International Business News - Girls http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Eleven-year-old Protegee carried her sobbing niece on her back as they searched for relatives in a sea of people in eastern Congo. An Associated Press photograph of the girl--using her filthy T-shirt to wipe the tears from her face as 3-year-old Reponse clung to her neck and wailed--prompted hundreds of e-mails from people around the world hoping to help them. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/177418-congo-girls-in-the-photo.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/a-photo-of-2-little-girls-and-a-reunion-in-congo.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/a-photo-of-2-little-girls-and-a-reunion-in-congo.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:39:45 EST "Girls Gone Wild" entrepreneur Joe Francis wants a California court to rescind a settlement he claims a federal judge coerced him into signing. Francis, who created the popular video series that features young women baring their breasts, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the parents of three underage girls, aiming to vacate an agreement reached in Panama City, Fla., and get his payout returned. The girls were filmed there, and their parents subsequently sued Francis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080820/girls-gone-wild-founder-sues-to-rescind-payout.htm Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:02:31 EDT "Girls Gone Wild" entrepreneur Joe Francis wants a California court to rescind a settlement he claims a federal judge coerced him into signing. Francis, who created the popular video series that features young women baring their breasts, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the parents of three underage girls, aiming to vacate an agreement reached in Panama City, Fla., and get his payout returned. The girls were filmed there, and their parents subsequently sued Francis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080819/joe-francis-sues-to-rescind-settlement.htm Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:07:09 EDT A man accused of sexually attacking a woman aboard a "Girls Gone Wild" tour bus outside a Long Island bar has been released from jail. A 20-year-old woman told police she was forcibly groped on the bus on Aug. 6 and was subjected to unwanted sexual contact by 37-year-old Los Angeles resident Matthew O'Sullivan. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080813/accused-girls-gone-wild-employee-released-in-ny.htm Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:46:01 EDT Prosecutors say a "Girls Gone Wild" employee has pleaded not guilty to sexually attacking a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar. Thirty-seven-year-old Matthew O'Sullivan of Los Angeles was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held on $100,000 cash bail. He does not yet have a lawyer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080807/prosecutors-gone-wild-worker-pleads-not-guilty.htm Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:14:05 EDT Prosecutors say a "Girls Gone Wild" employee has pleaded not guilty to sexually attacking a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar. Thirty-seven-year-old Matthew O'Sullivan of Los Angeles was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held on $100,000 cash bail. He does not yet have a lawyer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080806/police-girls-gone-wild-worker-faces-ny-sex-charge.htm Wed, 06 Aug 2008 21:26:46 EDT "Girls Gone Wild" video founder Joe Francis has settled another of the many legal cases against his soft porn empire. The 35-year-old multimillionaire reached a settlement this week with a Panama City woman who said she was 16 when filmed flashing her breast in 2002. Her picture was on the cover of a popular video. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/girls-gone-wild-founder-settles-another-lawsuit.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:54:02 EDT This time last year, Janet Kimani spent her days at school and her nights fighting with her little brothers over what to watch on the family's flickering TV set. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080731/teen-prostitution-up-after-kenyas-election-crisis.htm Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:53:40 EDT Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/97374-mickelson-education.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/math-study-finds-girls-are-just-as-good-as-boys.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080725/math-study-finds-girls-are-just-as-good-as-boys.htm Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:26:29 EDT Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that when it comes to math they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured up to boys in every grade, from second through 11th. The research was released Thursday in the journal Science. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080724/math-study-finds-girls-are-just-as-good-as-boys.htm Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:02:40 EDT Hoping to prick someone's conscience in the unsolved murders of two young girls, authorities on Monday released a 911 recording in which the grandmother of one victim screams in agony, "My babies, babies, babies!" http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/94985-girls-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/911-call-released-in-killings-of-2-okla-girls.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080721/911-call-released-in-killings-of-2-okla-girls.htm Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:28:30 EDT A woman has sued the call girl linked to the downfall of New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, claiming Ashley Dupre used her lost driver's license to appear on a "Girls Gone Wild" video. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080717/nj-woman-sues-spitzer-call-girl-over-wild-video.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:10:25 EDT The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86332-girls-gone-wild-spitzer-call-girl.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/spitzer-call-girl-drops-girls-gone-wild-lawsuit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080705/spitzer-call-girl-drops-girls-gone-wild-lawsuit.htm Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:20:43 EDT The call girl involved in a scandal that brought down New York's former governor has dropped a lawsuit claiming "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis exploited her image and name on the Internet. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/86086-girls-gone-wild-spitzer-call-girl.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/spitzer-call-girl-drops-girls-gone-wild-lawsuit.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/spitzer-call-girl-drops-girls-gone-wild-lawsuit.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:30:12 EDT "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis is being sued by a Las Vegas Strip casino for $2 million in gambling debts from February of last year. Francis spokesman Ronn Torossian said Tuesday that the man who built the soft porn empire already had satisfied his debt to the Wynn Las Vegas casino through "prior agreements." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080701/las-vegas-casino-sues-girls-gone-wild-founder.htm Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:49:11 EDT Authorities released a sketch Friday of a "person of interest" investigators want to interview about the slayings of two girls along an eastern Oklahoma country road. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/71800-girls-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/sketch-released-in-case-of-2-okla-girls-shot.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/sketch-released-in-case-of-2-okla-girls-shot.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:04:56 EDT For all the older supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton who may have been depressed, deflated, wistful or angry about her exit from the presidential race, there's an upbeat 17-year-old who doesn't feel the dream of a woman in the Oval Office has slipped away. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/70565-clinton-girls.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/clintons-youngest-supporters-see-glass-half-full.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/clintons-youngest-supporters-see-glass-half-full.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:02:11 EDT Maybe they stumbled onto a crime in progress. Perhaps they were ambushed by "drunks and dopeheads." Or maybe it was some kind of thrill killing. The slayings of two girls--ages 11 and 13--who were shot along a rural back road have baffled investigators and struck fear into townspeople, who are now afraid to let their children out of their sight. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/69407-girls-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/investigators-2-guns-used-in-okla-girls-killings.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080611/investigators-2-guns-used-in-okla-girls-killings.htm Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:38:50 EDT The bodies of two girls were found shot to death in rural Oklahoma along a dirt road the best friends walked dozens of times to play and go to sleepovers. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/68457-girls-killed.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080610/2-girls-found-dead-near-small-oklahoma-town.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080610/2-girls-found-dead-near-small-oklahoma-town.htm Tue, 10 Jun 2008 19:39:09 EDT More than a quarter-century has not diminished the theatricality of "Top Girls," British playwright Caryl Churchill's incisive dissection of how women deal with power and class. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44691-theater-top-girls.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/in-top-girls-caryl-churchill-dissects-woman-and-power.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/in-top-girls-caryl-churchill-dissects-woman-and-power.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 20:29:23 EDT