Two members of Voina (War), the group that produced the 65m masterpiece, on display on a bridge outside the Security Services (FSB), are in jail, awaiting sentencing for flipping over police cars.

“Ginger beer”

“…his shirt lifting out of his jeans.”

“Then, with muscly armed policemen in tow, he strolled past sex shops in London’s red light district before being driven home”…

“Harry, 26, usually leaves nightclubs by the back door…”

But what about the gay venue, identified by the paper as Box Bar?

The windowless venue has no sign or posters outside its entrance, which is located down a dark alley called Walker’s Court in the heart of Soho.

Only Box Bar in on London’s Monmouth Street:

The award-winning bar in the centre of London at the beautiful Seven Dials, nestled between Covent Garden and Soho. BoxBar is the perfect place to chill and unwind on a summer afternoon, or to find quiet with family or friends on any day.

The NoTW might be referring to The Box, which is on Walkers Court. And as for those gay puns – all poofs are shirt lifters (he-he) – the paper’s Robert Jobson & Stephen Moyes may care to read their own paper’s review of the tired film The Dilemma:

New Vince Vaughn comedy is boring, unfunny, homophobic and far, far too long.

Or the paper’s comment on homophobic chants aimed at former England footballer Sol Campbell – the paper said Spurs fans who made up songs about Campbell being gay (he’s not) were “morons“.

Homophobic morons, eh. Can they write? Just wondering…

Owner Carol Rogers, from West Derby, had put up posters, contacted local vets and offered a 250 pounds reward when her kitten Billy went missing in 2004.

She had almost forgotten who Billy was when a vet called to tell her that a woman had found him after she noticed he had a chip on him.

“I’m thinking ‘Billy, Billy, Billy – who’s Billy?’ I said I haven’t got an animal called Billy. I’ve got three other animals, but they’re not called Billy,” the BBC quoted Rogers as saying.

“So she said ‘No, Billy, Mrs Rogers – who you lost seven years ago’.

“I rang my husband at work – he works until 11 o’clock at night – and I said ‘Billy’s back’. And he said ‘Who’s Billy?’ And I said ‘Billy, the cat’.

“My husband couldn’t quite believe it until he came home and saw him – it was lovely, it was like he’d never been away,” she added.

The woman, who looks after and re-homes stray cats, took Billy into Park Veterinary Surgery in West Derby after she found him.

The boy hit the “buy it now” button to purchase the fighter jet, which was put on sale at the online store eBay.

But his father quickly apologised to the sellers, saying his son was not able to buy the aircraft out of his pocket money, news.com.au reported Friday.

“His dad rang up and profusely apologised to us, so it’s still for sale. We’ve put it on as an auction now so that won’t happen again,” said a spokeswoman for Britain-based Jet Art Aviation, which is selling the Harrier.

The elite fighting machine was part of Britain’s arsenal in the 1982 Falklands War, but the government put the plane out of service in 1997.

Falklands War was fought in 1982 between Argentina and Britain over the disputed Falkland Islands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.

The US Marines still use a second-generation model of the Harrier.

Police in the state of Parana yesterday said that the woman was locked in the home by her partner, a 60-year-old man, in the city of Mariluz, 550 kilometers (340 miles) from the state capital Curitiba.

Following a complaint by social workers, police arrived at the house to find it closed but heard the voice of a woman who appeared to be calling for help, a police statement said.

Police Lieutenant Denis Wellington Viana said the woman told a psychologist later that “she was prohibited from any form of communication” and had to perform household chores.

In the complaint, “the assistant told the police that a person was kept imprisoned for 20 years and was going through health problems, since she was banned from medical supervision,” said Viana.

The news came just a week after Brazilian authorities released a mentally disturbed woman imprisoned in her husband’s squalid cellar for eight years in another part of Brazil.

The medical journal, Medical Education says students had “no qualms” about conducting an anal examination on a female patient because what with her being unconscious.

