1. A 60-year-old woman in India has given birth to a baby girl – and she didn’t even know she was pregnant. The woman, who is from the city of Indore, was reportedly hospitalised for stomach pains but was later told by doctors she was in labour. The baby was delivered via C-Section and the weighed 3.5 kilograms.
2. The 13-year-old son of former Sopranos star James Gandolfini was reportedly the person who found his father after he suffered a heart attack while on holiday in Italy. Fifty-one-year-old Gandolfini was pronounced dead at a Rome hospital around 11pm on Wednesday.
3. A number of serving soldiers based in Townsville will be charged after posting denigrating comments about women – including calling them “sluts” and “fat chicks” – on social media. The charges follow, but are unrelated to, a current investigation into soldiers involved in the ADF ’email chain’, which saw soldiers film themselves having sex with women and circulate the footage.
4. A UK politician claims he fathered a child with an alien. Yes, you read that correctly. Simon Parkes made the admission in a documentary called Confessions Of An Alien Abductee. Parkes said he meets his alien lover four times a year when he travels to her space station that’s orbiting the earth. “My wife found out about it and was very unhappy, clearly. That caused a few problems, but it is not on a human level, so I don’t see it as wrong,” he said.
5. A new survey has revealed lots of children are forced to stay at home alone because of a shortage in after school care places. The Australian Institute of Family Studies research involved 4000 10 and 11 year olds and found that one in five stayed home by themselves after school.
6. AFL club St Kilda have “every intention” of allowing Stephen Milne to return to the field – possibly in less than a month – according to an exclusive report from Fairfax. Earlier this week Milne was placed on indefinite leave by the club after he was changed with four counts of rape over an incident that occurred in 2004. You can read Mamamia’s summary of Stephen Milne’s rape charges here.
7. A former soldier suffering from morbid obesity has won a dispute asking for a greater pension, after a tribunal agreed that his obesity was a result of military service. Paul Betts claimed that his time in the army changed his eatings habits and formed his current diet, which led to his significant weight gain after he was discharged.
8. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has told a forum in Canberra that he doesn’t think Julian Assange is guilty of any crime – but that he is “an attention seeker of the worst kind”. Assange is currently residing the embassy of Ecuador in London. If he leaves the embassy, it is likely he will be arrested extradited to Sweden.
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Can't an 11 year stay at home alone after school for an hour? I didn't know that... I used to when I was 10...
I was wondering that too? When I was 10, I caught the bus (45 mins) from school to home then walked five blocks from the bus stop to home...and was then home for an hour before my mum, dad and sisters came home. I loved that time! Could eat whatever I found and watch what I liked on TV :)
I may get blasted for saying this, but Gen X (and some Boomers and Gen Ys), I think you are some of the most neurotic parents to ever have had the priviledge of parenting. Not only were myself and pretty much my whole street of kids home alone after school. During school holidays we were home alone ALL DAY!!! This is why I cannot understand the whole debate about working mothers, my mum has always worked and I think I only had maybe 1 or 2 friends whose mother's weren't in paid employment. And not only did we live in a supposedly low socioeconomic area (the non-housing commision part of Mac Fields), all of us not only finished school, but went on to University/TAFE or did a trade and are now in full-time employment.
Anyway, I now have a primary school aged sister and I think it is from being around my sister's friend's parents that have made my mum into a paranoid, fear-mongering, deluded, overprotective nut-case. I pity my sister...
My mother was ridiculous! Put us in afterschool care until the last term of Year 6, when we were finally allowed to walk the kilometre home from school. Yep, just a kilometre. We weren't allowed to take the train home until late Year 8 - Mum would actually take a late lunch break and come pick us up when school finished early on Fridays... wtf.
Even now, at 18, she has me text her the second I get on the train to uni and then when I get to uni and then when I get back on the train to go home... and she will stay up late until my sister comes home from clubbing. She's stayed up till 3am a few times.
Bloody paranoid. I hope I'm never like that!!
Alice A you made me lol - I guess it's just your poor Mum worrying but I really think you need to start putting a stop to some of that behaviour.
She might flip out at first but constant updating and checking in with parents or anyone else is waaaay OTT (in my books) I think as long as you start telling her you won't be doing that she will simply have to adapt. - but in the end it's up to you if you like doing it for her peace of mind.
Because bad things happen to good people.
Beaumont children, James Bulger, Carly Ryan, Daniel Morcombe, Madeleine McCann. The offenders saw an opportunity to violate these children and ran with it.
How about 9 year old Ebony Simpson who was thrown into the boot of a car, raped and murdered after she stepped off the school bus.
I'm sorry, but I'm on your Mum's side on this one. Not saying that these murders were the parents fault (far from it), but there are bad people in the real world.
You're Mum is just trying to protect you in her own way. She's just trying to maximise your safety and keep your free from harm. Every one of these children was not being supervised by a parent or a friend at the time - a split second is all it takes. Trust no one.
My own SIL was nearly abducted once when she was walking to high school. Her parents continued to let her walk to school after this incident. She nearly got abducted a second time! What the?