(Infographic) Understanding New Zealand Culture: Rugby, the World Cup, and Porn.

Search volume from Google Trends suggests that since the 2007 Rugby World Cup defeat, New Zealand web-surfers have lost interest in sex -- a traditional off-season pursuit -- and gotten into porn. [Can't see image? Try here]

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The fresh allegations raise important questions about collusion between Britain and America over the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners during the insurgency.

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excerpt: "" Notorious anti-immigrant sheriff Joe Arpaio is working with a husband-and-wife GOP lawyer team that was one of Bill Clinton's biggest tormentors during the 90s, to go after a local Arizona official.

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Current State of the Homeless in Orlando Metro

In spite of all the optimism in the economists' reports, the bad news just keeps right on coming to the homeless of central Florida. "We have a hiring freeze right now." "No, we're not hiring. Sorry!" "We are out of funds," from the primary charity organizations.

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A wife took revenge on her husband after she discovered he was having an affair by making him stand in public with a sign saying "I cheated".

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JAKARTA - DISABLED pedestrians in Indonesia are required to wear signs identifying them as handicapped under new traffic regulations passed unanimously by parliament on Tuesday.

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Fox has fast-tracked a reality series in which real companies that are struggling to stay afloat in this lousy economy agree to let their staffs decide who among them will get pink-slipped to cut costs.

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Rockets may kill but daily humiliations and deprivations are as deadly.

I have seen it from both sides and historically Palestine has always been a transitional land with many different populations.

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A question of appeasement? May 15: While speaking about whether President Bush injected himself in the presidential campaign on Wednesday, Hardballs Chris Matthews and radio talk show host Kevin James disagreed over the definition of appeasement in American history circa 1939.

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A New York man who says he was denied a seat on a five-hour jetBlue flight and was instead told to "hang out" in the plane's bathroom has sued the airline for $2 million, saying he suffered "extreme humiliation. See more irresistible news  

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Bringing Back The Stocks

Here in Asheville, NC, the police department is updating an ages-old concept in their attempts to discourage unwanted behaviour: public humiliation.

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Hope Steffey's night started with a call to police for help. It ended with her face down, naked, and sobbing on a jail cell floor.

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It never mattered how many little American flags appeared on how many bloated Chevy Avalanches, how many right-wing radio shows found a new reason to pule, how many furiously blindered uber-patriots happily ignored all the harsh words from all those naysaying generals or even all …

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President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects.

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Twenty-five years ago, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher forcefully and decisively ordered British troops to the Falkland Islands to liberate them from an invading Argentine force.

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There's no moment too awkward for Anastasia Klose, who turns her own embarrassment into art. She walks the streets of Melbourne in a wedding dress, an overblown meringue with a cardboard sign hanging from her neck: "Nanna," it reads, "I'm still alone."

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One of the most abiding moments of the 2002 World Cup was Brazilian winger Denilson taking the ball into the corner and dribbling around in a circle chased by half the Turkey team.

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Last week I decided to take an informal poll among the people who know me. I asked one question: "Do you think I'm a prude?" Nobody said yes, so some were surprised when I went on to say that I hold what is generally considered a prudish opinion: I hate porn.

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"None," the police officer in charge reported to my student. That was the answer to how many instances of rape of males and boys had been reported in the city (it happened to be Boston, where I was teaching at the time) in the previous year.

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The Bush administration has drafted amendments to a war crimes law that would eliminate the risk of prosecution for political appointees, CIA officers and former military personnel for humiliating or degrading war prisoners, according to U.S.

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"We are just being killed openly," he told me. "I mean, it's just no more under control." The skinheads are a lost generation whose childhood disappeared in the chaos of Russia in the 1990s

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