Researchers studying 3-D images of the “Mona Lisa” say she was probably pregnant or had just given birth when she sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th-century masterpiece. The clue was something she wore.
Scans turned up evidence of a fine, gauzy veil around Mona Lisa’s shoulders - a garment women of the Italian Renaissance wore when […]

Doctors from a Romanian town want all the nurses to wear miniskirts. Doctors from Iasi have written to officals saying they want a change.
They claim the old uniforms are out-of-date. Their demand has been taken into consideration by the National House of Health Insurance.
Dr. Iulian Serban, who is the head of the local authority said: […]

A US woman who has been growing her fingernails since 1979 has made the Guiness Book of Records. Lee Redmond, 65, from Utah, qualified for entry in the 2007 edition after her nails reached a combined length of 24.6 feet (7.5 metres).
Mrs Redmond treats her nails daily with warm olive oil and nail hardener and […]

A demoted army goat, stripped of its rank after running amok during the Queen’s birthday parade, has been reinstated after shining on parade.
Honorary Lance Corporal Billy Windsor was demoted for his behaviour during the 1st Battalion the Royal Welch parade at a base in Cyprus.
He refused orders to march and stay in line during the […]

The Pesticide Residues Committee in the UK (which includes imported foods as well) found traces exceeded legal limits in 1.7% of cases, up a third on the year before due to more exotic food being tested.
A further 30.2% of the 3,787 items surveyed during last year had pesticide traces within those limits. The committee said […]

Just hours after a Sept. 19 report found that Latvia once again boasts the deadliest roads in the European Union, former Prime Minister Einars Repse struck and killed a pedestrian in central Latvia. Repse was driving his Honda CRV late in the evening near the village of Koknese when he hit a 26-year-old man who […]

Nearly two-dozen artworks believed to have been done by Adolf Hitler are being snapped up by collectors.
An auction Tuesday in England sold 21 watercolors and a pair of sketches Hitler is thought to have done while stationed in Belgium during World War One. They fetched a total of $220,000, with the highest single item going […]

Christie’s employee Samantha Ryan looks at part of a Barbie collection in Christie’s auction house in London September 25, 2006.
Barbie in Midnight Red, dating from 1965, sold for a world record 9,000 pounds ($17,000) on Tuesday as collectors from around the world gathered to bid for a piece of a unique private collection of […]

A Smart Car with monster tyres and four wheel drive has been developed for hardcore offroad use.
The ‘Forfun’ has the body of a normal Smart Fortwo mounted on an all-terrain Mercedes-Benz Unimog 406 series.
Greek 4×4 Rally Champion, Stefan Attart, joined forces with Mercedes-Benz Greece, to design and develop the one-off vehicle.
It has a six-cylinder diesel […]

The moonwalk or backslide is a dance move that gained widespread popularity after being performed by Michael Jackson on the 1983 television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever, and has since become his signature move. The purpose of the moonwalk is to give the illusion that the dancer is walking forward while mysteriously moving backward.
The […]