Passengers Cheat Flu Scan With Fever Reducers

HANOI (Reuters) – Many sick passengers who flew to Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam took fever reducers to cheat temperature scanners at the airport, leading to the discovery of several infected cases later, state media reported at the weekend.

June 18th, 2009 @ 12:00 AM • Filed under News

Groom Drinks Too Much at Wedding, Dies

TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese groom died on his wedding day after having too much wine and beer to drink, police and local media said Monday.

May 27th, 2009 @ 12:07 AM • Filed under News

Google Fields Low-Tech Wildfire Prevention: Goats

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Internet-Age innovator Google is taking advantage of an old-time principle to thwart wildfires: goats will eat almost anything.

May 4th, 2009 @ 02:21 AM • Filed under News

 

 

Politician Fumes Over “Gay” Elephant In Zoo

WARSAW (Reuters) – A Polish politician has criticized his local zoo for acquiring a “gay” elephant named Ninio who prefers male companions and will probably not procreate, local media reported Friday.

April 13th, 2009 @ 01:33 PM • Filed under News

Woman Divorces Husband For Cleaning Too Much

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German woman has divorced her husband because she was fed up with him cleaning all the time.

April 6th, 2009 @ 02:38 PM • Filed under News

Nigerian Student Gets 19 Years’ Jail For Love Scam

LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian undergraduate has been sentenced to 19 years in prison for obtaining $47,000 (33,382 pounds) from an Australian woman by convincing her over the Internet that he was 57 years old, white, and madly in love with her.

March 18th, 2009 @ 03:41 PM • Filed under News

 

 

Austrian Village Offers Free Land to Boost Population

VIENNA (AFP) – A village in northern Austria, worried by its dwindling population, is offering free land to all who pledge to start a family in a decade, the Kurier newspaper reported Saturday.

March 9th, 2009 @ 09:49 PM • Filed under News

Mich. Woman Marks Her 108th or 111th Birthday

March 7th, 2009 @ 07:45 PM • Filed under News

Cops: Man Tries to Steal Laptop to Check Facebook

BRADENTON, Fla. – Sheriff’s officers said a 19-year-old man snatched a Starbucks customers laptop after being told he could not use it to check his Facebook account. According to officers, the man then grabbed the customer’s laptop and ran out of the coffee shop, located in an outlet mall.

February 24th, 2009 @ 07:18 PM • Filed under News

 

 

Woman Who Sang About Fire Charged With 7 Arsons

DREXEL HILL, Pa. – Police in a Philadelphia suburb say a 19-year-old woman accused of arson was caught on a surveillance camera singing, “The fire department is going to be mad at me.”

February 12th, 2009 @ 01:21 AM • Filed under News

Boy’s Wrapped Birthday Gift is Dad Back From Iraq

DAYTON, Nev. – Gabriel Hurles’ sixth birthday party wasn’t a surprise, but his present sure was. The kindergartner was so engrossed in the cupcakes his mother brought to his class on Wednesday that he didn’t notice the enormous wrapped box off to the side.

February 2nd, 2009 @ 11:25 PM • Filed under News

Goat Detained Over Armed Robbery

LAGOS (Reuters) – Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.

January 26th, 2009 @ 01:13 AM • Filed under News