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Aussies are crazy, but we love it…More planking please

Woman photographed planking on top of a Northern Territory crocodile

Silly stuff ... Margi' planking on a croc at the Darwin Crocodile Farm. Picture: The Daily Telegraph

• Photo shows woman planking on a croc
• Biggest one caught in Territory this year
• Crocodile 4.65m long, weighing 600kg

A young Northern Territory (of Australia) woman was lucky this crocodile was tied down and muzzled when she took the new craze of "planking" to a dangerously new level.
Otherwise she might have been munched for lunch.
The plank-ee is believed to be a woman by the name of Margi.
She didn't think her stunt was cruel.
The 4.65m, 600kg saltie was powerless to stop the plank prank at a crocodile farm.
It was taken to the farm after being caught in a permanent trap in the Katherine River last month.
The bull was so big that rangers had to use a four-wheel-drive to drag it out of the water.
It is the biggest croc caught in the Territory this year.
Ranger and crocodile catcher Tommy Nicholls said the saltie would become a "show croc", rather than a stud, because it was too big to breed.
"An animal that big usually ends up killing the females," he said.
NT police commissioner John McRoberts last month warned Territorians not to plank after a man fell seven storeys to his death from an apartment block in Brisbane0.
He said the craze was "no harmless fun".
Planking, being photographed lying face down in unusual and often dangerous places, has spread throughout the world this year.

24,000 Pages of Palin Emails Published

Alaska publishes more than 24,000 pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her time as Governor of Alaska

The former Alaskan Governor is a potential Presidential candidate.

Reporters load boxes containing thousands of pages of Sarah Palin's emails from her time as Alaska's governor. Picture: AP

• More than 24,000 Palin emails released
• Messages document political issues, family life
• Readers asked to sift through documents

Journalists and others have begun rifling through thousands of emails by or to Sarah Palin, published in response to a freedom of information request into her correspondence as Alaska governor.

The northwestern US state released the mails in print form yesterday to a number of media outlets, keen to find nuggets as speculation grows that the Tea Party favourite and former Alaskan governor will run for the White House next year.

More than 24,000 pages of emails were published, although 2415 pages the state deems privileged, personal or otherwise exempt will remain under wraps.

The media are not the only ones seeking nuggets in the Palin emails: the New York Times has asked its readers to help it sift through the huge mass of mostly banal material.

News outlets including ABC News America and The Guardian have been live-blogging the event.

The emails detail:

• Palin sought guidance from God about Alaska's state budget .
• Reveal the debate that went on within her administration over the question of allowing oil exploration in previously protected areas of Alaska.
• The politician struggled to find a place to put a tanning bed in the Governor's mansion.

Media organisations including CNN and the Anchorage Daily News asked for Palin's emails to be released in 2008, after Palin became the surprise running-mate of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

At the time officials said they could not be released because of the antiquated electronic databases they were stored on, complicated by the fact that Palin commonly used a Yahoo account to conduct state business.

The release comes as speculation mounts over whether Palin will run for the Republican nomination in next year's election against Democratic President Barack Obama.

Palin has kept the media guessing, including during a "One Nation'' bus tour when journalists had to scramble to follow her, with no details given in advance about her travel plans.

Read all of Sarah Palin's emails at the LA Times

The Dazzling Irina Shayk

Million dollar smile
Model Irina Shayk attends the 9th annual Russian Heritage Festival at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 9, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

Model Irina Shayk attends the 9th annual Russian Heritage Festival at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 9, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

Model Irina Shayk attends the 9th annual Russian Heritage Festival at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on June 9, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images)

'Look Like You Give a Damn' wet and wild Las Vegas pool party

A model attends Nivea For Men and Esquire "Look Like You Give a Damn" Weekend - Nivea For Men Poolside Lounge at the Liquid Pool Lounge at the Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Esquire)

Party time!
Guests attend Nivea For Men and Esquire "Look Like You Give a Damn" Weekend - Nivea For Men Poolside Lounge at the Liquid Pool Lounge at the Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Esquire)

A general view of atmosphere at Nivea For Men and Esquire "Look Like You Give a Damn" Weekend - Nivea For Men Poolside Lounge at the Liquid Pool Lounge at the Aria Resort & Casino at CityCenter in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Esquire)

Bhindi Baazaar Inc: Vedita Pratap Singh's Raunchy Debut

The actress is seen in two sex scenes
Lucknow girl Vedita Pratap Singh has shot two bold scenes in her debut film 'Bhindi Bazaar Inc.' The actor said she has already warned her mother about the lovemaking sequences.

Vedita will be seen as Shabana, an over-ambitious girl who can go to any limit to achieve what she wants in life.

She has two intimate scenes, one with actor Pawan Malhotra and the other with Prashant Narayan in the movie.

