Prostitutes bribed with couch vouchers
The Dutch city of Eindhoven is set to pioneer a controversial scheme aimed at encouraging prostitutes to find alternative forms of work.
The scheme involves rewarding participation in incentives such as assertiveness classes and workshops on alternative jobs with vouchers which can then be exchanged for items such as furniture or clothing.
Bad news for arachnophobics
“Only a matter of time” before poisonous spiders become the norm in the UK.
Poisonous spiders are being brought into the UK and thriving in the new warmer climate.
Global warming hasn’t just affected the icebergs but the UK’s increasingly mild climate has also caused spiders to hitch a ride on the country’s food and plant imports and manage to survive.
Author on the hit list
Author in danger after book exposes Naples mafia
Police in Italy say they have uncovered a plot by the Camorra, the Naples Mafia, to murder the author of the best-selling book Gomorra, Roberto Saviano, ‘before Christmas’.
Information of the plot, which planned to blow up Mr Saviano and his guards while travelling by car on the motorway, was provided by a Camorra informer.
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