Archive for October, 2009
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Caught on camera: naked love rival flees furious husband
Sun Meng has been given the cold shoulder by his community after the extraordinary picture of him cowering naked outside the flat were posted on the internet.
The terrified 25-year-old fled from the balcony window when he was caught in bed with the man’s wife at the married couple’s flat in Chengdu, central China.
Photographs of the anrgy showdown, taken by a startled neighbour, were uploaded to a local community website. They show Sun perched on the first floor ledge while his lover is confronted by her un-named husband inside.
“My family is ashamed and none of my own neighbours will talk to me any more,” said Sun.
“I know what I did was wrong but I was afraid he would kill me.”
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Boulder County DA launches investigation into sheriff at center of Heene family balloon hoax probe:
It’s deflating news for the sheriff at the center of the investigation into the Colorado balloon hoax.
The Boulder County district attorney announced Wednesday that he would personally investigate allegations that Larimer County Sheriff John Alderden improperly conducted his probe into the alleged balloon hoax committed by the Heene family.
A lawyer for Richard Heene wrote a letter to the Larimer County district attorney on Monday, accusing Alderden of breaking a Colorado law that prevents officials from publically disclosing information in a case involving charges of child neglect.
Alderden is seeking charges against Richard and Mayumi Heene of orchestrating a hoax on Oct. 15 that their 6-year-old son, Falcon, was trapped on board a wayward weather balloon. The Heenes allegedly launched the balloon from their home to drum up interest in a potential reality television show. Falcon Heene was later found safe in the family’s attic.
Alderden’s spokeswoman told The Associated Press Wednesday that the sheriff denies any wrongdoing in the Heene investigation.
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
BBC Nature Guide Killed by Stampeding Elephant
A British guide for a BBC nature program for kids has died after being trampled by an elephant.
Former army officer Anton Turner, 38, was helping with the filming of an episode of the CBBC series “Serious Explorers in Tanzania” Friday when the attack happened.
A BBC spokeswoman said that Turner was mortally injured after being charged by an elephant.
A doctor was traveling with the expedition and treated Turner at the scene, but he died shortly after the incident.
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Saturday, October 31st, 2009
Drug tsar who claimed ecstasy and LSD were less harmful than alcohol is sacked
The UK’s chief drugs tsar sacked over his controversial views today launched an extraordinary attack on Gordon Brown and warned the Government’s whole advisory board could quit.
Professor David Nutt, fired last night for claiming cannabis, Ecstasy and LSD are less dangerous than alcohol or cigarettes, turned both barrels on the Prime Minister. He declared that the Government had gone too far by defying his and other experts’ advise on cannabis and Ecstasy and claimed ministers were acting before they had even consulted their own advisors.
‘He [Gordon Brown] is the first Prime Minister, this is the first Government, that has ever in the history of the Misuse of Drugs Act gone against the advice of its scientific panel,’ he said. ‘And then it did it again with ecstasy and I have to say it’s not about (me) over-stepping the line, it’s about the Government over-stepping the line.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
‘Dumb’ American criminals attempt robbery with ‘permanent marker pen disguises’
Two hapless robbers in America, Matthew McNelly and Joey Miller, have been arrested with the “worst disguises ever” after trying to hide their faces with permanent marker pen.
McNelly, 23, and Miller, 20 were arrested by armed police in Carroll, Iowa, last Friday after witnesses reported seeing two men trying to break into an apartment with fake beards and “masks” scrawled on their faces.
Police responding to a call about the attempted burglary later pulled over a car matching the alleged suspects’ vehicle. When they stopped their 1994 Buick Roadmaster, bewildered police discovered the drunk hapless pair – nicknamed “dumb and dumber” – complete with makeshift disguises.
Be sure to click through and see the photos of these geniuses.
Hat tip to Una!
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
FBI Lets Barred Tycoon Visit U.S.
One of Russia’s most powerful tycoons — barred entry to the U.S. for years due to U.S. government concerns about possible ties to organized crime — visited the country twice this year under secret arrangements made by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska met with FBI agents in August and earlier this month as part of a continuing criminal probe, according to two administration officials. The focus of that probe couldn’t be learned.
Mr. Deripaska used the opportunity of his recent U.S. visits to meet with top executives of U.S. investment banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
The aluminum giant he controls, UC Rusal, is preparing for an initial public offering, a vital part of Mr. Deripaska’s efforts to save his debt-burdened business.
The U.S. trips came at an opportune moment to help reassure bankers his visa difficulties may be easing. Mr. Deripaska’s visa troubles are a potentially sensitive issue for investors, bankers say.
