James Blunt has won over traffic wardens and noisy neighbours in poll of pet hates. The You’re Beautiful singer came fourth in the list of 100 things that get up people’s noses.
The poll of 2,059 adults rated him more irritating than stepping in dog poo. People’s number one hate was cold callers, followed by caravans […]

Albanian police were speechless when around 30 Scandinavian women went topless, shocking local bathers and causing an uproar in an Albanian beach resort.
“Police only watched … they could not approach the tourists because they spoke no English,” a local newspaper in the southern Albania coastal town of Sarande said.
Albanian mothers dragged their children away and […]

A Lebanese musician has recorded a unique duet with the Israeli Air Force by recording on the balcony of his Beirut apartment during a bombing raid.
In his sound art piece, trumpeter Marzen Kerbaj intermingles his music with the sounds of bombardment.
Explaining how he put together his unique composition, Kerbaj told BBC Radio: “I was maybe […]

Zookeepers in Zurich (Switzerland) are feeding animals a diet of frozen berries, meat and bones to help them stay cool in the sweltering summer heat.
The “alternative ice cream” offered to animals instead of their usual fare has been a big hit with large cats, apes and wolves, Zurich Zoo said in a statement. “The ice […]

Australia was once home to ancient reptiles that swam in huge icy lakes, fossil evidence from 30 speciments suggests. The large, carnivorous reptiles lived 115 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, when much of the continent was covered in water.
Fossils of two new species of plesiosaur were discovered near Coober Pedy in […]

Marlon Brando Gill, 24, is charged with first-degree assault in the December incident involving 25-year-old Melinda Abell. Abell has given inconsistent accounts of what happened before she was taken to a hospital, where an emergency room doctor removed the phone.
Defense attorneys insisted as a trial got underway that the woman swallowed the phone intentionally to […]

As the bikini turns 60, it’s entering the electronic age with a new model featuring a built-in alarm to warn wearers to get out of the sun and ease concerns that the scanty swimsuits damage health.
The American Cancer Society advises that the best way to lower the risk of skin cancer, the most common form […]

Pakistan’s Supreme Court has ordered an inquiry into the case of a man who spent three years in jail for a murder that never happened, a court official said Tuesday.
The woman Malik Taj Mohammad was convicted of kidnapping and killing was arrested for theft two years ago and is serving a jail sentence in the […]

Turns out it’s not just woman dialing 911 for a date. A man who police claim called 911 because he wanted to see a “hot chick” is cooling his heels in the county jail. Authorities said Tyler Engelhard, 21, told a dispatcher his parents ’should be in jail’ and that police would ‘find out why.’
A […]

An England football shirt gave away a Senegalese man attempting to enter Cyprus on a forged French passport, police on the Mediterranean island said on Monday.
Suspicions were aroused when the man appeared at a checkpoint supervising crossings from the Turkish Cypriot north to the Greek Cypriot south of the divided island, wearing the England shirt […]