Indonesian police have arrested a couple who made meatballs from the flesh of protected monkeys, an animal conservation group said on Wednesday. The pair poached dozens of rare Javan langurs, also known as silver-leaf monkeys, from Baluran National Park in the east of Java island, according to a statement released by Indonesia-based animal protection group [...]
April 19, 2010
BEIRUT — A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear revealing clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes. Iran is one of the world’s most earthquake-prone countries, and the cleric’s unusual explanation for why the earth shakes follows a prediction by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that a quake is certain to hit Tehran and [...]
April 19, 2010
An Australian publisher has had to pulp and reprint a cook-book after one recipe listed “salt and freshly ground black people” instead of black pepper. The book is being reprinted, but not recalled. Head of the publisher, Penguin Australia is quoted as saying “We’re mortified that this has become an issue of any kind, and [...]
April 7, 2010
Junk mail accounts for 1/3 of all mail sent in the United States, adding up to over 800 pieces of junk mail delivered each year to each household. Want to know how many trees that is? 100 million. Every single year. Just for junk mail. This is equivalent to clear cutting all of Rocky Mountain [...]
April 2, 2010
A Florida doctor who opposes the new health care law posted a sign on his office door telling patients who voted for President Obama to get care “elsewhere,” the Orlando Sentinel reported. The sign on Dr. Jack Cassell’s door reads, “Changes to your health care begin right now. Not in four years,” the Sentinel said. [...]
February 12, 2010
LOS ANGELES — A San Fernando Valley woman who doused a bikini dancer with gasoline and set her on fire has been found guilty of aggravated mayhem and torture. A Los Angeles jury convicted 28-year-old Rianne Theriault-Odom on Thursday on two counts but acquitted her of attempted murder. The Tarzana woman faces a possible life sentence. [...]
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