Alleged LA-area pepper-spraying shopper surrenders

Authorities in Los Angeles say a woman who allegedly fired pepper spray at other customers during a Black Friday sale has surrendered to police.

Topless protesters arrested at Kiev Euro 2012 stadium opening ceremony

Topless women were arrested at the opening ceremony for the Euro 2012 stadium in Kiev after they invaded the pitch as part of a feminist protest.

One woman had to be carried off the pitch by a steward, wearing only a pair of black leggings with two flowers painted over her breasts.

The Ukrainian activists, Femen - who have a history of getting their kit off to promote their causes - believe the tournament will increase sex tourism in their country.






Dressed for impact: A topless Ukrainian feminist is escorted away after her pitch invasion.Final whistle: Stewards carry the blonde protester out of the Olympiyskiy Stadium.Skilful moves: The sex tourism protesters gave stewards at the football stadium the runaround

Death row inmate eats two burgers with bacon, fried pork chops, fried chicken, fried fish, chili cheese fries, regular fries... and a glass of fruit punch

Milton Mathis had IQ of just 62 and has problems dressing himself

A mentally handicapped murderer who fatally shot two people and paralysed a third in a Houston crack house in 1998, was executed last night by lethal injection - after eating a mammoth final meal.

Milton Mathis, 32, scoffed two burgers with bacon, fried pork chops, fried chicken, fried fish, chili cheese fries, regular fries, and fruit punch, officials said.

Lawyers for Mathis, who was the 23rd person put to death in the U.S. this year and the sixth executed in Texas, had spent yesterday morning pleading his case before the Supreme Court. He previously lobbied unsuccessfully to state and federal courts.

Meaty: Mathis requested two burgers with bacon, fried pork chops, fried chicken, fried fish, chili cheese fries, regular fries and fruit punch (file photo).Sad ending: Milton Mathis, 32, was executed in Texas on Tuesday, despite being mentally disabled

Burglary victim remotely controls his stolen laptop to photograph thief - and then hands image to police who arrest him

A designer who had his laptop stolen helped police by using a spy camera programme to take pictures and catch the thief red-handed.

Joshua Kaufman thought he had lost his Apple MacBook when a thief broke into his apartment and stole the computer in March.

And with police giving his burglary report a low priority, he was resigned to never recovering the expensive laptop until he remembered the software he had installed on his MacBook.


Using 'Hidden' software, he remotely took pictures of the thief using his stolen computer - before handing the evidence to police to make an arrest.

Mr Kaufman captured the thief in a variety of bizarre locations - including using the stolen MacBook in bed, and in his car.

'Hidden' also provided him with location information, which police in Oakland, California, used to identify the thief as a taxi driver.

 Caught in the act: The hapless thief, who police later arrested, stares unwittingly into the camera of the stolen Macbook

Out and about: The thief was even captured using the stolen Apple computer while driving his car

Trump Says No to Presidential Run - Did Donald Trump Consider Run Just to Up Ratings on 'Celebrity Apprentice'?

The stumbling start of Newt Gingrich and the withdrawals of Mike Huckabee and Donald Trump from the presidential race have boosted Mitt Romney's standing in the Republican nominating contest, while opening lanes ...

Are U.S. government microwave mind-control tests causing TV presenters' brains to melt down?

A bizarre spate of television presenters dissolving into on-air gibberish has sparked claims that the U.S. military could be to blame.

In four high-profile cases, the latest involving fast-talking Judge Judy, the presenters have started off speaking properly but have then descended into undecipherable nonsense - looking confused and unstable.

The frequency of the 'attacks' - and the fact that recorded examples of the mental meltdowns have been popular on websites - has led to conspiracy theorists pointing the finger at shadowy government experiments.

 Over the border: Mark McAllister, of Canadian Global Toronto News, soldiered on with his report on Libya, despite his words being unintelligible

 Latest victim: Judge Judy Sheindlin had to stop her courtroom TV show on Wednesday after descending into nonsensical language

Targeted? Serene Branson's garbled Grammys report became an internet sensation, while WISCTV's Sarah Carlson suffered a similar meltdown in January

Crazy Wild boar attacked people in rampage in shopping centre.

