An unknown antiques seller has posted an aged Civil War dated photo on online retail site, eBay, claiming that he has proof that A-list actor Nicolas Cage is a vampire, according to a report on Cinema Blend’s website. The photo, which dates from 1870 and carries a US $1 million asking price, bears an uncanny […]
Month – September 2011
Perry blasts Obama for ‘dangerous’ Mid-east policy
Texas Governor Rick Perry slammed President Barack Obama’s ‘appeasement’ of Palestinians as dangerous and naive on Tuesday, in his first major foreign policy address since emerging as the top Republican White House hopeful. Seizing on the diplomatic conflagration over UN recognition of Palestinian statehood, Mr Perry blasted Mr Obama for not being strong enough in […]
China shuts solar plant in the east after pollution protest
China has ordered the closure of a solar panel plant in the east of the country after hundreds of local residents staged violent protests over pollution, authorities said on Monday. The protesters broke into the factory in Zhejiang province, ransacking offices and overturning vehicles before being forced back by police in a three-day protest that […]
Crew makes safe return to Earth after space crash
Three astronauts returned safely to Earth from the International Space Station on Friday aboard a Soviet-era capsule whose mission follows an unprecedented spate of Russian space accidents. Space officials said the Soyuz TMA-21 capsule landed on its side in the wind-swept steppes of the ex-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan at 0400 GMT. ‘A bulls-eye landing for […]
Arctic ice at second lowest level since 1979: US report
The frozen Arctic has shrunk to its second lowest level since satellites began measuring it in 1979, capping a decade of ‘rapidly decreasing summer sea ice,’ United States scientists said on Friday. The Colorado-based National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) said the ice cap appeared to have reached its lowest level for the summer, […]
Weather sours Italian wine harvest
ITALY is set for one of its smallest wine harvests after an arid, torrid summer and will almost certainly cede its title as the world’s biggest wine producer to France. Growers say scorching temperatures and meagre rainfall have affected crops, but add that predicted autumn rains could save the quality of a vintage that has […]
Qantas bosses handle baggage as they take on strike jobs
Managers at Australian carrier Qantas will work as baggage handlers and ground staff next week while bigger aircraft will be used to combat a planned strike by 3,800 workers, the airline said on Thursday. The airline warned of delays that could linger for up to two days when Transport Workers Union (TWU) members walk out […]
At least 120 dead in Kenyan petrol pipeline fire
At least 120 people have been burned to death after a pipeline burst into flames in a Nairobi slum as local people were siphoning fuel from it, and more than 100 have been injured. Scores of bodies, some burned to the bone, lay on charred grass near trenches and a filthy river in the Sinai […]
‘Drunk’ moose stuck in tree
A Swedish man says he was shocked to find a moose apparently drunk on fermented apples stuck up a neighbour’s tree. Per Johansson from Saro in Goteborg, south-western Sweden, says he heard a roar from the garden of his neighbour, who is on holiday, late on Tuesday. When he went to have a look, he […]
Britain launches 9/11 website for children
A website to teach schoolchildren in Britain about the events of 9/11 and “demolish conspiracy theories” surrounding the attacks has been launched by the mayor of London, Boris Johnson. “It is only if we and our children properly remember and understand 9/11 that we can make sure that nothing like it ever happens again,” Johnson […]