Articles by Maria Khan

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BBC Radio DJ suspended over rant against breastfeeding women

BBC Radio DJ likens breastfeeding in public to having sex in the outdoors and urinating.

Aug 13, 2015

Turkey: Hotel staff stage Tunisia beach massacre-style prank on guests

Turkish hotel leaves tourists traumatized after staff members storm pool area with fake guns and fuel cans.

Aug 13, 2015

Turkey Tunisia Isis ISIL Islamic State

Uzbekistan Airways to weigh passengers before boarding

Uzbekistan Airways to use weighing machine to estimate average passenger weight with hand luggage.

Aug 12, 2015

Australia: Artist to connect implanted human ear on arm to Wi-Fi

Australian artist to insert microphone with GPS and wireless Internet into human ear implant on his arm.

Aug 12, 2015

France: McDonald's apologises after forbidding staff to 'give food to tramps'

McDonald's withdraws 'clumsy' internal note to staff forcing staff meals to 'be eaten on premises'.

Aug 12, 2015

France

UK: Man commutes from Barcelona to London to save money

London blogger Sam Cookney trades West Hampstead apartment for a home in Barcelona.

Aug 12, 2015

Barcelona FC London

India: 31 students vomit, faint in school lab after experiment goes wrong

Students passed out after choking on fumes in a school laboratory in India.

Aug 11, 2015

India

Britain braces for summer storms

Summer downpours with thunder and hail expected to hit the UK starting 13 August.

Aug 11, 2015

South Africa: President Zuma dismisses killing of Cecil the lion as 'just an incident'

South African President Jacob Zuma defends American hunter Walter Palmer accused of killing Cecil.

Aug 11, 2015

South Africa Zimbabwe

Scotland: Cat dies after being forced to snort cocaine

Man tests how a Class A drug affects a cat by pushing cocaine dabbed finger in the feline's nostril.

Aug 11, 2015

Scotland

Isis news: Islamic State militants holding pregnant Swedish teenager

Swedish teenager who ran away to join al-Qaeda is being held by Isis militants in Syria.

Aug 10, 2015

Isis ISIL Islamic State Syria

UK: Couple deny oral sex act during Paloma Faith concert in Hyde Park

Couple acted 'beyond bounds of public decency' at concert and were ejected by security guards.

Aug 10, 2015

London

France: Student's body found dissolved in acid in Breaking Bad-inspired murder

Murderers re-enact Breaking Bad body disposal scene by disposing French student's body in acidic container.

Aug 10, 2015

France

Pakistan: Police accused of cover up in Punjab child abuse scandal

Lawyer of victims slams police for protecting criminals in the biggest child abuse scandal to hit Pakistan.

Aug 10, 2015

Pakistan

US: Woman sets record by crossing shark-infested open waters

Swimmer becomes first woman to dodge great white sharks from Farallon Islands to the Golden Gate Bridge.

Aug 9, 2015

California

Spain: Man gored to death while filming bull run on his smartphone

Young man is gored to death after standing in the path of a bull run while filming using his mobile phone.

Aug 9, 2015

Spain

Japan: Nuclear industry to revive following Hiroshima anniversary

Four years since the Fukushima disaster, first nuclear reactor to restart in southwestern Japan.

Aug 7, 2015

Japan Fukushima Shinzo Abe

China: Amateur porn banned over social media

China is cracking down on the circulation of amateur porn over social media.

Aug 6, 2015

Norway: Prison escapee surfs out of Bastoy prison to shore

Prisoner uses old surfboard, toy spade to surf three kilometres to shore from island prison in Norway.

Aug 6, 2015

London tube strike: Cab drivers condemn Uber's high fares

Licensed Taxi Drivers Association criticizes Uber for 'exploiting' commuters during tube strikes.

Aug 5, 2015

Tube Strike London Uber

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