Revolt over Times Square's topless ladies: Parents' anger over 'inappropriate' behavior of the painted women who hustle for $10 photos with underage children

Complaints have been made over the influx of topless women prancing around Times Square and charging tourists to be in photos, deeming it inappropriate and offensive.

The women, who cover their bodies in paint and and typically wear nothing but a thong, are not in trouble for being topless - which is legal in New York City - but for posing with underage children.

The number of women at the tourist mecca have doubled in the last year, with about 40 walking around Times Square on the weekends, according to The New York Daily News. 

Fight breaks out at London underground station as three passengers brawl on platform

A brutal clip has captured the moment a brawl broke out between three passengers on the platform of an underground station in London.

A woman and two men can be seen fighting on the floor between platforms as onlookers film the incident on their mobile phones.

Seconds later, the man in the blue t-shirt is pinned to the ground by the second male, while a woman appears to attempt to kick him in the head.

Newborn baby found abandoned inside a box in the Saudi city of Makkah

The abandoned baby was found in street inside a box by Police patrol in the Saudi city of Makkah. According to Dubai-based Al Bayan Daily, the police came to know after it heard the sound of the crying baby with the umbilical cord still attached to it.

The Spolice in a joint effort with Red Crescent teams took the baby to the Children's Hospital where doctors are currently examining him. An investigation and search team was also formed to look for the parents of the abandoned baby.

The crashed Indonesia plane carried 54 people and nearly $500,000 for poor families

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People look at a passenger and baggage manifest of the crashed Trigana Air

Service flight at the airport in Sentani, near Jayapura, Papua province, 

Indonesia, August 17, 2015, in this photo taken by Antara Foto.

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (AP) - A passenger plane with 54 people on board that crashed in the mountains of eastern Indonesia was carrying nearly half a million dollars in government cash for poor families to help offset a spike in fuel prices, a local postal official said Monday.

The 10 most important things in the world right now

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A competitor jumps from the old bridge during a cliff diving competition in

Kanal ob Soci August 16, 2015.

Hello! Here's what you need to know on Monday.

1. A search plane has spotted the wreckage of an Indonesian passenger plane that went missing on Sunday. 44 passengers were on the plane. There is no word of any survivors.

2. Japan's economy shrank for the first time since Q3 2014. The government reported a decline of 0.4% in the June quarter.

Notorious Charles Bronson writes extraordinary letter from behind bars complaining he is Britain's 'forgotten prisoner'

Letter: Bronson complains he should be released from prison

Notorious Charles Bronson has penned an extraordinary letter from behind bars - complaining he is Britain’s Number 1 ‘forgotten prisoner.’

Known as the UK’s most violent lag, the 62-year-old claims his human rights are being breached by his continuing jailing in HMP Wakefield, West Yorks.

Bronson, now known as Charles Salvador, is serving a life sentence for robbery and kidnap, but says he is 13 years over his tariff for possible release.

Gazprom's colossal deal with China is already looking like a terrible move for Russia

REUTERS/Carlos BarriaRussian President Vladimir Putin with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Shanghai in 2014.

There was a lot of excitement in the industry when the Russian energy giant Gazprom announced a mammoth $400 billion (£256 billion), 30-year export deal to China in May 2014, but the agreement is now coming under extreme pressure on numerous fronts.

Morgan Stanley analysts on Monday morning suggested that construction of the necessary pipeline would be delayed by at least six months, taking the initial exports to mid-2019 at the earliest.

The initial deal had talked about beginning supplies as early as 2018.

Photo of the man who stabbed Morgan Freeman's grand-daughter to death yesterday

Yesterday, Morgan Freeman's 33 year old daughter E'Dena Hines, was stabbed to death on a New York street near her home. Her ex-boyfriend was arrested for the murder and was taken to a psychiatric home yesterday. The man has been revealed as 30 year old Lamar Davenport, (left).

A man who saw the attack which took place around 3am, through his window called the police.

Lamar was reportedly stabbing E'Dean and screaming: 'Get out, devils. In the name of Jesus Christ, I cast you out'. The aspiring actor had a history of drug abuse. He's currently at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center to undergo psychological testing before being questioned by police. 

Scientists think they've found a way to help people 'forget' their drug addictions

The idea of erasing people's memories sounds like something straight from the script of Men In Black, but what if those memories are damaging ones - like knowledge of an addiction to a harmful substance? Researchers in the US are testing a drug that they say can effectively wipe away memories of a meth addiction in the brains of laboratory mice.

Box Office: ‘Straight Outta Compton’ Debuts to Scorching $56.1 Million

“Straight Outta Compton” may take place more than two decades ago, but its themes of racial tension, poverty and police brutality still speak to moviegoers living in a post-Ferguson world.

The biopic about rap group N.W.A debuted to a blistering $56.1 million this weekend in 2,757 theaters, surpassing “American Pie 2” to become the biggest-ever August debut for an R-rated movie. It’s the kind of opening usually reserved for so-called tentpole movies that trade in costumed heroes and special effects, not urban violence.

Morgan Freeman’s Step-Granddaughter Stabbed to Death

E’Dena Hines, the 33-year-old step-granddaughter of Morgan Freeman, has died after receiving multiple stab wounds in New York City on Sunday, according to media reports.Hines was found at about 3 a.m. on the 400 block of W. 162nd, police told People magazine. Responding officers found her bleeding from multiple stab wounds on her torso.

Killer cannibal reveals he cooked women in stews and pies and says it's the same as eating beef

Killer cannibal: Brazilian Cannibal Jorge Beltrao Negromonte says eating women is the same as eating beef

The prisoner opposite me licks his lips after every other word.

It’s particularly off-putting because the man across the table is cannibal Jorge Beltrao Negromonte, who made meat pasties from his victims’ flesh.

The former university professor also ate it sauteed with onions and oregano or made into a stew with vegetables.

Incredible drone pictures emerge laying bare the huge scene of devastation at Chinese warehouse - as it emerges amount of cyanide on site may have been 70 times the legal amount

Several hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the warehouse devastated by two giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin earlier this week, a senior military officer said Sunday.

According to earlier reports, 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide had been stored at the warehouse, an amount which is 70 times what is permitted.

The official government confirmation of the presence of cyanide at the site of the blasts came as then number of casualties continues to spiral, with 112 confirmed dead on Sunday morning. 

Disaster: Several hundred tonnes of cyanide were kept at the warehouse devastated by giant explosions in Tianjin, China on Wednesday

Don't carry things for strangers at airports. Drug smugglers now use different tricks (photos)

In a 15 seconds video, security experts revealed drugs hidden inside an Aquafina bottled water. When you first look at the bottle, it looks clean, like it's just water, until you shake and open. It's a trick drug dealers now use. Be warned. I screen-grabbed from the video. More photos after the cut...

Victim's lucky escape helped her to convict a serial killer who confessed to 50 rapes

Serial killer Bobby Joe Long and survivor Lisa McVey aged 17

When Lisa McVey, 17, was abducted and assaulted in 1984, she thought she was going to die. But her lucky escape helped police put serial killer Bobby Joe Long behind bars

During the mid 1980s, Florida’s Tampa strip was torn apart by a sadistic killer who was fuelled by his hatred of women.

Back then, the downtown area in the Sunshine State had a reputation for coming alive at night with strip bars. But as the killer left a trail of bodies in his wake, locals became nervous about going out after dark.

On the night of 3 November 1984, Lisa McVey, then 17, was riding her bike home after a double shift at a doughnut shop.