By Staff & Agencies

Mother of two rapes teenager

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NEW YORK: A 36-year-old mother-of-two was arrested after she flew across the US for allegedly having sex with a 13-year-old teenager she befriended while playing video games on the internet, reports Daily Mail.

Rachel Ann Hicks, 36, is being held on suspicion of child molestation and rape; she allegedly met the boy in an X-Box live chat room, said the paper quoting police officials in Maryland.

The online relationship progressed to phone calls, texting, e-mails and sending sexually explicit images and movies between one another, the investigators told the media.

Hicks, from Lake Forest, California, told the boy she was 23 years old. She flew to Maryland and met him at his home where they had sex over the Thanksgiving holiday, they said.

Shortly after, the boy's family discovered "romantic" text messages on the boy's mobile and he confessed the truth.



Tall passenger 'forced to stand on flight'

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CHICAGO: A man measuring over two metres high has endured a nightmare two-and-a-half-hour plane trip after being unable to fit into his seat.

Brooks Anderson, 25, was travelling on a Spirit Airlines flight from Chicago to Florida, US, over Christmas and did not expect to have to stand for the trip.

Mr Anderson said he had to sit with his knees under his chin, pressed into the back of the seat in front during take-off and landing due to a lack of room.

“I was in an aisle seat and I clearly didn't fit at all,” Mr Anderson told the UK's Daily Mail.

“It was incredibly painful.”

Unable to take the pain any longer, he asked to be moved to an exit row seat, which has more room – but was denied.

“The stewardess asked if anyone in the emergency row would switch spots with me but came back and said: ‘You're stuck’.”

With the space between economy seats on the Spirit plane just 71 centimetres, Anderson asked for permission to stand after the seatbelt sign was turned off.

He spent most of the trip dodging people who were passing through on the way to the wash room.



Wife kills husband, builds wall to hide body

JAIPUR, INDIA: An Indian woman allegedly murdered her husband and walled in the corpse in their house in Chomu town near as she was annoyed over repeated quarrels and physical torture.



On January 5, the woman hit her 40-year-old husband with an object and strangled him. She hid his body under the staircase inside their house and covered it with a wall, Press Trust of India reports.

The horrific incident came to light when she told her brother about it.



Woman crushes self to death in garage

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AUSTRALIA: An Australian woman has died in her garage after accidentally crushing herself.

Police say the 55-year-old woman was crushed between the wall of the garage and her car at her home near Mandurah, south of Perth.

Police first thought the death could be suspicious, but are now treating it as an accident.



Leopard attacks in eight-hour rampage

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PUNE, INDIA: A leopard attacked seven people and sparked mass panic during an eight-hour rampage through an Indian town.

The big cat strayed into Karad, 160km from Pune, and was first spotted on the roof of a house Sunday afternoon, the Mumbai Mirror reported.

As residents rushed out to look, the animal - believed to be terrified by the commotion - fled into an empty house.

Some people threw rocks inside, causing the furious animal to charge out and cause mayhem in the town.

As residents fled in terror, the leopard attacked and wounded seven of them - pinning its last victim down before a policeman fatally shot it at close range with a revolver.

A wildlife biologist told the Mumbai Mirror the animal would have attacked because it was scared by the humans.

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