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Man thousands HIV infected
Authorities in Grand Rapids say David Smith, 51, was arrested after he turned himself in to police and talked about infecting sexual partners with the human immunodeficiency virus, WOOD-TV, Grand Rapids, reported Wednesday.
Smith told police there are "thousands" of victims.
Police said they are currently aware of the identity of only one of the victims and have charged Smith with just one count so far.
The alleged victim, who asked not to be identified, called Smith "a predator" and "a sociopath."
"He hits drifters," she told WOOD-TV. "He hits people who are young. He hits young women, and from what I understand, he hits men too. Those are his targets."
"I was diagnosed (with HIV) October 18, 2008," she said.
Bull escapes meat plant
The bull escaped Thursday morning in Mount Airy, Md., about 50 miles north of Washington, as it was being led from a truck into the plant, said Brian Horton, a spokesman for the Carroll County Sheriff's Office.
According to the sheriff's incident report, the bull broke free, charged a bystander and ran off in the general direction of a day care center. Deputies followed him into a nearby field, where he then charged one of the deputies.
"Fearing for their safety, a deputy discharged two rounds from a shotgun, striking the bull, and causing him to retreat into a wooded area," the report said. A county animal control officer then finished him off with two more shots. Besides the bull, the only casualty was the taillight on a deputy's cruiser, which the bull slammed into as he eluded attempts to corral him. The body of the bull — presumably no longer fit for human consumption as it was by then lead-contaminated — was released back to its owner
Panda women of the year
Pippa Middleton is named as the female face of April after she caught the nation's attention as maid of honour at the wedding of her sister Kate to Prince William.
But for December, the BBC picked Sweetie the panda, who arrived along with Sunshine in Edinburgh from China. The pandas are on loan to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for £600,000 a year.
Man burns house to keep wife out, police say
Tampa police said Perusse, 48, told officers at the fire that "I did it." He explained he didn't want a woman he was involved with to move into 5703 S MacDill Ave. so he set it on fire. Investigators found the single-story, wood frame house had been doused with an accelerant.
He also told officers his dog, a female pit bull, was still inside the burning house. It died.
Perusse was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he remained for two weeks being treated for smoke inhalation and third-degree burns to his calves.
He was charged with first-degree arson and animal cruelty. The self-employed lawn service owner, according to jail records, was being held on $55,000 bail.
The house, which was Perusse was renting, was a total loss estimated at $72,804 in damages.
99 year old divorce affair
Court papers lodged in Rome revealed the Italian man, identified as Antonio C, was divorcing his wife, Rosa C, after finding letters that revealed she had an affair more than 60 years ago. The split will make Antonio the oldest divorcee ever recorded, according to the Telegraph.
He discovered the letters just days before Christmas when he was going through a chest of drawers.
Rosa confessed to her indiscretions and begged for forgiveness but her husband was adamant that he wanted a divorce.
The pair have five children, 12 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The previous oldest divorcee title was shared by Bertie and Jessie Wood in England, who severed their 36-year union in 2009 when they were both aged 98.
