“I had my first boyfriend and had sex with him when I was 14. In a moment of wanting to feel closer to him, I grabbed a knife and cut him,” she said. “He cut me back.”

Brigitte Fell has launched a lawsuit accusing the officers of breaching privacy laws by telling her then-boyfriend about the sex change while he was in police custody, Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported.

Constables Tyrone Stacey and Brendan Ritson pleaded not guilty in a Sydney court Tuesday and could face two years jail if convicted of unlawfully disclosing information, the newspaper reported.

It said Fell’s boyfriend was picked up by police for suspected theft in September 2006 and while he was in custody Stacey allegedly accessed confidential information about Fell, revealing she was born a man.

Ritson, who was looking over his colleague’s shoulder, allegedly shouted to Jacobson that he was having sexual relations with “a bloke”.

After the boyfriend, Garrick Jacobson denied it, he was allegedly shown paperwork indicating her gender and told: “See, it’s a guy.”

Fell told the court that when Jacobson was released he stormed into her flat and confronted her, asking if what the police told him was true.

She said he repeatedly punched her in the face, resulting in her hospitalization for several days.

Fell told the court that she underwent sex change surgery in London about 12 years ago and claimed the privacy breach “ruined my life”, the Telegraph reported.

She said she had not previously revealed her surgery to Jacobson, her boyfriend of about two months, because “he was temperamental enough”.

The 30-year-old driver was arrested on Thursday after the unnamed actress gave him the demanded sum in marked currency.

The taxi driver, also unidentified, who had initially tried to peddle the sex footage to a reporter, told police he was facing “serious financial difficulties.”

The behavior of taxi drivers in Greece usually tops visitors’ grudge lists with complaints ranging from boorish conduct and rip-off pricing to general uncleanliness.

The union representing Athens’ some 15,000 taxi drivers has repeatedly promised to organize behavioral seminars for its members but the effect on the street has been minimal.

Valentine’s Day isn’t all hearts and flowers, says WKLC Program Director Jay Nunley. There is a darker side, he said, “where maybe you despise your spouse and resent the entire day.”

Through 4 p.m. on Thursday, Valentine’s Day, applications for the free divorce will be accepted on the classic rock station’s Web site, http://www.wklc.com. The winning name will be drawn at 5 p.m.

Nunley cautions that this is a real divorce and people shouldn’t enter if they aren’t serious. Also, people expecting a long, drawn-out legal battle should hire a lawyer because the Rock 105 contest is for a relatively uncomplicated divorce.

Charleston attorney Rusty Webb will handle the actual filing.

“Sure we can give away concert tickets, and we do,” said Nunley. “That’s going to make you happy for a little while. This is the chance to make someone happy for the rest of their life.”

London Underground bosses have banned a poster of the 1532 work by German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder, promoting an upcoming Royal Academy exhibition.

The Academy is outraged.

“We are disappointed and find it quite ridiculous in this day and age,” said Head of Press and Marketing, Jennifer Francis.

“The painting is around 500 years old — it’s a pure painting by a master,” she told Reuters.

But Transport for London, which operates the Tube network, is unmoved.

“Millions of people travel on the London Underground each day and they have no choice but to view whatever adverts are posted there,” a spokesman said.

“We have to take account of the full range of travellers and endeavour not to cause offence in the advertising we display.”

Advertising standards on the Tube are vetted by the company CBS Outdoor. It states that posters can not “Depict men, women or children in a sexual manner, or display nude or semi-nude figures in an overtly sexual context.”

The Tube has banned historic paintings before.

In 2001 it refused to pass a 17th century portrait by Sir Peter Lely of a mistress in Charles II’s court nonchalantly exposing a breast on a poster for a National Portrait Gallery show.

The Royal Academy, which must now scramble to design another poster for its exhibition, had considered placing black strips over Venus’s offending bodily parts.

But Francis said they will more likely use a cropped version of the painting to advertise the show, which opens on March 8.

Six different men won Internet auctions to have sex with the woman in April and May last year. They were only known to her by their online names, a spokesman for a court in the southwestern city of Stuttgart said on Wednesday.

“The woman wanted to discover which one of the men had made her pregnant,” the spokesman said. “So she needed their contact details. Of course, if they’re not willing to go along with the gene test, she’ll have to take them to court.”

The woman asked the site’s operator to reveal the true identity of the men, but it refused, citing a confidentiality clause in its terms and conditions.

The court ruled in her favour, saying the child’s right to know who its father was took precedence.

The court declined to give the woman’s age and nationality.

The annual campaign to ensure good behaviour on February 14 will see city officials turn on all lights at public parks in the capital Bangkok, while parents are urged to make sure their teenagers come home early.

Police and “student inspectors” from the Education Ministry will be checking discrete “curtain” motels to make sure youths under the legal age of 18 are not using them for amorous interludes.

