Abracadabra! A teacher in the United Arab Emirates is out of jail after winning an appeal over a spell she cast on her now former husband and sister-in-law. Presto! The Polish president's veto of a tight anti-porn bill is upheld. Change-o! A Las Vegas stripper accuses Mike Tyson of punching her out over a lap dance - but no one else seems to believe her. The Newsex Roundup casts its own spell...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A teacher who got four months behind bars for casting a spell on her ex-husband and sister-in-law has won an appeal. The UAE newspaper Gulf News said an appeals court in Sharjah found the man's physical and psychological ailments had nothing to do with any spell, and neither did his sister's. The wife had visited a magician in Oman in an apparent bid to restore her marriage - which the court declared was wrong. A court official told the newspaper such practices are not uncommon among Arab women in trouble of one or another kind.
WARSAW - There was no three-fifths majority, so Poland's Parliament did not override a veto on what would have become one of Europe's strictest anti-porn laws. The ruling Solidarity coalition pushed for the override but fell short by 40 votes May 11. President Aleksander Kwasniewski vetoed the bill in March, calling it unenforceable and thus damaging to Poland's credibility. The junior member of the Solidarity coalition, the Freedom Union, said the bill would have been a fiction that helped create an underground porn industry. The bill would have banned import and distribution of soft and hardcore porn alike. Current law allows softcore porn but punishes hardcore which includes violence, children, or bestiality by up to five years behind bars.
LAS VEGAS - Did Mike Tyson come up with a new variation of the phantom punch against a Las Vegas stripper on May 8? Victoria Bianco, a dancer at Cheetah's, told police Tyson slapped and shoved her in her chest area "causing (me) to literally fly across the room and land on the floor," according to a police report, as well as calling her a "skanky whore" - but witnesses including club management say the incident never occurred. Cheetah general manager Rich Buonatony said that, according to two of his managers and security at the club, Bianco had only offered Tyson a lap dance, which Tyson turned down by holding up his arm where he sat, with no physical contact. Police plan a new investigation into the charges, however.
--- Compiled By Humphrey Pennyworth