Top Scandals 2011
Sexual abuse accusations against a former assistant football coach at the Big Ten school brought a premature end to the career of its legendary head coach. jerry sandusky + joe paterno fired +
Amid sexual harassment allegations from several women, and another woman claiming a 13-year affair with the Republican presidential nominee contender, the former Godfather’s Pizza CEO dropped out of the race. herman cain harassment allegations + herman cain + ginger white + godfather's pizza + herman cain suspends campaign
The “Mistletoe” singer vehemently denied claims by a 20-year-old woman that he was the father of her baby. justin bieber mistletoe + mariah yeater + justin bieber paternity suit dropped
The married New York representative claimed his account was hacked before ultimately admitting to having sent lewd photos and messages to women then stepping down from office. huma abedin + anthony weiner + several women + anthony weiner resigns
The “Run It!” singer apparently took issue with the questions “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts asked about his ex-girlfriend Rihanna and got violent with a studio window. Chris Brown run it + america + Robin Roberts + rihanna
The TV star began the year with a trip to the emergency room, gave a series of bizarre interviews with and without his “goddesses,” and saw his popular “Two and a Half Men” character killed off. charlie sheen + charlie sheen emergency room + charlie sheen goddesses + two and a half men + charlie harper hit by train
The California solar panel company came under fire when it filed for bankruptcy after receiving a multimillion-dollar federal loan. solyndra + solyndra $535 million +
The former head of the International Monetary Fund was accused of rape by a New York hotel maid and a French journalist said he attempted to rape her in 2002.international monetary fund + Dominique Strauss-Kahn charges dropped + tristane banon + Dominique Strauss-Kahn
The longtime “Monday Night Football” theme song performer found himself without a job after he made an analogy to a hated dictator while discussing President Obama. monday night football + hank williams jr + hank williams jr keep the change
The media scandal that has rocked Britain has entangled a movie star, the royal family,the family of a murdered child and a pie-in-the-face attack. hugh grant phone hacking scandal + prince charles + phone hacking scandal + Milly Dowler + phone hacking scandal + rupert murdoch pie
Sen. Chuck Grassley began investigating the “gunwalking” practices of the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives after being contacted by whistleblowers. The head of the ATF later stepped down. Chuck Grassley + atf gunwalking + kenneth melson reassigned + operation fast and furious
The now-former Chicago Bears wide receiver was accused of making a high-dollar drug deal with an undercover agent. Chicago Bears + sam hurd $25,000 kilogram cocaine + $450 pound marijuana + sam hurd
The former Illinois governor was convicted on corruption charges and received a hefty prison sentence. rod blagojevich guilty verdict + rod blagojevich tried to sell obama senate seat + rod blagojevich sentenced to 14 years
The movie star and former California governor shocked everyone – including his now ex-wife – when he revealed he had fathered a child with the family housekeeper 10 years earlier. arnold schwarzenegger + maria shriver + arnold schwarzenegger love child + arnold schwarzenegger love child
An FBI crackdown ensnared a Florida man accused of hacking into dozens of celebrities’ email accounts and leaking intimate photos of Scarlett Johansson and Mila Kunis. Operation Hackerazzi + christopher chaney arrested + scarlett johansson + mila kunis + scarlett johansson "Somebody stole my nudie photos"
The “30 Rock” star stirred up controversy with an anti-gay rant during a stand-up act but later apologized. 30 rock + tracy morgan stab my gay son + tina fey not a hateful man and is generally much too sleepy and self-centered to ever hurt another person
The three-term Italian prime minister resigned amid his country’s financial crisis and is facing trials on corruption and underage sex charges.berlusconi resigns + italy financial crisis 2011 + silvio berlusconi trials + rubygate
The “Mean Girls” actress’s troubles continued with theft accusations, jail stints and missed interviews, while her next career move left some shaking their heads. Mean Girls + lindsay lohan jewelry theft + lindsay lohan necklace jail + lindsay lohan misses ellen + lindsay lohan playboy
The Republican senator resigned amid an ethics investigation connected to his affair with a former staffer. john ensign ethics investigation + cindy hampton affair + john ensign parents gave $96,000
The top 10 tech stories of 2011
When Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died on Oct. 5, at age 56, the loss resonated throughout the tech world in unprecedented ways. He was described as our generation's Thomas Edison and his legacy was celebrated accordingly. The Internet mourned the passing of the man with over 2.5 million tweets in the twelve hours following his death. People around the world sent over one million emails filled with wishes, memories and words of sympathy to an address set up by Apple.
Samsung and Google, some of the company's competitors, delayed the release of new products out of respect for the loss of the man who launched Apple.
As his eponymous biography by Walter Isaacson hit the shelves, we dissected everything about Jobs from minutia — such as his final words, eating habits, reading list, workaholic nature and old pranks — to grand concepts such as his life's work. It is worth noting that the Jobs biography became Amazon's best-selling book of 2011 and Sony Pictures is said to be working on a movie version.
