AP – A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, an official said Friday.
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AP – Indonesia’s smoking toddler has kicked the habit. Footage of 2-year-old Aldi Rizal — who smoked up to two packs a day — puffing away circulated the Internet in May and sparked an international outcry. His parents said he’d throw tantrums every time they tried to stop him from lighting up.
AFP – A huge traffic jam stretching at least 120 kilometres (75 miles) reappeared in northern China Thursday, with thousands of cargo trucks stuck in a bottleneck, state media said.
AFP – Australian wine-makers must stop using prestigious names such as Champagne, Port or Sherry on their bottles under a major deal with Europe which comes into force on Wednesday.
AP – In a remote Serbian mountain village, they’re cooking up delicacies to make your mouth water — or your stomach churn. At the seventh annual World Testicle Cooking Championship, visitors watch — and sometimes taste — as teams of chefs cook up bull, boar, camel, ostrich and even kangaroo testicles.
AP – A Venezuelan politician is holding an unusual raffle to raise campaign cash. The grand prize: breast implants. For a little under $6 a ticket, donors get the chance to win the pricey operation free of charge.
AP – How about a whisky to go? Scientists said they have developed biofuel for cars from waste produced in distilling Scotch whisky. Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University produced a type of fuel called butanol using “pot ale” — the liquid residue from copper stills — and “draff,” or leftover grain.
AFP – Pilots in Scottish airspace have been warned of the potential danger posed by a vulture which flew off from a public display and failed to return, air traffic controllers said on Wednesday.
AFP – Farmers in a parched district of northern Bangladesh are marrying off frogs in a desperate bid to bring on monsoon rains and protect their crops, local officials said Wednesday.
AFP – Bemused tourists are flocking to a giant maze erected in London’s Trafalgar Square.
AFP – An Anglican priest is facing the wrath of some in Canada’s Christian community after she offered holy communion to a man… and his dog.
AFP – The cremated remains of a cat that appeared in the opening credits of ITV’s Coronation Street have sold for more than £800 (1,200 dollars, 1,000 euros), an auction house said on Thursday.
AP – A man with a mysterious bulge under his T-shirt was stopped, searched and detained at Mexico City’s international airport after authorities found 18 tiny endangered monkeys in a girdle he was wearing.
AFP – A Latin American ambassador to Israel abandoned his wife and left her with nothing, taking her personal belongings and the 40 cats she raised, YNet reported on Tuesday.
AFP – A monster tuna caught off Japan turned heads at a Tokyo fish market Friday, where the 445 kilogram (981 pound) bluefin — the biggest caught here since 1986 — sold for 3.2 million yen (36,700 dollars).
AFP – A team of workers sporting breathing apparatus and carrying shovels has started clearing around 1,000 tonnes of fat from sewers around London’s Leicester Square, a water company said Tuesday.
AFP – An Australian man was lucky to be alive after drunkenly scaling the fence of a crocodile enclosure and trying to take a five-metre (16-foot) beast named “Fatso” for a ride, police said Tuesday.
AFP – Fugitive burglar and Internet folk hero, the “Barefoot Bandit,” was nabbed by Bahamas police after one last daring attempt to evade capture — this time in a stolen boat.
AFP – Former British prime minister Tony Blair received a hero’s welcome Friday on a visit to Kosovo from nine boys named after him.
AFP – An 56-year-old Chinese man has begun a bid to swim 1,200 kilometres (750 miles) down the polluted Yangtze River to visit the World Expo in Shanghai, state media reported Thursday.
AFP – The longest tennis match in history finally finished at Wimbledon on Thursday after an epic 11 hours and five minutes, with John Isner beating Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the final set.
AFP – An Australian thief has been undone by his habit of stealing treats from his victims’ fridges, after police used the DNA he left on a half-eaten doughnut and empty bottles to catch him.
AFP – British hotel chain Premier Inn said Saturday it was banning the use of vuvuzelas after a manager was kept awake by England fans blowing the plastic horns.
AP – Tortoises may move slowly, but even a little movement can be a lifesaver.
AFP – Sri Lankan police have rounded up hundreds of young lovers for kissing in public following complaints that the overt displays of affection caused embarrassment to others, an official said Thursday.