A UK man is facing jail after he emailed pictures of his lover to everyone in her address book when he found out she was flirting with other men.

Stephen Hailes, 48, had been in an "internet romance" with Karen Parker, 36, after the pair met in a chat room last August, the Daily Mail reported.

She learned of his action when her friends contacted her and asked her why she had sent them naked photographs of herself.

During the romance Parker, a married mother-of-two, sent a series of nude pictures of herself to Hailes, a former tree surgeon.

Hailes became angry after he hacked into Parker's email account and discovered she was flirting with other men.

To get revenge he forwarded the lurid pictures to all the contacts in her email address book, a court heard.

Hailes, who never met Parker in person, has pled guilty to sending indecent images by a public communication network in Cheltenham Magistrates' Court, the Daily Mail reported.

"She was a married woman but she sent unsolicited photographs of herself naked to the defendant," prosecutor Sharon Jomaa said in court.

"When the defendant noticed that Mrs Parker was contacting other men over the internet and meeting them, he became jealous and eventually accessed her Hotmail and forwarded the photographs.

"She learned of his action when her friends contacted her and asked her why she had sent them naked photographs of herself.

"In police interview the defendant said that he wanted her husband to realise what sort of woman his wife was."

Hailes said he only meant to send the photos to Parker's husband and had accidently clicked the wrong button.

Outside the hearing Hailes told the Daily Mail he felt unfairly treated.

"I can't believe what's happened," he said.

"I really liked her and thought we may have something special together.

"It's such a shame it's ended like this.

"I don't see why I could go to prison for sending these rude pictures of her, when she made the rude pictures and sent them in the first place.

"She gave me the ammunition.

"It was a silly mistake. I was jealous and upset, but I honestly never meant to hurt anyone."

Hailes, of Matson, Gloucester, will be sentenced on March 19 with the magistrate warning he could face jail time for the crime.

A Kolkata woman displays her wrinkled hands, caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water.

EACH day about 100 million people are being poisoned with one of the deadliest substances known. In India and Bangladesh, China and Southeast Asia, even in countries such as Australia, the silent tragedy of arsenic poisoning continues to unfold.


Arsenic is not merely a favourite resort of medieval or Victorian murderers and crime novelists. It causes cancer of the skin, lung, bladder, kidney, liver and uterus, is implicated in several skin diseases, nerve disorders, diabetes, lung disease and heart disease, and is suspected of causing birth defects, liver and blood disorders. In South Asia, women and girls who contract the symptoms are often expelled from their families, inflicting social and personal tragedy as well.

Arsenic poisoning for the most part results from human activity and is therefore preventable. In the case of Bangladesh and West Bengal, the source is chiefly the millions of household tube wells that aid agencies caused to be dug, so families could avoid polluted surface water by obtaining ostensibly clean well water.

This arsenic is geogenic: silt eroded from the Himalayas is high in arsenic which, through the millenniums, has accumulated in the sediments of the Gangetic Delta from which these wells supply household water for drinking, cooking and growing vegetables.

An estimated 70 million people are exposed to arsenic in India and Bangladesh alone, part of what must surely rate as the worst case of mass poisoning in history. Other countries with similar geologies, such as Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, are also affected, though global awareness about these is lower.

The human toll of death and sickness from arsenic is unknown but certainly runs into the millions. The US National Research Council estimates that drinking a litre of water containing 50 micrograms of arsenic a day will cause 13 deaths out of every 1000 people. Often household wells have many times this level.

In countries such as Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Argentina the main sources of arsenic are anthropogenic: the hundreds of thousands of century-old livestock dips scattered across the landscape and the residues from former goldmining tailings that leach arsenic into surface and groundwater. Old railway lines, treated timber plants, cotton farms and certain factory sites also contribute a toxic legacy on which suburbia often innocently sprawls.

Many Australian scientists have worked on different aspects of the arsenic problem and AusAID has run programs to provide safer water in several countries. In some cases the answer may be as simple as a rainwater tank. But for all the efforts of Australians and international agencies the problem remains intractable, only pecked away at the edges.

