Saturday, August 29, 2009 WASHINGTON: A Virginia man wore a sign admitting his infidelity in public at the request of his wife, it has emerged.William Taylor of Centreville spent Wednesday morning at the busy Tysons Corner crossroad wearing a large placard emblazoned with the words, 'I cheated. This is my punishment'.The idea was suggested by his wife found after she found evidence of his infidelity on his mobile phone.Taylor told local media, "I thought she was kidding, but she was serious. I figured I got to do what I got to do to makes things right. So here I am."After two hours, the unnamed woman reportedly telephoned Taylor to tell him that his punishment was complete.
Friday, August 14, 2009 MUMBAI: A 26-year-old woman died Thursday of H1N1 swine flu in the southern city of Bangalore, raising India's death toll from the virus to 20, authorities said.The death was the first reported in India's information technology capital, the Press Trust of India reported.Meanwhile in Pune, the worst-affected in India, two more victims of the virus died Thursday, raising the death toll in that western city near Mumbai to 12, the report said. The victims were an 11-month-old boy and a 75-year-old old woman.US media reported movie halls, schools and colleges were ordered closed Thursday for three days to a week in Mumbai, the commercial and financial capital of the country, as fear of the pandemic spread.Prajakata Lavangare, a spokeswoman for the government of Maharashtra state of which Mumbai is the capital, said similar orders were issued in Pune, which is also located in the state.The woman who died in Bangalore was identified only as Roopa, a teacher in...
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