Woof! The city of Clifton is not going to the dogs. At least not if the City Council has anything to do about it. Later this month, the council is expected to introduce an ordinance setting a limit on how long dogs can bark.
Noisy canines will be defined as those that bark for more than […]

Matsumoto, a popular Japanese comedian, is confined in a dark haunted building at night as a punishment for losing a game. Everyone tries to scare the pants off him by any means. Hamada, his fellow partner, also tries to do so, but in a haunted house unexpected things happens…

Sunday the 79th Annual Academy Awards for outstanding film achievements of 2006 was held. The Oscars winners list:
Performance by an actor in a leading role:
Leonardo DiCaprio in “Blood Diamond” (Warner Bros.)
Ryan Gosling in “Half Nelson” (THINKFilm)
Peter O’Toole in “Venus” (Miramax, Filmfour and UK Film Council)
Will Smith in […]

Ordinary people with … ordinary talents.

Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said last Wednesday.
The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police […]

Jefferson Parish school officials have been going batty for the past two weeks, thanks to an infestation of the flying mammals at East Jefferson High School in Metairie.
An estimated 1,000 brown bats, each about the size of a human palm, were roosting in three second-story storage rooms when bat control expert Fritz Borden of Acadian […]

The number of people getting married has fallen to the lowest level since records began in 1862, figures revealed. One factor is thought to be a new law to discourage so-called sham marriages.
The figures from the Office for National Statistics showed that there’s an average of 24.2 per 1,000 unmarried men and 21.6 per 1,000 […]

To hypnotize a chicken you hold it upside down and put it on its back on the ground. Then you draw a line from its beak out in the sand, and that will get its attention focused on your finger and the line. It will go into a trance according to the Discovery Channel as […]

Two officers from Lac du Bonnet in Canada rescued a deer from a coffee can last Saturday.
They were on a snowmobile patrol near Pinawa when they were flagged down by a group of snowmobilers, who directed them to a two-year-old deer struggling with a coffee can stuck on its face. The animal was banging into […]

A Swiss car maker has invented a transparent car with a body made entirely of see-through material. The new Rinspeed eXasis was produced by Frank M Rinderknecht to mark his company’s 30th anniversary.
It has a completely transparent body and floor made of a substance called Makrolon, developed in collaboration with the experts from Bayer MaterialScience […]