Yankees-Red Sox argument ends in murder?

BOSTON (Reuters) - A New York Yankees’ fan was accused on Monday of murdering a Boston Red Sox supporter and injuring another by running both down with a car after a heated argument over one of America’s oldest sporting rivalries.

May 7th, 2008 @ 04:14 PM • Filed under News

Driver follows sat-nav into river

A Norfolk taxi driver ended up stranded after he followed his sat-nav system’s directions - into a river.

April 24th, 2008 @ 05:56 PM • Filed under News

Lads’ Mag Offers Free Divorce

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An Australian lads’ mag is running a competition with a free divorce as the prize.

The competition will allow one disgruntled husband to “unleash themselves back to bachelor hood”.

April 14th, 2008 @ 10:49 PM • Filed under News

 

 

Man ‘Targeted By Aliens’

A Bosnian man whose home has been hit an incredible five times by meteorites believes he is being targeted by aliens.

Experts at Belgrade University have confirmed that all the rocks Radivoje Lajic has handed over were meteorites.

April 7th, 2008 @ 05:30 PM • Filed under News

LA man gets long-stolen Mustang back

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles man is getting his stolen Mustang back — 38 years after it was stolen. The vehicle has an extra 300,000 miles and a different paint job, but Eugene Brakke’s 1965 Mustang is evidently running just fine.

March 22nd, 2008 @ 02:58 AM • Filed under News

Honey, will you marry… Oh. Never mind…

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LONDON (Reuters) - It is the one moment every man wants to get right — and which London floor-fitter Lefkos Hajji could hardly have got more wrong.

March 18th, 2008 @ 01:31 AM • Filed under News

 

 

Knitters Dress Up Trees For Public Art

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YELLOW SPRINGS, Ohio - No, that’s not a hallucination. That pear tree is wearing a sweater.

March 11th, 2008 @ 01:08 AM • Filed under News

Policemen To Learn Ballet

Traffic policemen in a Romanian town have started taking ballet lessons to make them more graceful.

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A total of 20 officers at Timisoara, in Timis county, have enrolled for classes with two professional dancers.

February 27th, 2008 @ 01:30 AM • Filed under News

Baby Ray’s Alien Smile

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Visitors to a Hampshire aquarium are being greeted by an eerily alien-like smiling face.

People have likened the baby thornback ray’s distinctive face to the ‘Last Human’ featured on Doctor Who.

February 23rd, 2008 @ 12:58 AM • Filed under News

 

 

Win a Burial Plot

Officials in an Italian town are selling lottery tickets - for places in the local cemetery.

Marano, near Naples, has run out of room at the town’s cemetery and had to create a new “emergency” graveyard containing 48 plots.

February 21st, 2008 @ 12:39 AM • Filed under News

World’s oldest person?

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A Palestinian woman claims she is 120 years old which would make her the oldest person in the world.

Israeli Arab Mariam Amash holds her identity card with a birth date from 1888 /PA pics

February 19th, 2008 @ 12:55 AM • Filed under News

The Dumbest Ever Quiz Answers

LONDON (Reuters) - Question: What was Gandhi’s first name? Contestant’s answer: Goosey Goosey.

Warning to all those know-alls who shout at the television screen when contestants offer dumb answers to blindingly obvious questions — one day that could be you.

February 3rd, 2008 @ 01:29 AM • Filed under News