Nicole Richie was released from jail after serving 82 minutes of a four-day sentence for driving under the influence of drugs.

Who says that the rich and famous don’t get special treatment from the justice system?

What a joke!

Lindsay Lohan will serve a day in jail after reaching a plea deal on drunken driving and cocaine charges.

The deal on the misdemeanour charges also includes the the 21-year-old actress having to serve 10 days’ community service and to complete a drug treatment programme.

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Spanish police are investigating a possible sighting of missing four-year-old Maddie McCann.

It is now 112 days since Maddie vanished from her bed in the Portuguese Algarve resort of Praia da Luz while her parents, Kate and Gerry, ate with friends in a nearby tapas restaurant.

Numerous sightings of Madeleine have been reported across Europe and North Africa, including Belgium, Malta and Morocco.

The McCanns, from Leicestershire in England, raised the possibility yesterday that she could be alive and being held in Spain.

Praia da Luz is only a few miles from both the port of Lagos and the main east-west motorway linking southern Spain and Portugal.

YouTube have launched a channel called ‘Don’t You Forget About Me‘ which is devoted to helping to find missing children like Madeleine McCann.

Which do you see?

A woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat watching television and drinking vodka. He was naked at the time. I guess it was an easy target!

The attack was the result of three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but continued to share a small flat in Moscow, something common in Russia where property costs are very high.

“It was monstrously painful,” the wounded ex-husband said. “I was burning like a torch. I don’t know what I did to deserve this.” Perhaps it was something he didn’t do!

Paper batteries could soon be powering household gadgets, medical devices and electric vehicles.

Scientists have devised a new kind of ultra-thin battery that looks like a sheet of black paper. Because ink is used to produce the paper batteryr, they are considered dry, and don’t need the metal casing that conventional batteries do to contain harmful, toxic chemicals.

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“Limerick: Open your mind, hand over your wallet.”

“An ideal destination for sightseers to watch drive-by shootings, muggings and Piebald ponies crashing through housing estates. A five-day break will cost you 240 pounds, your wallet, your keys and whatever else you had in your jacket”

Limerick people may not agree with the sentiment expressed in the video …. it does, however, have a tinge of truth to it! Limerick has a long way to go to rid itself of the ’stab city’ image that it has developed over the years.

• Valerie Harper - Actress is 67
• Roland Orzabal - Tears for Fears - is 46
• Tori Amos - Singer/Songwriter is 44
• Mats Wilander - Former Tennis Player is 43
• Howie D. - Backstreet Boys is 34

Happy birthday to you all!

The owners of the real-life club that played the part of the Bada Bing will auction the stripper poles, a pool table, a disco ball and the fluorescent purple men’s room sign often seen in the background as mob boss Tony Soprano conducted business on eBay.

Also up for sale are the standard-issue bar stools that James Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano, and his crew sat on. An L-shaped slab of the bar where they watched dancers and drank also will be auctioned.

The club also sells Sopranos souvenirs, including T-shirts, hats and coffee mugs, and it is a popular stop on bus tours of Sopranos sites in New Jersey.

 

A China Airlines jet exploded into flames at an airport in Okinawa after arriving from Taiwan. None of the 157 passengers were injuried.

All 157 passengers disembarked from the Boeing 737 before the fire began.The two pilots and all six flight attendants made it off the plane alive.

Flight CI120 burst into flames after all the passengers had disembarked. It took firefighters an hour to extinguish the flames. They had doused the plane with extinguishers as flames and clouds of black smoke billowed from the fuselage.

What a lucky escape!