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A woman with 30 tattoos claims she was told to "put a bag over her head" when she went for a job interview. Hayley O'Neil, 23, - who also has 20 body piercings - says was also advised to "stand behind a wall" when she asked a job centre official what post she could apply for. She eventually left the Job centre plus centre in Blackburn Lancs in tear without any interviewers lined up after the advisor concluded: "Who would hire you looking like that?" Miss O'Neil, who got her first tattoo from her mother as an 18th birthday present...

Doctors battle to save 'human pin-cushion' By Richard Spencer and Juliet Turner Last Updated: 5:47pm BST 25/10/2007 Doctors in China have saved the life of a woman who had 26 pins and needles inserted into her body when she was a child in an apparent attempt to change her sex to a boy. The objects were discovered when the 29-year-old woman, named in local papers as Luo Cuifen, went to hospital for a check-up after she started experiencing blood in her urine. They had penetrated vital organs such as the lungs, kidney and liver, while a needle in her brain...

NEW YORK (AP) - A woman who was accused of accepting money to marry 27 illegal immigrants so they could get residency and work permits pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of filing a false instrument. Dezerrie Cortes, 40, had been charged with perjury and falsifying business records. In exchange for a plea deal that will get her six months in jail and 4 1/2 years' probation, she admitted lying Jan. 8, 2000, on an application for a licence to marry a man from India, saying she had never been married before, prosecutors said. State Supreme Court Justice Micki Scherer...