There’s concern now that another booster is actually needed after the outbreak at college in the U.S. in 2006.
Almost 6,600 people, mostly college students came down with the mumps during an outbreak in eight Midwest states in 2006. Of [...]
Citizens of the United States paid for Internet dating services, iPods, expensive clothing and lingerie they will never enjoy. The reason? They went to federal employees who charged millions to government debit cards.
While a big night out for many taxpayers is dinner at a cheap steak house and a movie their federal employee counterparts are [...]
Little Darisabel lived in York, Pennsylvania until Monday night when her short life was taken in a violent rage. It wasn’t the first time the child had been beaten, it was the last time she had to endure the pain of child abuse.
Darisabel Baez died Monday night after being attacked my her mother’s boyfriend. The [...]
The presidential palace in Haiti is under attack from crowds of demonstrators protesting the price of foods in the island nation.
Protesters were held back by UN troops who fired rubber bullets and tear gas into the crowd when they tried to use metal bins to smash down the palace gates.
The have been several injuries reported [...]
Six have been shoot in an airport heist in Malaysia. Six people have been wounded as robbers fled with about $1 million in U.S. funds from Malaysia’s main airport early Wednesday.
The group of robbers numbered between four and six. They opened fire at two currency exchange workers and the security guards that were guarding them [...]
When Taurice Williams and Miss Smith got married on Saturday they didn’t know that their honeymoon would be spent in jail. The couple from Vallejo, California were having a rip roaring party to celebrate their nuptials.
That party turned into their undoing as police arrived to quiet the festivities down a notch. Seems like the groom [...]
As the Olympics approach Beijing is trying to clear their refugee rosters by sending people back into nations that may very well persecute them.
According to the UN 15 refugees have been returned to their countries of origin from China in a security sweep. The latest case is a 17-year-old from Pakistan. The UN High Commissioner [...]
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