Gates of Vienna News Feed 4/21/2012

The strange case of the Secret Service and the unhappy Cartagena hooker has taken an interesting new twist: investigators are looking into the possibility that one or more of the Colombian ladies of the night were underage. It is against U.S. law to travel abroad for the purpose of engaging in sex with minors. The probe is also reported to have widened to include White House staff.

In other news, in northern India a young Bollywood starlet was kidnapped for ransom by two of her colleagues. When the girl’s family failed to raise a sufficiently large payoff, the kidnappers strangled their victim and then beheaded her.

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