Mr. Deripaska also stopped in Detroit to meet with top executives at General Motors Co. to discuss the sale of a stake in its Adam Opel AG unit to a Russian-backed consortium that includes Mr. Deripaska’s AO GAZ auto maker, people familiar with the visit said.
The State Department, which rules on requests for U.S. visas, hasn’t publicly said why it previously denied entry to Mr. Deripaska, and declined to comment on the recent visits.
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Undiplomatic Diplomacy:
Isn’t a diplomat supposed to be–you know–diplomatic? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to think so.
On her current visit to Pakistan, she managed to insult both her own government and Pakistan’s in the space of a few minutes.
The Associated Press has reported on interviews and a Q and A session that Clinton gave in Islamabad. I came across it via The Corner, where John Hannah was appalled by this partisan attack by Clinton on her own government:
As a way of repudiating past U.S. policies toward Pakistan, Clinton told the students “there is a huge difference” between the Obama administration’s approach and that of former President George W. Bush. “I spent my entire eight years in the Senate opposing him,” she said to a burst of applause from the audience of several hundred students. “So to me, it’s like daylight and dark.”
One can only agree with Hannah’s comment: Does anyone advising President Obama and the secretary of state really believe that this kind of partisanship and trash-talking abroad about another American president is going to buy us much long-term goodwill among either our friends or our adversaries? Do they imagine that this sort of thing really helps to advance U.S. national interests?
Interestingly, that paragraph has now been deleted from the version of the AP account to which Hannah linked, although it can still be found elsewhere. But the linked version adds this report of Clinton slandering the government of Pakistan, which is equally appalling, but for different reasons:
While U.S. officials have said they believe Osama bin Laden and senior lieutenants have been hiding in the rugged terrain along the border with Afghanistan, Clinton’s unusually blunt comments went further as she suggested that Pakistan’s government has done too little to act against al-Qaida’s top echelon.
“I find it hard to believe that nobody in your government knows where they are and couldn’t get them if they really wanted to,” Clinton said in an interview with Pakistani journalists in Lahore. “Maybe that’s the case. Maybe they’re not gettable. I don’t know.”
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Ethics panel starts probes of 2 Dems; gets hacked:
The House ethics committee announced Thursday it is investigating two California Democratic lawmakers, but its embarrassed leaders then had to explain that other members—named in a confidential memo that a hacker posted online—may have committed no wrongdoing.
The committee said it is investigating whether Rep. Maxine Waters used her influence to help a bank in which her husband owned stock, and whether the couple benefited as a result. Separately, the panel is investigating whether Rep. Laura Richardson failed to disclose required information on her financial disclosure forms and received special treatment from a lender.
As the House was conducting scheduled votes Thursday, ethics chairwoman Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., went to the microphone to announce that a confidential weekly report of the committee from July had leaked out in a case of “cyber-hacking.” A committee statement said its security was breached through “peer to peer file sharing software” by a junior employee who was working from home. The staff member was fired.
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The Post reported that nearly half the members of the House Appropriations defense subcommittee were under scrutiny.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Parents banned from supervising their own children in playgrounds… in case they are paedophiles
Parents are being banned from playing with their children in council recreation areas because they have not been vetted by police.
Mothers and fathers are being forced to watch their children from outside perimeter fences because of fears they could be paedophiles.
Watford Council was branded a ‘disgrace’ yesterday after excluding parents from two fenced-off adventure playgrounds unless they first undergo criminal record checks.
The local council has told parents that they are no longer welcome at two play areas because they have not been vetted by police Children as young as five will instead be supervised by council ‘play rangers’ who have been cleared by the Criminal Records Bureau.
Councillors insist they are merely following Government regulations and cannot allow adults to walk around playgrounds ‘unchecked’.
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Coyotes kill Toronto singer in Cape Breton:
A 19-year-old folk singer from Toronto has died after being attacked by two coyotes in Cape Breton Highlands National Park.
Taylor Josephine Stephanie Luciow, who went by the stage name Taylor Mitchell, died overnight at the QEII Health Sciences Centre in Halifax. She had been on tour in the Maritimes.
Mitchell was hiking on the Skyline Trail when she was attacked Tuesday afternoon. She was taken to the hospital in Cheticamp, then airlifted to Halifax in critical condition.
Park officials said Mitchell was walking the trail alone. They said other hikers managed to scare off the coyotes and call 911.
An RCMP officer shot at one of the animals but couldn’t find the body. Later Tuesday evening, park staff located another coyote and killed it.
