Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Strippers wear bathing suits for charity TORONTO, July 18 (UPI) -- Exotic dancers say they plan to wear bathing suits while raising money for cancer research in Canada's Adult Entertainment Beach Volleyball Challenge. Advertisement The dancers will take part in the first annual challenge at the Sports Village Oasis Beach Volleyball Club in Vaughan, Ontario Sunday, the Toronto Sun reported. The event is a charity for Sunnybrook Hospital's Underwear Affair, which raises money for research of cancers that occur below the waist. "We just wanted to push the envelope a little bit. It'll be bathing suits. No one will be totally naked -- we hope," organizer Pamela Fitzgerald said Charitable dancers from the Toronto area are expected to come together for the event, the newspaper said. "The charity is one that's there to alleviate taboos, so people can get screened for cancers such as colorectal," Fitzgerald said. Advertisement Women's volleyball team says no to bikinis NEW DELHI, July 18 (UPI) -- Women on India's team playing in the World Beach Volleyball contest say they are refusing to dress in bikinis because the dress code goes against their beliefs. Organizers of the event agreed to loosen the dress code rules, allowing the Indian team to wear long shorts and T-shirts instead of the required bikini, The Telegraph reported Friday. "We want to give a good fight in the game and not the dress code," Kanaka Mahalakshmi, who is on the Indian team, told the newspaper. AJ Martin, head of the local Beach Volley Ball Championship in Chennai, said dress code regulations were loosened to honor the cultural and religious beliefs of players. "Everything is possible in sports to respect culture of different countries. We don't mean to offend anyone. We are here to play the sport," Zoe Chater of the French team told The Telegraph. Dancers banned from English air show FARNBOROUGH, England, July 18 (UPI) -- Dancing girls will not continue to be part of a Russian firm's exhibit at an English air show, officials said. The Klimov company, an aircraft engine manufacturer, will have to find other ways to draw patrons to its exhibit at the Farnborough International Air Show in southern England, the Russian news service Novosti reported Friday. Advertisement Organizers of the air show reportedly claimed that the two dancers were disturbing the work of other exhibitors and making the area hard to pass through because of the crowds they were drawing. "It is a pity that the organizers banned our girls from performing. They introduced an element of novelty to the exhibition, and looked good performing against a backdrop of military and civil machinery," said a spokesman for Klimov. Cops grill girl for testing nail polish FOLKESTONE, England, July 18 (UPI) -- A woman said she thinks everyone in England has "gone crazy" after her 12-year-old daughter was interrogated by police for trying on nail polish at a store. Hannah Gilbert was at a store in Folkestone, England, when she decided to paint her thumbnail with a peach shade of Revlon nail polish, The Telegraph reported Friday. When a security guard saw the girl try the polish, he told her she had to either pay for the item or be charged with theft. "I was really scared. I had no money on me so he said I had to come into the office," the girl said. The girl was kept in the store's office for an hour before three police officers arrived to question her. Advertisement "Frankly this country has gone crazy. This is the sort of thing that just makes me want to pack our bags and leave as soon as Hannah's finishing her schooling," the girl's mother told the newspaper. The incident came to a close when the girl's parents showed up and paid $12.58 for the polish, the Telegraph said.
