Man fined for saying four-letter-word on flight

SINGAPORE - A 65-year-old Australian man was fined S$10,000 ($6,423) by a Singapore court for uttering the word "bomb" on a flight to Indonesia, The Straits Times reported on Wednesday.Riccardo Paulin, a retiree, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to having asked a flight attendant "Where do you keep the bomb?" on a flight operated by Singapore regional carrier SilkAir to the Indonesian city of Surabaya, the newspaper said.

A wild night at the "elk" club?

STOCKHOLM - A drunken elk is terrorizing children at a school in southern Sweden.
"That could be the problem. We could be dealing with a boozy elk," Jan Caiman, a police officer in Molndal, told the national news agency TT.
The elk was probably eating fermented apples in a garden and had become inebriated, Caiman said.
Elk can weigh as much as 500 kilos (1,100 lb) and personnel at the school described the erratic male as "completely mad."

Air guitar T-shirt: cotton-picking?

SYDNEY - Australian scientists have invented a T-shirt that allows air guitarists to play actual music as they strum the air.The T-shirt, created by scientists from the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is called a "wearable instrument shirt."
The shirt has sensors in each elbow and sleeves to detect and interpret the air guitarist's arm movements -- one arm chooses chords and the other strums imaginary strings.

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Intel rolls out quad-core processors

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Intel Corp., the world's largest computer chip maker, on Tuesday launched a family of chips with four computing engines inside a single microprocessor.
The "quad-core" processors, which boast improved performance over models with just one or two processing cores, could help the company win back market share lost to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc., analysts said. Processors with multiple cores can handle more complex jobs at once.
Intel rolled out four processors for servers under the Xeon 5300 branding, and another processor under the Core 2 Extreme series aimed at hardcore computer gamers, programmers and other people with heavy-duty computing needs.

College's nerds blow off steam in Cooking 101

PASADENA, California - Sarah studies observational cosmology, Glenn experiments with fluid dynamics and Marlena is making a computer tablet. But these students at Caltech, one of the most challenging universities in the world, struggle with a recipe for corn pudding.
Such is the irony of "Cooking Basics" -- one of the most popular classes at the California Institute of Technology, in which the final exam-meal is judged by a Nobel laureate, one of the six on the faculty and 30 in the history of the university, located in the Los Angeles suburb of Pasadena.

Thai zoo to teach panda to mate with "porn" videos

BANGKOK - A Thai zoo, which has hosted a couple of pandas for four years, will play "porn" videos for the male next month to encourage them to breed in captivity, the project manager said on Saturday.
The pair -- living chastely together at the zoo in the northern city of Chiang Mai since arriving from China in 2003 -- would be separated in December, but stay close enough for occasional glimpses of each other, said panda project chief Prasertsak Buntrakoonpoontawee.

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Blogosphere sees healthy growth

The web's love affair with blogging shows no signs of abating according to the latest report from blog tracking firm Technorati.
Every day 100,000 new blogs are created and 1.3 million posts are made, it found during its quarterly survey.
Postings intensify around significant events such as the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in the summer.

70-yr-old granny is brothel bouncer

London: It might sound bizarre, but a 70-year-old grandmother has been hired as a bouncer at a brothel in Berlin.
According to the owner, the granny Waltraud Hotzl, also called ‘Mumsy’ was the perfect choice for the post, for she had no problem turning away drunks and undesirables, who never argue with her.

Chinese cops bust Mao condoms seller

Shanghai: A condom seller has been ordered to shut his shop for displaying his wares without Chinese instructions and in "inappropriate packages", including ones bearing a likeness of Mao Zedong, a state newspaper said.
The Industry and Commerce Administration in Ningbo, in the eastern province of Zhejiang, received several complaints about Zhang Zhiwen's products last month, the Shanghai Daily said.
In a raid, the business administrator discovered that most of the condoms stored in Zhang's warehouse were unqualified as they lacked Chinese instructions, the newspaper reported.
The condoms were wrapped in small metal containers decorated with funny pictures or images of historical people.

It's Hinglish, innit?

Hinglish - a hybrid of English and south Asian languages, used both in Asia and the UK - now has its own dictionary. Is it really a pukka way to speak?
Are you a "badmash"? And if you had to get somewhere in a hurry, would you make an "airdash"? Maybe you should be at your desk working, instead you're reading this as a "timepass".
These are examples of Hinglish, in which English and the languages of south Asia overlap, with phrases and words borrowed and re-invented.
It's used on the Indian sub-continent, with English words blending with Punjabi, Urdu and Hindi, and also within British Asian families to enliven standard English.

Surf 'n' ride: Access the Net in the car

DETROIT - When Stephen Devine drove with his family from their home in Massachusetts to New York City, he spent two frustrating hours trying to find a place to park his 9-foot-high camper van, which won't fit in most garages. In the end, his 17-year-old daughter found a place to park online — and she didn't even have to leave the van to do it.
Devine's van is equipped with TracNet, a system that allows passengers to access the Internet on a vehicle's video screens. Launched in September by Middletown, R.I.-based KVH Industries Inc., TracNet brings the Internet to the installed screens in a car, truck, RV or boat. It also turns the entire vehicle into a wireless hot spot, so passengers can use their laptops to go online.