Derek Quann, the park’s resource conservation manager, said he doesn’t know whether it was one of the ones involved in the attack. He said there were no signs on the animal’s body that it had been shot.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
‘Russian road roulette’ plagues streets of Sofia
A new game, known as “Russian road roulette”, is played every night at intersections throughout the Bulgarian capital. As many as five people have been killed and many injured since the craze took hold in the summer.
According to the rules, participants must drive at top speed and not apply their brakes. The 50 or so drivers, most of them in their twenties and driving sports utility vehicles, gather at midnight at designated meeting points in the north of the city.
While lookouts watch for the police, the participants decide on the venue for the night. Other gang members are informed via texts and the gambling starts.
To win at Russian road roulette, the driver must jump red lights at busy crossroads at full speed and not collide with another vehicle, pedestrian or leave the road. If he hits an object, he loses the bet. Onlookers also take part by gambling on the outcome.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Whisky on (Antarctic) ice | GlobalPost:
This spit of black volcanic rock that juts out along the coast of Antarctica is an inhospitable place. Temperatures drop below –50 Fahrenheit and high winds cause blinding snowstorms. The only neighbors are a colony of penguins that squawk incessantly and leave a pungent scent in their wake.
But if you happen upon the small wooden hut that sits at Cape Royds and wriggled yourself underneath, you’d find a surprise stashed in the foot and a half of space beneath the floorboards. Tucked in the shadows and frozen to the ground are two cases of Scotch whisky left behind 100 years ago by Sir Ernest Shackleton after a failed attempt at the South Pole.
Conservators discovered the wooden cases in January 2006. They were unable to dislodge the crates, but are going in with special tools in January during the Antarctic summer to try to retrieve them.
An international treaty dictates that the crates, and any intact bottles that are inside, remain in Antarctica unless they need to be taken off the continent for conservation reasons. The whisky’s condition after a century of freezing and thawing is unknown.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Kremlin warns against wrecking Russia with democracy
The Kremlin’s chief political strategist warned in an article published on Monday that Russia risked collapsing into chaos if officials tried to tinker with the political system by flirting with liberal reforms.
Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff Vladislav Surkov said it was clear Russia was falling behind in many areas of economic development and that the country could not simply continue being a “resource power.”
But in answer to calls from opponents for democratic reforms to liberalize the political system built under former President Vladimir Putin, Surkov warned that the resulting instability could rip Russia apart.
“Even now when power is rather consolidated and ordered, many projects are very slow and difficult,” Surkov was quoted as saying by the Itogi weekly magazine.
“If we add any sort of political instability to that then our development would simply be paralyzed. There would be a lot of demagoguery, a lot of empty talk, a lot of lobbying and ripping Russia to pieces, but no development.”
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Meteorite-like object falls in Latvia
A meteorite-like object crashed into a meadow in northern Latvia, creating a crater 27 feet (9 meters) wide and 9 feet (3 meters) deep, a geologist who visited the site said Monday.
Uldis Nulle, a scientist at the Latvian Environment, Geology and Meteorology Center, said there was smoke coming out of the crater when he arrived at the crash site late Sunday in the Mazsalaca region near the Estonian border.
“My first impression is that, yes, it was a meteorite,” he said. “All the evidence suggests this when compared to pictures of real meteorite craters.”
He said the rim of the crater was slightly raised and there was a black-grayish scar at the bottom — both signs of a meteorite impact.
Experts outside Latvia said it was unusual for such a large meteorite to hit the Earth. The planet is constantly bombarded with objects from outer space, but most burn up in the atmosphere and never reach the surface.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Pictured: The world’s smallest working train model that’s tinier than a fingernail:
Measuring a tiny eighth of an inch by quarter of an inch, this carefully crafted piece of engineering is the world’s smallest working train model.
The five-carriage train, which is 35,200 times smaller than a real train, nips around an oval route even taking in a ride through a tunnel on its three-quarter inch track.
Created by New Jersey train enthusiast David Smith, the miniscule model was built using nothing more fancy than a craft knife and a steady hand.
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles:
Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects — such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances — into the sky, they said.
The men, all in their 30s, built a trebuchet — a catapult originally designed in the Middle Ages to hurl objects at castle walls — the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reported Sunday.
The trebuchet was built by Kurt Modert, of Hugo; Roger Bacon, of White Bear Lake; Ryan Krueger, of Maple Grove; and David Proehl, of New Hope — all municipalities in Minnesota — the newspaper said.
They’re catapulting items like defective bowling balls for now but they plan eventually to launch a clothes dryer, the newspaper said.
