Phone ruin

Amman, June 2 (AFP): A Jordanian man has divorced his wife for a third, and final, time in three years, accusing her of ruining him financially because she spent hours talking on the phone.

“My wife would talk on the phone for hours with her sisters and girlfriends to discuss recipes, clothes and the latest fashion and I used to pay the monthly bill without complaint,” the man identified as Abu Sami told Petra news agency today.

But things got out of hand when Abu Sami’s wife began using the family landline phone to dial international numbers to participate in games run by Arab satellite channels, the man complained. “The phone bills represented three-fold my salary,” he said, adding that this prompted the first divorce.

Under pressure from family and friends, Abu Sami and his wife got back together but only briefly. His wife returned to her favourite hobby, prompting him to repudiate her a second time but again they were pressed to re-marry. Abu sami filed recently for his third, and final divorce.

Lusty loss

Zagreb (Reuters): A top Croatian pop star appealed to the public on Wednesday to return or destroy private pictures of her enjoying a lusty sex romp which appeared on the Internet this week. Severina Vuckovic told the daily Jutarnji List the pictures and an 11-minute video of her making love to an unidentified dark-haired man had been stolen from her private collection. They showed up on an Internet site on Tuesday and immediately became the hottest news in the former Yugoslav republic.