The Flaming Lips have announced a five date UK tour for the autumn. The band will be hitting the road to promote the release of their brand new double album entitled Embryonic. The album is set for release in September, and the band will be following that up with five dates around the UK in [...]
Continue reading …Countries in the North African territories, particularly those that share a border with Libya are preparing themselves for a bubonic outbreak. Libya was first to be hit with cases of the plague, and they have now seen two deaths from the disease. Now Algeria has reported 50 cases of the infection at locations close to [...]
Continue reading …Four men are being held in custody in India after they were discovered eating the partially burned remains of a woman, straight off the funeral pyre. The Times of India reports that a night watchman at the cremation ground in Palwal spotted the four cannibals pulling the half burned body off the fire and eating [...]
Continue reading …A pensioner in Devon woke yesterday morning to find someone had deposited an oily loaf on her doorstep. The woman who wishes to remain anonymous told the Sidmouth Herald how she almost stepped in the turd. “How I wasn’t sick I don’t know. I’ve got a bad knee and a bad heart, having to scrub [...]
Continue reading …Buffalo Jim Reeves has earned a place in the Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest at Coney Island by chomping his way through 22 wieners in under ten minutes at the Hot Dog Eating Contest held in Atlanta, GA yesterday. Reeves from Boston, NY, who’s speciality is actually chicken wings will now face [...]
Continue reading …Four members of the Celestial Church of Christ in French Guiana, S. America have been jailed for up to 12 years for “wilful violence that caused death”. 15 year old Roger Bosse suffered from epilepsy. His mother took him to the church for help and they told her he was possessed by demons. In an [...]
Continue reading …Yesterday saw the 2009 World’s Ugliest Dog Contest being held at at the Marin-Sonoma Fair in California. The contest has become hugely popular, and in recent years the competition has been dominated by the striking Chinese Crested breed. Most internet users will probably be familiar with the face of last year’s winner Gus. Gus had [...]
Continue reading …A farm worker who was once seriously injured by a bull was this week attacked a second time by a cow. 46 year old Mike Scriven was walking across a field on the Dyrham Park estate near Bristol when he realised the cow was stalking him. He began to run from the cow but unfortunately [...]
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