PARIS – As a high-speed train roared over him, a 19-year-old drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed. The driver saw the body lying on the tracks and slammed on the brakes, but was only able to stop a few hundred meters further on. [...]
September 13, 2009
LOS ANGELES, Ca. — The world’s oldest person has passed away at the age of 115, according to the home where she lived and Guinness World Records. Gertrude Baines passed away at the Western Convalescent Hospital at the age of 115. Gertrude Baines said she attributed her longevity to not drinking or smoking. At her [...]
September 12, 2009
LONDON – Curators at London’s Kensington Palace are seen inspecting the split drawers, right, which were worn by Britain’s Queen Victoria at the end of the 19th century. They are embroidered with a crown, VR, and a number so they could be kept track of when sent to the laundry. Queen Victoria had a 20-inch [...]
September 12, 2009
BEIJING — As the reigning table tennis world champion with two Olympic silver medals under his belt, China’s Wang Hao almost had it all — except a girlfriend. The 25-year-old was banned from dating until recently, when national team officials permitted his relationship with former national teammate, 23-year-old Peng Luyang, the government-owned China Daily reported [...]
September 12, 2009
from Luke McKinney (a WholeWeirdWorld favorite) —The UFO area of the internet, wedged firmly between (and overlapping with) the paranoid conspiracy section and the Star Trek fan-fiction boards, has been clamoring over news that the Chinese Purple Mountain Observatory lived up to its name by observing an actual Unidentified Flying Object. And if your bullshit [...]
September 9, 2009
JOHANNESBURG – Africa’s largest economy has a bandwidth shortage. Internet speed and connectivity are poor, and expensive. A South African information technology company proved it was faster for them to transmit data with a carrier pigeon than to send it using Telkom, the country’s leading internet service provider. Local news agency SAPA reported the 11-month-old [...]
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