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This is just so confusing - well not confusing, it's wrong ! Multiple trips to fertility doctors, three miscarriages and $60-$70,000 out of pocket, Tanya was left with little choice: if she was going to become a mother, she would need a free sperm donor. But for the 39-year-old, the formal process of searching for a suitable candidate on the Free Sperm Donor Register turned into something far from expected - a blossoming new romance. And, despite the relationship, Tanya is determined to be the only legal parent if she does eventually have a baby . There was one important 21 st century ritual to be undergone before they could proceed though. They exchanged STD results before consummating the relationship. Sounds so romantic .

Man tries to shoot mouse but hits friend in chest... then cops arrive and find girl, 13, locked in closet and arrest roommate on child sex abuse charges

This says it all: Ex-President Carter sends condolences to Kim Jong-un

Heidi Withers went to stay with her future in laws and things didn't go that well it seems. And her mother-in-law to be, Carolyn Bourne, vented her displeasure at the way she behaved while staying in her house in an E-Mail. "If you want to be accepted by the wider Bourne family, I suggest you take some guidance from experts with utmost haste. "Here are a few examples of your lack of manners: When you are a guest in another's house, you do not declare what you will and will not eat – unless you are positively allergic to something. "You do not remark that you do not have enough food. You do not start before everyone else. "You do not take additional helpings without being invited to by your host. "When a guest in another's house, you do not lie in bed until late morning in households that rise early. You fall in line with house norms. "You should never ever insult the family you are about to join at any time and most definitely not ...

Two little girls involved in a kick boxing match. One is seven, the other eight. This is wrong on so many levels it is hard to know where to begin but my question is don't we really value femininity anymore? Anyway if you read the story you will find that the eight year old, at least, wasn't that enamoured by the experience and was pushed into it by her kick boxing father. It's all very sad: Fury as girls, aged 7 and 8, fight it out in kick-boxing bout for £70 prize money in Australia .

I guess you have all heard about that lady from Wellington now languishing in a Buenos Aires jail. If not you can catch up with her tale of woe here . It truly is a wicked world out there - and there is no shortage of parasites to prey upon the vulnerable, and that is what appears to have happened in this case. Why are people so trusting of people they have never met in person? Beats me - sometimes it is greed that draws people in the chance for an easy buck. And they end up being suckered, caught out by their willingness to engage in something morally or legally dubious in order to make easy dollars. Victims of their own avarice. But for this lady it sounds like it was a desperate loneliness that blinded her to the obvious. And that makes me feel incredibly sad.

Somewhere hiding in this picture is a Vicar. Can you pick him out? It might be harder than it seems. Mouseover the questionmark and the vicar will be revealed. This story which generated a snappy headline does not have a happy ending, you can read about it here .

This is, or to be more accurately was St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church in Lower Manhattan. It along with more notable landmarks in that location was destroyed on September the 11 th 2001. And here we are nearly 9 years after that fateful day and the parishioners of this Church are still having to travel to Brooklyn to celebrate the Divine Liturgy because like everything else that was destroyed that day nothing has been done to rebuild. The Parish wants to rebuild but the authorities continue to place obstacles in their way . I think the terrorists just might have won after all.

A Korean couple who met through an internet chat room neglected their baby daughter while they played an online game called Prius in internet cafes for up to 12 hours a day. The hook in this game is a girl called Anima whom the player nurtures. The living, neglected child died of malnutrition as her parents obsession with the game took over their lives. It's a very sad world sometimes.

There are times when reading the news can be bad for your mental health .

We have all read of large people being kicked off aeroplanes or having to pay for two seats. And after all an aeroplane is a confined space with a lot people crammed into it for long periods. And whether your travelling companions are agreeable or not can be the luck of the draw. So you can see where Jazz Air, a Canadian regional airline may have been coming from when they made a similar call over a passenger with BO . Who's next, the compulsive chatterer?