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Police who swooped to smash a child porn ring in the Serbian city of Novi Sad found it was being run by a bunch of primary schoolgirls.
Police found that more than 30 girls aged around 10 and 11 had voluntarily been taking snaps of themselves and posting them online to earn cash.
Police internet expert Aleksandar Arsenin, who helped tracking the pictures, said: “There were no adults involved. The girls were motivated by the money that they could earn selling the pictures of themselves – and it spread as more girls found out about it.
He added: “The parents knew nothing about it and were really shocked when contacted.”
Here’s something for your “can this possibly be for real” file this morning. Over at the Buffalo Beast — the former print alt-weekly turned online newspaper founded by onetime editor Matt Taibbi, typically best known for its annual list of “The 50 Most Loathsome Americans” — there appear to be recordings of a phone call between Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and current editor Ian Murphy. Now, why on earth would Scott Walker want to talk on the phone with the editor of an online site in Buffalo? Well, he wouldn’t.
But what if said editor pretended to be David Koch of the famed Koch Brothers? Well, that’s a different story altogether, apparently! And so Walker, believing himself to be on the phone with his patron, seems to have had a long conversation about busting Wisconsin’s unions.
The careers website questioned 700 companies, who revealed an absolute treasure trove of blunders by potential candidates.
Well, they were potential up until the point where bosses read their resumes.
One candidate boldly claimed that his experience included being Master Of Time And Universe while another listed the Vikings as his direct descendants.
There can be few jobs, surely, where it would be necessary to include such a flamboyant piece of fiction. At present, there are no firms needing to fill any Pillager-in-Chief roles.
At least not that we know of.
International rescuers intensified their search for earthquake survivors in New Zealand Thursday, despite fading hopes of finding any more people alive and fears that a damaged 26-storey tower could collapse nearby at any time.
Specialist teams from quake-prone countries such as Japan and the United States used sniffer dogs and listening devices to search for signs of life, two days after a strong tremor struck the tourist city of Christchurch, killing at least 76 people in the country’s deadliest natural disaster for 80 years.
Libyans celebrated the liberation of the east of the country from the rule of Muammar Gaddafi, who has vowed to crush the revolt and on Wednesday was trying to assert his grip on the capital Tripoli, in the west.
Lying between Egypt and Tunisia, where a wave of Arab unrest has unseated two veteran presidents, the desert nation of six million which Gaddafi has ruled for 41 years seemed split in two, trapping thousands of foreign workers, jeopardizing oil exports and raising fears of tribal conflict and civil war.
The United States, which once branded Gaddafi a “mad dog” but had joined European powers’ reconciliation to exploit Libya’s oil wealth, said it might impose sanctions to help end violence which one European minister said may have cost 1,000 people.
Finding a double yolk at breakfast is considered lucky – but one pensioner was amazed when he cracked open an egg only to find a complete miniature one inside.
Retired farmer John Fellows, 68, had been making scrambled eggs when he cracked open the large outer shell of the ordinary chicken egg.
But when he put it aside to clean up, he spotted a smaller egg the size of a marble inside.
