Life was hard when I was with him

THEY were still husband and wife in name.

But Mona told The New Paper in a phone interview on Wednesday that she had considered their marriage over since early 2009.

Like him, she too claimed she had caught him cheating on her many times before they were married and even after that.

And she claimed that she, too, had tried to break up with him, but each time he would beg for her forgiveness and she would relent - because of their children.

But, she alleged, he was an irresponsible husband and father who failed to provide for them financially.

He sees red over sexy photos, shower video

HE WAS so incensed when he found photos of his wife behaving intimately with another man that he headbutted her.

But that was not all.

A few months later, Vincent, 31, a restaurant manager, found a few photos of his wife in her undergarments and a video clip of her showering in the nude.

When he realised that these were taken by their then-five-year-old son at her lover's apartment, he hit the roof.

And that was when he decided he wanted a divorce.

On Wednesday, Vincent was jailed one week and ordered to pay $2,000 compensation to his wife for the headbutting incident, which took place 1 1/2 years ago.

Principal of top school under investigation for hiring prostitutes

A principal of a top school in Singapore, along with a number of senior civil servants, are under investigation for hiring prostitutes from an online vice syndicate, according to local media reports.

The public servants were implicated when Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Police Intelligence Department (PID) carried out raids against the vice syndicate in late December last year, Shin Min reported.

A list that revealed the names of the syndicate's clients were among the items that were seized in the island-wide raid.

Japanese star charged with Taiwan taxi driver assault

TAIPEI - A Japanese entertainer has been charged with attacking a Taiwanese taxi driver, prosecutors said Saturday, in an incident that has triggered public anger on the island.

Singer-actress Makiyo faces a four-year jail term for allegedly being involved in the assault and then trying to cover up her role, they said.

Prosecutors also sought a six-year jail term for her friend Takateru Tomoyori for allegedly severely injuring the driver with "violent and brutal means" during the February 2 assault in Taipei.