Australia

Wipe off your home from Google’s Street View to keep voyeurs at bay

Melbourne, Aug 7 : People, who want to keep their homes away from the prying eyes of voyeurs on Google’s Street View, can now get their house entirely removed from the smart feature that provides 360 degrees panoramic street-level views of the cities.

The feature came into light after Hollywood stars like Winona Ryder started having their homes removed or the addresses changed on Google Street View to keep voyeueristic fans at bay.

Winona Ryder''s residence is listed as 1320 N. Doheny West Hollywood, although the Street View map lists it as 1314 N. Doheny Dve and is on the corner of Cordell Dve.

US woman flies off to Australia to have sex with web pal aged 15!

Melbourne, Aug 7 : An American woman who flew to Australia to have sex with a 15-year-old boy she met on the Internet has pleaded guilty to child sex offences.

On August 6, Barbara Case pleaded guilty to performing oral sex and having sexual intercourse with a child under 16 after police caught her with the Bendigo teen who had been reported missing by his parents.

The 36-year-old flew from her Virginian home to Australia where she performed sex acts with the teenager between May 16 and 27 after befriending him on the web, the Herald Sun reported.

Case was arrested in May, three days after the boy was reported missing.

He was with her when she was arrested, reports News. Com. Au.

Little emperors still the go in Australia

Sydney - Little emperors still the go in AustraliaIt's not surprising that Lebanon-born Keysar Trad has nine children.

His homeland abounds with big families and he simply brought that tradition to Australia with him.

By the same measure, immigrants from China, where the one-child family is the norm, often stick with that paradigm in their new country - even though there is no state apparatus enforcing it.

"It seems that they genuinely prefer it," said Macquarie University demographer Nick Parr.

Oz Police might make Haneef submissions public

Melbourne, Aug. 6 : Oz Police might make Haneef submissions publicAfter refusing all along to make public its investigations into last year’s bungled case against Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef, the Australian Federal Police on Wednesday said that it would provide an uncensored version of its submission to the public inquiry.

"The Australian Federal police (AFP) was in the process of compiling a public version of its submission, devoid of sensitive information supplied to the AFP by the London Metropolitan Police Service," a Clarke inquiry spokesman was quoted as saying by The Australian.

More babies would harm Oz economy, warns govt watchdog

Melbourne, Aug 6 : Aussie couples may soon be asked to curb any plans to have a third baby, for the nation''s productivity watchdog has warned that a further increase in the birth rate would actually harm the economy and not improve it.

While a major analysis of the nation''s increasing fertility rate indicated that it has reached at its highest level for 25 years, the Productivity Commission has cautioned that a further increase may aggravate the problem of the ageing of the population instead of solving it.

That’s because it will actually make the women move out of the workforce for taking care of the babies, depressing labour supply and reducing the taxation base as the population ages.

Dungeon dad may be charged with slavery and murder

Josef FritzlLondon, Aug 5: Austrian incest fiend Josef Fritzl may be charged with slavery and murder, say prosecutors.

Prosecutors hope to formally charge Fritzl in September and put him on trial in December.

According to investigators, the 73-year-old has confessed to locking up daughter Elisabeth, 42, for 24 years, raping her and fathering her seven kids.

Fritzl can face a murder charge if it can be proved that one infant, who died just after birth, would have survived if it had got medical treatment. He may be locked up for 20 years.

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