Hubby’s ‘Facebook harem’ angers wife
MADINAH: Is cyber-flirting the same as real flirting? At least one Saudi woman thinks so. According to a report in the Sunday edition of a local newspaper, a Saudi woman walked away from her husband and returned to her family, demanding a divorce over what she saw on his Facebook profile. According to the story, after the woman discovered her husband was on Facebook she recruited a friend who showed her how easy it is to get into his account thanks to the magic of the nifty “remember your password” feature built into Web browsers. Once inside her husband’s Facebook world, the wife became shocked at the number of women her husband had “friended” and she seethed as she read the precious little messages he was trading with members of his Facebook harem.
NZ police sick of ‘emergency’ calls
WELLINGTON: New Zealand police are getting hot under the collar over emergency calls including a woman whose husband didn’t spray air freshener after using the toilet and another complaining of pressure to attend a family wedding. Police in the North Island town of Wairoa responded to an emergency call from a 51-year-old woman who hung up after police answered the phone. When police arrived at her house, she complained her husband had forgotten to spray the toilet with air freshener after a visit, police said. The police restored harmony in the household. A day earlier police in the southern city of Christchurch responded to an emergency call from a woman who demanded police help to get her sister-in-law off her back. She said the sister-in-law was pressuring her to attend a family wedding.
Briton’s new treadmill record: 832.4km
LONDON: A former British army soldier on Saturday stormed into the record books by breaking the world treadmill record after seven grueling days on the run. Mike Buss, 35, from Swindon, outside London, clocked up 832.4 km breaking the previous record of 753 km in his week-long attempt. The former army physical training instructor had been running up to three marathons a day on a treadmill in Swindon’s Brunel Shopping Centre, sleeping two hours per day. He is raising money for a charity, which helps injured British service personnel. “I was always looking at hitting the 500 mark so to go 17 miles further is brilliant,” he said. “I’ve lost two toenails, my legs are aching and the arches of my feet are painful after hitting the treadmill for more than 20 hours a day but I feel good. “I’m going home to have a bath, then have beef stew for dinner and chill out,” he said.
‘Super nannies’ for troubled Oz families
SYDNEY: Australian parents who are struggling to cope with their children will be sent ‘super nannies’ to help them raise their offspring properly, under a state government plan released Sunday. The southern state of Victoria will begin a trial later this year in which parenting experts will visit the homes of vulnerable families to try to break the cycle of disadvantage and protect children. “Becoming a parent is a difficult and confusing time for everyone, but some mums and dads need some extra help,” Victoria’s Community Services Minister Lisa Neville said. The specialist staff will work intensively with mothers and fathers, helping them in the day-to-day tasks of bringing up children, Neville said. “For some families this could involve helping to establish routines around buying and preparing healthy food, keeping their home safe and clean, getting kids to school and bath and bed time for the kids,” Neville said.
— Compiled by Arab News