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Prisoners Win Gardening Competition & New Bathroom!
Prisoners in Cardiff may soon have a fancier bathroom to keep a good grip of the soap in — they've just won $2,000 of luxury bathroom goods in a gardening competition. After entering the Cardiff in Bloom competition — and coming in second place in the community building category — their entry was automatically put in a drawing to win the luxury bathroom fixtures. When their name was pulled as the winners, a ripple of laughter spread through the City Hall venue.
Sikh Student Wins Right to Wear Bangle in UK School
After nine months of being barred from school for violating the no jewelry rule, the UK's High Court ruled that the Welsh and Punjabi Sikh teenager had a right to wear her religious bangle to school. The court said that the school unlawfully discriminated against Sarika Singh by not letting her wear her Kara (bangle), an essential symbol of the Sikh faith, different from other jewelery. Sarika is the school's only Sikh pupil.
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Britain to Impose Booze-Ban on "Antisocial" Drunks
Starting today, anyone who behaves "antisocially" while drunk can be banned from pubs, bars, and other public places in England and Wales for up to two years.
Many people in Britain believe that drastic policing like this must be used to change the culture of heavy drinking. But not everyone is on board with the latest crackdowns — or booze antisocial behavior orders (ASBO).
Teaching Five Year Olds Not to Beat Their Wives
Their future wives, that is. In a proposed program generating buzz in the UK, students as young as five would be educated about the evils of domestic violence.
The potential lessons are part of a broad national initiative aimed at reducing violence against women and teaching kids how to maintain healthy relationships without resorting to violence.
Meet Bluey, the Transsexual Fish
Inquisitive, trusting, and friendly, New South Wales' favorite fish, the Blue Groper, has another trait that makes it special: the females can turn into males!
When a male Blue Groper dies, the largest and most dominant female will turn into a male fish to stabilize the population. "If you take a lot of males out," says Bob Harcourt, associate professor at Macquarie University, "then the females have to spend a lot of their time turning into males, which means they can’t breed and they can't lay eggs."
Oh Snap! Wedding Dreams Come True in Blue Hawaii
Award-winning Elvis impersonator Steve Caprice married his fiancée in a re-creation of the Blue Hawaii wedding scene. The wedding went down in Porthcawl, Wales, a town that hosts the largest annual Elvis Festival in Europe.
A quick Google search reveals that chapels in Las Vegas offer Blue Hawaii wedding packages.
Quiz Nation! Are You an Informed Citizen?
This week Prince Charles, Prince of Wales and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall took a trip to Brazil. Find out if you know what else went down!
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Britain's Libel Laws Take Piss Out of Freedom of the Press?
Are the British aiming to squash free speech? Robert Murat, an official suspect in the Madeleine McCann case, has settled his libel case against several British newspapers for overconnecting him to her disappearance with headlines like "Sex Secret of Madeleine Suspect: Briton ‘Shared’ the Wife of Pool Cleaner at Villa." His pay out is thought to be close to $1 million.
The Mission's a Rap! NASA Produces Song About Science
Making up rap about science is cool. It can be used as a learning tool. That's what NASA thought when it asked graduate student Jonathan Chase from South Wales to write a rap about astrobiology for NASA's magazine.
Kilts and Queen Gather For Traditional Scottish Games
On the first Saturday in September the British Royal family descends on Braemar, Scotland for "the games." The monarch sponsors the Annual Braemar Highland Gathering, a traditional competition, whose modern incarnation goes back 200 years.
Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, along with many of their subjects watched a diverse set of events including: highland dancing, piping, tossing the caber, putting the stone, throwing the hammer, sprinting, long leap, tug of war, children's sack race.
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