Up to 50 employees of
Australia's
national postal service have been caught sending
pornographic emails, including some
involving children in sex acts, according to an investigation published by the
Sydney-based Daily Telegraph. Two have been sacked, at least four have resigned, and dozens have been suspended pending further investigations.
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In
Kassel,
Germany, the trial of
Armin Meiwes begins. He is charged with killing and eating
Bernd-Jürgen Brandes who was one of 200 people who replied to an Internet advertisement for "a well-built male prepared to be slaughtered and then consumed". The whole episode was videotaped. The case is legally difficult as
cannibalism is not explicitly prohibited by the German
penal code, and the defence argues that as the victim was willing, no murder took place.
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