“We will send patrols to check out public parks, restaurants and shopping malls, which are the starting points for potential sexual activities that will be done at home or motels,” Bangkok police spokesman Suporn Pansuea said.

Thailand’s moral guardians are taking action after an Assumption University poll showed 27 percent of 2,400 Bangkok teenagers surveyed said they might have sex on Wednesday.

Despite Bangkok’s reputation as one of the world’s sex industry centres, predominately Buddhist Thailand is generally a conservative country.

This year’s St Valentine’s Day celebrations have been tempered by a sluggish economy after two years of political strife and a 2006 coup, and nationwide mourning for King Bhumibol Adulyadej’s sister who died in January.

Rose vendors have complained about sagging sales because people have less disposable income.

“I don’t think we’ll have robust sales this Valentine’s Day,” Den Yarum, a florist at Bangkok’s main flower market, told the Thai-language Daily News.

A number of annual high-profile events, such as weddings conducted on mountain cliffs, underwater or in hot-air balloons, have been cancelled or postponed due to the 100-day mourning period for Princess Galyani Vadhana.

Bangkok’s “District of Love”, a city office where superstitious couples flock to register their marriages on Valentine’s Day, will be open for business, but the ceremonies will be low key.

“People are still mourning Princess Galyani Vadhana so the activities will be simple, with an emphasis on her love for the people,” district chief Pravit Panviroj said.

But the 38-year-old former RAF officer wastes no time in heading for a target — a woman — to flirt with and flatter.

Martinez will not try too hard, but will allow himself to be drawn into conversation and, if asked, will give out his phone number for a potential future date.

Martinez is a “honey trapper” — or as he likes to call himself, an “integrity tester” — one of a growing team of private detectives who are hired by wives, husbands or partners to test the loyalty of their loved ones.

“It’s growing all the time,” he says of his business, the Expedite Detective Agency (www.ex-da.com), which charges 300 pounds ($588) for an integrity test on a potential cheat.

Martinez refutes accusations of marriage-wrecking, arguing that his customers come to him when they are already concerned about their partner’s fidelity or when rumors have led them to suspect an affair. But he admits around 80 percent of targets fail the test and turn out to be ready and willing to cheat on a partner.

Martinez and his colleagues — he has a team of male and female trappers, some more, some less attractive — record the whole “hit” on audio and video, so that the customer can see for themselves how the evening develops.

And Martinez has “rules of engagement”: The target must not be drunk, there must be no touching, and the relative attractiveness of the trapper to the target must be equal.

“It’s got to be a fair test,” he explains. “So we make sure that we don’t set a very attractive honey trapper on a not so attractive target, and vice versa.”

“The customer needs a fair answer to the question of whether their husband or girlfriend is loyal.”

Martinez says that while many of his customers may end their relationships, other use the honey trap to confront unfaithful lovers and appeal to them to change their ways.

“So we can also act as a deterrent,” he says. “The customer can say to their partner: ‘I caught you this time and I want you to change’ and they can warn that they will use the honey trap service in the future to test them again.”

He shrugs off criticism that he is fostering mistrust, and insists he is meeting a real need among British couples. But while Martinez is unashamed about what he does, other such detective agencies are more reticent.

At UK Honey Traps, a service based in Worcestershire in the heart of England and offering trappers across the country, they are not keen to talk.

“We don’t talk to journalists,” a spokesman there told Reuters by telephone. “It wouldn’t help our business.”

They are, however, looking for new recruits.

Under the vacancies section of their Web site, the detective service is on the look-out for “confident, bubbly, outgoing men and women with an ability to think on their feet.”

Becoming a honey trapper demands reliability, honesty and accuracy, it says, and because most of the trapping takes place outside office hours, it can offer “an ideal second career.”

A recent study conducted by Israeli doctors among mountain climbers in Africa found a link between erectile dysfunction drugs and improved performance in high altitudes, the mass-selling Yediot Aharonot reported on Thursday.

The active ingredient in the drugs was found to make climbers perform better in an environment with less oxygen, which causes fatigue and dizziness.

This has led army doctors to consider giving jet fighter pilots — who can fly at altitudes of up to 50,000 feet (15,000 metres) — the same drug, the report said.

“The Viagra family of drugs is considered effective in these conditions because when there is a long shortage in oxygen it leads to high blood pressure in the lungs, and the drugs help fight that,” the report quoted military medical sources as saying.

“The NYC Condom’s new look includes a fresh package design and an elegant new dispenser, which will debut in 200 New York City venues in the coming weeks,” city health authorities said, unveiling the new design.

The condom drive was to be backed by television and radio commercials aimed at increasing the city’s use of the contraceptives.

The city gave out 36 million condoms last year — the equivalent of more than four for every man, woman and child in the city. The city’s first official condom, unveiled last year, featured a subway-themed wrapper.