What's any year without a couple of big security scares? In 2011, hacking groups Anonymous and Lulzsec were two entities that struck fear in a lot of network administrators' hearts. Between the two groups — who even teamed up at one point — there was a great deal of trouble stirred up.
Lulzsec, a mysterious and loosely knit organization, took out or at least claimed credit for affecting multiple gaming websites, an FBI website, a porn site, a Senate website, a CIA website, Rupert Murdoch's Sun newspaper website and more. The fun was over once the group's key member and spokesperson — a fellow who goes by the name "Topiary" — was nabbed by authorities in the U.K.
Anonymous on the other hand didn't suffer any similarly large casualties or stumbling points while taking credit for sharing thousands of military email addresses, taking down a tourist-oriented website in Orlando, Florida, hacking an FBI partner site, snatching files from servers belonging to large U.S.-based companies, conducting a DDoS attack on MasterCard, as well as some miscellaneous mischievous deeds.
This year made me want to hug Research in Motion's troubled executives. The folks over there just couldn't catch a break as one of the company's shiny new gadgets — the BlackBerry Playbook — got slammed in reviews, its share of the U.S. smartphone market shrunk and its freshly launched music-sharing service was ridiculed.
And as if that's not enough, the company's sites were hacked after it offered to cooperate with U.K. authorities in order to research what — if any — role the BlackBerry Messenger service might've played in inciting riots in early August.
But hey, at least the company managed to squeak by with a decent quarter if you ignore millions of dollars worth of unsold BlackBerry Playbook tablets, that is.
As much trouble as the Internet — or rather, social media — can cause, it can also do quite a bit of good at times. In 2011, we saw a great example of this phenomenon as the Internet and social media played a pivotal role in a revolution.
What happened? Well, on Jan. 27, right before the Egyptian government pulled the plug on the country's Internetin order to quiet protestor activity, there was a great deal of traffic coming to social networks, Facebook in particular. What better place to get organized than Mark Zuckerberg's playground, after all? You'd think that the whole business of shutting down the Internet would've eliminated social media and the like from the big fight against the 30-year government of Hosni Mubarak, but Egyptians kept in touch with the outside world using a series of workarounds.
Anyway, long story short: When the Internet switch was flipped back on, Egyptian's were celebrating the end of Mubarak's rule and social media was praised for aiding a revolution.
A recent consumer study revealed that the satisfaction levels of Netflix customers have dropped significantly and — unless you've been sleeping under a rock with no Wi-Fi connection — you shouldn't be surprised by that.
After all, the company alienated and angered a lot of folks when it announced that it would no longer be offering a combined DVD and streaming plan and would instead separate the services, for a minimum cost of about $16 a month if you still want both.
And as if people weren't riled up enough over that — and boy, were they riled up! — Netflix announced that it would split itself into two separate businesses, video-streaming company Netflix and DVD rental company Qwikster.
Every year since 2007 has brought us a shiny new smartphone from Apple and 2011 was no different. The year marked the introduction of the iPhone 4S — yes, it really wasn't called the iPhone 5 — and its built-in voice-activated personal assistant Siri.
After months of wildly inaccurate speculation and a keynote sans Mr. Jobs, we stood in lines, whined about little technical hiccups, and found silly things to giggle over as soon as the device was released.
It's worth noting that the hardware — the actual iPhone 4S itself — wasn't really the big star this year. Instead iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, made us swoon with all its new features.
There's no such thing as too many social networking services, right?
Well, at least Google didn't think so when it launched something called Google+.
The service — which is finally open to everyone after a long period of being invitation-only — is now unavoidable. It's integrated into our Gmail accounts, has the obligatory mobile apps, keeps us busy with privacy issues that we can debate and has some confusing labels that we still haven't entirely figured out. What do you call adding a friend on Google+? I still maintain that "plussing" someone sounds slightly dirty.
