Tweet Aisikaier, a tightrope walker in China, is lucky to be alive after falling off a more than 650-foot high tightrope during a performance in Hunan Province, the BBC reports, relaying a report from China State Television. Fortunately, the blindfolded acrobat was near the end of the 2,300-foot backwards walk when he fell, so the [...]
Tweet Well this is a new low, even for a bachelor party. A 24-year-old man was pulled off a Monarch flight from Manchester to Majorca after he allegedly set his friend’s hair on fire…as a joke. Roughly 90 minutes into the flight, cabin crew smelled smoke and the pilot decided to turn the plane around [...]
Tweet Move aside, Agyness Deyn/Brooklyn Decker/etc. There’s another runway strutter who’s making a movie debut. Australia’s Telegraph reports that Abbey Lee Kershaw has signed on for her first on-screen role for “Mad Max 4,” the next long-awaited installment of the classic Aussie action flick series. The real stars will be Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron, [...]
Tweet Over the weekend, 12 bus drivers scooped up a $75.6 million EuroMillions lottery jackpot, the Telegraph reports. After spending much of their lives driving buses to make ends meet, these bus drivers from Corby — a quiet town in Northamptonshire, England — are going to be swapping their uniforms for nice cars, comfortable homes [...]
Tweet Skiers got more than a slalom run at a ski resort in the Savoie region of France on Sunday, according to the BBC, in the form of an avalanche that wiped out lifts on the St. Francois Longchamp mountain. The Telegraph reports that no injuries stemmed from the snow cascade, but a few skiers [...]
Tweet Having had a long weekend to mull it over, one might think the captain of the Costa Concordia would be able to come up with a better alibi. However, Captain Francesco Schettino, who is being investigated for charges including manslaughter after the Costa Concordia capsized off the coast of Italy on Friday, has offered [...]
Tweet A Norwegian high school in Oslo has been accused of apartheid after segregating classrooms based on ethnic background, Norway’s The Dagasvisen reports. The Bjerke Upper Secondary School began filling one of the three classrooms with students whose parents come from immigrant backgrounds, The Telegraph reports. Though classrooms at Bjerke high school have now been [...]
Tweet Katherine Goldberg was flying from South Africa to London in August when she drunkenly assaulted a male crew member on the Virgin flight, a Northwest London court alleges. The prosecutor in the case spells out the charges, the Telegraph reports: She proceeded to sexually assault one of the crew members by demanding to have [...]
Tweet A member of a Jewish underground militant group that sought to end the British Mandate in Palestine and establish the State of Israel hatched a plan to send a terrorist agent to London to assassinate Britain’s then-Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1944, MI5 records reveal. The Telegraph reports that Eliyahu Bet-Zuri suggested sending agents [...]
Tweet While touring the cyclone-devastated areas of Australia on Saturday, Prince William dropped some serious hints that he might be in favor of a honeymoon spent Down Under, the Telegraph reports. Weather in Britain right now, the Prince claims, is “dreadful” (as recent photos of the couple have shown, it’s been raining lately). He told [...]
