CHINA DAILY

 

　　Dolphin Dies, Swimmers Blamed

 

　　Wildlife experts have criticized swimmers who posed for pictures with a dying dolphin on a South China beach, hampering the efforts of people trying to save the mammal.

 

　　Photographs taken by witnesses in Sanya, a popular tourist destination in Hainan province, were widely circulated online.

 

　　Several showed a group of men holding the dolphin above shallow water while another swimmer took photographs.

 

　　Experts from a wildlife rescue center eventually arrived to remove the dolphin from the beach but it later died from a collapsed lung.

 

　　GLOBAL TIMES

 

　　Lushan Woman Kills Self after Son Dies

 

　　A grief-stricken woman was found to have committed suicide following the death of her 5-year-old son in Lushan county, Sichuan Province.

 

　　The boy had died after falling into a toilet pit in the quake stricken zone and the woman was reportedly racked with guilt after failing to save him.

 

　　The woman was initially given psychological counseling, however she ended her life in what is the first case of suicide that has happened in the disaster area.

 

　　A local Party official has noted psychological counseling can easily be overlooked during the ongoing reconstruction process in the disaster area.

 

　　DAILY MAIL

 

　　Children's laureate calls for more sex scenes in books for teenagers to stop them turning to 'brutalising' online porn to learn more

 

　　Author Malorie Blackman has called for books for teenagers to include more realistic sex scenes to teach them accurate information about sex.

 

　　The Pig Heart Boy author Blackman says including more sex would allow youngsters to read about it safely rather than through 'innuendo and porn'.

 

　　She also claims giving youngsters more challenging themes in literature would prevent them from turning to 'brutalising' online images.

 

　　She made her comments after reading a recent article about a teenage girl who claims her boyfriend learned all he knows about sex from online porn.

 

　　THE AGE (AUSTRALIA)

 

　　After Jolie, Women Less Shy to Investigate Mastectomies

 

　　There has been a huge surge in phone calls to the Cancer Council helpline, since Angelina Jolie's breast cancer preventive surgery.

 

　　Cancer Council NSW has recorded an increase of almost 900-percent in the number of people phoning the helpline.

 

　　This follows Jolie's announcement of her preventative double mastectomy last month after learning she had an 87-percent chance of developing breast cancer.

 

　　The figures suggest Jolie's heavily publicized decision has de-stigmatized the prophylactic mastectomy procedure and inspired members of the public to learn about their options.