Archive for April, 2007

Astronaut Aldrin plans space travel lottery

Astronaut Aldrin plans space travel lottery

Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy. Aldrin, who followed U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong onto the moon in July 1969, said the lottery [...]
Fortune tellers seek signs to predict French poll

Fortune tellers seek signs to predict French poll

With France’s presidential elections just days away, the nation’s fortune tellers are urgently shuffling tarot cards and staring into crystal balls as they try to predict the result ahead of time. Most opinion polls put right wing former interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy in the lead for Sunday’s [...]
Woman: Bowel caused alleged shoplifting

Woman: Bowel caused alleged shoplifting

A woman arrested for shoplifting has blamed the crime on irritable bowel syndrome, authorities said. Helen Gallo, 61, of Clearwater, was arrested Sunday after allegedly shoplifting from a Cape Coral grocery store, The Daily Breeze of Cape Coral reported.  Gallo reportedly told authorities that she [...]
Seattle man charged in bizarre duck case

Seattle man charged in bizarre duck case

A Seattle man has been charged with a slew of crimes that involved an alleged shoplifting, assaults and a pet duck named Mr. Peepers. Snohomish County Deputy Prosecutor Paul Stern on Thursday charged Kenneth Blaine Quinlan, 35, with two counts of third-degree assault and one count each of vehicular assault [...]
Chomp came before stomp for early amphibians

Chomp came before stomp for early amphibians

They developed their chomp before they developed their stomp. Even before fully emerging as land dwellers, Earth’s first amphibious four-legged animals attained a biting feeding style that distinguished them from their fishy ancestors and prepared them for a terrestrial existence, scientists said [...]
Police: Bank robbery suspect ran errands

Police: Bank robbery suspect ran errands

A suspected bank robber took a cab to and from an afternoon heist and rounded out his day running errands, including visiting an elementary school, before being caught, police said. Randy Benka, 55, who has previous robbery convictions in New York City, was charged with bank robbery and faces up to life [...]
U.S. woman first to run Boston marathon in orbit

U.S. woman first to run Boston marathon in orbit

An American astronaut became the first person to run the Boston Marathon in space on Monday, completing the 26.2 miles (42.16 km) on a treadmill in the orbiting International Space Station. Suni Williams, who was an official entrant in the race, took four hours 23 minutes 46 seconds, said John Yembrick, [...]
Prices jump at mammoth auction in Paris

Prices jump at mammoth auction in Paris

The skeleton of a 15,000-year-old Siberian mammoth was snapped up at auction in Paris on Monday for over one-and-a-half times the estimated price. Dubbed “The President”, the 3.8-metre-high tusked mammoth was sold for 260,000 euros (177,000 pounds) to an unknown bidder by Christie’s [...]
Mexico might ban Tunick nudes from pyramids

Mexico might ban Tunick nudes from pyramids

Mexico is unlikely to allow U.S. artist Spencer Tunick stage a nude photo shoot at its famous Teotihuacan pyramids, citing possible damage to the ancient site. Tunick has asked Mexican archaeological authorities for permission to photograph masses of naked people at Teotihuacan, Mexico’s oldest [...]
Founder of Soviet secret police to show soft side

Founder of Soviet secret police to show soft side

It seems Felix Dzerzhinsky, legendary founder of the ruthless secret police network that became the Soviet KGB, had a soft side. The FSB, Russia’s latter-day spy service, plans to publish Dzerzhinsky’s letters to the love of his life, Margarita Nikolayeva, in a book called “I Love You”. “He [...]
Deadly virus phone threat causes panic

Deadly virus phone threat causes panic

Mobile service providers in Pakistan have been inundated by calls from subscribers worried by a prank message that they could die of a deadly virus being transmitted via their phones. The rumor was so effective that some mosques in the country’s biggest city, Karachi, made announcements that people [...]
Hungarian motorway blocked by escaping rabbits

Hungarian motorway blocked by escaping rabbits

Hungary’s busiest highway, connecting Budapest with the Austrian capital Vienna, was closed early on Monday after a truck carrying rabbits crashed, letting 5,000 of the animals loose on the road, police said. The M1 motorway was closed around 40 km (25 miles) west of Budapest and could remain closed [...]
Protesters burn effigies after Gere kisses Shilpa

Protesters burn effigies after Gere kisses Shilpa

Richard Gere’s repeated kisses on the cheeks of Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty in an event to promote AIDS awareness sparked protests in India on Monday with demonstrators burning effigies of the actors. Footage of the Hollywood star sweeping Shetty backwards in a dramatic embrace at the Sunday [...]
Japan firm apologizes after toilets smoke, catch fire

Japan firm apologizes after toilets smoke, catch fire

Twenty-six smoking toilets, and three more on fire, put a Japanese toilet maker in the hot seat on Monday. Toto Ltd., known for its high-tech toilets with bidets that have blow-drying, air purification and seat-warming functions, apologized to consumers and offered free checks and repairs after some [...]
Author tries to interest leader in arts, books

Author tries to interest leader in arts, books

Best-selling Canadian author Yann Martel, worried about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s apparent lack of interest in the arts, sent him a book on Monday and said he would continue doing so once a fortnight. Martel, who wrote the novel “Life of Pi,” was upset that Harper had paid no [...]

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