Britain to delete term &quot;prostitute&quot; from law books
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Britain is proposing to remove the term  &quot;prostitute&quot; from the criminal statutes because it carries too  much stigma.
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"I referred to him as a political prostitute, now that he's taking big checks from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin. But the sex workers in my district objected, so I will no longer use that phrase"  A leading Democratic lawmaker lashed out at the former leaders of Germany and France, calling former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder a `political prostitute.' Germany denounced the remarks by Rep. via York News-Times
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Free and cut-price alcohol offers in Scottish shops will be made illegal, ministers announce.
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A new registration scheme has cut the number of illegal workers in the UK, David Blunkett is expected to say.
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The U.K. is looking to change copyright laws that make it illegal to copy music for personal use and for libraries to archive material under copyright.
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Publishers of the new Harry Potter novel have been trying to suppress websites featuring extracts apparently taken from the book. By Esther Addley.
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AMSTERDAM -- City officials say they will turn off the red lights and shutter one-third of the prostitution "windows" in Amsterdam's famed Red Light District, where scantily clad ladies of the night have beckoned customers for hundreds of years.
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Woolworths stores in Britain have stopped selling "Lolita" beds for young girls after a parents' organization complained because of the name's association with the famous novel about a pedophile.
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Big Fish Games Inc., a developer and publisher of casual games, is taking a page out of the social-networking handbook.
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LONDON (Reuters Life!) - A chain of retail stores in Britain has withdrawn the sale of beds named Lolita and designed for six-year-old girls after furious parents pointed out that the name was synonymous with sexually active pre-teens.
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Human rights activists on Wednesday condemned the detention of a Hong Kong pro-democracy politician for allegedly having sex with a prostitute, and his sentencing without trial to six months of &quot;re-education through labor.&quot; ...
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It is to become an offence in Northern Ireland to cruise town and city streets looking for prostitutes.
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Channel 4 has said it would shelve a series of sex programmes after facing a storm of criticism over the &quot;Celebrity Big Brother&quot; race row.
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Patients are to be given the right to opt out of having information stored on the NHS electronic database.
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Â· Woman convicted of letting pupils see sex adsÂ· Ruling follows campaign by computer experts
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EBay has given notice that from now on, racially offensive terms may be used only if they are part of a book, movie or other product title.
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Rap star Sean Combs is asked to stop using the name "Diddy" on UK-accessible websites.