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Dog bites shark
London: An incredible video on ‘You Tube’ shows the moment a dog rounds on a group of sharks, and even dives under the water and gives one a nip. The film, shot by an unknown Australian, who gives a hilarious running commentary, shows the two dogs as they take a paddle in clear blue waters. But lurking ominously beneath the waters, the spooky silhouettes of several sharks can be seen blocking the mutts’ path to the safety of the shore. Undeterred, one of the dogs rounds on the sharp-toothed marine monsters, dives under the water and with a fierce nip, scares the whole school away, the ‘Daily Mail’ newspaper reported.
Boy kills ex-girlfriend for free meal
London: A schoolboy in Britain is facing life sentence for murdering his former girlfriend – after a friend promised him free breakfast if he did away with her. Joshua Davies, 16, and Rebecca Aylward, 15, split up but she still visited him, hoping they would reconcile. The boy, however, plotted to give her deadly foxgloves (flowers), drown her in a river or throw her off a cliff. Rebecca bought new clothes for a ‘date’, unaware that Davies was telling his friends how easy it would be to kill her, the Daily Mail reported. One of his friends promised to buy him breakfast if he murdered Rebecca.
Even in the U.K., could human life, as young as 15, be as cheap as a breakfast! - Editor
Truck spills 14 million bees, honey on US highway
Washington: Clean-up crews spent hours trying to deal with over 14 million bees and their honey after a delivery truck overturned on a highway in Idaho. Freemont County sheriff deputies said several workers were stung during the first few hours of the clean up.
Some observers saw a strange black cloud and heard a roaring noise above the spill area before realizing it was a massive swarm of bees and called for emergency services, the Daily Mail reported.
Authorities said truck was hauling the bees from California to North Dakota when the driver veered off the shoulder, tipping over 400 hive boxes and honey. Fire crews sprayed the bees with water at first to try and cool them down.
A bee expert then suggested using fire foam to try and kill them so the workers could get near the truck to clean up the mess and recover the vehicle and surviving hives.
The rescue workers were also worried about bears coming for the honey, the paper said.
The bees were estimated to be worth over 250,000 pounds, the paper added.
700,000 Britons now keep hens for eggs
London: Around 700,000 people in Britain now keep hens in a bid to reduce their shopping bills by having eggs produced at home, new figures reveal. The figures released by the British Hen Welfare Trust have helped push the value of the chicken industry to one billion pounds a year, The Sun reported. “We’re seeing a return to 50 years ago, when it was usual to keep half a dozen chickens in the back yard. Over the past few years more Brits have started growing their own fruit and vegetables – and the next step seems to be having their own eggs," Brian Mott, of birdseed suppliers Nature's Grub, was quoted as saying. Sale of poultry hens has nearly doubled since 2008.
A store owner said keeping hens has become a hobby for many people.
Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPad2
Beijing: A teenager in China’s Anhui province sold his right kidney to buy a new iPad 2, satellite TV channel Dongfang reported. Seventeen-year-old Xiao Zheng had been dreaming of a new iPad 2 for a while, but the price was way beyond his means. Zheng found an agent ready to buy his kidney on the internet and travelled to Hunan Province in central China to undergo surgery in a local hospital. With the 22,000 yen ($3,900) he was paid, Zheng bought a new iPad 2 and iPhone and then returned home.
Your pillow is the breeding ground for diseases
London: You may never want to use them after reading this. Your pillow is the perfect breeding ground for gruesome array of pests and diseases, scientists say.
According to a study by the Barts and the London NHS Trust, up to a third of the weight of your pillow could be made up of bugs, dead skin, dust mites and their faeces. And the condition of pillows in hospitals is even worse as they are the ideal breeding grounds for undesirables ranging from the superbugs MRSA and C.diff to flu, chicken pox and even leprosy, the scientists said.
But the problem of bugs in pillows is not confined to hospitals, said study author Dr Arthur Tucker, a clinical scientist at St Barts and the London Hospitals. While some of the bugs will only be found lurking in hospitals or in tropical climes, others will be making themselves at home in the comfort of your bed, he said. “People put a clean pillow case on and it looks and smell nice and fresh but you are wrapping up something really nasty underneath,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. Bacteria feast on these and multiply on and inside the pillows, some of which will never be washed, he added.
The warnings came after the researchers studied the “health” of hundreds of pillows used by patients in hospitals run by Barts and the London NHS Trust. They found high levels of “living” contamination on the outside of the pillows. In some cases, rips and tears meant that the germs had found their way into the filling.
