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U.S. judge OKs felony charges over Facebook posts

Aug 16, 2011

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- A judge has upheld felony charges against a woman accused of using Facebook to try to find someone to kill her baby's father and against a teenager accused of offering to do the job for $1,000. (MCT)A defense lawyer argued that 20-year-old London Eley of Philadelphia was only ve
Rapper could face charges tied to flash mob calls

Aug 15, 2011

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Los Angeles County prosecutors will decide this week whether to press charges against The Game, after a tweet from the rapper's account incited a telephone flash mob that overwhelmed the emergency phone system at a sheriff's station.Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Sunday
Crackdown on gladiator impersonators in Rome

Aug 14, 2011

ROME (AP) -- Undercover police have donned togas, capes and sandals to stop a turf battle among Italians who impersonate gladiators outside the Colosseum and other landmarks in Rome and make money by posing for camera carrying tourists. (AP-Yonhap News)The trade has been tolerated for years, but tha
Man fired for washing himself with own urine

Aug 12, 2011

VIENNA (AP) -- A famed Austrian museum has fired an employee for washing his hands and face with his urine.Alfred Zoppelt says he was fired after 23 years of working as an attendant at the Belvedere, a castle in Vienna with a major art works. He says his adherence to urine therapy was previous
N.Z. school discovers real skeleton in closet

Aug 11, 2011

WELLINGTON (AFP) - Teachers at a New Zealand school received a macabre surprise when they realised a supposedly plastic skeleton to be used in anatomy lessons was actually a real set of human bones, a report said Thursday.Totara North School principal Bastienne Kruger had removed the skeleton from s
Boy hangs self after watching samurai film

Aug 11, 2011

An 8-year-old British boy was found hanged after viewing a film that features suicides. Lewis McGlynn had been watching the 2003 Tom Cruise film “The Last Samurai,” when his father discovered him hanging from his bedroom door, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. A scene from "The Last Samurai"His fami
Girl shoots her sister in fight over cell phone

Aug 10, 2011

An American girl was charged with murdering her younger sister after shooting her during a quarrel over a cell phone. (A scene from Fox News)Elena Rendell, 17, shoot at her 14-year-old sister, Christina, on the neck with a 9 mm pistol after they had an argument at their home in Pensacola, Flori
Woman with PhD in statistics wins lottery four times

Aug 9, 2011

A woman from Texas has reportedly won the lottery four times, prompting interest towards the secret of the unbelievable luck.Joan R. Gither, 63, has won four fortunes worth millions of dollars in the span of 15 years. First she won $5.4 million in 1993, and 10 years later $2 million. Then, another t
New Zealander sucked into plane engine and killed

Aug 8, 2011

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A 51-year-old engineer working at an airplane testing facility has been sucked into an engine and killed.Domestic carrier Air New Zealand confirmed the man was performing routine maintenance on a Lockheed C-130 Hercules airplane engine just after 8 a.m. Monday at
Three killed in Malaysia landslide: report

Aug 8, 2011

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Three women were killed and three more people feared still buried under debris Monday by a landslide near Malaysia‘s Cameron Highlands tourist spot, the official Bernama news agency said.The landslide late Sunday afternoon buried several houses in a village in the region, which
Malaysia-bound Nigerian drug trafficker dies aboard plane

Aug 7, 2011

LAGOS(AFP) - A Malaysia-bound Nigerian drug smuggler died aboard an aircraft, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in India, the anti-drug agency said Saturday.The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said 25-year-old Chilaka Ogbonna Emmanuel was flying from Lagos on Tuesday for Malaysia v
University graduates still earn more: survey

Aug 5, 2011

University graduates earn significantly more than high school graduates, a labor ministry survey showed Friday as the government leads a campaign to increase hiring of those without university diplomas.Employees sporting a four-year university degree earned an average of 17,170 won (US$16.1) an hour
Shepherd demanding sex without shower found guilty of rape

Aug 5, 2011

Italy’s Supreme Court ruled a shepherd, who forcefully had sexual intercourse with his wife without taking a shower, guilty of rape, ANSA reported on Thursday.The 51-year-old shepherd, whose name has not been revealed, had imposed sex on his wife from 1992 to 2006, ignoring her pleas to wash first.T
Australian teenager safe after 'bomb' drama

Aug 4, 2011

SYDNEY (AFP) -- Australian bomb squad officers Wednesday safely removed a teenager from a "suspicious device" media reports said had been strapped around her neck, ending a 10-hour drama.Police officers, some wearing protective equipment, gather near the home of 18-year-old Madeleine Pulver in
Intern blackmails boss for not offering permanent position

Aug 2, 2011

A Japanese woman was reportedly arrested for threatening her boss by sending hate messages, Yomiuri Shimbun reported Sunday.The blackmailer Yamazaki Rinako, 21, had allegedly sent the word “to kill” about 10,000 times to her employer’s cellphone.She had sent 22 messages, which included the word 517