Staff bare all to improve office morale

By Calvin Palmer
Casual Friday has long been an established practice in America, where office employees are allowed to turn up to work in jeans and t-shirts. But a firm in England has gone a step further and held a Naked Friday.
David Taylor, a business psychologist, told workers at design and marketing onebestway, in Newcastle upon Tyne, northeast [...]

Police make arrest in dismembered body case of 1995

By Calvin Palmer
An arrest was made today in the case of a woman whose body parts were found in the Sabine River, East Texas, in 1995.
Orange County Sheriff’s Department said James Edward Holden, 41, was arrested on a capital murder charge and is being held in Orange County Jail. Bail has been denied.
Holden is accused [...]

Senior officer one of two soldiers killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

By Calvin Palmer
The death of the commanding officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards as the result of a roadside bomb in Afghanistan was announced by the Ministry of Defence today.
Lt Col Rupert Thorneloe, 40, died yesterday after his Viking armored vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb that killed another British soldier and [...]

Judge acquits MySpace hoax mother

By Calvin Palmer
A Missouri mother convicted for her role in a MySpace hoax that eventually led to a 13-year-old girl committing suicide was acquitted today by a Los Angeles federal judge.
In his ruling, U.S. District Judge George Wu has acquitted Lori Drew, 50,  of misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. Wu says his ruling [...]

Report admonishes judge for posting sexually explicit material on Internet

By Calvin Palmer
A federal judge in California has been admonished by a panel of his colleagues for posting sexually explicit material on the Internet.
A report published today said Alex Kozinski, chief judge of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, was “judicially imprudent”.
The panel, headed by Anthony J. Scirica, found that Kozinski allowed sexually explicit [...]

Pretrial services employee accused of taking bribes for clean urine samples

By Calvin Palmer
An employee of Harris County in Texas was arrested today accused of taking bribes to provide clean urine samples for defendants out on bail.
Jorge Alfonso Campble, 45, was arrested after investigators set up a sting with marked money, video recording equipment and a 23-year-old defendant on bail for possession of marijuana, Assistant District [...]

Sole survivor of Comoros air crash returns to Paris

By Calvin Palmer
The sole survivor of the Yemenia Airlines flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday arrived back in Paris today to be reunited with her father.
But it was a bittersweet reunion for Bahia Bakari, 14, as she learned that her mother died in the crash, which claimed the lives of 152 people.
She [...]

TV chef Gordon Ramsay’s restaurants show 90 percent fall in profits

By Calvin Palmer
TV chef Gordon Ramsay, famed for his use of expletives, probably mouthed a few more as he learned that the profits of his restaurant company  fell by almost 90 percent.
The latest accounts for Gordon Ramsay Holdings, filed at Companies House, show profits fell from £3.05 million ($4.99 million) to £383,000 ($627,135) as turnover [...]

Air France flight 447 remained intact before hitting the water

By Calvin Palmer
Air France flight 447 from Rio de Janeiro to Paris did not break up in mid-air but plunged “vertically” from the sky and hit the Atlantic Ocean at great speed, according to a report by the BEA accident investigation agency.
The man leading the BEA investigation, Alain Bouillard, said: “The plane was not destroyed [...]