Barbados fights giant snail invasion

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados - Ravenous giant snails that emerge from the ground by night are thriving on the tropical island of Barbados, destroying crops and prompting calls for the government to eliminate them.

A nocturnal survey last weekend found hundreds of thousands of African snails — which are often about the size of a human hand — swarming the central parish of St. George, the country's agricultural heartland, where farmers complained of damage to sugar cane, bananas, papayas and other crops.

Borat spoof film banned in Russia

Russia has banned the hit comedy film, Borat, which has been accused of poking fun at Moscow's neighbour and close ally Kazakhstan.
The film stars British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a spoof reporter on a trip to the US.
The film has been described as a "mockumentary" which follows Mr Cohen's journey across the US.

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French kissers aim for new record

On a day devoted to worldwide record-breaking, the French have invoked their spirit of romance and attempted the largest ever mass kiss.

While thousands of Parisians gathered for a smooch on the streets, wacky record attempts took place everywhere.
Australian weather presenter Grant Denyer pulled on 18 pairs of underpants in 60 seconds.

Saddam, co-defendants sentenced to hang

BAGHDAD, Iraq -Saddam Hussein was convicted Sunday and sentenced to hang for crimes against humanity in the 1982 killings of 148 people in a single Shiite town. The ousted leader, trembling and defiant, shouted "God is great!" as the judge handed down the verdict. Saddam, his half brother and another senior official in his regime were convicted and sentenced to death by the Iraqi High Tribunal in one of the most highly publicized war crimes trials since the Nuremberg tribunals for members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and its slaughter of 6 million Jews in the World War II Holocaust.

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‘India’s N-deal will have implications’

Washington: The exception made to India by the US under the civil nuclear deal will have "implications" at international level and China appears to be ready to question the country-specific nature of the agreement, former US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott has said.
The civil nuclear deal does not mean that it is the end of the debate on the nuclear issue; Talbott said at a session at School of Advanced International Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Washington on Wednesday, which was attended by former external affairs minister Jaswant Singh.

An Oshkosh treasure: Woman to turn 100 is still working

Erna Cartwright isn't boastful about her age, but she would deserve to boast about her upcoming birthday.
The Oshkosh resident turns 100 on Oct. 31 and it's a milestone in more ways that one. Not only is she turning triple digits, but she's also still working. That marks 82 years in the workforce.
Cartwright is the bookkeeper for Oshkosh City Cab Co., where she's been employed since 1946. She has no formula for longevity, but said "keeping busy and moving around" at her age is a plus.
She regularly drives a car and didn't lose a sense of humor when she recently renewed her driver's license for another eight years.

South Korea moves to legalise miniskirts

SEOUL - Hot pants and miniskirts will soon be legal in
South Korea.The country is in the final stages of revising an indecency law that prohibits people from wearing revealing outfits and was once enforced by ruler-wielding police during authoritarian governments in the 1970s, officials said.
"The law for excessive exposure does not match our current society," said Kim Jae-kwang, an official with the Korea Legislation Research Institute.

Joneses gather in Wales for record bid

LONDON - The saying "Keeping up with the Joneses" could not have been more apt on Friday as Joneses from around the globe headed to Cardiff to set a new world record.Joneses from as far afield as the United States and Australia flocked to the Welsh capital to beat the world record for a gathering of people with the same family name.
The Welsh bid hopes to attract up to 2,000 Joneses to a show in Cardiff where they will be entertained by singers and dancers, all called Jones, including former Bond actress, supermodel and pop icon Grace Jones, who headlines the show.

Size matters for 'Wonderjock' makers

SYDNEY, Nov 2 (Reuters Life!) - Size really does count, just ask Australian underwear maker AussieBum which has just launched the "Wonderjock" for men who want to look bigger.
Since the launch seven days ago, AussieBum says it has sold 50,000 pairs of "Wonderjock," mostly on its Web site www.aussiebum.com and a handful of stores around the world.
"The design of the underwear, separates and lifts. The fabric cup protrudes everything out in front instead of down toward the ground," said "Wonderjock" designer Sean Ashby.
"There is no padding, rings or strings," said Ashby, a co-founder of the Internet-based AussieBum firm.

Woman gets her ring back after 22 yrs

Eau Claire (Wisconsin): Laura Durham of Belvidere, Illinois, is thrilled to have her high school class ring back more than 20 years after she lost it and several other rings in a car crash.
She got it back recently thanks to the efforts of workers at D&S Manufacturing, a metal products and equipment company in Black River Falls.
"I can't describe the feeling of getting the rings back," Durham said in an e-mail to the Leader-Telegram newspaper of Eau Claire. "I know that they were only worth something to me, but to me, it was like turning back the hands of time."

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