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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.

Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.

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LONDON (AFP) - A British man escaped a jail sentence after admitting in court that he set up a secret video camera in his bathroom -- to film his own wife. . .

The wife unexpectedly discovered what he was up to last October when she turned on the television in their bedroom to be confronted with a live image of her husband naked in the bath. . .

The man had now been thrown out of his house by the wife, who was filing for divorce, defence lawyer Debbie Bakehouse said in mitigation.