Sydney: A French skyscraper climber nicknamed "Spiderman" was arrested Monday after scaling a 57-story building in Sydney with his bare hands.

Alain Robert, known for climbing some of the world's tallest and best-known buildings without ropes or other equipment, was arrested at the top of the Lumiere building downtown.

He climbed the building in about 20 minutes, as dozens of people watched from below.

"I'm sad he's been arrested, but hopefully he'll get out soon and we can have some champagne," said his agent, Max Markson.

Washington: In a shocking case, three US teenagers have been charged with a 90-year-old woman's rape in Detroit city, a media report said.

Maurice Randall, 17, and Anthony Hardy, 18, both of Detroit, were arraigned yesterday along with a 15-year-old local boy, whose name is not being released because he's a juvenile. Police said that the trio carried out the brutal rape on the woman on August 12, the report said.

Police say more than 200 volunteers played a key role in helping solve the case.

New Delhi: Show them a boy-meets-girl story and chances are today's Indian youth will switch off their TV sets. What they are looking for is some serious 'love, sex aur dhokha' on the small screen that is closer to the reality of their own lives. Shows like Emotional Atyachaar, Dadagiri, Axe Ur Ex, Splitsvilla, Dare 2 Date, Love Net - about double timing your partner, backbiting and making a mockery of relationships - have become a craze among college-going students these days.

Shimanti Sengupta, 19, a sociology student, feels people her age get sadistic pleasure in watching break-ups and deceit on TV.

"For one, most of us feel these shows are not real and all pre-planned. It's the same with

London: Sleeping with your boss can do wonders to your career, especially if you are a woman, new research shows. In the study, some 37 per cent of office workers said that from their experience those who slept with their superiors were rewarded with a career boost. The research for the US  Centre for Work-Life Policy found that no matter how high achieving, female executives will not reach the very top of their profession unless they find a 'sponsor' who will speak out on their behalf, reports the Daily Mail. ome 34 per cent of women in executive positions said they knew a female colleague who had slept with their boss. Even at director level or above, 15 per cent of women admitted to having had an office fling.

London: The angler fish, which is mostly found in the ocean depths, appears to saunter along on four legs on the ocean floor, new pictures have revealed.

But the angler fish’s leg-like appendages are just the fins that help him balance himself on the sea bed. He settles on the ocean floor waiting to seize any passing prey he lures towards him, reports the Daily Mail.

Said Faye Archell of the Centre of Applied Zoology, UK: “Many species of angler fish are what are known as ambush predators.

“Their fins have adapted as limb like structures to allow them to remain stationary on the

London: A junior doctor in Britain committed suicide by taking an overdose of drugs after hearing about her Pakistani boyfriend's arranged marriage, a court was told.

Jennifer Suraweera, 26, took a fatal overdose three weeks after her Pakistani boyfriend and colleague, Jawad Usman, told her he was getting married in his home country.

She was found drowsy and unresponsive by her brother Raj at her flat, the Sheffield Coroner's Court heard.

A post mortem examination revealed Jennifer had taken a fatal dose of the beta-blocker Propanalol, Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Her brother, Raj Suraweera, himself a trainee doctor, said his sister never mentioned the drug.

Aizawl: Six Mizo youths running around naked in public places here in inebriated condition were arrested for indecent exposure, police said on Tuesday.

"The youths, belonging to Zemabawk locality, were arrested yesterday," SP Lalbiakthanga Khiangte said.

The youths, completely naked, were accosting pedestrians at Zodin Square area and creating problems for women tea vendors at the Millennium Centre, he said.

They fled after the police arrived at the Millennium Centre, however, they were traced and arrested later, he said.

London : A Thai beauty, who fell prey to the traffickers in Britain, has to sleep with as many as 600 customers more to pay off her debts.

Mimi has already slept with 5,000 vice punters in the last year alone.

The 30-year-old is just a small part of the sex racket that has been busted in Britain by the Association of Chief Police Officers.

It has revealed that 2,600 women have been hustled into the country by criminal gangs and strong- armed into working as prostitutes to meet fees of up to 30,000 pound.

Ahmedabad: A 55-year-old widow, deserted by her children, made a new beginning in life by selecting a partner through a 'Swayamwar' here today.

Bhanumati Rawal from Anand district selected Rajendra Rawal, who is in mid-fifties, from Mansa in Gandhinagar district, as her partner out of the 36 persons who participated at this unique 'Swayamwar'.

"Being old should not stop you from living your life.

At this age I decided not to hide from the society but face it," Bhanumati, said after the Swayamwar.

Rio De Janeiro: It's an unusual campaign pledge: a strip club in every town. That, however, is what Adriely Fatal, a stripper and “erotic actress” from north-eastern Brazil, is promising voters as she hits the campaign trail in search of a place in Parliament.

With general elections taking place in October, four adult entertainers are preparing to battle it out for a seat in Ceara state's local Assembly, aiming to form a “sex lobby” within government.

Leading Ceara's campanha erotica is 23-year-old Fatal, who also promises to focus on hospitals and education and is campaigning on an open-backed truck outside the local football stadium, where she dances dressed in skin-tight shorts.