Club expects 1,500 people at Brazil orgy
"There are no rules. People can have sex however they want and wherever they want, if that doesn't hurt anybody," said Eduardo Leal, the club's president.
Organizers said ticket sales were being controlled to result in a relative parity of men and women at the party.
Anyone age 18 or over can buy tickets for between $20 and $35. Most of the 1,500 tickets have been sold.
Ex-communist Ruutel named Estonia's new president
TALLINN, Estonia — Ex-communist Arnold Ruutel, a leading figure in this former Soviet republic's drive for independence, was chosen as Estonia's president by a special government assembly yesterday.
Ruutel, 73, will replace popular President Lennart Meri, who is barred by the constitution from seeking a third term. He edged out Parliament Speaker Toomas Savi of the center-right Reform Party, who had been favored to win.
Ruutel says he backs Estonia's goal of EU and NATO membership, although he and other leftist politicians have complained that too much time is spent on European integration.
Remains of rebels not found at exhumation in Honduras
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — An exhumation at a former base of the U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contra rebels failed to find remains of leftists, including a U.S. priest and an ex-Green Beret, believed to have disappeared there during the 1980s,
An international team of anthropologists exhumed 28 bodies near a hospital that once served the U.S.-built El Aguacate base. All are believed to be those of Nicaraguan contra rebels who used the base to fight the Sandinista government over the border in Nicaragua.
Rights workers had said members of a leftist rebel Honduran group loosely affiliated with the Sandinistas might be buried there. Among them were believed to be James "Guadalupe" Carney, a U.S. Jesuit priest, and Arturo David Baez, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Nicaragua who served in the Green Berets.
Witnesses had said both men were captured and brought to the base to be interrogated in 1983 before disappearing.
No imminent peace talks, Israel's prime minister says
JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has said he won't schedule peace talks between his government and the Palestinian leadership until at least next week, pending a complete cease-fire by the Palestinians.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, having failed to fully halt shooting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, for the first time gave a direct order against using arms to his own Fatah group in the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Both Sharon and Arafat have been under intense U.S. pressure to end clashes between their forces in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and resume negotiations.
The Bush administration is eager to keep the conflict from souring its call to Arab countries to join a campaign against terrorism.
Taiwan's Nationalist Party kicks out former president
BEIJING — The Nationalist Party, which ruled Taiwan for more than 50 years before losing power last year, kicked out former President Lee Teng-hui yesterday after he all but defected by campaigning for a splinter group.
Lee, 78, helped shepherd Taiwan's transformation from a police state into one of Asia's most vibrant democracies during 12 years in power.
Lee has grown openly critical of his party for what he considered to be its perilous policy of cozying up to China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province.