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Friday, 05 June 2009 |
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A 56-year-old Israeli woman has been hospitalized after attempting to commit suicide by letting a high-speed passenger train run her over on Sunday. Security cameras caught the entire incident on tape. |
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Monday, 01 June 2009 |
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A 48-year-old man in Ohio has been arrested and is facing charges of obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct after refusing to stop cutting the grass at a local public park. |
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Wednesday, 27 May 2009 |
A passerby pushed a man, who was threatening to commit suicide, off Haizhu Bridge in Guangzhou, China.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 |
 A man in the United Kingdom named Ronald West, has been convicted of animal neglect after authorities received a complaints about his five-year-old dog being severely overweight. Authorities discovered the case of neglect in December 2008 when a neighbor complained that his Border Collie Taz appeared to be too fat.
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Tuesday, 12 May 2009 |
Several Lancaster County, Pennsylvania high schools held their junior-senior proms this past weekend, and per tradition, they received gifts from the prom committee. Instead of traditional prom favors, however, Warwick High School in Lititz ordered more than 450 shot glasses and distributed them to students, in a move the administration now says it regrets.
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Wednesday, 06 May 2009 |
 The young sportswoman nicknamed Bronya (translates from Russian as 'armor') has been going into extreme power lifting sports for only two years, but she is already considered to be the strongest Russian woman.
22-year-old Marina Kigeleva moved forward a 14-ton (28,000 pounds) harvester for a dare and set a new record in Russian power lifting.
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 |
More than 30 people participated in a rather bizarre computer keyboard throwing competition at a festival in the Volga city of Nizhny Novgorod on Wednesday, the organizers said.
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Wednesday, 29 April 2009 |
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Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who was part of the 1971 Apollo 14 moon mission, asserted on Monday April 20th 2009, that extraterrestrial life exists, and that the truth is being concealed by the U.S. and other governments. |
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
 Doctors from the Russian city of Izhevsk found a germinated branch of a fir-tree in the lungs of a man. Artyom Sidorenko, a 28-year-old man, was originally believed to be a cancer patient. He had seizures and was coughing up blood, a doctor said. |
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
The town of Winfield, Missouri in the United States has re-elected its incumbent mayor for a third term nearly a month after his death. Mayor Harry Stonebraker died of a heart attack on March 11, yet came out on top over opponent Alderman Bernie Panther, with 90% of the vote.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2009 |
A Scottish woman, appearing as a contestant on the UK television reality show Britain's Got Talent, has stunned audiences around the globe. Her appearance, which can be seen on YouTube, shocked the show's judges and the theatre audience.
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Wednesday, 08 April 2009 |
Ernest Krajniak from Chilton, Wisconsin in the United States has been charged with arson after a lit cigarette ignited gasoline soaked clothes, setting his apartment ablaze.
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 |
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The 2009-2014 World Outlook for 60-milligram Containers of Fromage Frais has won the Diagram Prize, the British award for the year's oddest book title. |
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Saturday, 04 April 2009 |
April Fools' Day pranks harmlessly pervaded worldwide again this year. Media outlets and internet sites have joined family, office workers, and friends to provide a wide variety of practical jokes. Ireland, France, and the United States celebrate April Fools all day, whereas a few countries celebrate jokes only until noon such as the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and South Africa.
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Thursday, 26 March 2009 |
 The pilot and co-pilot of Tuninter Flight 1153, which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in 2005, killing sixteen people, have each received ten-year jail sentences for the ditching of the flight. They were found to have prayed instead of trying to direct the plane to safety when the engines failed. Tuninter Flight 1153, from Bari, Italy, to Djerba, Tunisia, crashed into Italian waters on August 6, 2005. |
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009 |
A baby pink elephant was sighted in the African country of Botswana on Friday by a filmmaker for the BBC as he was filming for a wildlife documentary. The cameraman took photographs of the elephant when he noticed it in a herd of around eighty elephants in the Okavango Delta. According to experts, it is most likely an albino, an occurrence that is very rare among African elephants.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009 |
The world's only pink Bottlenose dolphin which was discovered in an inland lake in Louisiana, USA, has become such an attraction that conservationists have warned tourists to leave it alone.
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