* Rape was punishment for Bible reading
* ‘Let your Jesus help you’
* DNA samples allegedly match accused’s

AN Iraqi Muslim man allegedly raped a Muslim woman as “punishment” for her reading the Bible.

Campbelltown District Court in Sydney’s west yesterday heard Abdul Reda Al Shawany twice sexually assaulted the woman, a practising Muslim, and then said to her: “Let your Jesus help you.”

Al Shawany, 52, has plead not guilty to two counts of having sexual intercourse without consent between September 1 and 27, 2002, at a unit in Warwick Farm. Read more

Prisoner flees in hijacked helicopter

Two men hijacked a helicopter Sunday and forced the pilot to land in a prison courtyard, where they picked up an inmate in a dramatic jailbreak, the pilot told Belgian television.

The accomplices paid for a helicopter ride at an airstrip near the city of Sint-Truiden, about 40 miles east of Brussels, saying they were tourists from Marseilles in southern France, pilot Eric Mathieu told the RTL-TVI network. Read more

16-year-old accused of paying another teen $5 to kill father

A 16-year-old is accused of paying another teen $5 to kill his father. He has been arrested, and police are looking for the youth allegedly hired for the hit.

“Basically it was a deal where the teenager didn’t want to be told what to do where he could live, when to come and go,” Caddo Parish sheriff’s Detective Michael Escude said Friday. “He was tired of having to live by rules.” Read more

CBS fires Don Imus from radio show

CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation’s most prominent broadcasters.

Imus initially was suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his programs. Read more

Geek Squad Sued For Videoing Customer In Shower

Their mom called Best Buy’s Geek Squad for help with their computer. Now two sisters are suing Best Buy, claiming the technician who showed up secretly taped one of them in the shower.
The sisters thought something might be wrong. One of them realized she might be on camera in her own bathroom. Read more

Man arrested for feeding homeless

Police in the United States city of Florida have arrested an activist for feeding the homeless in downtown Orlando.

According to police, Food Not Bombs charity group spokesman Eric Montanez was charged with violating a controversial law against feeding large groups of destitute people in the city centre. Read more

Florida Law Forces 5 Sex Offenders to Live Under Bridge

MIAMI — Five convicted sex offenders are living under a noisy highway bridge with the state’s grudging approval because an ordinance intended to keep predators away from children made it nearly impossible for them to find housing.

Some of them sleep on cardboard raised slightly off the ground to avoid the rats. One of the men beds down on a pallet with a blanket and pillow. Some have been there for several weeks. Read more

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