A seduction school in Moscow, Russia

The professor coaches his pupils in the art of being a sterva,which in Russian means, literally, "bitch". In Russia, where feminism is treated with suspicion and its practitioners often regarded as lesbians, being a "bitch" is not what many in the West would assume. A successful bitch is is neither strident nor sassy, but demure, manipulative and aware of her own sexuality in order to get her own way.

Vegetarian Festival

The Phuket Vegetarian Festival celebrates the beginning of Taoist Lent, when devout Chinese abstain from eating all meat. The festival takes place on the first 9 days of the 9th lunar month of the Chinese calendar. Everyone dresses in white and shopkeepers set up small alters with offerings of incense, flowers, candles, fruit, and 9 cups of tea to the 9 emperor deities honoured by the festival.

Thailand Phuket

Prisoners in British prisons have such a "cushy" number, they no longer want to break out. Instead, they have mates breaking in to deliver drugs and mobile phones. In some cases even prostitutes have been allowed in to
"service" the "clients" of Her Majesty's Prisons.

There is also cases of the prison being run my the inmates because the prison guards have lost control.

The unions claim this has happened due to the serious unfunding and shortage of prison staff.

Source: Independent

Maybe it is because there are too many criminals because the sentance does not deter the crime!!!!!

Nargile cafes - Turkish Daily News

Nargile cafes are asking for an exemption to the tobacco ban, fearing that many cafes will be put out of business.

Egypt
Howaida Taha, 44, a documentary producer for al-Jazeera, has been arrested. She is still appealing an earlier jail sentence by a Cairo state security court that found her guilty of "harming the country's interests" in her documentary exposing how torture, including sexual abuse, is routinely performed in Egyptian police stations. Three crew members and an Egyptian human-rights activist were also detained. The new documentary Taha was producing was about people living on the edge of society.

Ms Magazine

Guantánamo drives prisoners insane, lawyers say
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/26/america/gitmo.php