Ngun Chai, the father of Nangdee (left), sold her sister into prostitution. When Burmese migrant Ngun Chai sold his 13-year-old daughter into prostitution for $114, his wife, La, had one regret, they didn’t get a good price for her. “I should have asked for 10,000 baht ($228),” La Chai said. “He robbed us.” She was angry that the agent who bought her eldest child, Saikun,... 

Householders could be fined up to £1,000 if they fail to comply with complex new rules on refuse sorting. Food scraps, tea bags and vegetable peelings could be banned from landfill sites under government plans to be unveiled today. Families could end up with five different bins and receptacles – including compulsory slop buckets for food waste – and be forced to sift through rubbish for... 

Burglars should only be jailed if they cause property damage or hurt someone, courts have been told. (Posed by model) Burglars should not be jailed unless they cause damage or hurt someone when committing their crime, Government advisers said yesterday. The Sentencing Advisory Panel called for judges and magistrates not to hand down prison sentences to ordinary burglars who were responsible for ‘minimal... 

Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has signed a law making Holocaust denial punishable by three years in prison. The law was approved last month by Hungarian lawmakers, after more wide-ranging versions of the law had been rejected by courts for limiting free speech. Spokesman Ferenc Kumin says President Solyom signed the bill because in his opinion the law is not unconstitutional. Parliament had rejected... 

When MEPs hooted and jabbered like stricken animals at the President of the Czech Republic, who happened to oppose the Lisbon Treaty, no action was taken (see here). When the then Liberal leader, Graham Watson, said that pro-referendum campaigners reminded him of Russian Communists and German Nazis, he was roundly applauded. When Martin Schulz, the Socialist leader, said that Euro-sceptic MEPs... 

Last night, police in Columbia arrested two Mizzou students for allegedly putting cotton balls outside a black cultural center there. An anonymous tip led to the arrest, the Missourian reports. The actual charge is tampering, but it’s being pursued as a hate crime, which means it’ll also be treated as a felony case. The incident, which happened Friday, has led to public meetings and promises... 

Labour's early release scheme for inmates is being scrapped (posed by model) Labour was last night accused of a cynical election ploy after scrapping its controversial early release scheme for prisoners only weeks before polling day. Jack Straw announced the ending of the scheme, which has resulted in nearly 80,000 offenders walking free 18 days before their sentence reaches its halfway point. The... 

Labour 'wanted social change', according to the new document Labour encouraged mass immigration even though it knew that voters opposed it, Whitehall documents confirmed yesterday. The Government said the public disagreed with immigration because of ‘racism’ and ministers were told to try to alter public attitudes. The thinking on immigration among Labour leaders was set down in... 

(blip.tv has taken the Robert Green video down after receiving a threatening letter from Callum Anderson of Levy and McCrae, the law firm who refuse to say whether they act for Ms Angiolini the person, or Ms Angiolini, the Lord Advocate. They also refuse to say whether or not they are being paid out of the public purse. You may search for it with a search engine, it may or may not still be online. It... 

Chart (click to enlarge) And so the tragicomic becomes surreal. Yesterday’s news about the departure of the head of the debt management agency, Spyros Papanicolaou, was somewhat of a yawner, until we realized that his replacement would be none other than Petros Christodoulou, who until today was head of Private Banking and Group Treasury at the National Bank of Greece (reporting directly to the... 

Alexa Gonzalez, a student Junior High School 190 in Forest Hills, Queens, was handcuffed and detained at police precinct for doodling on her desk with erasable marker. A 12-year-old Queens girl was hauled out of school in handcuffs for an artless offense – doodling her name on her desk in erasable marker, the Daily News has learned. Alexa Gonzalez was scribbling a few words on her desk Monday... 

The head of the National Black Farmers Association said Thursday the U.S. government has agreed to pay qualified farmers $50,000 each to settle claims of racial bias. U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said those farmers may also pursue a claim for actual damages from the bias, and potentially receive up to $250,000. The settlement, which covers as many as 80,000 black farmers at a price of... 

The Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago where Joseph Reyes took his daughter Joseph Reyes is accused of violating temporary restraining order which ordered him not to expose his three-year-old daughter Ela to any other faith than Judaism. His wife took out the order when he had his daughter baptised without her consent. A Chicago man could face jail for having his daughter baptised and taking her to a cathedral... 

White-owned companies in Zimbabwe will be forced to hand control to black businessmen under laws reminiscent of those that led to the seizure of the nation’s farms. The regulations demand that companies, including foreign firms, hand over at least 51 per cent of ownership to “indigenous” Zimbabweans. Thousands of businesses, including the operations of Barclays bank, Standard Chartered... 

Konstantin Dushenov St. Petersburg, February 4, Interfax – The Kirovsky District Court in St. Petersburg has found Konstantin Dushenov, the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Rus Pravoslavnaya (Orthodox Russia), guilty of fomenting hatred through using the media and sentenced him to three years in prison. Dushenov is to serve his sentence at a settlement colony, the court told Interfax on Thursday....