A young woman in India was forced into a marriage she didn’t agree with by her parents, so she followed what she felt to be the only logical course of action: she got a sex change. The woman, who is in her mid-thirties and a lawyer, was quoted as saying, “It is better to become a man to get rid of sufferings met by women.” This simple yet powerful declaration clearly calls to mind the tradition of arranged marriages in Indian tradition, a sad fact of life for the many, many women that live in India. Despite this, India has an incredibly low rate of divorce, with less than 2% of all marriages, arranged or otherwise, ending in divorce. Compare that to America’s, where roughly half of all marriages come to an end, typically with her getting the dog she hates. According to the Times of India, surgeons were compelled to perform the operation after she threatened to commit suicide. According to an unnamed source, however, it is believed the woman had the surgery, which was performed on June 29th, not just to escape a forced marriage, but because she was seemingly committed to spending the rest of her life another woman. Save for the duplicitous circumstances surrounding the surgery, seems like an ideal way to get out of something. I mean, I’d rather flee the country, but hey, sex change is cool, too.(WeirdAsiaNews)

NEW YORK (AP) – A New York City man who plunged 40 stories from the rooftop of an apartment building has survived after crashing onto a parked car. Witnesses and police say 22-year-old Thomas Magill jumped from the high-rise at West 63rd Street on Tuesday. He landed in the backseat area of a Dodge Charger after crashing through the windshield. He suffered broken legs. Police say he’s in critical condition. The car’s owner, Guy McCormack, of Old Bridge, N.J., told the Daily News he’s convinced that rosary beads he kept inside the Dodge saved Magill’s life. Police are investigating why Magill jumped from the building Magill isn’t the only New Yorker to survive a high-rise fall. Window washer Alcides Moreno fell 47 stories from the roof of a skyscraper in December 2007, and doctors expected him to walk again.

That’s the best they could come up with? Conan O’Brien’s new late-night TBS show will be called “Conan,” the cable network announced yesterday. The show, which kicks off Nov. 8, will air every Monday through Thursday at 11 p.m., leading into “Lopez Tonight,” which moved to a later timeslot to accommodate “Conan.” TBS will air movies at 11 p.m. every Friday. “Conan” marks O’Brien’s return to TV after his seven-month tenure hosting NBC’s “Tonight Show” ended in January.(NYPost)

The pole-dancer wife of accused Ponzi schemer Ken Starr claims private eyes for Wesley Snipes have been stalking her in a bid to find evidence to clear the actor of tax charges. Diane Passage tells us that two detectives working for Snipes — a former client of Starr, who testified against the actor — followed her from her Upper East Side building dubbed “The Ponzi Palace,” also home to Andrew Madoff. The buxom brunette said the investigators contacted her lawyer saying they wanted her to help clear Snipes, who faces a three-year prison sentence for tax evasion.(NYPost)

Don’t start rolling out the welcome mat for Tiger Woods just yet. Though Us Weekly reported that the horny golfer had moved into an apartment downtown — pinpointed by the Daily News yesterday on Hudson Street — real-estate sources say it’s either wishful thinking or a stunt pulled by a landlord to promote his building. “No way Tiger would live there,” one broker told The Post. “It’s an ’80s conversion, run-down, with leaky ceilings.” If it really was Tiger who was spotted moving boxes in from a BMW, brokers say he might have been helping a girlfriend. “It would have to be a mistress he doesn’t care about.” Another broker said, “If he does live there, it means his wife took every penny he has and he’s at the end of his rope.” Non-real-estate sources are equally skeptical and point out that Woods has always gone out of his way to avoid the city and stayed on his yacht, The Privacy, when the US Open was played at Bethpage. “He hates it in New York,” said one observer. “Why would he come here when he needs his privacy more than ever? (NYPost)

(PeopleEnEspanol)El próximo 2 de noviembre, justo un año después del lanzamiento del multivendido álbum She Wolf, Shakira cumple con su palabra y regresa con un álbum totalmente en español titulado Sale el sol. El disco es, según las propias palabras de la barranquillera, un regreso a sus raíces y una deuda que tenía con sus fans en español, el cual escribió “con el corazón en la mano” y la refleja “de pies a cabeza”. Pero eso no significa que la producción que tiene colaboraciones de Pitbull, Calle 13 y presuntamente una que quedó pendiente de Cerati que no se usó en She Wolf– vaya a sonar a sus primeros discos. Prueba de ello es su primer sencillo. “Loca” es un merengue. Shakira rompe esquemas con este tema y experimenta algo que nunca antes había hecho. copy the link to listen to the song: http://www.peopleenespanol.com/pespanol/articles/0,22490,2015254,00.html