"Police are putting unruly youngsters through their paces on an eight-week "knight school", to teach them some of the ways of medieval knights. The Lincolnshire scheme has been hailed a success in improving behaviour, so what kind of lessons could knights teach youngsters...
British tourists are quickly becoming known as problem travelers, according to a lengthy feature in today's New York Times. Apparently they've gained a reputation for drunken tomfoolery at major resorts around...
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"Unruly children as young as five face being taught in "education sin bins" under Government plans to stop pupils becoming out of control. Increasing numbers of primary pupils will be temporarily removed from normal classes and sent to special units to tackle bad...
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I don't see what the big deal is, since Willy Wonka just grows these guys out of caramel embryo's....right?"Paris Hilton is being hailed as a hero after "rescuing" a little person injured as part of an Oompa...
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"The party of Pakistan's former PM Benazir Bhutto has said more than 700 members were arrested overnight ahead of a planned mass rally on Friday.
They were held under emergency measures brought in on Saturday by President Pervez Musharraf, the party said.
Separately in...
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"Parking attendants could soon be able to hand out on-the-spot fines if they catch anyone dropping litter.
The attendants will be re-named "civil enforcement officers" and allowed to issue penalty notices for fly-posting and graffiti.
They would also become council "spies",...
I think there's something in the cheese..."Police were called to break up a weekend fight among a rowdy group of teenage girls at the family-themed pizza restaurant, Chuck E. Cheese.
The more than a dozen...
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This weekend's Coachella festival has been hailed as its most successful yet, (supposedly) drawing upwards of 100 000 attendees--in triple digit weather--to the desert in Indio, California. Net coverage of the...
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"New York - Ten thousand American flag decals are being distributed to New York City firefighters so they can stick them on their lockers in defiance of orders to remove everything from photos of dead soldiers to...
"The British Government is to invest £4M ($7.6M) in a scheme to provide "super-nannies" to teach parents how to control unruly brats. 77 regions of Britain with big problems of ant-social behaviour will be...
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"Parents want the best for their disabled kids. Public schools say they can't handle the cost.
Luke Perkins has been living "two disparate lives," court documents say: one at school in Berthoud, Colo., where the autistic boy was making some progress, and the other outside...