A Romanian entrepreneur has come under fire for putting plastic prostitutes on the street to advertise his garden gnome business. Cristi Birgu, 27, who has just set up his business, defends his “aggressive advertising” and says the dummies will remain outside his house to drum up trade. Neighbours living nearby though fear the realistic [...]
Sunday, November 9, 2008
A wealthy man from Germany made his distant relative, a poor student from Moldova, a billionaire and a real estate mogul. The student, Sergei Sudev, saw his uncle only twice when he visited him in Berlin. The uncle left the young man a 950-million-euro fortune and all his property, including real estate.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
A six-month-old puppy from the U.S. state of Maine has survived after gobbling down 3 kilograms (6 lbs) of stones, local media said on Thursday. The dog named Chester devoured the stones after bits of food inadvertently dropped on them from the family’s outdoor barbeque.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
A Chinese purse snatcher leapt off the roof of a seven-storey shopping mall during a police chase only to be arrested several minutes later, the China Daily said on Friday.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
An angry Deltona father whacked his teenage daughter’s boyfriend with a metal pipe after finding the boy naked in his daughter’s room. Authorities say the father, 45, didn’t even know his daughter had a boyfriend or that the youngster had been sneaking into the home for more than a year.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A 33-year-old man who tried cutting off his arm inside a busy Denny’s restaurant because he believed it would save his life was arrested Friday night, according to Modesto police. According to Sgt. Brian Findlen, Michael Lasiter of Modesto had been injecting cocaine in a nearby motel when he thought he had injected air into [...]
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A Chinese man who swore to God that he didn’t owe money to a neighbour was hit by lightning a minute later. The man, named Xu, made the oath in front of a crowd of neighbours in Fuqing city, reports Southeast Express.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
A Malaysian welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after an attempt to lengthen it before he gets engaged next week went embarrassingly wrong, a news report said Sunday. The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper said, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in [...]
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Hiroyuki Shinoda has published books and memorandums of unusual writers — death row inmates — despite criticism he should not present the excuses of notorious criminals. ”I believe it’s necessary to record their voices to find out their motives and backgrounds of their crimes,” said the 56-year-old Shinoda, the chief of Tsukuru Publishing [...]
Friday, August 29, 2008
A mother was convicted Friday of killing her month-old daughter by burning her in a microwave oven, with jurors rejecting a defense attorney’s claims there was evidence that someone else was responsible.
Friday, November 21, 2008
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