In another incident, an anaesthetised man was subjected to rectal examinations from a “queue” of medical students.

A student bears testimony:

“I was in theatre, the patient was under a spinal (anaesthetic) as well and there was a screen up and they just had a queue of medical students doing a rectal examination. [He] wasn’t consented but because … you’re in that situation, you don’t have the confidence to say ‘no’ you just do it.”

File under: one more thing to worry about in hospital.

At Grimsby Magistrates’ Court, the Beaks order O’Neill to pay £4,000 compensation and £4,500 in fines so he can still get a visa to live in Australia.

Says Presiding magistrate Ray Dumbleton:

“This was a serious offence. We feel the custody threshold has been breached and we seriously considered sending you to custody. However, we are going to take the very unusual step of moving back from that to allow you to start a new life in Australia. Consider yourself very lucky.”

Although given the hole in the ozone and state of the beer, his luck may run out…

Ladyboys, also known as “kathoey”, are male-to-female transgender persons or effeminate gay males in Thailand. Some have not undergone sex reassignment surgery to fully assume female physical anatomy. In fact, they identify as being males, although in Thailand they are regarded as a “third sex”.

Some Western men who go to Thailand seeking encounters with female prostitutes, are often convinced that their sexual partner is a woman, and are surprised to discover that they’ve been intimate with a ladyboy. That’s not as surprising as it may sound, as these “women” are renowned to be very feminine, and easily pass as females, as shown by the images in the slide show and video accompanying this article..

According to the Daily Telegraph in Britain, PC Air has already hired 6 transgender flight attendants, in an effort to promote equal opportunities for what’s called the “third sex” in Southeast Asia.

More than 100 transsexuals applied for the much desired positions with PC Air, and more are expected to be hired, said the airline’s president, Peter Chan.

“I think these people can have many careers, not just in the entertainment business, and many of them have a dream to be an air hostess. I just made their dream come true,” said Mr. Chan. “It’s not mandatory that applicants go through surgery to be considered for a job with PC Air,” he added. “What’s important is they have the necessary language skills and can provide good service.” The airline is also hiring persons who are not transsexuals.

According to the Thai newspaper, The Nation, “The transsexual employees will wear a special gold ‘third sex’ name tag to help travelers and airline employees identify their gender.”

One of those hired was 23-year-old Thanyarat “Film” Jiraphatpakorn, the winner of the 2007 Miss Tiffany Universe beauty pageant, held annually in Pattaya, Thailand. She was delighted and surprised. “At first I thought they would just take applications but not actually recruit us, as happened before at other places,” the new air hostess said.

Thailand has one of the largest “kathoey” populations in the world. Surgeons there have come up with cheap and speedy sex change techniques for those wanting to go under the knife. Many prefer to retain their male anatomy, but take on outward female appearances.

“…her husband left her, fearing she was jinxed, after the sixth pair of twins arrived last year.”

Anyone think he might have left for a different reason..?

Ivanovic won her serve in the match’s first game and then asked the chair umpire if she could take a bathroom break. When her request was denied, Ivanovic pleaded but was told that even though there was a change of sides, she wouldn’t be allowed to go before Strycova served. The chair umpire said she’d have to go on her own time. To Ivanovic, that meant at that instant. She walked off the court and into the player’s locker room.

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When she emerged a few minutes later, Ivanovic learned that she had been docked four points during her absence, one for every 20 seconds she went over the time limit. She protested, saying she thought she had permission, but the umpire’s ruling stood.

Using the fire from the incident (and the fire in her belly), Ivanovic ended up winning the match 6-3, 6-2, despite the fact that she said she wasn’t feeling better until the final three games of the match.

After the match, Ivanovic blamed the penalty on a miscommunication and said she was embarrassed. With the win, she advanced to the quarterfinals of the Generali Ladies.

Watch video of the incident below:

PS: Its from the US open in October so a bit late but thought it was worth sharing anyway…