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BULLETIN -- Reports: At least 2 people killed, 8 others injured after gunman opens fire at gay bar in Tel Aviv.

Saudi TV sex boast man arrested

A Saudi Arabian man who went on an Arabic television talk show to boast about his sex life has been arrested.

The man, named as Mazen Abdul Jawad, prompted more than 200 complaints from Saudi viewers.

He was arrested for "publicising vice", police said, after he spoke about his experiences and displayed sex toys and a sex guide at his home in Jeddah.

Mr Abdul Jawad had publicly apologised, saying producers at the TV station had tricked him into some of his accounts.

During the show on Lebanon's LBC, the father-of-four told how he first had sex with a neighbour when he was 14.

He also described how he used the Bluetooth function on his mobile phone to pick up women in the kingdom.

A police spokesman in Jeddah said Mr Abdul Jawad's appearance had violated Saudi Arabia's Islamic sharia law code and was against Saudi customs.

He was detained at his apartment at the Red Sea port city before being fingerprinted and turned over to criminal investigators, according to media reports.

Passenger 'Acting Crazy' Forced LaGuardia Evac

 

 

People were being allowed back inside the main terminal at LaGuardia Airport that was evacuated Saturday morning over fears of a possible bomb. While the Central Concourse has been re-opened, Terminal C was still considered a crime scene and was to remain closed for hours after the incident.

Authorities: Device Found At LaGuardia 'Harmless'

 

Terminal C in LaGuardia Airport is considered a crime scene and will remain closed for hours Saturday. John Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the airport's central terminal building was evacuated this morning. A man was taken into custody and an NYPD bomb squad searched his bag. They found a device, but deemed it to be harmless. The man was considered to be emotionally disturbed.

LaGuardia Terminal Evacuated In NYC, 1 In Custody

 Authorities said a main terminal of LaGuardia Airport in New York City was evacuated and a police bomb squad arrested a man and searched his bag. John Kelly, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, said the airport's central terminal building was evacuated Saturday morning. He didn't know how many passengers were there at the time or what airlines are served at the building.

‘Fake co.uk Sites’ Trick Consumers

Trading standards officers say that consumers are being tricked into buying fake goods on the internet by companies pretending to be based in the UK.

The websites are often based in China, but use "co.uk" as part of their domain name, giving shoppers a false sense of security, they say.

It is thought that there could be as many as 480,000 websites which carry "co.uk", but which are not UK based.

The sites sell a range of goods from trainers to hair straighteners.

Al-Qaeda supporters 'joined MI5'

A senior Tory MP has asked the home secretary whether al-Qaeda sympathisers were mistakenly recruited by MI5.

Patrick Mercer, chairman of the Home Affairs counter-terror sub-committee, said he was told six recruits were ejected after worries about their past.

Two allegedly attended al-Qaeda training camps while the others had unexplained gaps in their CVs, Mr Mercer told the Daily Telegraph.

A Home Office spokeswoman declined to comment on the claims.

'Took advantage'

Mr Mercer said he had learned that MI5 had dismissed the six recruits some time between 2005 and 2007.

The MP said he feared that, in the aftermath of the bombings on London's transport network in July 2005, the security services had rushed to try and take on Muslim recruits, and that had potentially allowed al-Qaeda sympathisers to infiltrate the security service.

He has written to the Home Secretary Alan Johnson asking for further details.

Mr Mercer said the Commons Home Affairs committee may investigate the issue next month.

He told the newspaper that the government should have been prompted to expand the security services following the attacks on New York on 11 September 2001.

"In fact it took an attack on this country for such measures to be started," he added.

"But at this point it was an unseemly rush of which our enemies, not unsurprisingly, took advantage."