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Sunday, October 25th, 2009
Ice-skating bear from Russia kills circus director in Kyrgyzstan:
An ice-skating bear from Russia has attacked and killed a circus director during rehearsals for a show in Kyrgyzstan.
The five-year-old bear, part of a visiting troupe from the prestigious Russian state circus, was wearing ice skates when he lashed out at his handlers and circus staff before a performance of their “Bears on Ice” show in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.
He dragged 25-year-old circus director Dmitry Potapov across the ice rink by his neck and nearly severed his victim’s legs.
Mr Potapov died at the scene from his injuries.
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
British backpackers ’spreading sexually transmitted diseases across Australia’
A survey of 1,008 backpackers at hostels in Sydney and the Queensland city Cairns found that British backpackers often had triple the number of sexual partners they would have normally at home, even if they were not single on arrival.
More than 45 per cent half of arrivals from Britain reported inconsistent condom use and 24 per cent had unprotected sex with multiple partners.
“Over a third (39.7 per cent) had multiple partners in Australia, increasing to 45.7 per cent in those arriving single,” the study’s British and Australian authors said in the October edition of Sexually Transmitted Infections, an international monthly journal on sexual health.
The survey also found that 60 per cent of men and 44 per cent of women used illicit drugs while on holiday in Australia. Authors of the reports said that high alcohol consumption, illicit drug use and unsafe sex combined to put backpackers at high risk of contracting a sexually transmitted infection and other health problems.
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Bloomberg Sets Record for Personal Spending in Pursuit of Public Office
Michael R. Bloomberg, the Wall Street mogul whose fortune catapulted him into New York’s City Hall, has set another staggering financial record: He has now spent more of his own money than any other individual in United States history in the pursuit of public office.
Newly released campaign records show the mayor, as of Friday, had spent $85 million on his latest re-election campaign, and is on pace to spend between $110 million and $140 million before the election on Nov. 3. That means Mr. Bloomberg, in his three bids for mayor, will have easily burned through more than $250 million — the equivalent of what Warner Brothers spent on the latest Harry Potter movie.
The sum easily surpasses what other titans of business have spent to seek state or federal office. New Jersey’s Jon S. Corzine has plunked down a total of $130 million in two races for governor and one for United States Senate. Steve Forbes poured $114 million into his two bids for president. And Ross Perot spent $65 million in his quest for the White House in 1992 and $10 million four years later.
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Saturday, October 24th, 2009
Official disclosure of extraterrestrial life is imminent:
An official announcement by the Obama administration disclosing the reality of extraterrestrial life is imminent. For several months, senior administration officials have been quietly deliberating behind closed doors how much to disclose to the world about extraterrestrial life. Dissatisfaction among powerful institutions such as the U.S. Navy over the decades-long secrecy policy has given a boost to efforts to disclose the reality of extraterrestrial life and technology.
The impending disclosure announcement follows upon the secret implementation of a year long openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life. Over the period February 12-14, 2008, the United Nations held closed doors discussions where approximately 30 nations secretly agreed on a new openness policy on UFOs and extraterrestrial life in 2009. The openness policy was implemented but never publicly announced due to threats against UN diplomats not to disclose details of the secret agreement. The secret UN agreement was based on two conditions. First, UFOs would continue to appear around the world; and second, the openness policy would not lead to social unrest in liberal democracies. Both conditions have been satisfied making it possible for the next stage to begin – official disclosure of extraterrestrial life.
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Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Insane: Woman Flashes Around Insurance Claim Money, Gets Robbed:
Why anyone in their right mind would cash an insurance claim check and then go to a bar to flaunt said money is beyond me. But one Springfield, Massachusetts woman is probably wishing she had gone to the bank on the way to the bar
Massachusetts police say they are searching for two men suspected of robbing a woman of $27,000 after she flashed the cash in a Springfield bar.
Sgt. John Delaney said on Friday that the 22-year-old woman was robbed Monday night by two men wearing dark clothing and bandanas, one armed with what appeared to be a semiautomatic handgun.
According to police, the woman bragged in the bar of receiving the $27,000 from an insurance claim. Police say she was later robbed after she left the bar with a male friend.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Authorities investigate high school ‘fight club’:
Seven male students at Vinton County High School have been suspended as authorities investigate a “fight club” that featured rumbles in school bathrooms and videos on YouTube.
School officials were tipped to the pre-arranged fights after videos of the brawls were captured on cell phones and posted on YouTube, an Internet site that features videos.
