Apparently, a monkey that has managed to elude capture for months can be found on Facebook.
PAOLI, Ind. – During a night of blackjack at the former Caesars Indiana, Kentucky businessman Jimmy L. Vance sipped at least seven bourbon cocktails and gambled away $75,000 loaned to him by the casino.
SPARTA, Mich. – A man who police say peformed circumcisions without a license from his home has been arrested and charged with operating an unauthorized practice as a health professional.
Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry wants Congress to tell the U.S Treasury
to replace former President Ulysses S. Grant on the bill with former President Ronald Reagan. McHenry
announced his bill Tuesday. He has 13 Republican co-sponsors.
AP – No sooner had the shock of Haiti’s earthquake passed than Chile was struck. As the repercussions of both disasters continue, urgent need remains in those countries and around the world for charitable contributions.
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Reuters – The latest party circuit princess to wow the night clubs and festivals of France with her DJ skills is a British granny who took a shine to the decks after going to a birthday disco for her grandson. Clad in her leopard-skin shrug and dark sunglasses, 69-year-old Ruth Flowers has conquered French clubland from the Cannes Film Festival to the top Paris nightspots with a mix of old-school hits, electrobeat and bling-bling style.
AFP – Many would have grabbed him for a cheesy photo, but when South African President Jacob Zuma and his entourage swept into a London supermarket, one elderly couple completely ignored him.
Reuters – A serpent originally included in a 16th century portrait of Elizabeth I but painted over shortly afterwards has “reappeared,” the National Portrait Gallery in London said on Thursday.
A company in Switzerland is cashing in on the country’s high rate of youth sex by making extra-small condoms.
Reuters – A Swedish pilot with a fake commercial license was arrested in his cockpit at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport as he prepared to fly 101 passengers on a Boeing 737 to Turkey, Dutch police said Wednesday.
Reuters – Performers in London’s West End are having to cope with a different kind of stage fright in the form of mice, rat and flea infestations in theatres, according to a new survey by actors’ union Equity.
Reuters – China must urgently address the physical fitness of the nation’s youth or run the risk of raising a generation incapable of fighting the Japanese in a future war, the head of the country’s top sports university said Thursday.
For many young people, the word “hella” is just another way to say “very” or “really.” Now, Austin Sendek, a UC Davis sophomore, hopes to give “hella” a valid number.
Reuters – “O Canada,” the country’s national anthem, has included the line, “True patriot love in all thy sons’ command,” for nearly 100 years.
Topeka’s mayor says the city shall temporarily be referred to as
“Google, Kansas — the capital city of fiber optics,” in an effort to
persuade the Internet giant to test an ultra-fast connection in the
state capital.
A monkey that has eluded capture in the Tampa Bay area for more than a year has again escaped from Florida wildlife officials.
Reuters – Campaigners have attacked a 1.3 million pound scheme to rebrand part of Northamptonshire as ‘North Londonshire’, saying the plan risked turning the area into a commuter belt.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A monkey that has eluded capture in the Tampa Bay area for more than a year has again escaped from Florida wildlife officials.
A SCOTTISH Government skills agency have spent £20,000 to bring in TV hypnotist Paul McKenna to give a “pep talk” to jobless youngsters, Labour leader Iain Gray said t
A monkey that has eluded capture in the Tampa Bay area for more than a year has again escaped from Florida wildlife officials.
AP – A monkey that has eluded capture in the Tampa Bay area for more than a year has again escaped from Florida wildlife officials.
Reuters – The latest party circuit princess to wow the night clubs and festivals of France with her DJ skills is a British granny who took a shine to the decks after going to a birthday disco for her grandson.
The latest party circuit princess to wow the night clubs and festivals of France with her DJ skills is a British granny who took a shine to the decks after going to a birthday disco for her grandson.
AP – Singapore said it will maintain a ban on chewing gum sales, a policy that has helped shape the city-state’s international image as a tightly controlled, squeaky-clean island.
The British House of Lords has a momentous decision to make: Should it get cats to chase the mice that have infested one of Britain’s most famous buildings? London’s Houses of Parliament, also known as Westminster Palace, has rodents, and the peers aren’t exactly sure what to do about it.