Topic: NATURE - on June 11, 2004 at 12:33:00 PM CEST
Rare Sea Creature Washes Ashore
A retired biologist found the creature on a beach near Port Angeles, Wash. It's big head and bulging eyes make it look like something out of Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea," but it is actually a deep-water fish known as King of the Salmon..
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Topic: HOLLYWALD - on June 11, 2004 at 12:30:00 PM CEST
Gollum actor to 'play' King Kong
British actor Andy Serkis - Gollum in the Lord of the Rings films - will help create the title character in Peter Jackson's upcoming remake of King Kong.
The ape will be a completely computer-generated creature, but Serkis' acting will be used to bring it to life through motion capture technology.
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Topic: WERBUNG - on June 11, 2004 at 12:27:00 PM CEST
Condoleezza Rice NUDE
Controversy Brews Over Hillary, Condoleezza 'Stepford Wives' Ad
Some people are saying the way Hillary Clinton and Condoleezza Rice are portrayed in an ad for the new "Stepford Wives" film is distasteful, even outrageous. The spot shows an image of Rice made to look nude from the waist up, and a picture of Clinton that morphs into what looks like a cookie-baking Stepford wife.
The pictures move across the screen very quickly, but they caught the eye of a Kansas City woman, who recorded the spot to make sure of what she was seeing.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 11, 2004 at 12:08:00 PM CEST
Soros spends $13-million to oust Bush
George Soros' dream is President Bush losing in November — and so far, the-billionaire philanthropist has donated nearly $13-million to independent groups that also want to turn that vision into reality. “I'm merely putting my money where my mouth is,” Mr. Soros told The Associated Press.
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Topic: Terror - on June 11, 2004 at 12:05:00 PM CEST
Rumsfeld okayed torture methods: Report
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld had approved various methods of interrogating terror suspects, in a memo under which US military personnel at Guantanamo Bay could put prisoners in "stress positions" for four hours, hood them and subject them to 20-hour-long interrogations.
The approval, first in December 2002 and later in a January 8, 2003 memo, allowed for inflicting "fear of dogs", and "mild non-injurious physical contact", The Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 11, 2004 at 12:02:00 PM CEST
This is how you pick a pocket, or two
New Delhi police busted a gang of thieves last week and unwittingly unearthed a "school" which taught young boys the art of picking pockets and snatching cellphones, a report said on Friday.
Located in south Delhi, the school was run by two Sri Lankans who had arrived in the Indian capital 20 years ago, the Hindustan Times reported.
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Topic: W A R - on June 11, 2004 at 10:34:00 AM CEST
50,000 troops in Gulf illness scare
All 50,000 troops who served in the first Gulf war might have been exposed to low levels of chemical warfare agents during the fighting and its aftermath, a US investigation has suggested.
The implication of a Congressional report that large numbers of civilians and troops in Iraq and neighbouring countries could have been exposed will galvanise the controversy over illnesses suffered by more than 5,000 British veterans since 1991 that have been linked to their service in the Gulf.
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Topic: health - on June 11, 2004 at 10:24:00 AM CEST
Klage wegen Popcorn-Lunge
Ein Mitarbeiter einer Popcorn-Fabrik im US-Staat Iowa hat mehrere Hersteller von Aromastoffen auf Zahlung von Schmerzensgeld verklagt.
Der Arbeiter leidet unter der seltenen Atemwegserkrankung Bronchiolitis obliterans, die auch als „Popcorn-Verpacker-Lunge“ bekannt ist.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on June 11, 2004 at 10:12:00 AM CEST
Chinese waiters use customer's card to buy cellphones while he waits
They can probably forget about a tip.
A pair of Shanghai waiters were arrested after taking off with a customer's credit card and using it to buy mobile phones while he sat in their restaurant, the Shanghai Daily reported Friday. The diner, identified only by his surname, Zhu, had paid for lunch and was waiting for a receipt when the credit card company called. Had he just spent 25,000 yuan ($4,100 Cdn) on new cell phones? Waiters Ling Hong and Wang Luole were arrested soon afterward and charged with theft, the paper said.
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