Sheriff Dave Hickey said today that deputies are continuing to investigate to determine if more students are involved. Evidence will be given to the county prosecutor’s office for consideration of potential criminal charges, he said.
None of the students apparently were injured during the series of fights, which apparently began last month, the sheriff said. School officials could not immediately be reached for comment.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Was our oldest ancestor a proton-powered rock?
PETER MITCHELL was an eccentric figure. For much of his career he worked in his own lab in a restored manor house in Cornwall in the UK, his research funded in part by a herd of dairy cows. His ideas about the most basic process of life – how it gets energy – seemed ridiculous to his fellow biologists.
“I remember thinking to myself that I would bet anything that [it] didn’t work that way,” biochemist Leslie Orgel wrote of his meeting with Mitchell half a century ago. “Not since Darwin and Wallace has biology come up with an idea as counter-intuitive as those of, say, Einstein, Heisenberg and Schrödinger.”
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The picture painted by Russell and Martin is striking indeed. The last common ancestor of all life was not a free-living cell at all, but a porous rock riddled with bubbly iron-sulphur membranes that catalysed primordial biochemical reactions. Powered by hydrogen and proton gradients, this natural flow reactor filled up with organic chemicals, giving rise to proto-life that eventually broke out as the first living cells – not once but twice, giving rise to the bacteria and the archaea.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Police force quits after lottery win:
A town’s entire police force has quit in Hungary after winning more than £10 million in the lottery.
The 15-strong squad in Budaors scooped the jackpot with their ticket on Tuesday and all resigned on the spot.
Police chiefs have scrambled back-up units to the region until more full-time officers can be recruited.
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
North Dakota Woman Accused of Broadcasting Porn Out Window Near Grade School:
File this one in the “just a bad idea” file, but a North Dakota woman is accused of showing a pornographic video out the window of her home, which is near an elementary school.
Grand Forks police do not yet have a motive, but they say that 37-year-old Nicole Altendorf also bit an officer’s arm and kicked him several times in the groin as he tried arrest her Friday.
In the squad car, she allegedly spit in the officer’s face. Yikes!
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
MSBNC’s Brewer introduces Jackson as Sharpton:
MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer has apologized for mixing up civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
She made the slip-up Wednesday while introducing Jackson during a segment on homelessness.
After the introduction, Jackson stared at the camera from a studio in Burbank, Calif., and said, “I’m Rev. Jesse Jackson.”
Brewer explained that her script read that she was to introduce “the Rev. Al Sharpton.”
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Kung-fu master has world’s strongest fingers:
You don’t want Fu Bingli giving you the finger.
The 39-year-old kung-fu master from China has proven he has the strongest fingers in the world.
Bingli, who has studied martial arts for 32 years, is able to stand upside down using just his index finger to support himself, the Telegraph newspaper reports.
He was given a Guinness world record on Monday after doing 12 push-ups using just one finger on his right hand.
“I’ve been training since I was seven years old and my index finger has as much strength in it as most people’s entire body,” Fu was quoted as saying.
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Sunday, October 18th, 2009
Suicide bomber kills 31 in attack on Iran Guards :
A suicide bomber killed six senior Revolutionary Guards commanders, including two of its top officers, and 25 other people on Sunday in one of the boldest attacks against Iran’s most powerful military institution.
The attack highlighted deepening instability in the Islamic Republic’s southeast bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan, where many of Iran’s minority Sunnis live and which has seen a spate of deadly bombings and other violence in the last few years.
State media said a local rebel Sunni group called Jundollah (God’s soldiers) claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest on the elite Revolutionary Guards in recent years, which also wounded some 30 people at a meeting of tribal chiefs.
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President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said the perpetrators would be “seriously dealt with,” the official IRNA news agency said.
Kinda hard to seriously deal with a perp who’s been blown to bits, but that’s Ahmadinejad for you…
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Friday, October 16th, 2009
Anger at US mixed marriage ‘ban’:
A white US justice of the peace has been criticised for refusing to issue marriage licences to mixed-race couples. Keith Bardwell, of Tangipahoa Parish in Louisiana, denied racism but said mixed-race children were not readily accepted by their parents’ communities.
A couple he refused to marry are considering filing a complaint about him to the US Justice Department. Mr Bardwell said he had often conducted the weddings of his black friends.
Mr Bardwell, who has worked in the role for 34 years, said that in his experience most interracial marriages did not last very long and estimated that he had refused applications to four couples in the past two-and-a-half years.
He said he had “piles and piles of black friends” but just did not believe in “mixing the races”.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Police: Pa. Man Busted With Weed Stuck To Forehead
Police in central Pennsylvania say they’ve nabbed a real pothead. They say an officer spotted 29-year-old Cesar Lopez inside a convenience store with a bag of marijuana stuck to his forehead.
