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A Canadian contractor is looking for donations to fund a funeral after finding a mummified baby in the wall of a Toronto home.

Home renovator Bob Kinghorn found the tiny body, wrapped in an 80-year-old newspaper, as he was running a wire through the three-storey Kintyre Ave. home, in one of Toronto’s older neighbourhoods.

“I opened it up, looked close and didn’t believe it. But then I looked closer and I saw the fingers and the little toes. It was all wrapped up in the fetal position,” he said. Read the rest of this entry →

Firefighters helped remove a three-foot python from a home after a woman collecting plastic bags for a food pantry found it while cleaning a cabinet.

Lula Sain called a neighbor for help, but “when he came in and saw it, he almost jumped out of his skin.” Fire Capt. Jimmy Sandage eventually collected the non-venomous snake.

“Once I walked in and saw it, I knew it was a python. It had wrapped itself up into a ball, and you could barely see the head. It never gave me any problems,” Sandage said. Read the rest of this entry →

A Broward County jail inmate was convicted of indecent exposure after a guard complained that he had masturbated in his cell.

A jury took 45 minutes to convict Terry Lee Alexander, 20, of the misdemeanor on Wednesday. Judge Fred Berman sentenced him to 60 days in the county jail. He had faced up to a year.

In November, Deputy Coryus Veal, who was monitoring Alexander’s cell from a centrally located control room, saw him masturbating while he was sitting on his bunk, alone in his cell. Read the rest of this entry →

A Malaysian mother wants to join her son in jail to make sure he receives insulin injections three times a day, as well as anti-rejection drugs for a transplanted kidney.

“I don’t want him to die in jail,” a tearful Chew Ten Hee, 67, told the New Straits Times newspaper, adding that her son, Sim Chung Mine, 41, would die if he did not get his medication regularly.

“I don’t understand how the police can claim he was involved in a robbery when he is so weak, he can’t even walk without assistance,” she added. Read the rest of this entry →

Transportation officials have vowed to figure out how a group of cows wander onto Interstate 95, most recently on Tuesday morning when several Holsteins stopped rush hour traffic.

The cows from Brook-Knoll Farm walked onto the highway near Exit 2 about 8 a.m. State Police stopped traffic while two troopers used air horns to shoo away the bovines, which can weigh about 1,500 pounds each.

“If a vehicle hits them, it could cause a serious, serious accident,” Sgt. Nicholas Tella said. Read the rest of this entry →

Rio de Janeiro police arrested two fellow officers on Thursday accused of extorting money from two American tourists who happened to be San Francisco cops on vacation.

“One of the victims identified the officers and they are under administrative arrest for now,” a police spokeswoman in Rio said. The crime-ridden city is swarming with tourists during the Pan American Games, which end on Sunday.

The U.S. tourists were leaving a night club in Rio’s Copacabana beach neighbourhood before dawn on Wednesday, when two uniformed police officers approached them and searched them for drugs. At night, the neighbourhood is a red-light district with several brothels and strip joints. Read the rest of this entry →

A computer program that learns to decode sounds from different languages in the same way that a baby does helps to shed new light on how people learn to talk, researchers said on Tuesday.

They said the finding casts doubt on theories that babies are born knowing all the possible sounds in all of the world’s languages.

“The debate in language acquisition is around the question of how much specific information about language is hard-wired into the brain of the infant and how much of the knowledge that infants acquire about language is something that can be explained by relatively general purpose learning systems,” said James McClelland, a psychology professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Read the rest of this entry →