Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has described TV chef Gordon Ramsay as “a new form of low life” after the chef showed a food-fair audience a photo of a nude woman on all fours, with multiple breasts and a pig’s face, and said the image was of popular Australian television journalist Tracy Grimshaw. Read more here
A court in North Korea has sentenced Euna Lee and Laura Ling, two US journalists to 12 years according to state media. Read more here
The head of the United Nations agency tasked with upholding press freedom condemned the kidnapping and murder of a newspaper journalist in Mexico, calling on the nation’s authorities to catch those behind the killing. Read more here
Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft is varying search results of the term “sex” dependent on the country. The UK, US and all European countries produce long lists of results but Arabian countries, China, India and several others produce no results leading to accusations of censorship. Read more here