Investigators say Lopez was seen peering inside his baseball cap early Saturday morning in Lebanon, about 75 miles northwest of Philadelphia.
When Lopez looked up, the officer noticed a small plastic bag appearing to contain marijuana stuck to his forehead.
Police say the officer peeled the bag off Lopez’s forehead and placed him under arrest. He has been charged with drug possession. Police do not know whether Lopez has an attorney.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Colorado Boy Floats Away In Balloon
A 6-year-old boy is floating over northeastern Colorado in a homebuilt balloon and authorities are racing to try and rescue him.
The balloon, in the shape of a flying saucer is covered in foil and filled with helium. It has a compartment for a passenger underneath. It lifted the boy into the air near Fort Collins Thursday morning after the balloon became untethered at the boy’s home.
“We were sitting eating, out looking where they normally shoot off hot air balloons. My husband said he saw something. It went over our rooftop. Then we saw the big round balloonish thing, it was spinning,” said neighbor Lisa Eklund.
The father and son had apparently been working on the aircraft for some time.
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Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Lottery hoax causes riot at Ohio coat store:
A woman being driven around in a rented limousine pulled up at a coat store and announced she’d won the lottery and would pay for everyone’s purchases, police said, but she ended up causing a riot when customers realized it was a hoax.
Angry customers threw merchandise around and looted, leaving the store looking as though a hurricane had passed through it, police said.
Linda Brown was arrested Tuesday after an hours-long shopping spree that began when she hired a stretch Hummer limousine to drop her off at a Burlington Coat Factory store, police Sgt. Lt. Michael Deakins said.
Brown walked to a cash register and loudly announced she had won the lottery and would pay for each person’s merchandise up to $500, he said.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Woman Gored By Deer While Trying To Pet It:
A 63-year-old woman trying to pet a male mule deer, or buck, was gored by it near Florissant on Monday, the Department of Wildlife said.
Joan Nutt was at her sister’s home at 893 County Road 31, around 5 p.m., when the attack occurred.
Nutt was transported to the Pikes Peak Regional Medical Center in Woodland Park where she was treated for large cuts caused by the buck’s antlers and hooves.
Most injuries were to her elbow and lower arm, but she also had cuts and bruises on her hands, upper leg, stomach, and hip, the DOW said.
Nutt’s sister’s family said they were familiar with the buck, which was a frequent visitor to their property.
Nutt said she had gone out in the yard to call the deer so she could pet it. When the deer got close it lowered its head and charged at her, she said.
She grabbed hold of an antler to try to fend it off, but it knocked her down before she could run away.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Sidekick Users See Their Data Vanish Into a Cloud:
A server meltdown over the weekend wiped out the master copies of personal data — including address books, calendars, to-do lists and photos — accumulated by users of T-Mobile’s formerly popular Sidekick smartphone.
This computing calamity allows Sidekick owners only a faint hope of backing up the information currently on their devices, and none of recovering anything they’d trusted to online storage. And it leaves T-Mobile and the operator of the Sidekick’s data service, a Microsoft subsidiary formerly known as Danger Inc. — oh, the irony! — with serious explaining to do.
A statement on T-Mobile’s site phrased things a little more bluntly than the average exercise in corporate contrition: “we must now inform you that personal information stored on your device — such as contacts, calendar entries, to-do lists or photos — that is no longer on your Sidekick almost certainly has been lost as a result of a server failure at Microsoft/Danger.”
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Train drags half-naked mooner along tracks
A German man mooning railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
The 22-year-old journalism student shoved his backside against the window of a low-slung double-decker train when staff forced him off in Lauenbrueck for traveling without a ticket, a spokesman for police in the northern city of Bremen said.
“It’s a miracle he wasn’t badly hurt,” the spokesman said on Monday. “This sort of thing can end up killing you.”
Instead, dangling by his trousers, the man got pulled along for about 200 meters, all the while managing to keep his legs away from the wheels of the train.
The ordeal ended when a passenger pulled the emergency brake. Rescue services were called in, causing rail service between Bremen and Hamburg to be suspended for over an hour, delaying 23 trains.
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
Stockholm’s bunnies burned to keep Swedes warm
The bodies of thousands of rabbits culled every year from the parks in Stockholm’s Kungsholmen neighbourhood are being used to fuel a heating plant in central Sweden.
The decision to use Stockholm’s rabbit cadavers as bioenergy to warm Swedes living in Värmland doesn’t sit well with Stockholm-based animal rights activists.
