British photographer wins £82,000 damages after US porn firm uses picture of her AGED 14 on cover of explicit DVD

A photographer who sued a US porn film company for using a picture of her aged 14 on the cover of one of its DVDs has won £82,000 damages.

Lara Jade Coton was ‘horrified’ that her self-portrait, which was on the internet, had been used as the DVD cover and face art for the sexually explicit film Body Magic without her permission.

Miss Coton went on to sue the firm, TVX Films of Texas, after she complained and received an email blaming her for disappointing sales of the DVD, her lawyer Richard Harrison said.

A self portrait of Lara Jade Coton taken when she was 14-years-old appeared as the cover of the pornographic film Body Magic

Professional photographer Miss Coton has been awarded £82,000 in damages

Rescued Chile miner joyous, but also talks of devil

Trapped deep inside the earth for 69 days, Mario Sepulveda never lost his sense of humour, so when he was finally pulled to safety today, he brought a souvenir with him – a bag of rocks.

The rocks, which Sepulveda gave out to rescue workers, appeared to be wrapped in silver tinfoil. Hundreds of people watching on a TV feed giggled as he brought a touch of humour to a tense and riveting operation to free him and 32 other men from a collapsed mine here in northern Chile.

Miner Claudio Yanez kisses his wife after arriving as the eighth miner to be hoisted to the surface in Copiapo October 13, 2010.

Taiwan to allow small brothels in law change

Taiwan’s government plans to allow sex workers to set up small businesses in the latest change to laws that had once forced the huge industry underground, the interior ministry said.

In a statement on its website, the ministry said it would consider brothels of three to five staff away from areas frequented by children. It will put plans to a Cabinet committee by the end of the year.

The ministry ruled out earlier proposals to set up red-light districts or allow larger businesses due to concerns among members of its committee set up to study the issue that such measures would turn the sex trade into a regular industry.

Taiwan-born sex worker Niko, 47, poses for a photograph after an interview with Reuters inside a brothel in Taipei June 24, 2009

FBI got tip about American in Mumbai attacks

The FBI received a tip three years before the 2008 Mumbai attacks that an American man who helped scout the targets was tied to the Pakistani group behind the plot, the Washington Post reported yesterday.

The man, David Headley, pleaded guilty in March to a dozen US terrorism charges related to the Mumbai attacks in which 166 people were killed, and to a plot to attack a Danish newspaper that had published cartoons in 2005 that lampooned the Prophet Mohammed.

He admitted to scouting the targets for the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and agreed to help investigators and give testimony against others in exchange for a promise that he would not be extradited to India, Pakistan or Denmark.

The Washington Post reported that the FBI received a tip in 2005 about Headley’s involvement from his wife after the two were in a domestic dispute that resulted in his arrest.

Pigeons fly near the burning Taj Mahal hotel in Mumbai November 27, 2008.

Radical Islamists aim to infiltrate Hamburg mosques

Radical Islamists from a shut down Hamburg mosque linked to the September 11 attacks on the United States are now trying to infiltrate other mosques in and around the German city, according to officials and Muslim leaders.

Small groups of radicals have turned up at several mosques trying to establish a new meeting place since the Taiba Mosque, where the 9/11 leader Mohammad Atta once prayed, was raided and closed by police in August, they told Reuters.

With radicals no longer grouped around one mosque near the city’s main train station, security services have stepped up their observation of Islamists around the city and Muslim associations are on the lookout for suspicious newcomers.

“There are small groups of three to five people from the former Taiba Mosque who have gone to other mosques,” said Ralf Kunz, internal affairs spokesman for the city government.

Individual radicals have turned up “at lots of mosques, both in Hamburg and the surrounding region,” he said. “They have not been able to assemble at any mosque.”

People walk past the entrance of the Taiba Mosque in Hamburg October 6, 2010.

Two of four trapped Ecuadorean miners found dead

Two of four men trapped in an Ecuadorean mine cave-in were found dead on Saturday in the latest accident to hit the industry in Latin America.

Contrasting with the jubilation at this week’s rescue of 33 miners in Chile, the two Ecuadorean miners’ bodies were brought out to disconsolate relatives and officials at the small gold mine in Portovelo near the Peruvian border.

Japan PM wants China to ensure citizens’ safety

Japan’s prime minister on Monday urged China to ensure the safety of Japanese citizens and firms and called for calm after Chinese protesters took to the streets over a territorial feud straining ties between Asia’s top economies.

Sino-Japanese relations deteriorated sharply last month after Japan detained a Chinese trawler captain whose boat collided with Japanese patrol ships near the disputed islands -- called Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China.

Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan’s comments to parliament were followed by remarks from Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara that China’s actions in the dispute were “extremely hysterical,” underlining the difficulty of putting a quick end to the spat.

Australia’s first saint: Nun who exposed sexual abuse

Pope Benedict today gave Australia its first saint, a 19th century "whistleblower" nun who activists say should be the patron of victims of sexual abuse by priests because she was punished for exposing it.

