A Polish man living in Germany went about his business for about five years without noticing he had been shot in the head because he was drunk when it happened. Police in the western city of Bochum said on Tuesday doctors found a .22 caliber bullet in the back of his head after the 35-year-old went [...]
August 25, 2010
It spreads, it mutates, it refuses to die. For the seventh year in a row, the Mars Hoax is infecting email boxes around the world. Passed from one reader to another, the message states that on August 27th Mars will approach Earth and swell to the size of a full Moon. “NO ONE ALIVE TODAY [...]
August 24, 2010
DNA tests on relatives of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler show he was probably descended from Jews and North Africans. Journalist Jean-Paul Mulders with the Belgian news magazine Knack garnered the DNA from a serviette dropped by one of three known Hitler descendants who live on Long Island, New York, which led earlier this year to [...]
August 24, 2010
A traffic jam stretching more than 60 miles in China has entered its ninth day with no end in sight, state media reported. Cars and trucks have been slowed to a crawl since August 14 on the National Expressway 110, which is also known as the G110, the major route from Beijing to Zhangjiakou, Xinhua [...]
August 24, 2010
If you’re confused about the difference between “it’s” and “its”, or unsure how to spell “cemetery”, you’re not alone, and there’s plenty of evidence to prove it. That’s the conclusion of two young Americans who took it upon themselves to correct public typos during a three-month road trip across the country. They have written about [...]
August 21, 2010
A French woman discovered her 42-year-old son had been buried in the same cemetery where she was attending her brother’s funeral, after she had tried to invite him to the ceremony, a newspaper said Friday. The family were leaving the cemetery near Lille, Wednesday when one of them noticed a temporary wooden gravestone bearing the [...]
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