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A man ordered to live at his uncle’s as part of a bail agreement is pleading with a South African court to allow him to move because his girlfriend likes loud sex, it was reported.
A lawyer for Gareth de Nysschen, who is charged with stealing and selling army ammunition, told prosecutors his girlfriend was “a screamer”, according to court documents quoted by South Africa’s The Star.
In an application to move out of his uncle’s house, de Nysschen claims he cannot have a “normal sexual relationship” with his girlfriend “due to lack of privacy”.
He had previously been ordered by the court to stay at his uncle’s pending his trial.
In response to his request, the investigating officer asked his lawyer why De Nysschen could not have sex “at his current address”.
“He said she was a screamer and the applicant wanted some privacy,” she said in an affidavit.
The lawyer denies having said this, and has accused the prosecution of lying.
The Indian government is digging for treasure after a civic-minded Hindu village sage dreamt that 1,000 tonnes of gold was buried under a ruined palace, and told the central bank about it.
The state Archaeological Survey of India has sent a team of archaeologists to the village of Daundia Khera in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. They are due to start digging on Friday.
Yogi Swami Shobhan Sarkar says the gold he dreamt of belonged to a 19th-century ruler, Rao Ram Bux Singh. He says he wants it in government hands to help India recover from economic crisis.
A Chinese local official photographed being given a piggyback by a villager while visiting flood victims in Zhejiang province has been sacked after the image caused public outrage online, state media reported.
The picture was posted on microblogging site Sina Weibo in the wake of Typhoon Fitow, according to Xinhua news agency. A post accompanying it said the official had received the piggyback because he was wearing expensive shoes.
Air India said an investigation was under way after a passenger found worms in his sandwich mid-flight.
The passenger made the discovery during a flight from New York to New Delhi on India’s struggling flagship carrier. The passenger reported the incident to Air India, but said he did not hear anything back for two weeks.
“We are investigating the caterer regarding this incident,” said an airline spokesman. The spokesman said the airline maintained high standards, including hygiene conditions, adding that this was a “very rare incident”.
The loss-making airline has been hit by a string of issues, including over safety. In May, a flight to Bangalore was diverted to another city after the pilot returned from a toilet break and found the door to the cockpit jammed shut.
Air India also this year suspended a senior pilot caught drunk just before he was to fly a passenger aircraft.
The English were feasting on frogs’ legs up to 8,000 years before the French acquired a taste for them, archaeologists claim.
A dig at the Blick Mead site, just a mile from Stonehenge, led to the discovery of a charred toad’s leg alongside small fish vertebrate bones of trout or salmon as well as burnt aurochs’ bones (the predecessor of cows).
According to the researchers from the University of Buckingham, the find, which dates back to between 6250BC and 7596BC, is the earliest evidence of a cooked toad or frog anywhere in the world and 8,000 years earlier than the French and even before the Czechs who recently claimed it as a traditional dish.
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