That’s it, time to start looting!
LONDON (Reuters) — An asteroid is on a collision course with the earth and you have one hour left to live. What would you do in your last 60 minutes?
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Two charged in high-seas murder mystery
MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. authorities filed murder charges on Wednesday against two men found floating in a life raft near Cuba in the killings of four fishing boat crewmembers in a case of murder and piracy on the high seas.
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Officials battle through “samurai” diet
TOKYO (Reuters) - Overweight local government officials in Japan have slimmed down with a three-month “samurai” diet, soldiering on despite a fellow samurai’s death.
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Family beaten as YouTube party descends into chaos
LONDON (Reuters) - A teen-ager was airlifted to hospital and his father had his nose broken when gatecrashers went on the rampage at a 16th birthday party after details were posted on YouTube, police and media reports said Friday.
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Drunken priest punches cop, jailed
MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - A Mexican priest briefly ended up behind bars after punching a policemen who caught him driving drunkenly through the streets of the northern city of Monterrey.
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On Saturn’s moon Titan, bring an umbrella
CHICAGO (Reuters) - The daily weather forecast on Saturn’s largest moon Titan appears to be a steady drizzle of liquid methane, at least around the bright, exotically named region known as Xanadu, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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Gunman severs victim’s penis
VIENNA (Reuters) - An elderly Turkish man was arrested in Austria on suspicion of shooting dead another Turk and cutting off his penis because he believed the victim was having an affair with his wife, police said Thursday.
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No sex for 40 mln years? No problem for 1 organism
LONDON (Reuters) - One microscopic organism has thrived despite remaining celibate for tens of millions of years thanks to a neat evolutionary trick, researchers said.
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Drivers kick up stink about “WC” car plates
BEIJING (Reuters) - Some Beijing motorists are flushed with anger over new license plate numbers that contain the letter combination “WC,” saying it gives them “unpleasant images.”
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Don’t make me use this whistle on you…
MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines is starting to give its 110,000 policemen a makeover, trying to make them more like friendly neighbors than their current hard man image, the new national police chief said Thursday.
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Orangutan prefers blondes
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Sibu the Orangutan has miffed his Dutch keepers by refusing to mate with females and showing sexual interest only in tattooed human blondes.
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Hashish “spacecakes” become chicken-friendly
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Amsterdam’s famed coffee shops are turning to free-range eggs for their hashish “spacecakes” to reduce the suffering of chickens.
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Uproar over tax break for “big babies”
ROME (Reuters) - Italy’s economy minister has sparked uproar by offering “big babies” a tax break if they let go of their mother’s apron strings and left home.
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Restaurant’s chillis cause chemical scare
LONDON (Reuters) - A Thai restaurant’s potent homemade chilli sauce caused a chemical scare in central London, with police shutting streets and firefighters forced to smash down the door.
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“Gift rage” lands worker in court?
TOKYO (Reuters) - A disgruntled Japanese worker smashed up his employer’s office in a fit of pique after his boss ignored his gift of jelly desserts, a national paper said on Thursday.
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Bar gossip leads to nasty surprise for couple
PRAGUE (Reuters) - A Czech couple who decided to take a DNA test to squash persistent pub gossip and prove that their 10-month-old baby was their own got a nasty surprise.
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Charges dismissed in sherry enema death
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Charges have been dropped against a Texas woman who was accused of giving her husband a sherry enema that killed him, the prosecutor in the case said on Wednesday.
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Cops go out on a limb for amputee
MIAMI (Reuters) - A man whose amputated, embalmed leg was sold at a North Carolina auction will get the limb back over the objections of the buyer, who wanted to include it in a macabre, money-making Halloween display, police said on Thursday.
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Bird fertility boosted if sex expected
DALLAS (Reuters) - Fertility rates in birds can get a lift if the male anticipates that a sexual encounter is just around the corner, researchers from the University of Texas reported on Thursday.
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Customs find beetles stuffed with cocaine
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Dutch customs officers found 100 dead beetles stuffed with cocaine while examining a parcel from Peru, Dutch authorities said Thursday.
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