A recent development with some promise is the discovery by Megharaj Mallavarapu of the Co-operative Research Centre for Contamination Assessment and Remediation of the Environment and University of South Australia of a naturally occurring soil bacterium that oxidises the highly toxic arsenite to much less toxic arsenate. Megh says the microbe can be used not only to remediate badly contaminated soils but possibly also incorporated into a filter to cleanse household water from affected wells.

Other researchers, such as Ging Khoe at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, have devised different kinds of water filters using physical or chemical techniques. The CRC CARE team has also mapped the spread of arsenic through the Bangladeshi food chain.

Another important approach to the problem is one in which Australians are experienced and well qualified: catchment management. By planning and managing surface water better, there is scope to clean up contaminated surface water, which would reduce household dependency on toxic wells. There is also scope to reduce the arsenic content of the food supply by not irrigating with groundwater.

From these examples it is abundantly clear that Australians have the ideas and scientific capability to overcome this human crisis. What is missing is the large-scale vision to pull all these elements into a cohesive program. When Howard Florey developed penicillin as a useable drug, when Frank Fenner took on the task of banishing smallpox from the world and when Fred Hollows tackled eye disease in Australia and Africa, it required vision.

In the case of the world's worst poisoning episode, the vision to tackle and terminate it through a comprehensive scientific and aid program so far has not been forthcoming.

If Australia aspires to show leadership and to put its scientific skills to work to benefit humanity on the large scale, this is a task worthy of our mettle and within our capabilities and resources.

I believe the fact that the husband ran over his wife shows which on was too drunk, or rather, in this case, drunker.

Thursday, in Merritt Island, Florida, Richard Zubowicz, 45, thought his wife Becky, 44, was too drunk to drive. Never mind himself. So they pulled into a grocery store parking lot to argue. He allegedly pushed his wife to the ground, jumped in the SUV and circled the parking lot.

As his wife was still lying down, he ran over her when he returned to the spot of the argument.

Police later found Becky Zubowicz still pinned beneath the SUV. She remains in critical condition.

Richard Zubowicz remains jailed on charges of drunken driving and and domestic violence.

Live or Let Live....

Activists of Islamic Political Party holds placards as they sit during a silent demonstration in Srinagar, India, Thursday, November 1, 2007, against alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir by government forces.



Children look at a painting by an Indian artist, Mujeeb Husain on 'Nithari serial killings' at Shimla, India, Friday, January 12, 2007. A CBI inquiry was called into the Nithari killings after the state police proved inefficient.



An activist of Socialist Unity Center of India, SUCI shouts slogans during a protest against alleged police atrocities in Calcutta, India Tuesday, December 19, 2006. SUCI was demanding a CBI enquiry into the murder.



Jagir Singh, 68, shows a photograph of his son Sukhpal Singh, who was allegedly killed after police picked up the farmer from his home in 1994, in Kala Afgana, in the northern Indian state of Punjab, May 12, 2007.



Protesters destroy a car belonging to an Orissa Police Sub-Inspector for allegedly taking bribes in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the Indian state Orissa, late Thursday, December 7, 2006. Special investigators nabbed the Police Sub-Inspector when he was allegedly receiving a bribe of 2,000 rupee from the owner of a beauty parlor.



Mother, left, and sister, second right, of civilian Tarsem Lal weep over his body at Sohanjana village, about 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Jammu,February 17, 2007. Furious over the alleged custodial death of Lal, a mob Saturday set ablaze a securityvehicle in Jammu district, forcing police to open fire in the air to disperse the angry crowd, according to a news agency.



A paramilitary police personnel keeps vigil from atop a truck in Nandigram, about 160 kilometers (100 miles) southwest of Calcutta, India, Tuesday, November 13, 2007.

HAMILTON, N.J. (AP) - A civilian State Police employee was accused of sneaking into a church to look at pornography on a nun's computer. Police arrested Thomas G. Findler Wednesday and charged him with burglary and theft.

Authorities said Findler had been sneaking into Grace St. Paul Episcopal Church in the night over the last three weeks to look at pornography.

