A round-up of today's other stories in brief...
Haiti needs more doctors and nurses
PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haiti needs a surge of foreign nurses and doctors to stem deaths from cholera, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official has said. About 1,000 trained nurses and at least 100 more doctors were urgently needed to control the epidemic, which has struck the impoverished Caribbean nation months after an earthquake, Valerie Amos, UN under secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, said. – (Reuters)
Snipes seeks to stay out of jail
ORLANDO, Florida – Actor Wesley Snipes is asking to remain free on bail while he pursues a second appeal of his three convictions of wilful failure to file income tax returns and his three-year prison term. “Mr Snipes has honoured the court’s trust before, during trial, as well as pending sentencing and appeal. There is no reason to change the court’s judgment now. His ongoing and successful projects in the movie industry further ensure he would not consider fleeing,” his lawyers argued in the motion. – (Reuters)
Woman faces breast implants 'repossession'
BERLIN – A German woman who bought breast implants with a loan from her then boyfriend could face them being repossessed after she failed to fully reimburse him.
Her ex-boyfriend is demanding that she return the €4,379 he gave her to pay for surgery in 2009 or he will get the repossessors involved, the tabloid Bildreported yesterday.
“The condition was that I wouldn’t have to pay him back if I stayed with him for a year,” the woman, named as Anastasia, said, adding that she had transferred €3,000 to her boyfriend last week. – (Reuters)