Woman falls from high-rise building after meeting man through Tinder
A New Zealand woman has died after falling from a high-rise building on the Gold Coast while visiting a man she met on Tinder.
Warriena Tagpugo Wright, 26, fell 14 storeys from the apartment of 28-year-old Gable Tostee at 2:20am on Friday, according to the Courier-Mail. Witnesses saw the pair on the balcony of the apartment prior to the incident. It is believed that the pair had been drinking.
Tostee voluntarily attended Surfers Paradise police station on Friday, and was released without charge.
Originally from Lower Hutt, near Wellington, Ms Wright came to Australia on July 29 for a friend’s wedding.
Fears for Australian surrogate children after Thai clinic abrupt closure
Roughly 50 Australian couples are uncertain of the fate of their surrogate children and stored embryos after a popular Thai surrogacy clinic was shut down due to improper conduct, Fairfax Media reports. The All IVF Centre in Bangkok was closed by authorities after the clinic was linked to an international baby trafficking syndicate.
Clients of the clinic are now unable to contact their surrogates, and there are fears that the Thai surrogate mothers will abort the babies after losing financial and medical support from the clinic.
The closure is part of Thailand’s crackdown on surrogacy businesses, sparked by the story of Gammy, the baby with Down syndrome whose biological parents left him behind in Thailand while taking his sister home to Australia.
Two dead in Victorian shooting
A man and a woman are dead and two others have been injured following a shooting spree in north-west Victoria, ABC News reports.
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Wow, Joan Rivers is even more nasty, uncaring and cruel than I thought. That is an absolutely monstrous thing to say!
I suppose when your parents lived through the holocaust you have pretty strong feelings when people attack you again. I suppose you aint; gonna lie down a second time!
It's a vicious cycle. Current and future Palestinians will feel the same way when they mourn their dead innocent children.
Those students should be expelled, not merely suspended. It is not fair that the teachers should have to face their abusers, even if they are minors, for the next three and a half years while the boys finish school. Any "rights" those kids had to attend the school were waived the instant they started filming, let alone sharing the footage.
That's a bit extreme. Yes, what they did was particularly revolting but they are Year 9 students - an age when kids do particularly stupid things. Most teachers are pretty forgiving of that age group - I'd be interested in hearing how the teachers themselves feel about this before demanding expulsion.
Those teachers have actually had to take time off for stress leave so I'm pretty sure they're feeling okay at all with the sexual assault and humiliation.
I teach year 9 boys. I'm pretty forgiving of them swearing, describing their sexual exploits from the weekend, discussing female students at top volume, describing what they'd like to be doing rather than English (trust me, it's not maths). But if one filmed up my skirt? I'd be demanding legal action at the most, explosion at the least. And I have no doubt my union would back me on that one.
Yes, kids are stupid. But by year 9 they also know what's right and wrong.
Would you be forgiving if a bunch of male colleagues filmed up the skirt of two female colleagues, popped it on facebook, then got to return to work with them? I would hope not.
As a teacher of year 7 students, I am forgiving of many things. But no, I would NOT be forgiving this. I would want them expelled.