Sunday, March 16, 2008
Who doesn’t love potatoes after sex?
Susan Kuronen was devastated when her lover of nine months, Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen dumped her via a text message reading: “It’s over.” So she hit back – by writing a tell-all account of their affair titled The Prime Ministers Bride. She published the 160-page book, chock full of...
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Saturday, March 15, 2008
Today’s Special – Chocolate Jewellery
A French jeweller, Le Boucheron, is commemorating its 150 years in business by creating a chocolate covered gold-necklace. The snake’s ‘skin’ is studded with ‘scales’ of different shades of chocolate. Resting on its extended tongue is a brown-tinted 20.08 carat diamond. The snake was created with...
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Friday, March 14, 2008
How to dump your boyfriend with 36 easy calls...
April Wormly of New Mexico wanted to break up with her boyfriend, but rather than be conventional, she opted to phone in bomb-threats regarding a plane he was on. Wormly thought that her boyfriend would leave her alone when he learned she’d make the hoax calls, of which there were 36. Instead, she’s...
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Thursday, March 13, 2008
And in Saudi Arabia – Movies Come to the Desert...
The devout Muslim nation has a problem to overcome with the announcement of its first film festival: it has no cinemas, and movies have been banned since the 1980s. Back then, clerics branded films a waste of time. Nevertheless, officials hope a festival will overcome religious opposition and foster...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Boys can be sensitive...yeah, right!
Don’t worry, dads: your teenage daughter’s boyfriend isn’t thinking only about sex. Researchers at the State University of New York found that interest in dating among teen boys is motivated more than people might think by love and the hope of developing relationships. In fact, about 80 per cent of...
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Monday, March 10, 2008
Hungry? Look at what the UN has on the menu...
The UN [that’s the guys who didn’t blink when Ahmadinejad went all aglow] has a novel suggestion to deal with shortages and malnutrition – the answer is skittering across your basement floor when you flip on the lights. Yes, when the hunger pangs start to hit, reach down and eat a bug. The UN Food...
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Saturday, March 8, 2008
Get ready for the Second Coming...or is it here already?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, when making public addresses, is fond of calling on God to hasten the return of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the 12 th imam. Most Shia Muslims believe imam Mahdi, also known as the Hidden Imam, is a descendant of the prophet Muhammad, was concealed by God and disappeared...
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
And in Italy: Ferrari Knock-Offs Get Knocked Off...
Italian police have busted a counterfeit ring that was manufacturing fake Ferrari Modena 360s. The authorities found seven completed vehicles, which were selling for about $30,000 each, a fraction of the price of the real thing. Police said people were buying the vehicles to impress undiscerning...
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Wednesday, March 5, 2008
The first computer?
In 1901, divers discovered a shoebox-size, gear-filled box from a 2000-year old shipwreck on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea. Ever since, the enigmatic box – known as the Antikythera Mechanism, has spawned its series of bizarre theories. “Some people thought it came from outer space,” scoffs...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
Friendly snake never puts the squeeze on, or so it is hoped…
Normally, when a python slithers into your child’s bed, you get nervous. But not the parents of Uorn Sambath, 7, who has lived with a python since he was three months old. He and his family live near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Uorn regularly sleeps in the coils of the five-metre, 100-kg...
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