October 21, 2005
Using the parts inside a single molecule, scientists have constructed the world's smallest car. It has a chassis, axles and a pivoting suspension. The wheels are buckyballs, spheres of pure carbon containing 60 atoms apiece.
A woman wore nothing but a red G-string when she attacked and killed her boyfriend's estranged wife who had just found them in bed together, a court was told yesterday.
A would-be carjacker got quite a jolt when he picked the wrong car to try to steal, Jasper County deputies say. The suspect tapped the window of the car Wednesday morning with a gun and motioned the driver to get out. The driver of the car had just bought a cup of hot coffee. So he slammed his door into the carjacker's legs, threw the coffee on him possibly burning the suspect's neck and face, and wrestled him to the ground.
A Detroit man woke after being declared dead at about noon on Wednesday.
October 20, 2005
A sacked insurance broker who repeatedly came to work drunk - and even urinated in a wastepaper bin - has been awarded $10,000 compensation after claiming discrimination against his attention deficit disorder.
A Salt Lake County man died Saturday in a tragic fall while hiking with friends and their dogs in American Fork Canyon. The accident happened in the Dry Creek area near Alpine when a 21-year-old man fell 100 feet to his death in an attempt to rescue a puppy, according to authorities.
Music may one day be very close to a woman's chest, with BT futurology which manufactures computer chips that store music, creating a MP3 player that can be implanted into a woman's breasts.
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said his department aims without exception to expel all those who enter the United States illegally. "Our goal at DHS (Homeland Security) is to completely eliminate the 'catch and release' enforcement problem, and return every single illegal entrant, no exceptions.
New York is the last remaining U.S. jurisdiction to require fault (or living apart pursuant to a legal agreement) as a predicate for divorce but being denied sex only once does not constitute grounds for divorce, no matter how bad the marriage, a Queens judge has ruled.
Four Fox network programs, led by the comedies "The War at Home," "The Family Guy" and "American Dad," topped a parents group's annual listing of the worst prime-time shows for family viewing.
Dunkin' Donuts employees were thanking their good luck Tuesday after a woman who was accidentally given a bag with $771 in cash instead of the bagel with cream cheese she had ordered turned in the money.
October 19, 2005
Hurricane Wilma, which triggered mudslides that killed up to 10 people in Haiti, has strengthened to a catastrophic Category 5 storm as it approaches western Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
Calling a 205-pound baby a "bundle" of joy sounds like an understatement. But that's how Lowry Park Zoo officials announced the birth this week of a baby male elephant - the first African elephant to be born in the Tampa Bay area. "We like to pat ourselves on the back, but it's really a feather in the cap for the whole bay area," zoo veterinarian David Murphy said Tuesday.
Engineers here are testing a new kind of transparent armor -- stronger and lighter than traditional materials -- that could stop armor-piercing weapons from penetrating vehicle windows.
David Copperfield says he plans to impregnate a girl on stage - without even touching her.
A 10ft (3m) snake thought to have been living in sewage pipes in a block of flats for three months has been caught on a bathroom floor.
October 18, 2005
Stinky underwear could soon be consigned to the dustbin of history. Thanks to the invention of what manufacturers claim are the first "pong-proof pants", all student digs and walkers' rucksacks will stay smelling fresh. Tiny fragments of silver woven into the North Face briefs help stop bacteria multiplying. This means they can be worn again and again without getting smelly.
A mysterious object found in a Davenport home turned out not to be a bomb, but a device that was supposed to scare off aliens believed to be living under the ground.
Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
A handwritten score of one of Ludwig van Beethoven's most revolutionary works has been discovered by a librarian cleaning out a cabinet in a seminary in Pennsylvania after being missing for more than a century. The 80-page manuscript for a piano version of Grosse Fuge, thought to have been written by Beethoven himself, dates from the final months of his life when he was completely deaf. The work was described by scholars of the German composer yesterday as an "amazing find" and "extremely important".
Rain fell for an eighth straight day around the waterlogged Northeast on Friday, pushing hundreds of people from their homes, closing roadways and leaving train tracks littered with fallen trees. And it's a good thing reporters had canoes to deal with the rain fall. (Video)
October 17, 2005
A teenage girl has been shocked and humiliated after students at her private school distributed a porn video they thought she starred in. The 17-year-old from northern New South Wales was stunned to discover students had copied footage from an X-rated website featuring an actress she looked like.
More than half-a-century ago, Machal Lalung was thought to be insane and sent to a mental asylum in India's remote northeast. A few months ago, he was set free after the National Human Rights Commission found that healthcare authorities had made a mistake and Lalung suffered only from epilepsy.
Pantos of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs are being censored - to outlaw the word "dwarf". A shocked village drama group sent off for a script and found Dopey and his pals - played by kids - had to be called "gnomes" instead. Ray Lionet, 73, of the Coxheath Players in Kent, said the ban was to avoid offending short people. He said: "It's madness."
A Maine scientist is preparing to release details of a $1 million reward for a photograph that leads to the live capture of Bigfoot, the abominable snowman or the Loch Ness Monster.
Their Toyota Indy 400 ended in a crash Sunday, but the action between Danica Patrick and Jaques Lazier didn't end on the track. "So you're telling me that Jaques is saying he got beat up by a girl?" Patrick told the Star through a Rahal Letterman Racing spokesperson. Dr. Kevin Scheid was driving the rescue vehicle and told the two drivers to settle down. But he would not settle the punch/poke debate.
