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Black Rhino Declared Extinct In West Africa
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), which compiles The Red List, and which is widely recognised as the most comprehensive method for evaluating the conservation status of animal and plant species around the world, has declared the subspecies, the western black rhino (Diceros bicornis longipes), as extinct.
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Drinkify: The Website That Lets Your Music Dictate What You Drink
10 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
If you’re bad at choosing both your music and your beverage, drinkify.org will help ease the burden by telling you which drinks go best with your music of choice. And if this isn’t what the internet was made for, well then I have been mislead.
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Occupy Denver Protestors Elect Border Collie As Official Leader
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Mayor of Denver, Michael Hancock, has been pressuring members of the Occupy Denver movement to pick a leader, “to deal with City and State officials.” So the protesters, in the most benign shove-it gesture imaginable, elected a three-and-a-half-year-old border collie. Named Shelby.
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News Of The World Paid Private Detective To Follow 90 People
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A former policeman-turned private detective says he shadowed 90 people, including Prince William for News of the World. Derek Webb has said he started working for the paper shortly after setting up his private detective agency in 2003, and they paid him right up until July. James Murdoch’s meeting tomorrow just got even more interesting.
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They Have Cookie Flavoured Lip Balm Now
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
Cosmetics line, Lip Smacker has unveiled a new line of Girl Scout Cookie-themed lip balm tubes featuring balms matching five well known cookie flavours – Thin Mints, Trefoils, Tagalongs, Do-si-dos, or Samoas. So, you know, now you can have whole minutes of cookie taste on your lips without any impact on your hips.
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Europe’s First Transsexual MP Takes Her Seat In Parliament
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Yesterday was a big day for European politics, with Poland welcoming their first transsexual woman ever into its parliament. Anna Grodzka was born a man but underwent a sex change. She was also joined by Robert Biedron – the country’s first openly gay man to be elected to office.
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Harold Hackett Has Sent You A Friend Request On… Well, The Ocean Wave
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Harold Hackett doesn’t use Facebook, LinkedIn or any of the vast array of dating platforms to make friends – he goes the Castaway route by tossing messages sealed in bottles into the surf near his home on Prince Edward Island, Canada. And it works.
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China Aggressively Launches English Language TV Services
09 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
In a continuation of its world domination, China Central Television, which produces the ruling Communist party’s news shows and other propaganda, is planning to broadcast English-language programming from the heart of the US capital of Washington DC. It has also built a studio facility in Nairobi, and plans to open a broadcasting centre in Europe too.
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Russian Police Discover 29 Dressed-Up Bodies In Historian’s Home
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Russian historian, Anatoly Moskvin, has been arrested after Russian police discovered 29 mummified bodies in his home. The remains were dressed in brightly-coloured clothes and arranged in doll-like poses, making up a “gruesome tableau.” Moskvin has been charged with desecration of graves, because it turns out being insanely creepy isn’t a crime in Russia.
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French Weekly Gets Firebombed For Satirizing Muhammad, Does It Again
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Charlie Hebdo, French satirical weekly, was firebombed a week ago, after the publication put a caricature of the prophet Muhammad on the cover of an issue criticising the rise of Sharia law in the Middle East post-Arab Spring. And their newest issue has a caricature of the prophet making out with Hebdo’s editor.
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Asteroid Will Have Close Shave With Earth Tomorrow
08 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
An asteroid the length of four rugby fields will be speeding through Earth’s solar system tomorrow, at a closer proximity to us than the moon. Nothing of this magnitude has come nearly as close to colliding with our planet for 30 years. But rest assured the asteroid is not going to hit us. Not yet, anyway.
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Thousands Of Balloons Released Over Nairobi To Cheer Locals
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
This afternoon, Nairobi commuters sitting in their cars on their way home from work will notice thousands of yellow balloons floating over the Kenyan capital city. The objective of the spectacle? Simply to put a smile on locals’ faces following two recent grenade attacks in Nairobi. Cool idea.
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Conan O’Brien Presides Over Late Night Television’s First Gay Marriage
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Conan O’Brien returned to New York last week for the first time since his falling out with the NBC – not only to rub his recent success in his former employers’ collective faces, but also to preside over the first same-sex marriage performed on late-night television. Because I guess that’s worth making a big deal over.
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Intelligence Report: China & Russia Hired Hackers To Steal US Secrets
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A report released by U.S. intelligence agencies claims that Chinese and Russian hackers, hired by their governments, have been stealing classified data from American government organizations. Assumptions like this have been made before, but this is the first time such a report to Congress has pointed the finger squarely at China and Russia.
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Wife Kills Star Wars Collection, Man Kills Wife
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Last week, a 30 year old man from Preston in the north of England was jailed for life for the brutal murder of his Thai wife, Pornpilai Srisroy. Her only crime: she had the audacity to destroy his extensive collection of Star Wars memorabilia following a fight.