At a solemn ceremony in St Peter's Square, the pope canonised Mother Mary MacKillop as well as five other church figures from Poland, Canada, Spain, and Italy who lived in the 15th to 20th centuries.

A boy holds a book showing new Australian Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop as Pope Benedict XVI leads a solemn mass for the canonisation of six new saints in Saint Peter's square at the Vatican October 17, 2010.

Eight virus types cause almost all cervical cancer

Scientists have identified the eight human papillomavirus (HPV) types responsible for more than 90 per cent of cervical cancer cases worldwide and say they should be the targets for the next generation of vaccines.

Drugmakers GlaxoSmithKline and Merck & Co. already make vaccines against HPV strains that cause many cases of cervical cancer, which is the second most common cancer in women worldwide and is expected to kill 328,000 this year.

Myanmar bars foreign monitors, reporters from poll

Myanmar, Oct 18 — International poll monitors and foreign journalists will be barred from Myanmar’s first election in 20 years, its military rulers said on Monday, deepening concern that next month’s poll will be a sham.

The United States, Britain and Myanmar’s Southeast Asian neighbours had urged the junta to allow independent election monitors at the Nov. 7 election, which critics say will cement the military’s grip on power under the guise of civilian rule.

Members of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party wait for guests in front of posters of national hero Burmese general Aung San, father of Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, at the party headquarters May 27, 2009, before a ceremony to mark the 19th anniversary of the 1990 general election where the NLD won 392 of 485 parliamentary seats.

Super typhoon hits Philippines as Asia braces itself for worst storm of the year

A super typhoon with 140mph winds hit the Philippines today in the worst storm to hit the country in years.

Typhoon Megi hit the northern Isabela province at shortly before 6am UK time.

Thousands of villagers fled to safety amid fears that rice harvests could also be wiped out by the ensuing floods.

Eye of the storm: Typhoon Megi approaches the northern Philippines. It is also set to hit China and Vietnam

Woman who stabbed abusive husband to death is acquitted

A nursing assistant who stabbed her husband to death has been acquitted of his murder after a court heard she suffered years of domestic abuse.

Donna Cobb, 42, plunged a butter knife into Kevin Cobb's heart in self-defence during a violent struggle at their home in Harlem, New York, on a night in November 2006.

Her husband was high on cocaine when he returned home at 3am and attacked her while screaming that he was going to kill her, the court was told.

Cleared: Donna Cobb plunged a butter knife into her husband in self-defence during a violent struggle at their home in New York in November 2006

Britain is losing its battle against Islamic extremists says French MP who banned the burqa

Britain is 'losing the battle against Islamic extremism' by failing to outlaw burqas, the architect of the French ban said today.

Jacques Myard, a senior member of President Nicolas Sarkozy’s ruling UMP party, said relaxed UK policies had ‘opened the door to terrorism’.

He added: ‘Allowing women to exclude themselves from society by wearing the full Islamic veil makes radicals extremely comfortable, and Britain should realise this.’

Man behind the burqa ban: Jacques Myard, a member of Nicolas Sarkozy's ruling UMP party, said relaxed UK policies have 'opened the door to terrorism'

'For 14 days we were all in pitch darkness. There was no night and no day. We begged God to help us': The amazing first interview with one of the trapped Chilean miners

He is the undisputed star of the Chilean mine rescue. When Mario Sepulveda became the second miner to surface after 69 days trapped half-a-mile below ground, his cheeky gift of souvenir rocks for the Chilean president combined with his wildly enthusiastic chants of ‘Viva Chile’ alongside his rescuers led to him being dubbed Super Mario on newspaper front pages around the world.

Since his rescue, the charismatic 40-year-old heavy-equipment operator has been deluged with lucrative media offers, including the chance to host his own Chilean TV show.

But yesterday Mario, speaking from his hospital bed before being released last night – leaving only one of the 33 in the care of doctors – spoke exclusively to The Mail on Sunday and revealed how his jaunty facade was hiding a man tormented by the ‘nightmare’ of what he and the others faced for the initial 17 days after they were trapped – fearing they would starve to death in their underground tomb.

Together again: Mario Sepulveda with his daughter Scarlette, wife Katty and son Franco. Mario has broken the miners 'pact of silence' as he believes there are certain truths about his time in the mine which need to be told

On his way: Mario was the second miner to make the journey to the surface

Moment grieving mother fights off violent mugger's attack as he tries to steal her phone... with a video of her dead baby on it

This is the horrifying moment a mother is punched to the ground by a violent mugger trying to steal her purse.

But the brave woman fights the thug off in a desperate bid to keep hold of her purse - because inside it was a recording of her dead baby calling her 'Mommy'.

The unnamed woman was punched in the face and dragged along the street in the Venice beach area of Los Angeles.

One of the possessions in the bag was a mobile phone with recordings of her infant daughter Minty on it.

Ready to die: Footage shows the unnamed mother and her baby daughter, Minty, who died ten weeks ago of cancer

Not letting go: The defiant woman is dragged into the road by her attacker