Even as the token Apple — and iOS — fangirl around here, I couldn't turn a blind eye to how Android's been doing this year. It seemed that not a day could pass before there was yet another study, survey, or other data set that listed Google's mobile platform as being the No. 1 something-or-other or the top thingamajig-of-some-sort.
Don't believe it? Alright, let's run down a couple of highlights.
Android is the No. 1 smartphone platform in the U.S. based on market share, comes out on top of worldwide sales statistics, rules about 50 percent of the global smartphone market, dominates the southern part of the U.S., has the biggest chunk of the mobile app download market, has more daily Facebook users than iPhone, it's the most popular mobile platform for malware, and may have nicer users than iOS.
Oh, and in case you wanted more statistics: Nowadays over 700,000 new Android devices are supposedly activated each day. We don't really know if that earns Android another No. 1 trophy as Apple hasn't released any official numbers for comparison.
No end-of-the-year story round up would be complete without a mention of Facebook or its founder's antics. So let's hit on the big topics of the year — aside from the usual privacy drama that always surrounds the social network.
In 2011 we were introduced to Timeline, a new Facebook profile design which naturally got us riled up. Because we don't like change, darn it! We didn't mind most of the new apps that were announced along with the redesign though — until we realized that the way they're integrated could lead to a lot of embarrassment and reveal our love of Justin Bieber songs.
Upset with Facebook's features and designs or not, we still aren't really managing to stay away from the social network. At least that's what a study suggested when it showed that we're all only about four degrees of separation apart on Facebook rather than the six degrees assumed by the popular Kevin Bacon-themed game.
Facebook itself aside, many of us — yours truly included — were once again far more fascinated by the social network's founder than anything else. How could we not be when the man revealed that he is currently only eating animals which he kills and keeps slipping us private photos thanks to technical glitches?
What? You think that one major Apple product release a year should be enough? Sorry, buddy — but 2011 brought us the iPad 2 on top of the iPhone 4S. The second generation tablet — which was upgraded to iOS 5, the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system, months after its release — is everything a shiny new toy should be: It's thinner, lighter, and more powerful than its predecessor. We naturally waited in line for it, collected every detail we could while preparing for its release date, and hugged it tightly as soon as we picked it up. Ok, maybe only I did that last part.
All in all, we treated the release of the iPad 2 like any other major product release: With glee. But neither that behavior nor the actual iPad 2 itself were the big story this year. The gadget was such a darn big deal because it showed that the public finally grasped the notion of tablets, of life in a post-PC world.
Breastfeeding flash mobs
And, she followed up with a purposeful column in The Guardian.
"After being verbally attacked for not covering up while feeding my four-month-old, I decided it was time to make a statement to show that mothers will no longer tolerate being harassed for feeding our babies in public."
That day, 40 moms showed up at the Clock Tower and breastfed their babies in front of Christmas shoppers.
The event wasn't the first of its kind in the UK: "Women in both London and Manchester staged flash mobs for National Breastfeeding Awareness week in June. But it is part of a growing trend," Jones-Hughes wrote.
Similar events have taken place in the US. In June, parents held a "nurse-in" on a sidewalk in Illinois to protest after Nichole Eidsmoe was asked to stop breastfeeding her child in a store. Illinois is one of the 28 states that exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws.
While there is no shortage of information on the benefits of breastfeeding -- the AAP recommends nursing until 6 months and lactivist groups including La Leche League are dedicated to educating moms -- there seems to be a disconnect between the "breast is best" push and public comfort with the act.
Earlier this week, Simone dos Santos was accused of public indecency -- by two female security guards -- for feeding her child in a government building. In November, when a breastfeeding mom was asked to leave a courtroom by a district judge, her post on BabyCenter caused a national uproar. Many moms admit to feeling uncomfortable feeding their babies in public. A 2009 poll by Mother & Baby magazine found that 65% of moms in the UK were too self-conscious to even try. In the US, 41% of women who have breastfed or plan to breastfeed, said they'd only do so in private
Titanic anniversary cruise 2012
Titanic.
