BE NICE TO YOUR SLAVES (AT LEAST IN PUBLIC)

Two teenage Bulgarian sisters were rescued from an Italian circus last week where they were held as slaves and forced to perform bizarre stunts such as swimming with piranhas and having live snakes thrown at them. An audience member finally tipped off police to the suspicious behaviour after watching one of the girls trying to escape from the piranha tank but having her head held down in the water and seeing the other girl being bitten by snakes. The three Italian men who ran the circus now face charges of human slavery and various other breaches of international human rights conventions. (The Guardian)