London: An incredible video on ‘You Tube’ shows the moment a dog rounds on a group of sharks, and even dives under the water and gives one a nip. The film, shot by an unknown Australian, who gives a hilarious running commentary, shows the two dogs as they take a paddle in clear blue waters. But lurking ominously beneath the waters, the spooky silhouettes of several sharks can be seen blocking the mutts’ path to the safety of the shore. Undeterred, one of the dogs rounds on the sharp-toothed marine monsters, dives under the water and with a fierce nip, scares the whole school away, the ‘Daily Mail’ newspaper reported.
Boy kills ex-girlfriend for free meal
London: A schoolboy in Britain is facing life sentence for murdering his former girlfriend – after a friend promised him free breakfast if he did away with her. Joshua Davies, 16, and Rebecca Aylward, 15, split up but she still visited him, hoping they would reconcile. The boy, however, plotted to give her deadly foxgloves (flowers), drown her in a river or throw her off a cliff. Rebecca bought new clothes for a ‘date’, unaware that Davies was telling his friends how easy it would be to kill her, the Daily Mail reported. One of his friends promised to buy him breakfast if he murdered Rebecca.
Even in the U.K., could human life, as young as 15, be as cheap as a breakfast! - Editor
Truck spills 14 million bees, honey on US highway
Washington: Clean-up crews spent hours trying to deal with over 14 million bees and their honey after a delivery truck overturned on a highway in Idaho. Freemont County sheriff deputies said several workers were stung during the first few hours of the clean up.
Some observers saw a strange black cloud and heard a roaring noise above the spill area before realizing it was a massive swarm of bees and called for emergency services, the Daily Mail reported.
Authorities said truck was hauling the bees from California to North Dakota when the driver veered off the shoulder, tipping over 400 hive boxes and honey. Fire crews sprayed the bees with water at first to try and cool them down.
A bee expert then suggested using fire foam to try and kill them so the workers could get near the truck to clean up the mess and recover the vehicle and surviving hives.
The rescue workers were also worried about bears coming for the honey, the paper said.
The bees were estimated to be worth over 250,000 pounds, the paper added.
700,000 Britons now keep hens for eggs
London: Around 700,000 people in Britain now keep hens in a bid to reduce their shopping bills by having eggs produced at home, new figures reveal. The figures released by the British Hen Welfare Trust have helped push the value of the chicken industry to one billion pounds a year, The Sun reported. “We’re seeing a return to 50 years ago, when it was usual to keep half a dozen chickens in the back yard. Over the past few years more Brits have started growing their own fruit and vegetables – and the next step seems to be having their own eggs," Brian Mott, of birdseed suppliers Nature's Grub, was quoted as saying. Sale of poultry hens has nearly doubled since 2008.
A store owner said keeping hens has become a hobby for many people.
Chinese teen sells kidney to buy iPad2
Beijing: A teenager in China’s Anhui province sold his right kidney to buy a new iPad 2, satellite TV channel Dongfang reported. Seventeen-year-old Xiao Zheng had been dreaming of a new iPad 2 for a while, but the price was way beyond his means. Zheng found an agent ready to buy his kidney on the internet and travelled to Hunan Province in central China to undergo surgery in a local hospital. With the 22,000 yen ($3,900) he was paid, Zheng bought a new iPad 2 and iPhone and then returned home.
Your pillow is the breeding ground for diseases
London: You may never want to use them after reading this. Your pillow is the perfect breeding ground for gruesome array of pests and diseases, scientists say.
According to a study by the Barts and the London NHS Trust, up to a third of the weight of your pillow could be made up of bugs, dead skin, dust mites and their faeces. And the condition of pillows in hospitals is even worse as they are the ideal breeding grounds for undesirables ranging from the superbugs MRSA and C.diff to flu, chicken pox and even leprosy, the scientists said.
But the problem of bugs in pillows is not confined to hospitals, said study author Dr Arthur Tucker, a clinical scientist at St Barts and the London Hospitals. While some of the bugs will only be found lurking in hospitals or in tropical climes, others will be making themselves at home in the comfort of your bed, he said. “People put a clean pillow case on and it looks and smell nice and fresh but you are wrapping up something really nasty underneath,” he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail. Bacteria feast on these and multiply on and inside the pillows, some of which will never be washed, he added.
The warnings came after the researchers studied the “health” of hundreds of pillows used by patients in hospitals run by Barts and the London NHS Trust. They found high levels of “living” contamination on the outside of the pillows. In some cases, rips and tears meant that the germs had found their way into the filling.
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