She’s sexy and she knows it

Mila Kunis (pictured) has been dubbed ''the sexiest woman alive'' by Esquire magazine in its November issue out this week. The 29-year-old, a one-time star of the TV comedy That '70s Show and the voice of Meg on Family Guy, was lauded by the men's magazine on its website as ''the most beautiful, opinionated, talkative, and funny movie star that we've all known since she was nine". As a grown-up, the native of Ukraine electrified audiences with a solid performance opposite - and sometimes in bed with - Israeli-born Oscar winner Natalie Portman in the 2010 ballet movie Black Swan. She recently showed her comic chops in Friends With Benefits and Ted. Next year she will star in Oz: The Great and Powerful. But now for something not so sexy: a 16-year-old in Warrensville Heights, Ohio, was reportedly killed by a teen she teased about her flatulence. The fight took place last Wednesday at about 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time when, according to witnesses, the suspect, whose name has not been released, passed gas. And speaking of gas, a popular Tunisian children's magazine is to be prosecuted for telling its young readers how to make a petrol bomb, officials said yesterday. The latest edition of "Qaws Quzah", Arabic for "Rainbow", featured a piece about the history of petrol bombs in its "Knowledge Corner", including detailed instructions and a diagram. "It is an improvised weapon that is often used in riots and acts of sabotage because it is easy to make and use," the article read. The magazine, read for decades in Tunisia by boys and girls aged 5 to 15, has no political orientation. But one person with political orientation is a Baptist pastor going by the name Mark Harris, who stood before his flock in North Carolina on Sunday and joined hundreds of other US religious leaders in deliberately breaking the law in an election-year campaign that tests the role of churches in politics. By publicly backing candidates for political office from the pulpit, Harris and nearly 1500 other preachers at services across the United States were flouting a law they see as an incursion on freedom of religion and speech. Under the US tax code, non-profit organisations such as churches may express views on any issue, but they jeopardise their favourable tax-exempt status if they speak for or against any political candidate. But that’s what the pastors are doing on ‘Pulpit Freedom Sunday,’ which has been staged annually since 2008 by a group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. Its aim was to provoke a challenge from the US Internal Revenue Service in order to file a lawsuit and have its argument out in court. The event has grown steadily in size, but the IRS has yet to respond - even though the pastors tape their sermons and mail them to the agency. But what to do about where one should stand on this movement? There’s the First Amendment and its rights to freedom of speech, and there’s also the principle of separation of church and state. And speaking of separation, Scotland will hold a vote in 2014 on independence in what could result in the eventual breakup of Britain, a British government minister said yesterday. The announcement ended months of stalemate between the Westminster government in London and the devolved administration in Edinburgh. "What will happen is that Westminster will devolve the power to the Scottish parliament to hold a single-question referendum on whether Scotland should be in or out of the United Kingdom," Scotland Office minister David Mundell told Sky News. "We anticipate that happening in autumn 2014." This could spell the end of over 300 years of union between England and Scotland, but one person who won’t be released in time for this decisive vote goes by the name Jerry Sandusky, who stood in court yesterday in his current uniform, the bright red jumpsuit of the Centre County jail. No longer was he in his Penn State coaching gear, nor in the suit and tie he wore at his trial in June. He was, in a sense, as powerless before his victims as they had once been before him. So he sat, forced to listen. “We both know exactly what happened,” said one of three victims who stood and spoke. Another said: “I am troubled with flashbacks of his naked body, something that will never be erased from my memory. Jerry has harmed children, of which I am one of them.” “There is no punishment sufficient for you,” the mother of another victim wrote in a statement read by the lead prosecutor. Another victim wrote: “There is no remorse. There is no acknowledgment of regret, only evil.” So to sum it up, that bellend will be getting 30 to 60 years (more likely than not to last the rest of his life) behind bars. And I can bet you that when that lowlife piece of scum is all soaped up in the prison showers, he will likely get what’s coming to him.