“Those who support the culling of rabbits surely think it’s good to use the bodies for a good cause. But it feels like they’re trying to turn the animals into an industry rather than look at the main problem,” Anna Johannesson of Vilda kaniners värn (‘Society for the Protection of Wild Rabbits’) told the local Vårt Kungsholmen newspaper.
Every year, the city of Stockholm kills off thousands of rabbits in an effort to protect trees and shrubbery in the city’s extensive network of parks and green space.
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But rather than simply disposing of the dead rabbits, the city instead froze them for eventual transport to a special heating plant in Karlskoga in central Sweden, where the bunny bodies are then burned as a form of bioenergy.
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Sunday, October 11th, 2009
As China’s economy grows, so do mounds of garbage
Visitors can smell this village long before they see it.
In less than five years, the Zhengzhou Comprehensive Waste Treatment Landfill has overwhelmed this otherwise pristine village of about 1,000 people.
Peaches and cherries rot on trees, infested with insect life drawn by the smell. Fields lie unharvested, contaminated by toxic muck.
Every day, another 100 or so tons of garbage arrive from nearby Zhengzhou, a provincial capital of 8 million.
“Life here went from heaven to hell in an instant,” says lifelong resident Wang Xiuhua, swatting away clouds of mosquitoes and flies.
The 78-year-old woman suddenly coughs uncontrollably and says the landfill gases inflame her bronchitis.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Lobster ’squatting’ in WWII mine killed as bomb explodes
He had been squatting inside an unexploded mine which had remained undisturbed for the past 60 years. But the lobster nicknamed Lionel paid the ultimate price when Royal Navy divers failed to coax the stubborn crustacean out of his home – which tragically became his watery grave.
After the divers stumbled upon the 600lb mine off Swanage, Dorset, they took pictures of it and alerted Portland coastguard, who contacted the Royal Navy bomb disposal unit.
The experts inspected the device and found Lionel inside. He refused to be temped out of his make-shift house and delivered a nasty nip to the frogmen.
The bomb squad had no choice but to set charges to the mine with Lionel still inside and, after setting up a 1,000m cordon, blew it up. The huge explosion sent a 50ft plume of water shooting skywards and shook the nearby town of Swanage.
Lionel the lobster sadly did not survive.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Frédéric Mitterrand admitted to paying for sex with ‘young boys’ in Thailand:
Frédéric Mitterrand, France’s culture minister, was under pressure to resign after it emerged that he had admitted to paying “young boys” for sexual acts while on holiday in Thailand.
The revelations in his 2005 autobiography “The Bad Life” have come back to haunt Mr Mitterrand after he emerged as one of the most vociferous defenders of Roman Polanski, the film director currently detained in Switzerland in connection with an outstanding conviction for unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl in the US in 1977.
In his book, Mr Mitterrand, the nephew of the late Socialist president François Mitterrand, wrote: “I got into the habit of paying for boys…All these rituals of the market for youths, the slave market excite me enormously. “One could judge this abominable spectacle from a moral standpoint but it pleases me beyond the reasonable.”
Curiously, there was little outcry when the book was published in 2005. However, Mr Mitterrand’s tastes were brought to the fore on Monday by Marine Le Pen, daughter of the far-right National Front leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, on a political chat show. Miss Le Pen read out a passage in which Mr Mitterrand wrote: “The profusion of very attractive and immediately available young boys puts me in a state of desire that I no longer need to hinder nor hide…as I know that I will not be refused.” Her call for his resignation has become an internet hit.
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Thursday, October 8th, 2009
Australian TV show Hey Hey It’s Saturday in racism row over ‘blackface’ skit :
An Australian variety show has become embroiled in an international racism controversy after airing a skit featuring men dressed as the Jackson 5 – with their faces painted black.
The “Jackson Jive” parody, which aired on a reunion episode of the variety show Hey Hey It’s Saturday last night, was deemed offensive by the guest judge, the US singer Harry Connick Jr, who complained on air, saying: “If I knew that was going to be part of the show I definitely wouldn’t have done it.
“On behalf of my country I know it was done humorously, but we’ve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons that when we see something like that we take it really to heart.”
The show’s host, Darryl Somers, apologised on air to Connick Jr, who lives in New Orleans, for causing offence.
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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009
Girl in box seat, mom on hot seat
An Alabama woman has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after police say she let her daughter ride in a cardboard box on top of their van.
A police spokesman said the 37-year-old woman was arrested Sunday after police received a call about a minivan on a state highway with a child riding on top.
