Texas man has been charged with forgery after attempting to cash in a personal cheque for $US360 billion.
Tellers at a bank in Fort Worth Texas became suspicious when Charles Ray Fuller, a 21-year-old North Texas man, handed over the whopper cheque, saying he wanted to start a record business.
Fuller said that his girlfriend’s mother was [...]
The chief astronomer of the Roman Catholic Church says other forms of life may exist outside earth, and that intelligent beings could exist in outer space. Jesuit priests run the Pope’s astronomical observatory which was founded over a century ago.
The current director, Father Gabriel Funes from Argentina, is a much respected scientist who collaborates with [...]
A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at her Californian home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord. “I was just a little nervous” when the labour began, Xochitl Parra said yesterday from St Mary Medical Centre as she cradled her son, Alejandro.
The boy was normal and [...]
A British soldier is suing the army because of the embarrassing nickname given to him by fellow troops. Kerry Hylton claims he has been demeaned by the nickname “Paris” after the notorious blonde American socialite.
He is suing for race discrimination alleging his fellow soldiers ignored orders to stop calling him Paris. Jamaican born Hylton a [...]
A man who has previously suffered throat cancer has taken matters into his own hands and performed a do-it-yourself tracheotomy after he had difficulties breathing.
Steve Wilder of Omaha, Nebraska, woke in the middle of the night, struggling to breathe. In a panic he ran to the kitchen, fearing an ambulance would not reach him in [...]
A woman in labour was allegedly forced to lie on the floor of the Gold Coast hospital storeroom for three hours, because there were no beds. Her family says she waited in the foyer for an hour before hospital staff took her to a linen storeroom, where a mattress had been laid out.
Her sister says [...]
A couple of young American jet-setters plan to admit in court that they financed their luxury lifestyle through identity theft. A lawyer for Jocelyn Kirsch, 22, said Monday that she and her now-ex-boyfriend have signed federal plea agreements that likely will send them to prison for several years for identity theft and other crimes.
Since her [...]
A man has escaped from his Austrian jail cell by squeezing through a food hatch in the door, police said on Wednesday.
The 19-year old Kosovan, who weighed less than 121 pounds, was being held at the prison in Linz for entering the country illegally, police spokesman Alexander Niederwimmer told APA news agency.
How he got through [...]
Ladies, take your battle for the environment a little closer to your heart with a solar-powered bra that can generate enough electric energy to charge a mobile phone or an iPod.
Lingerie maker Triumph International Japan unveiled its environmentally friendly, and green coloured, Solar Power Bra in Tokyo. The bra features a solar panel worn around [...]