A crazed wild boar wreaked havoc when it went on the rampage in a shopping centre in France.

The ten-stone 'hairy pig' with pointed tusks charged into a supermarket through a service entrance, smashing through product displays and sending shoppers fleeing in panic.

The animal then burst through a checkout, along a shopping arcade and into a hairdressing salon in Nancy, Lorraine.

As customers ran to safety, security men managed to trap the boar inside and lock the door.

 Knocked out: The boar slumps on the floor after the sedative finally worked through its syst

Rampage: The boar ran amok in a shopping arcade in the city of Nancy, France, before finally being brought down by a tranquiliser dart (red arrow in its flank)

Extreme measures: A security man readies a rifle loaded with a tranquiliser after being called to the shopping centre

Pizza maker charged with using mice against competition

The owner of a suburban Philadelphia pizza shop has been arraigned on charges he schemed to plant live mice in competing pizza parlours in hope of putting them out of business.

Nickolas Galiatsatos, owner of Nina’s Bella Pizzeria in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, is accused of putting bags of mice at nearby competitors on Monday afternoon, according to Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood.

The owner of Verona Pizza watched Galiatsatos go into his restroom carrying a bag but emerge empty-handed, and alerted two patrol officers who were in the restaurant, Chitwood said.

Couples lock lips for record in Thai kiss marathon

Felix Werth and Urairat Ooutaboon in their bid to break the world record for the longest kiss


A kiss is still a kiss — even if it goes on for over a day.

Fourteen couples from across Thailand gathered at Pattaya beach resort to try and break the world record for kissing, attempting to spend more than 32 hours locked lip-to-lip.

The marathon kicked off at 6am yesterday (2300 GMT), with each couple given a space of one square metre in which they had to spend the time kissing, without leaving except for bathroom breaks.

Any break in the lip lock resulted in disqualification.

Air Bangkok use Transsexual flight attendants.

Transsexual flight attendants at PC Air in Bangkok. The charter airline has four “ladyboys” among its flight crew of 30 when it starts to fly in April.

Don't be so rough with the kids!' Lioness gives male a real earful after playfight with cubs

He's supposed to be the king of the jungle, but these pictures clearly show who's in charge.

The male lion cowers his head as he is given an earful by a lioness after a playfight went too far.

The father had pinned his daughter Lusaka to the ground in mock anger after the playful cub had repeatedly nipped his tail.

But the pair's fun came to a dramatic halt after the mother arrived and bared her teeth in fury at the male.

The remarkable images were recorded by amateur photographer Jennifer Lockridge, who took them at the National Zoo in Washington DC.

Yes dear: The male lion cowers as the lioness lets him know exactly how she feels about his playfighting at the National Zoo in Washington DC

Courting controversy: The playful cub grabs hold of her dad's tail as he pretends not to notice

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Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin auctioned for RM272,000

Lee Harvey Oswald’s coffin, exhumed to clear a conspiracy theory

An anonymous buyer has paid more than US$87,000 (RM272,100) to buy the wood coffin that held Lee Harvey Oswald’s body for 20 years, an auction house said yesterday.

The winning bid of US$87,469 (RM273,600), which included a 20 per cent commission, exceeded the target price of US$60,000 set for the simple pine coffin that held the alleged presidential assassin’s remains until 1981.

Oswald was arrested less than an hour after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. He was shot and killed two days later, while in police custody, by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

“‘This was a one-of-a-kind item,”‘ said Sam Heller, spokesman for auction house Nate D. Sanders in Santa Monica, California. “This was the first coffin that this auction house has ever auctioned and it was quite a unique item.”

Bidding began on the coffin when it was posted online two weeks ago.

Auction house manager Laura Yntema declined to identify the buyer except to say that he was a “private individual” who was apparently bidding for himself.

The coffin was unearthed in October 1981 after a legal dispute between Oswald’s widow, Marina, and his brother, Robert.

Marina successfully sought an exhumation to test a conspiracy theory that a look-alike Russian agent had been buried in her husband’s place, according to the auction house.