The woman told police the box was too big to go inside the van, and that her daughter was inside the box to hold it down, police said.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Pa. Woman Mauled To Death By Bear
A northeastern Pennsylvania woman, whose husband is an exotic pet dealer operating on an expired license, was mauled to death by a black bear over the weekend.
Authorities say Kelly Ann Walz, 37, of Ross Township in Monroe County, was attacked by her 350 pound pet bear while cleaning its cage at about 5 p.m. Sunday.
Walz had reportedly thrown a shovelful of dog food to one side of the cage to distract the bear while she cleaned the other side, but the animal turned on her and attacked.
Walz’s children and the neighbor’s children saw the attack and summoned help, and the neighbor shot and killed the bear while it was atop Walz, said Tim Conway, an information and education supervisor with the Pennsylvania Game Commission.
“Why this woman chose to go in the same area that the bear was in is beyond me. It’s a fatal mistake,” he said. “These things are not tame animals, they’re wild animals.”
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Sheriff describes raccoon “gang attack” on Lakeland woman
A Lakeland woman is recovering from serious injuries in the hospital after sheriff’s investigators say she was “gang attacked” by five raccoons Saturday afternoon.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says 74-year-old Gretchen Whitted was trying to shoo the animals away from her front door when they suddenly attacked.
“When she fell down, they enveloped her,” said Sheriff Judd in a news conference called Sunday to warn the public of the aggressive raccoons.
“She’s literally bitten and scratched from face and the chest all the way down through the legs.”
Raccoons are known to be aggressive when going after food, but the sheriff called Saturday’s attack very unusual. “Not in all my years in Florida have I known of a gang attack by raccoons on an individual,” Sheriff Judd said.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Tiger mauls men at Calgary Zoo
Police and Calgary Zoo officials are investigating an incident where two men were attacked by a Siberian tiger after allegedly breaking into zoo property around 1 a.m. this morning.
The two men, both aged 27, are believed to have scaled an eight-foot fence to gain access to the zoo and then climbed over a 42-inch fence outside the tiger enclosure and approached the cage where the zoo’s three tigers live.
Zookeepers believe Vitali, a two-year-old male tiger, hooked onto one of the men’s arms with his claws. Though it is not known how this happened, zoo officials said tigers cannot reach outside the cage so the men were likely pressed up against or reaching inside the cage.
Both men suffered injuries in the attack and were taken to hospital after calling the personal cell phone of one of their friends who happened to be an on duty security officer at the zoo.
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
Bundesbank official under police investigation after blasting Turks for ‘conquering Germany’
Dr Thilo Sarrazin, a member of the executive board and head of the bank’s risk control operations, told Europe’s culture magazine Lettre International that Turks with low IQs and poor child-rearing practices were “conquering Germany” by breeding two or three times as fast.
“A large number of Arabs and Turks in this city, whose number has grown through bad policies, have no productive function other than as fruit and vegetable vendors,” he said.
“Forty per cent of all births occur in the underclasses. Our educated population is becoming stupider from generation to generation. What’s more, they cultivate an aggressive and atavistic mentality. It’s a scandal that Turkish boys won’t listen to female teachers because that is what their culture tells them”, he said.
“I’d rather have East European Jews with an IQ that is 15pc higher than the German population,” he said
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Monday, October 5th, 2009
India pilots in mid-air ’scuffle’:
Pilots and cabin crew have come to blows on an international flight bound for India, media reports say.
The scuffle is said to have begun as an argument in the plane’s cockpit over claims of sexual harassment but spilled into the galley, startling passengers.
One pilot and one air hostess suffered bruises, as punches were thrown.
The incident took place over Pakistan on an Air India flight from the United Arab Emirates to Delhi, with 106 passengers and seven crew on board.
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Thursday, October 1st, 2009
5-year-old catches an 800-pound gator:
A young Livingston boy caught an alligator taller than a Texas tale. Harvesting an alligator that’s 20 times your size is a piece of cake, according to 5-year-old Simon Hughes.
“Well, its pretty much simple,” said Simon who caught the alligator. Sunday morning, Simon went alligator hunting with his dad and his a family friend.
They came back having bit off more than they can chew. Chuck Cotton, a family friend, was with Simon when they discovered the beast.
“We had seen the alligator previous months before, another hunter had set out a bait and hook and I went down to check it Sunday morning and saw the line was in the water, I called up Simon to see if he wanted to take an alligator and he came out,” he adds, “We didn’t know how big he would be or how small he would be and he turned out to be one of the largest I’ve ever seen.”
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