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I find it to be an amusing little point of interest here that one of the male extras toward the ( Read more... )

 Denmark 'world's happiest nation'

Denmark is the happiest country in the world, according to the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation.

The annual study surveyed people in 97 countries to discover who is happiest.

The survey asked people two simple questions about their happiness and their level of ( Read more... )

Woman cleared to sue Lotto rapist

A retired teacher has cleared the final legal hurdle standing in the way of her bid to claim compensation from a serial rapist who won £7m on the lottery.

The 78-year-old woman was told by a High Court judge on Tuesday that she can go ahead with her claim against 59-year-old Iorworth Hoare.

She wants damages for ( Read more... )

 Police die in China knife rampage

A man has stormed into a police station in the Chinese city of Shanghai and stabbed at least five officers to death, officials said.

The man was arrested after the attack in the Public Security Bureau office in the city's Zhabei district.

Four policemen and a security guard were also injured and are being treated ( Read more... )

 Cuba to abandon salary equality

Cuba is to abolish its system of equal pay for all and allow workers and managers to earn performance bonuses, a senior official has announced.

Vice-Minister for Labour Carlos Mateu said the current system - in place since the communist revolution in 1959 - was no longer "convenient".

He said wage differentiation ( Read more... )

 
This was from yesterday, but I didn't have time to post it before work:

Dolphins 'possibly scared ashore' Marine experts believe there is evidence that the 26 dolphins which died near Falmouth on Monday were scared ashore.

A common reason for strandings is when dolphins chase fish, but post-mortem results showed most of them had not been feeding.

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Fireman without licence for years A Japanese firefighter has been sacked after driving fire engines and ambulances for more than 20 years without a licence.

The man, who worked in Takaoka City, was only discovered during a routine inspection of licences last week.

According to his bosses, he appeared reluctant to produce his licence, but when he ( Read more... )

 
I was a bit off my game yesterday and these are pretty much just the articles without much comment from me...

Womb surgery 'saves baby's leg' Australian surgeons saved the leg of an unborn baby by operating when her mother was just 22 weeks pregnant.

The surgery was carried out after the foetus developed a rare condition in which stray bands of ( Read more... )

Colorado catches 'thong bandits'

Colorado police say two suspected robbers dubbed the "thong bandits", after they used women's underwear to disguise themselves, have been caught.

The two men used skimpy underwear as masks, but much of their faces remained visible in a CCTV tape broadcast across the US state.

Nineteen-year-old Joaquin Rico and his ( Read more... )

 
Baby emu could have been omelette

A woman from East Sussex who bought an emu egg sold as a novelty food item on a farm on the Isle of Wight has managed to hatch a chick from it.

Gillian Stone, from Bexhill, who breeds chickens, brought home three large green emu eggs from a holiday and put them in an incubator in her kitchen.

Two turned out to be ( Read more... )