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Spain’ s Supreme Court said Thursday it has exonerated a woman whose jail sentence for tweeting jokes about the 1973 assassination of a senior figure in the Franco dictatorship had raised concerns over free speech. The high court cancelled the one- year jail term handed down in March 2017 by Spain’ s top criminal court to Cassandra Vera , 22, after finding her guilty of humiliating victims of terrorism. It considered that the jokes she posted about “ an attack that happened 44 years ago , without any offensive comment towards the victim, is socially and even morally reproachable in that it makes fun of a serious human tragedy, but a criminal sanction is not reasonable . ” Vera published 12 tweets between 2013 and 2015 about the assassination of Luis Carrero Blanco, the prime minister and heir apparent of dictator Francisco Franco who was killed in a car bomb attack in Madrid in December 1973 carried out by Basque separatist group ETA . The massive explosion sent the car Carrero Bl...

19-year-old Rosalie Pinho from Minas Gerais in Brazil is selling her virginity in a desperate bid to make money for her poor family, including buying her mom a new home. The teenage girl is reportedly accepting bids starting at £264,000 (133,491,182.33) from ‘gentlemen’ who want to spend the night’12 hours) with her. The 19-year-old is also planning to set up her own business with the cash, which she hopes will help her ‘live without many financial worries’. She said: ‘I’ve never dated anyone and the maximum contact I’ve had with other guys is limited to a few kisses. The Brazilian also claimed that she has received offers of up to £440,000 already. ‘It would not affect me much, people’s opinions will not help solve my problems [but] the auction is going to. We live in the age of sexual freedom, it’s my body, it’s my rules.’ Listing her criteria for accepting candidates, Rosalie says: ‘Only that the winner has no venereal disease, I do not care about age, ethnicity, appearance...