Although the cruise will broadly follow Titanic’s itinerary, it will leave Southampton on April 8, two days earlier than the 1912 voyage, because the 20-knot, 617ft Balmoral is slower than the 23-knot, 882ft Titanic.
It will also have the same number of passengers on board as in the original voyage.
All 1,309 places on the memorial cruise were snapped up more than a year ago, even with tickets costing up to 5,995 pounds.
The cruise deviates a little from the original route to New York by stopping at Halifax, on the Canadian east coast, from where many of the rescue attempts were launched.
Passengers will take part in a memorial service at the site and on the day of the sinking, and will also eat the same 11-course meal served to the Titanic’s first-class diners, including oysters, roast pigeon and sauteed chicken Lyonnaise.
Miles Morgan, of Titanic Memorial Cruises, denied suggestions of disaster voyeurism and pointed out the passenger list includes relatives of victims and survivors.
Lohan gets a new job
The 'Mean Girls' actress - who recently posed naked for Playboy magazine - recently shot a campaign for the denim brand and impressed bosses with her professionalism. A press release said:
'As Jag Jeans' newest endorser, Lindsay embodies the strength and fearlessness of the woman of today. She is unafraid to be who she is. She is fierce yet exudes feminine grace,' the release read.
'Lindsay was so involved with the shoot that she would go as far as adjusting items on the set. She even requested scissors so she could personally fray the edges of her black crepe blouse because she believed it would look better that way.
Lindsay would take a hands-on approach to her shots, as she was more than willing to change her hairstyle during mid-shoot and even used her own personal jewelry and accessories when needed.' Earlier this week it was revealed Lindsay's Playboy issue is set to sell out.
The 25-year-old star posed in a raunchy shoot for the men's magazine and despite critics claiming the pictures were 'boring' and unimaginative', it has proved popular with readers. The issue has been selling out across many parts of the US with cities like New York and Los Angeles ordering additional copies due to the increased demand.
Hidden gun goes off at Starbucks
According to the Cheyenne Police report about the incident, the girl, whose name is being withheld because she is a juvenile, dropped her purse around 6:45 a.m. Monday while she was at the cash register at Starbucks, 1112 Central Ave.
Two Cheyenne Police officers were in the coffee shop at the time. Once they heard the gunshot, they drew their pistols and scanned the shop.
The officers approached the teen and searched her purse, which had a large hole in it.
They found a double-barrel .38 special Derringer pistol in the girl’s purse. The top barrel had been fired.
According to the report, the bullet missed John Basile, 43, by about 12 inches. After nearly missing Basile’s head, the bullet hit the west wall of the store, bounced back to the east and rolled under the coffee counter.
The officers had the teen call her parents, who responded to Starbucks shortly after the incident.
The girl’s father said he had given the teen the pistol and encouraged her to carry it while traveling for her protection.
The girl said she keeps the gun in her room and had it with her because she was going to visit friends in Laramie.
She said she has never taken a hunter safety class or any kind of formal firearms training.
The teen’s mother told police that she doesn’t particularly like firearms because they “may just go off.” She said she knew her daughter had a pistol and encouraged her to point it at a “bad person” if she was ever in trouble.
The gun was returned to the teen’s parents.
The girl was issued a city summons for possession of a firearm by a juvenile, which carries a $750 bond and a “must appear in court” stipulation.
City ordinance stipulates that individuals must be 18 years old to carry any type of firearm within city limits.
28 story escalator Colombia
28 story escalator Colombia- A 28-story outdoor escalator has opened in this large South American city Medellin, Colombia. The $6.7 million project is expected to cut the time it takes local residents to hoof it up a huge hill from 35 minutes to six minutes. Central-mid-levels escalators, Nathan ames escalator. The town's mayor hopes it will help improve the quality of life. The tiny shanty town is situated west of Bogota and north of Cali, Columbia. About 12,000 people call it home. Daily, they tackle the grueling quarter-mile hike up the steep hill to get around the aging town.
