Rekha takes oath as Rajya Sabha member
May 15, 2012
Veteran Bollywood actress Rekha has been sworn in as an MP in India’s upper house of parliament, the Rajya Sabha.
Taking her oath, the actress vowed to “faithfully discharge the duty upon which I am about to enter”.
India’s prime minister can nominate 12 people with special experience in “literature, science, art and Read more
Hen lays ‘eggless’ chick!
April 21, 2012
A Sri Lanka hen has given birth to a chick without an egg, in a new twist on the age-old question of whether the chicken or the egg came first.
Instead of passing out of the hen’s body and being incubated outside, the egg was incubated in the hen for 21 days and then hatched inside the hen.
The chick is fully formed and healthy, although the mother has died.
The government veterinary Read more
Sweden: Wedding ring ‘found on carrot’ after 16 years
January 2, 2012
A Swedish woman has discovered her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.
Lena Paahlsson had long ago lost hope of finding the ring, which she designed herself, reports Dagens Nyheter.
The white-gold band, set with seven small diamonds, went missing in her kitchen in 1995, she told the Read more
Miss Venezuela, 28, dies of breast cancer
December 21, 2011
Former Miss Venezuela Eva Ekvall, whose struggle with breast cancer was closely followed by Venezuelans, has died at age 28.
Her family said Ekvall died on Saturday at a hospital in Houston.
Ekvall was crowned Miss Venezuela at age 17 in 2000, and the following year she was third runner-up in the Miss Universe pageant in Puerto Rico.
She went on to work as Read more
The 30 seconds that could have saved the Titanic
December 5, 2011
Course should have been altered instantly
Experts have revealed that Titanic might have been saved from disaster if it had changed course just 30 seconds sooner.
It has been reported that a crewmember on the White Star liner, which set sail from Southampton in April 1912 but sank in the Atlantic after hitting an iceberg, had been warned of the obstacle ahead but waited half a minute before changing course Read more
Girls kidnapped to be brides in China
December 5, 2011
China is witnessing an increasing number of foreign women who have been cheated, kidnapped and smuggled into the country to become brides, a senior official has said.
Most of these women are from rural areas in Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos.
They eagerly want to find jobs in China or marry rich Chinese men to escape poverty, Chen Shiqu, director of Read more
World’s first sex school opens in Austria
December 5, 2011
While many people may think it’s an activity which should be best learned behind closed doors, an enterprising Swedish schoolmistress thinks otherwise.
Ylva-Maria Thompson has opened the world’s first international sex school to teach its students how to be better lovers.
The Austrian International Sex School in Vienna offers “hands on” lessons in seduction for £1,400 a Read more
First man functionally cured of HIV
November 12, 2011
Since HIV was discovered 30 years ago, 30 million people have died from the disease, and it continues to spread at the rate of 7,000 people per day globally, according to the UN. Now, after years of progress in holding back the disease, there is finally an apparent case of one successful cure.
45-year-old Timothy Ray Brown tested positive for HIV back in 1995, but now has entered the scientific Read more
Plane crashes into ferris wheel
October 1, 2011
An ultra-light plane has crashed into a Ferris wheel in a village north of Sydney, trapping four people, Australian officials say.
The Cheetah S200 plane with two men aboard did not topple the wheel after hitting it during a festival in the village of Old Bar.
The men and two children at the top of the wheel were trapped for some time before being rescued by a Read more
Erotic dancer forces flight to turn back
August 29, 2011
A flight from Moscow to London was turned back when a drunken female passenger started performing erotic dances in front of shocked passengers.
The 7am flight from Moscow’s main Domodedovo airport did an about-turn 15 minutes after the take-off on Friday because of the 39-year-old woman’s antics, Ria Novosti news agency reported.
”The woman was in a state Read more
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