What’s the easiest way to attract a video crew and a reporter? That’s easy: just get people to pay to take a bath in something grotesque.  

In recent  months, we’ve covered spas that offered hot baths in curry, chocolate, champagne and other bizarre stuff, and now here’s one that features baths in noodle soup, and not even real noodles! This story angle no longer impresses me. Come back when you’re selling spa treatments in bubbling  cheese fondue, dude. Toshi Maeda reports:

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The passionate debate over how long terrorism suspects can be held without charge has resurfaced at the top of the political agenda in Britain, with the government indicating that it will seek to extend the current 28-day limit. Ministers, the police and security services say more time is essential if they are to bring some suspects planning atrocities to justice. They argue that the rights of ordinary citizens to living in safety should be paramount. But critics, including politicians, civil rights groups and Muslim organisations, say the powers are draconian, unnecessary and an infringement of ancient liberties that guarantee people should not be held by the authorities without being charged with a crime.
What do you think?

More migrants die as U.S. tightens border security

REYNOSA, Mexico, July 12 (Reuters) - Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border is forcing migrants to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.

FYI, illegals are not FORCED to take more dangerous routes of illegal entry into the United States. They CHOOSE to do so. If you reported correctly your first paragraph should read: Tougher security along the U.S.-Mexico border has ILLEGAL MIGRANTS CHOOSING to take more dangerous, remote routes to cross into the United States and pushing up the number of deaths in the desert.

George D.

There was a typo in the article. You left out the word Illegal.

Maroo

I will also admit that there is indeed no single simple solution to prevent future deaths from occurring.  But when it does happen, how about a more balanced presentation of the facts to include the fact that those crossing the border are not undocumented immigrants but illegal aliens and breaking our laws, and some in doing so result in unfortunate deaths.
 

Jeff C.

This was a very unpopular headline and story. We used the word illegal several times further down in the story, but it should have been clear from the start what we were talking about. 

Many readers also objected to our implication that tighter security somehow was forcing people to do something dangerous: GBU Editor

REUTERS photo by Daniel Aguilar

Former first Lady Barbara Bush (L) and Trisha Nixon Cox, daughter of former President Richard Nixon, attend a funeral service for former first lady Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas July 14, 2007. Lady Bird Johnson died on July 11, 2007 at the age of 94. REUTERS/David J. Phillip/Pool

On Saturday, July 14, there is a close-up photo of Barbara Bush and someone you claim is “Trisha Nixon Cox.” In fact, that lady is Susan Ford, daughter of President and Mrs. Ford.  Also, Tricia Nixon Cox spells her name as Tricia, not ‘”Trisha.”

Amy

Several readers noticed this one. We corrected: GBU Editor

Just wanted to let you know that the video about the plane crash in Sanford Florida is using footage of a plane crash in Mulberry Florida. The two have nothing to do with each other and were in two completely different locations.

Alex Y.

Several sharp-eyed readers noticed this one. We pulled down the clip and replaced it with the right one: GBU Editor

Government plans to tackle the country’s growing household waste problem are a bit of a rubbish idea, according to a committee of MPs.

Ministers trying to find ways to encourage people to throw away less and recycle more to help reduce the amount of
household waste thrown away every week. Click here to read the story.

The Local Government Association, the body which represents councils, says Britain is the “dustbin of Europe” throwing more rubbish into landfill sites than any other country in Europe.

Councils risk huge fines if they fail to cut the amount of rubbish chucked into landfills under new European Union restrictions and are looking for ways to do this.

The most controversial has been the introduction of alternate bin collections, where councils collect general rubbish one week and waste for recycling the next.

Those who do not comply face a “bin tax”, while under government plans councils can also introduce a “pay-as-you-throw” tax, based on the amount of waste people produce.

As an incentive, people who recycle their goods properly into separate sections can receive a 20-30 pound reward.

MPs who looked at the proposals say the ideas have not been discussed properly in some areas and warn the measures could lead to protests, more fly-tipping and could even see people dumping their rubbish in other people’s bins.

So should the government bin its proposed strategy? Or should people be punished for failing to recycle and rewarded for cutting down how much they throw away.

Let us know what you think.

Asian Cup glamour coach Bruno Metsu says he has no problems looking in the mirror — and he likes what he sees. Unfortunately, it’s not helping the United Arab Emirates, who lost their first two games in Group B.

The Frenchman, a dead ringer for soft rock crooner Michael Bolton with his wavy, blow-dried hair and gold medallion, famously guided Senegal to the last eight of the 2002 World Cup in their first appearance at the finals and still believes he has the magic touch.

“I believe in me. I trust in me,” he told Reuters, as if belting out an old Bolton classic. “For me confidence is no problem. I can still look in the mirror and it’s no problem for me!”

Metsu enjoyed success at club level in the Middle East after the 2002 World Cup and warned UAE officials that if they no longer found him sexy he would flounce out and find alternative employment.

“If they are not happy, I will make my job (elsewhere) and make my bed!” he said with a flick of his shoulder-length mane.

Alastair Himmer is covering the Asian Cup