The Wiggles have entered the bidding race for the flamboyant hat worn by Princess Beatrice at the British royal wedding — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German hairdresser has won the title of world’s best beard at the World Beard and Moustache Championship in Trondheim, Norway.
Elmar Weisser, 47, beat 160 contestants to the prize with his elaborate facial hair sculpture of a moose.
It is the third time Mr Weisser has emerged as champion — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A self-proclaimed Christian who sexually abused a three-year-old girl has been jailed for more than seven years.
Craig John Coleman, 28, told the County Court at his plea hearing that an addiction to sex and child and adult pornography were to blame for his offending — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A 10-year-old Bolivian boy who hid on a truck in an effort to visit his mother in prison ended up in Chile after an unexpected 500-kilometre trek through the Andes mountains, officials said.
The boy, identified as Franklin Villca, ended up in the Chilean city of Iquique, 1,800 kilometres north of Santiago, after a three-day journey without food or water in the compartment of a truck carrying minerals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two deaf men were stabbed in a Hallandale Beach bar Saturday night when another patron mistook their sign language for gang signs.
31-year-old Alfred Stewart, who is deaf and mute, and three others including a bouncer are recovering in hospital from non-fatal wounds suffered at the Ocean’s Eleven Sports Lounge and Grill on Federal Highway, where Stewart and his friends were celebrating a birthday.
Police say Barbara Lee became angry when she thought Stewart’s party, all of whom are deaf, were throwing gang signs at her — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Several thousand bees that were part a multi-million pound neuroscience research project have been stolen from a British university — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Bill Nye, the harmless children’s edu-tainer known as The Science Guy
, managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Stefan and Erika Svanstrom are just back from a honeymoon from hell. The newlyweds had planned a long trip that would start in Singapore in early December and end in China four months later. With their baby daughter in tow, the Svanstrom’s packed up and prepared to leave on their once-in-a-lifetime journey. But things didn’t go exactly as planned.
They encountered floods, fires, tsunamis and earthquakes along the way — via redwolf.newsvine.com
It is the spirit that powers the Scottish economy, and now whisky is to be used to create electricity for homes in a new bioenergy venture involving some of Scotland’s best-known distilleries — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A man who broke into a pizza shop in Adelaide answered the phone while in the premises — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An outspoken New Zealand Maori politician has apologised for praising slain Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden as a freedom fighter who stood up for his people.
In remarks that prime minister John Key slammed as ridiculous
, independent MP Hone Harawira said this week that positive aspects of bin Laden’s life should be acknowledged and urged people not to damn him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A mayor in Germany helped rescue a man who became trapped in a women’s prison after mistaking it for a shortcut to a nearby park, police in the northern city of Hildesheim said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The body of a man with his hands and feet nailed to a wooden cross and a crown of thorns on his head has been found in an abandoned South Korean stone quarry.
The body had a wound to the side of the torso and nylon strings tied around the neck, arms and stomach, and was clad only in underpants, police said. It was found on Sunday in Mungyong, about 115 miles (190km) south-east of Seoul, said Chung Ji-chun, the provincial chief for violent crime — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Yvette Vickers, an early Playboy playmate whose credits as a B-movie actress included such cult films as Attack of the 50-Foot Woman
and Attack of the Giant Leeches
, was found dead last week at her Benedict Canyon home. Her body appears to have gone undiscovered for months, police said.
Vickers, 82, had not been seen for a long time. A neighbor discovered her body in an upstairs room of her Westwanda Drive home on April 27. Its mummified state suggests she could have been dead for close to a year, police said.
The official cause of death will by determined by the Los Angeles county coroner’s office, but police said they saw no sign of foul play — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Three drunken revelers rescued after being adrift in a toy dinghy in the English Channel for 11 hours greeted the authorities in French, thinking they had sailed across the stretch of water separating the two European nations.
Instead the men, equipped only with only a bottle of wine and one paddle, were only 3.2km out to sea off the English coast, London’s The Daily Telgraph said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A house that endured a leaking pipe for many months dialed 911 on Wednesday, finally bringing town officials to the rescue.
The homeowner gone — no one yet knows where — the house likely sprang a leak during a past freeze and began spraying water all over. Water came down inside the walls and through the ceiling,
said Health Director Wayne Attridge. The (wood) floors have buckled. The ceilings are sagging. It filled the basement with (5 feet of) water
— via redwolf.newsvine.com
At last word, the serial purse-snatching bandit at the Sandridge Golf Club in Vero Beach, FL remained at large.
Authorities describe the perpetrator as having a medium build and a noticeable limp. That’s in addition to the four legs, long furry tail, pointed nose and masked eyes indigenous to all raccoons — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An extraordinary thing happened in American politics this week; a sitting president was forced to prove he is an American citizen – and thus eligible to be in office — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police said a St. Petersburg man attempted to rob a convenience store using a Sony Playstation remote control.
According to reports, Cameron Pittman, 20, hid the game controller in his pocket and pretended it was a gun as he tried to rob the Sun Food Store on 62nd Avenue S — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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