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34 Car Pile-Up On M5 In Britain [PICS]
07 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Everybody has bad days. Nothing goes your way. Everyone has the wrong opinion. The lane you’re driving is always the slowest moving. And then there are days when you find yourself in a 34 car pileup. Pictures after the jump.
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Six Men Emerge After Year-And-A-Half Isolated Mars Mission Simulation
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Commercial space travel is now literally months away, and it appears that a mission to Mars is not too far off either. Six men that have been locked in large steel piped tubes for 520 days emerged from isolation earlier today after a bid to simulate a mission to Mars. This is taking Survivor to the next level.
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Surfer Almost Swallowed By Whale [VIDEO]
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Hoo. Santa Cruz surfer Barbara Roettger got way up close and personal with a pod of humpback whales when she unwittingly found herself in the middle of a lunge feeding session; two massive whales popped up right next to the surfer and her kayak friends, seemingly out of nowhere. It’s pretty rad.
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Facebook To The Rescue [VIDEO]
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Other than the obvious benefits of the various social networks out there; networking, re-connecting and event-planning, amongst other things, recently they have become a serious law-enforcement tool. In the most recent case, New Jersey police used Facebook to track down suspects in a vicious assault case involving a machete wielding madman.
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World’s First Halal “Whisky” Made Without Alcohol Going On Sale
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The words Halal and whisky are certainly two words we never expected to see in the same sentence. Now add to that “non-alcoholic”, and you’ve got yourself a fine example of the word “juxtaposition” – the placement of at least two things, usually abstract concepts, near each other.
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Surfer In Trouble For “Riding” A Sea Turtle
04 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Jamie O’Brien is a well-known Hawaiian pro-surfer. He recently decided to create some awareness surrounding fibropapillomatosis – a herpes-type virus that affects sea turtles. His “campaign” involved posting a picture of himself “riding” one of these turtles underwater. But it turns out he may have instead broken laws against harassing turtles, as well as offended fellow Hawaiians who consider these creatures as ancestral guardian spirits.
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Avada Whatever! Potter Parents Graveside Twitter Vigil
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Just when you thought the stench of death had finally lifted from the Harry Potter series, today it emerges that certain parts of Twitter are getting their eye-liner all smeared up regarding the fictional 30th anniversary of the slaying of teen wizard Harry’s fictional parents. For realsies…
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Euthanasia Is Rife But Ignored In SA
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The act of assisting someone to die is fairly commonplace in South Africa, but people in this country tend to turn a blind eye towards it, says Professor Willem Landman of NGO Dignity SA. Landman was commenting on today’s news that his counterpart, Cape Town-based professor Sean Davison, has been cleared of an attempted murder charge in New Zealand for performing euthanasia on his mother.
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Pakistan Cricketing Cheats Jailed
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Former Pakistani cricket captain, Salman Butt, was today sentenced to 30 months in jail after being found guilty of conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments. Mohammad Asif was jailed for one year and Mohammad Amir was sentenced to six months. Cricketing agent, Mazhar Majeed, was jailed for two years and eight months for his part in the fixing scandal.
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King Of The Skies, Vulture Vs Paraglider [VIDEO]
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Despite what we might think, the skies do not belong to us. In fact, we weren’t even the first beings up there. This was proven conclusively when a man paragliding in the Himalayas had a mid-air collision with a vulture.
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Controversial Islamic Sex Guide Banned In Malaysia
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A book called Islamic Sex, Fighting Jews to Return Islamic Sex to the World has been banned in Malaysia. It was published by the Muslim Obedient Wife Club and urges Muslim men in polygamous marriages to have group sex with their wives as a form of “worship”.
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A Little Night Surfing [VIDEO]
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Check out this video of a surfer in California hitting up some night surf accompanied by the soft tumbling glow of bio-luminescent algae in the waves.
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Cops Crash Car Into Smuggler’s Plane [VIDEO]
03 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
There is something about real-life events that movies will never be able to duplicate. This video, taken in Brazil, shows federal police officers smashing a car into a light plane at high speed! The plane contained smuggled goods, and by crashing into its wing, the cops was able to thwart it’s takeoff.
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Queen Victoria’s Undergarments Sold for £10 000
02 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Finally, there is a way for you to get into the Queen’s pants. A pair of rather fetching bloomers, framed in a delightful display case, have been sold on auction for the bargain price of only £10 000.
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Shop Refuses To Sell Alcohol To 92 Year-Old Because She Can’t Prove She’s 18
02 Nov 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
Diane Taylor is a 92 year-old great-grandmother from the UK. Like any other woman of her age and stature, she went down to her local convenience store to buy a bottle of whisky. The shop however refused to sell her any alcohol because she had no ID with her to prove that she is over 18.
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