A medical exam showed the badly decomposed body was indeed Oswald’s, and he was returned to Shannon Rose Hill Memorial Park in Fort Worth, Texas, in a new casket.

The original coffin, which had suffered extensive water damage, was sold by Baumgardner Funeral Home, the local undertaker that handled the reinterment.

Teenager named world's shortest man

A Nepalese fruit seller's son with the body of a toddler has turned 18 and been officially declared the world's shortest man.

Khagendra Thapa Magar measured in at 26.4in, displacing the former record holder, Edward Nino Hernandez of Colombia, who measures 27in.

Cheers went up when Mr Magar was handed a world record certificate by Guinness World Records official Marco Frigatti. The ceremony was held in a hotel in Pokhara, Mr Magar's home town and a popular tourist destination west of Katmandu.

Cabin crew perform in-flight safety demo... while dancing to Lady Gaga

We've all done it - failed to pay attention during a routine safety demonstration aboard an aeroplane.

But passengers flying to the Philippines are suddenly changing their tune.

Cabin crew on board a Cebu Pacific Airlines flight had the attention of everyone on board as they danced their safety demonstration - to Lady Gaga.

Stunned passengers were unable to take their eyes off the bouncy attendants as they indicated the emergency exits to Just Dance.

Meet Zhu Jianqiang, the two-legged pig who's become a celebrity in China

A pig which was born with just its two front legs has become an unlikely celebrity in Henan Province, China.

The 10-month-old animal, known by villagers as Zhu Jianqiang, which means Strong-Willed Pig, was born with only two front legs, which it now uses to walk on.

According to owner Wang Xihai, Zhu Jianqiang was one of nine piglets born in a litter this January.


He recalls: 'My wife asked me to dump it but I refused as it's a life. I thought I should give it a chance and unexpectedly it survived healthily.'

Zhu's owner Wang Xihai was offered a high price to sell her to a circus, but he turned it down

That'll do, pig: Wang said it took Zhu just 30 days to master the art of walking upside down

Amazing images of rare pink hippopotamus captured in Masai Mara

Wading through the muddy waters this rare pink-o-pottamus stands out from the crowd.

British brothers and wildlife photographers Will and Matt Burrard-Lucas captured these images of the brightly coloured hippo in the Masai Mara, Kenya, last week.

Visiting the African country on the hunt to photograph the legendary wildebeest migration the Londoners were in for a treat when rumours of a pink hippo surfaced.

Shy guy: As soon as the hippo notices the brothers snapping away on their cameras, he hides in the water behind his mother

Could most modern art be done by an 8-year-old? This child prodigy proves that it can!

She hasn't even started secondary school, let alone art school, but this pocket-sized genius has already been acclaimed by art critics and collectors alike.

Meet Autumn de Forest who at just eight years old is the world's youngest conceptual artist.

She has been compared to past masters such as Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso and is talked about as one of the world's only authentic artistic child geniuses.

Offering up her work for auction since February of this year, Autumn has already raked in $200,000 and she has only been painting since she was five.
 

Work in progress: Autumn with the half-completed Barbie Marilyn piece in her Las Vegas studio

Portrait of the artist as a young girl: Autumn at work

ET phone Mazlan, says UN

The United Nations is set to appoint Malaysian astrophysicist Datuk Dr Mazlan Othman to act as Earth’’s first contact for any aliens that may come visiting.


Mazlan, the head of the UN’s little-known Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA), is to describe her potential new role next week at a scientific conference at the Royal Society’s Kavli conference centre in Buckinghamshire, according to the www.news.com.au website.


It reported that she is scheduled to tell delegates that the recent discovery of hundreds of planets around other stars has made thedetection of extraterrestrial life more likely than ever before — and that means the UN must be ready to coordinate humanity’s response to any “first contact”.

‘Spiderman’ climbs Sydney building into police net

A French daredevil climber who has scaled skyscrapers around the world was arrested in Sydney today after climbing a 57-storey building and into the arms of waiting police.

Alain Robert, 48, who is also known as the French Spiderman, was taken into police custody when he reached the top of the 57-storey Lumiere Building in central Sydney this morning.

Robert has been arrested many times in various countries for his daredevil climbs.