Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2003 at 9:31:53 PM CEST
Rat-Trap Nets Fisherman
A Cambodian who set out to catch fish with car batteries and electrodes got a taste of his own medicine when he stepped on an electric rat-trap and died.
The Kampuchea Thmey newspaper said on Thursday that fisherman Roeun Bo, 36, died instantly when he stumbled into a mesh of bare wires hooked up to a large truck battery.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2003 at 8:51:28 PM CEST
Virgin wants Concorde, for £1
Virgin Atlantic founder Richard Branson said on Thursday his airline was interested in buying British Airways' doomed Concorde fleet, but would offer just £1 (€1.5, $1.6).
Branson, the king of publicity stunts, said in a statement he would be asking BA for the full operation figures for its fleet of seven Concorde.
"Since the British Airways' announcement this morning we have been flooded with calls from the public, including BA staff, asking us to see if we can keep Concorde flying," said Branson.
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Topic: NAUTICAL - on April 10, 2003 at 7:20:31 PM CEST
A Rough Awakening
A man fell asleep Tuesday night and woke up before dawn Wednesday when his 30-foot sailboat ran aground south of Crescent Beach.
The only person on board was the captain, who was not injured, according to St. Johns County Director of Beach Management Dave Williams.
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 6:54:25 PM CEST
Iraqi embassy in Brazil
An Iraqi embassy employee orders the press to get off the wall of the embassy in Brasilia, Brazil on Wednesday April 9, 2003. Police said that embassy employees began burning boxes and large quantities of paper around the same time TV stations began broadcasting images of U.S. Army soldiers toppling a statue of Saddam Hussein.
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Topic: - on April 10, 2003 at 6:52:27 PM CEST
Transsexuals in limbo after landmark ruling
Transsexuals have been thrown into legal limbo after law lords refused to recognise the 22-year marriage of Elizabeth Bellinger, who was once a man.
Bellinger said on Thursday she might now take her case to the European courts to reverse the decision.
The British government is one of only four in Europe that still refuses to recognise sex changes. The others are Ireland, Albania and Andorra.
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 6:50:36 PM CEST
Many citizens believe Saddam has mystical powers
Ahmed Ali believes Saddam Hussein can never die. All his life, the 23-year-old laborer has heard about the dictator's powerful stone.
Saddam, the story goes, had the stone made shortly after he came to power 24 years ago. Its powers were first tested inside a chicken. One of his soldiers pulled out a gun and shot a bullet at point-blank range. The chicken's feathers fell off, but it lived.
So the dictator implanted the stone in his upper arm.
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Topic: TV - on April 10, 2003 at 6:39:03 PM CEST
From Seattle to Staines, Murdoch rules the world
DirecTV deal confims Rupert Murdoch as the most powerful man in television, reaching more than 110 million viewers across four continents. With the purchase of America's DirecTV network, Rupert Murdoch has been confirmed as TV's most powerful man in the world with the capacity to reach more than 110 million viewers across four continents.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2003 at 6:30:13 PM CEST
Romania to Feed Off Dracula's Blood and Gore
30 million theme park
"Some blood on the house," says the waitress at Bucharest's Club Count Dracula restaurant and puts a red-colored drink on the table. Guests dine on deep-fried rat -- chicken shaped like a large rodent -- while an actor playing the bloodthirsty vampire waves his black cape among the tables and sometimes bites a willing victim's neck.
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on April 10, 2003 at 6:26:23 PM CEST
Knife-Thrower Hits Assistant – on Live TV
Viewers watched in horror today as a knife-throwing stunt went wrong on live TV.
Circus performer Jayde Hanson – who set a world knife-throwing record only days ago – left his assistant with a gashed scalp after a blade hit her.
Stunned This Morning presenter Fern Britton rushed over to check the shaken woman and screeched: “Oh my God, there’s blood.”
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Topic: LOST - on April 10, 2003 at 6:02:22 PM CEST
Missing: a special number plate worth R6.5m
The first London car number plate, A1, is missing, presumed lost. It's worth the equivalent of about R6.5-million and it's wanted as part of the UK celebrations for the 100th year of British automobile registrations.
The plate first appeared in 1903 on a Napier car owned by the then Earl Russell. Since then it has had a variety of owners keen on "personalised" plates but in the last few years has slipped from view.
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Topic: W A R - on April 10, 2003 at 5:54:06 PM CEST
Iraq, its domain and the 'terrorist-funding' owner
The war against Iraq may be drawing to a close but the war over its Internet future is just beginning.
As with the overthrow of the Afghanistan regime by US forces, it is widely thought that the removal of Saddam Hussein from power will see the Middle Eastern country catch up with the rest of the world in terms of Internet infrastructure and use.
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Topic: LOST FOUND - on April 10, 2003 at 5:40:43 PM CEST
Job Wanted
“Jihad ready.”
Dear Potential Employer:
I'm looking for new challenges after spending the last ten years in a high-profile public-relations position with an international celebrity. (I would prefer that you don't contact him at the present time, as he doesn't know I'm considering a new situation.) I've collaborated with some of the world's most expert makeover artists and special-effects makeup personnel to create Disneyworld-quality theatrical illusions, most often working with a paintbrush mustache, thick Groucho Marx eyebrows, a black beret, and khaki uniform with yellow epaulets. As you can imagine, I know how to turn heads!
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