Wednesday morning, a church custodian found Findler, who worships at the church, on a nun's computer.

The custodian chased him out, right into a police officer who happened to be nearby.

Findler works in a local office for the state police.

Reached Thursday morning, Findler's father said his son was not home.

GURGAON, India (Jan. 30) - The last things Mohammed Salim remembered were the knees pinning him to the ground, the guns pointed at his head, and, finally, the injection that sent him into oblivion.

Police in Gurgaon, India, recently busted an illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to clients. Here, 33-year-old Mohammed Salim recovers at a hospital Wednesday in Gurgaon after his kidney was stolen.

When he awoke, he was in agonizing pain, uncertain where he was or why he was wearing a hospital gown.

"We have taken your kidney," a masked man calmly explained. "If you tell anyone, we'll shoot you."

Salim was one of the last victims in an organ transplant racket that police believe sold up to 500 kidneys to clients who traveled to India from around the world over the past nine years.

Police say that when they raided the operation's main clinic in this upscale New Delhi suburb last week, they broke up a ring spanning five Indian states and involving at least four doctors, several hospitals, two dozen nurses and paramedics and a car outfitted as a laboratory.

Subsequent raids uncovered a kidney transplant waiting list with 48 names and, in one clinic, five foreigners - three Greeks and two Americans of Indian descent - who authorities believe were waiting for transplants.

Only one doctor has been arrested so far and police are searching for the alleged ringleader, Amit Kumar, who has several aliases and has been accused in past organ transplant schemes elsewhere in India. Authorities believe he's fled the country.

"Due to its scale, we believe more members of the Delhi medical fraternity must have been aware of what was going on," Gurgaon Police Commissioner Mohinder Lal told reporters this week.

There long have been reports of poor Indians illegally selling kidneys, but the transplant racket in Gurgaon is one of the most extensive to come to light - and the first with an element of so-called medical tourism.

The low cost of medical care in India has made it a popular destination for foreigners in need of everything from tummy tucks to heart surgery.

The Gurgaon kidney transplant racket, however, was not the types of operation the medical community wanted in the headlines. The case has shocked the country, sparking debate about medical ethics and organ transplant laws.

Some "donors" were forced onto the operating table at gunpoint, while others were tricked with promises of work, Lal said. There were also some who sold kidneys willingly, usually for between $1,125 to $2,250, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported. The sale of human organs is illegal in India.

Salim, 33, a laborer with five children, said he was lured from his home town a few hours outside New Delhi by a bearded stranger offering a construction job that paid 150 rupees ($3.75) a day, as well as food and lodging. He was told the work would last three months.

"I thought I could earn money and save it for my children," he said from a government hospital in Gurgaon, where he is recovering under police protection.

He was first taken to a two-room house "in the jungle" outside New Delhi where two gunmen held him for six days, he said. Then he was taken to a bungalow in Gurgaon, where armed men took a blood sample at gunpoint.

Salim said he tried to escape, but the doors were locked and within moments, the men were on top of him, sticking him with another needle while he slowly lost consciousness.

When he awoke and learned what happened, Salim thought he was soon to die - he didn't know you could live with one kidney. He lay in a haze of pain and confusion for about a day, when the men, apparently tipped off to the coming raid, told him they had to move him.

Minutes later, police burst into the house and rescued Salim and two other men who also had their kidneys taken. He never received any money, he said.

"I don't know how I will survive," said Salim, whose five children were at the hospital. "I am the only earner in the family and the doctors said I can't do heavy work."

Shakeel Ahmed, 28, was in the hospital bed next to Salim, wincing in pain as he told his story. He is unmarried and has no children, but he is responsible for five nieces and nephews, he said.

"I'm sad, I'm angry. I don't know how I will care for them," Ahmed said, pointing to his elderly parents sitting on the foot of his bed. "Why me?"

WAUKESHA, Wis. — Nikol Hasler doesn't recommend the "pull and pray" method of birth control. She says you should not have sex on nature trails because of bugs and Sasquatch. And if you hate your body as a teen, just wait.