Thanks to $6.7 million in taxpayer revenue, a pair of escalators 28-stories high is complete. Residents of Comuna 13 can now safely travel up and down the hill almost six times as fast,
Yeti finger human mystery
The mummified remains have been held in the Royal College of Surgeons museum in London since the 1950s.
A DNA sample analysed by the zoo's genetic expert Dr Rob Ogden has finally revealed the finger's true origins.
Following DNA tests it has found to be human bone.
The yeti, also known as the Abominable Snowman, is a legendary giant ape-like creature said to inhabit the Himalayan region of Nepal and Tibet.
Despite the lack of evidence of its existence, the yeti myth retains a strong appeal in both Nepal and the west, where it became popular in the 19th century.
The finger, which was said to be from a yeti, was taken from a Nepalese monastery by an American explorer in the 1950s.
He replaced it with a human finger he had been given by a British scientist.
It was then smuggled out of India with the help of Hollywood actor James Stewart, who hid the artefact in his wife's lingerie case.
The finger is now held in the Royal College of Surgeons museum in London.
Just recently it was rediscovered during cataloguing.
They allowed a BBC documentary team to take a DNA sample.
It has been analysed by genetic experts at Edinburgh Zoo, who concluded it is human.
Dr Rob Ogden, of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, said: "We had to stitch it together. We had several fragments that we put into one big sequence and then we matched that against the database and we found human DNA.
"So it wasn't too surprising but it was obviously slightly disappointing that you hadn't discovered something brand new.
"Human was what we were expecting and human is what we got."
Primatologist Ian Redmond said: "From what we know of accounts of Yetis, I would have expected a more robust and longer finger and possibly with some hair on the back.
Woman fence pet elephant
Yesterday, an unidentified woman who was reportedly off her meds "went in to kind of check the elephants out," Branden Adams, a nice-mannered kid who witnessed the break-in, tells KTLA. "She comes out and she says, 'I'm going to go pet the elephants now.' And she goes and she started touching the elephants and seeing what they were doing." Adams' cellphone video shows the elephant-ite hopping the cord, ambling around the desert habitat for a spell -- then finally getting her pet on, albeit cautiously. KTLA reports that the particular beasts subjected to her strange love -- for five full minutes! -- were Jewel and Tina, the zoo's newest elephants.
We've called the zoo's spokeswoman for comment. But according to the Times, "officials... felt the barriers protecting the recently expanded elephant exhibit were adequate to safeguard the animals and visitors."
After being urged out by staffers, the woman was detained by police at the scene. They opted to send her to the hospital, however, when they noticed something wasn't quite right, mentally.
Mythbusters cannonball shoots through house
People working on the Discovery Channel show Tuesday launched the cannonball from a bomb range in Dublin, about 35 miles east of San Francisco, expecting it to hit a target made of trash cans. Instead, the cannonball zipped through a house 700 yards away, leaving a 10-inch hole in the bedroom wall as the homeowners slept, then struck the roof of another house and bounced across four lanes of traffic before finally crashing through the window of a parked minivan, the Times said.
No injuries were reported.
The newspaper said the show was researching whether materials other than cannonballs are effective weapons when fired from a cannon.
There was no word on whether stars Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage were part of the incident. The Sheriff's Office said it was a cannonball fired by a "MythBusters" crew that "took a few unfortunate bounces." It was not known what the experiment entailed.
The zany team on the Discovery Channel TV series attempts to verify or debunk urban legends, popularly held beliefs and movie scenes by conducting experiments — repeatedly warning young viewers not to try them at home or without a parent.
"MythBusters" has examined whether a collision with a bug can kill a biker (debunked), whether it is possible to shoot the hat off a person’s head without harming the wearer (debunked) and whether drafting behind a big-rig truck can improve a car's fuel efficiency (confirmed).
Silicone breast swallowed during pilates
A 59-year-old woman, whose breasts were removed after a double mastectomy to treat her breast cancer, had received breast implants after her surgery. Oddly, the woman was exercising recently when one of her implants was swallowed by her body after slipping through her rib cage.
