At least 18 mushroom lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favourite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Key independent MP Rob Oakeshott has called on Tony Abbott to explain the behaviour of Coalition MPs who he says are trying to drum up a smear campaign against him — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Britain carried out assassinations during the Cold War, novelist and former secret agent John le Carre has told The Sunday Telegraph newspaper — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Japanese man has pleaded guilty to burning down his family home after his mother threw away some of his favourite robot toys — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Fourteen Battle of Britain veterans have taken to the skies in a special memorial flight — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A soldier who lost a leg in Afghanistan has been denied a disabled parking badge three times — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Roland W. Haas, a senior intelligence officer in the U.S. Army Reserve who claimed in a 2007 memoir that he was a CIA assassin, died over the weekend when he accidentally shot himself, police in Georgia said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Greens leader Bob Brown says he believes Opposition Leader Tony Abbott may be trying to force Australia back to the polls — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police want public help to track down the people who mutilated a cat at Glenfield in Sydney’s west — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Two-thirds of the British public are unable to name a single famous female scientist, according to an ICM poll — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The New York Times is reporting that a pastor in my hometown of Gainesville, Florida is planning to “commemorate” 11 September 2001 by publicly burning the Qur’an — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Salt Lake City mortgage company employee allegedly got drunk, opened fired on his firm’s computer server with a .45-caliber automatic, and then told police someone had stolen his gun and caused the damage — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A drunk barged into a Queens mosque last night and urinated on prayer rugs, cops and witnesses said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Dormice will be able to cross a new bypass safely, thanks to three special bridges costing £190,000 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A motorcyclist who was photographed riding along a motorway with a barbecue strapped to his body has been fined in an Australian court for careless driving — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An iPhone application helped a Dallas man, while visiting relatives hundreds of miles away in suburban Hartford, Conn., watch as two burglars broke into his home – via redwolf.newsvine.com
Police were last night investigating the murder of a British spy whose decomposing body lay for two weeks stuffed inside a large sports holdall in the bath of a smart London flat — via redwolf.newsvine.com