Reuters - China will punish airlines whose
passengers refuse to disembark or misbehave in protest over
problems like delayed flights, an official said on Thursday, as
the Olympics host tries to lift standards before the Games.
AP - A dog at a southeast Kansas zoo has adopted three tiger cubs abandoned by their mother. Safari Zoological Park owner Tom Harvey said the tiger cubs were born Sunday, but the mother had problems with them.
Reuters - Australia’s Prime Minister Kevin Rudd
is a descendent of a child underwear thief and a convict sent
to Australia from England for stealing a bag of sugar, a new
family history of the prime minister has found.
AP - Yes, Michael Wax stank. He’s the first to admit it. The 440-pound New York City man said he was playing poker in an Atlantic City casino for 17 hours Tuesday and didn’t have time to clean up. He understands why grossed-out gamblers complained about his body odor, but said he didn’t deserve stinky […]
AP - A Bakersfield woman faces charges that she counterfeited money and identification cards after her 10-year-old son turned her in to authorities.
Reuters - The body of a Brazilian priest
who floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of
helium-filled party balloons, has been found off the coast of
southeastern Brazil, police have confirmed.
Reuters - Switzerland will hold a referendum on
whether to ban building any more minarets in the Alpine
country, the government said on Tuesday.
Reuters - Labelled Germany’s “rambo” senator for
his outspoken comments, Berlin’s finance minister on Wednesday
sparked anger for suggesting people should wear a jumper in the
face of rising heating costs.
Reuters - Russian
explorers plunged to the bed of the world’s deepest lake on
Tuesday in a show of Moscow’s resurgent scientific ambitions,
but had to withdraw a claim to have set a new record.
Reuters - Poland’s national police headquarters
has banned officers from using a popular social networking site
similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time
using it, a newspaper said Monday.