She had initial inhibitions about shooting the lovemaking scenes and said she was a bit taken aback because she had not done anything of this sort before.

Set in Mumbai, 'Bhindi Bazaar Inc.' is about pick-pocketing, an art which helps many earn their bread and butter.

Bhindi Baazaar Inc. is a thriller directed by Ankush Bhatt and produced by Karan Arora, starring Kay Kay Menon, Piyush Mishra, Prashant Narayanan, Deepti Naval, Shilpa Shukla, Pawan Malhotra.

The film is set in the underbelly of Mumbai, between the infamous by-lanes where crime is prevalent as a way of life. The film was announced at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

'Bhindi Baazaar Inc.' is the story of a pawn and his calculated moves to reach the other end of the chessboard. Revolving around vicious crime syndicates, the film starts with a game of chess being played between two characters: 'Shroff' and 'Darzi'.

70,000 Children Infected By HIV in India

An estimated 70,000 children are infected with HIV in India and the ailment is caused to most of them by parent-to-child-transmission.

70,000 children are infected with HIV in India - AFP

New Delhi, Jun 11 : An estimated 70,000 children are infected with HIV in the country and the ailment is caused to most of them by parent-to-child-transmission (PTCT), according to a recent finding by the National AIDS Control Organisation (NACO).

Participants of a UNICEF-state AIDS Prevention and Control Society seminar here said, quoting NACO estimates, that a small proportion of these children are infected by unsafe injections and blood transfusions.

"UNICEF supports the government in its effort to halt and reverse the HIV/AIDS outbreak in India to reduce the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their children," the country chief of UNICEF, HIV and AIDS, Ivonne Camaroni told the media on the sidelines of the seminar on Thursday.

With 21,000 children infected every year through PTCT, the UNICEF wanted to provide strategic supplies of drugs and commodities, improve the capacity of staff by developing innovative communication approaches for prevention and care and helping to improve monitoring and reporting systems.

The possible factors behind infection of children were mother-to-child transmission, blood transfusion and HIV positive mothers not having availed prevention facility during pregnancy, Camaroni said.

"In West Bengal, UNICEF tied up with the organisation 'Bengal Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS' for a study which surveyed 995 HIV affected families," another UNICEF official said.

The survey was on families who were HIV positive and have HIV/AIDS infected or exposed children, another UNICEF official said. The number of children affected with HIV was high in districts like North and South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, East Midnapore, Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling.

Economic profile of the families show that 72.3 per cent fall in the BPL category, with most belonging to the unorganised sector and daily wage earners. "The report findings give us a glimpse into the harsh reality faced by the families and children living with HIV and AIDS," UNICEF West Bengal chief Lori Calvo said.

The finding showed that 29 per cent of fathers and 33 per cent of mothers of the surveyed children were illiterate.

"The study underscores the need to improve existing services in terms of access to appropriate medicine, nutrition and additional services like free transportation based on the socio-economic condition of the families," Camaroni said.

Sharapova Shows Off Abs

Sharapova shows off her washboard abs in sizzling sports bra shoot

Maria Sharapova

London, Jun 11 : Tennis queen Maria Sharapova has long been known for her pretty face and her oomph factor so required for success in modeling, and the former world No. 1 used it to good measure to sizzle in her new Nike’s ‘Make Yourself’ campaign, where she posed in a tiny sports bra alongside a bevy of fellow female sports stars.

The Russian tennis player, who was ousted in the French Open semifinal earlier this month by the eventual winner Na Li, rejoiced flaunting her rock hard abs and bulging biceps during an Annie Leibovitz photo shoot, reports the Daily Mail.

The stunning 24-year-old showed off her washboard stomach in tiny blue hot pants and a white sports bra while holding an abdominal crunch position.

The advertisements will appear in upcoming issues of Seventeen, InStyle and Glamour magazines.

Now, 3-D Printed Bikinis To Custom Fit Every Curve!

For the first time ever, designers have created bikinis called the ‘N12 bikini’ made from 3-D printers which could adapt to fit every woman’s curves perfectly.

The world's first 3-D printed two-piece is made of small nylon discs that are held together by thread-like springs.

Shapeways used their 3-D printing technology to create the material for the designers and called it Nylon 12, which is 'ideal swimsuit material as it is innately waterproof', and this is where the ultimate custom fit 3-D bikinis got its name from.

“Thousands of circular plates are connected by thin strings, creating a wholly new material that holds its form as well as being flexible," Discovery News quoted the designers Jenna Fizel and Mary Haung of Continuum Fashion as saying.

“The layout of the circle pattern was achieved through custom written code that lays out the circles according to the curvature of the surface. In this way, the aesthetic design is completely derived from the structural design,” they added.