A misconstrued text message announcing the passing of a beloved pet has sparked a flurry of diplomatic activity in Canada. Transport Minister John Baird sent a message reading: “Thatcher has died”. Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper was soon informed that 84-year-old former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had passed away. But it was actually Mr [...]
November 14, 2009
LONDON – Britons are among the ugliest people in the world, according to a dating website that says it only allows “beautiful people” to join. Fewer than one in eight British men and just three in 20 women who have applied to BeautifulPeople.com have been accepted, an emailed statement from the website showed. Existing members [...]
November 13, 2009
NEW YORK — For 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, a simple Facebook status update turned into much more: a rock-solid alibi after he was accused of a crime. Confirmation of the time stamp on the update and the location from which it was entered showed he could not have been at the scene of a robbery in [...]
November 12, 2009
ROME — An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu — an electronic holy water dispenser. The terracotta dispenser, used in the northern town of Fornaci di Briosco, functions like an automatic soap dispenser [...]
November 10, 2009
LONDON — A British man on the run from police sent a picture of himself to his local paper because he disliked the mugshot they had printed of him as part of a public appeal to track him down. South Wales Police had issued media with the photo of Matthew Maynard, wanted by officers investigating [...]
November 9, 2009
A lucky woman found an umbrella worth £17,500 in her house during a spring cleaning. The rare Faberge umbrella had been given to the unnamed woman — along with some old walking sticks — by her mother-in-law when she moved home. But it was only when she was gathering them up to take to a [...]
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