The cancer survivor was performing a Pilates stretching exercise known as a Valsalva maneuver when she claims her "body swallowed one of the implants," according to the account published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Cosmetic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn, who did not treat the woman, explained to MSNBC how the "freak occurrence" most likely happened.
What likely happened in this instance is that the breast implant was placed under the chest muscle and on top of the ribs, an extremely common practice in breast reconstruction," Youn said.
"When the patient Valsalva'd, the pectoralis [chest] muscle likely contracted and pushed the implant through the space between her ribs. The weakened scar tissue (from a previous heart surgery) was easily torn, and the strength of the pectoralis muscle pushed the implant deep into her chest."
Freaky, indeed.
The woman was treated at Baltimore's John Hopkins hospital and did not report any pain. Surgeons successfully retrieved the implant and returned to its rightful place.
Here is an animated video representation of what occurred during the emergency incident. "The weakened scar tissue was easily torn, and the strength of the pectoralis muscle pushed the implant deep into her chest," Youn explains.
The woman was treated at Johns Hopkins, where surgeons retrieved the implant from within her chest and put it back where it belonged.
Weirdest News Stories of 2011
After a hard day, who doesn’t want to curl up and catch some winks on the sofa? At least that’s what seal pup “Lucky” had in mind when he wandered into a house in Bay of Plenty in early December.
While doing a Pilates exercise this month, a 59-year-old woman’s body “swallowed” one of her breast implants. Find out where it ended up
A gambling website purchased strands of the King of Pop’s hair at auction and planned to convert the hair into a roulette ball, to be sold to any interested casino.
When the hosts of this cable science show were testing projectile speeds, one of their cannonballs flew through a suburban California home’s front door, its master bedroom and into a neighbor’s minivan
On Oct. 25, a Brooklyn-based performance artist gave birth to her son, Ajax, in a New York art gallery as an act of artistic expression. Find out what the “exhibit” was called.
In July, fishermen discovered a one-eyed albino dusky shark fetus inside its mother. See photos that many thought were doctored. Find out what happened to the shark.
A Michigan woman sued the distributor of Ryan Gosling’s action/drama over a trailer that she found misleading. What was her main issue with the film?
South Korean scientists cloned a beagle puppy that glows green under ultraviolet light. The puppy is part of a study that hopes to someday find cures for human diseases.
An unidentified 22-year-old woman reported a third nipple … on the bottom of her foot. The growth comes complete with an areola and hair. The dermatological community’s calling it the first report of SBT on a sole.
Zola, a male gorilla at the Calgary Zoo, was taped busting some break-dance moves in June. Watch him in action. His dance skills make sense — his first zoo home was in the birthplace of breaking.
A 49-year-old woman, who was wrongly declared dead, arose at her own funeral The shock of seeing mourners surrounding her coffin caused her to suffer fatal heart failure
A May study reported that cuttlefish are copycats — using mimicking gestures to take on the shapes of nearby objects and even pictures . Why do they do this?
Jesse Mattos lost his high school class ring in a butcher shop toilet 72 years ago and chalked it up to a loss. In May, a sanitation worker found the monogrammed ring and tracked down its 90-year-old owner.
An Israeli couple named their newborn daughter Like, after a feature on social networking site, Facebook. Here’s what inspired the choice.
After viewing a YouTube clip of an 18-month-old kicking soccer balls into a toy bin, a Dutch soccer team offered the tot a 10-year professional contract
A newspaper vendor in Chile has spent 10 years collecting 82 tattoos of his favorite actress. Why does he do it?
A Mexican teen staged a hunger strike in front of the British embassy in Mexico City in hopes of earning an invitation to the royal wedding . She didn’t get an invitation, but she did win a free trip
In February, surgeons in China removed a rusty 4-inch blade from the skull of a 30-year-old patient who, unknowingly, had it stuck there for four years. Find out how it got there.
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