The 28-year-old mother of three speaks from experience, and her video podcast, the "Midwest Teen Sex Show," is attracting thousands of viewers.

The product of a teen pregnancy, Hasler spent years in foster care and went to five high schools before graduating. She got pregnant just before her freshman year in college and dropped out after one semester. She was living in a homeless shelter when she gave birth to her first child.

Now Hasler uses her experiences to talk to teens about such topics as "The First Time," "The Older Boyfriend" and "Female Masturbation" on the online video series that started this summer.

"It's cathartic for me. It's a way for me to finally turn what was once something very negative about my life into something very positive," she said.

With co-creator and director Guy Clark, Hasler and actress Britney Barber use humorous skits (such as teens applying for a fornication license) to get their message across. Much of the advice comes from the no-nonsense Hasler talking directly to the camera.

There have been a dozen episodes so far, each about three to five minutes long. The topics vary.

On the first time: "Don't expect too much the first time. That's what the second time is for. Practice makes perfect and you're going to need a lot of practice."

On birth control: "Personally, I think any girl over the age of 8 should be on the pill. If you're old enough to bleed, you're old enough to be a statistic. It may have side effects, but so does pregnancy."

Hasler said she exaggerates about 95 percent of the time. (For the record, if she had an 8-year-old daughter, she would not place her on birth control.) She wants to make people think.

"When hearing a joke that makes you squirm ... that causes you to examine that part of the joke in yourself and brings it forward and makes you think about it even more," she said.

The show's target audience—teens, young adults and their parents—is responding. The show has 65,000 subscribers through iTunes and other podcast subscription services, Clark said. It's regularly ranked in iTunes' top 10 health podcasts, and its Web site averages 4,000 unique hits a day.

Hasler's biography on the Web site labels her a "former expert practitioner of teen promiscuity." She does reveal in an episode about birth control that two of her three children weren't planned.

The show's Web site stresses that "all advice given is simply opinion and should not be taken as fact." The intent is to provide a forum for the discussion of teen sexuality, its creators say.

"Part of what's translated into this show is my own desire to kind of shake kids and say, "If somebody had come around and said, 'Come on, these ideas are completely wrong,' then I would have been listening more," she said.

An overnight high-speed chase in the capital city ends with an awkward arrest for officers -- a naked man behind the wheel.

The pursuit ended in a collision just before 4:00 Sunday morning near the intersection of Medgar Evers Boulevard and Martin Luther King Drive.

Jackson Police Department Assistant Chief Ron Sampson said police were alerted to an SUV hitting two vehicles after leaving a nightclub in the Medgar Evers area.

A witness said the SUV with decal artwork was traveling about 70 miles per hour down Martin Luther King Drive. The fleeing SUV then crashed into a white SUV.

James Ford witnessed the crash and said he was most shocked when officers pulled the suspect from the wrecked SUV.

"When they pulled him, out he was butt naked," Ford said. "I've never seen anything like it."

No injuries were reported.

Sampson said Carlos Singleton, 27, was taken into custody after fleeing officers in the buff. Singleton was arrested on outstanding misdemeanor warrants and disorderly conduct.

Other charges may be pending.

In this undated photo provided by Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department, Ryan A. Mueller is shown....



SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (AP) - A man has been charged with sneaking into a toddler's bedroom and stealing $20 from a piggy bank while the 2-year-old girl slept. Authorities say DNA evidence linked Ryan A. Mueller, 30, of Sheboygan Falls to the crime that occurred Aug. 10 in Wilson.

Authorities say the girl's mother was in another room with another child when she saw a light turn on in her 2-year-old daughter's room. She walked into the girl's bedroom and saw a man shaking the piggy bank as the girl slept.

The man fled before police arrived, stealing the money but leaving the piggy bank. Authorities say blood was found on a window blind where the burglar had forced his way into the home.

Mueller was charged Thursday with felony burglary, which carries a penalty of up to 9 1/2 years in prison. His bond was set at $10,000, and a preliminary hearing was set for next Wednesday.

Messages left Friday for his defense attorney, the prosecutor in the case and for Mueller at the jail were not immediately returned.