Topic: FUN - on August 13, 2004 at 12:38:00 PM CEST
"Gorilla" im Burgenland
Seit einigen Wochen treibt ein als Gorilla Verkleideter auf den Radwegen im Gebiet St. Margarethen, Rust und Oggau sein Unwesen. Mehrere Menschen sind dem zotteligen Ungetüm schon begegnet.
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Topic: NEWS - on August 13, 2004 at 11:54:00 AM CEST
Russian Researchers Say Debris of Alien Spaceship found in Siberia
Members of a special expedition researching the site of the famous Tunguska meteorite fall have claimed they had discovered parts of an extraterrestrial device.
The expedition, organized by the Siberian Public State Foundation “Tunguska Space Phenomenon” completed its work on the scene of Tunguska meteorite fall on August 9. It was the first expedition to the region since 2000. Guided by the space photos, the researchers scanned a wider territory in the vicinity of the Poligusa village for parts of the space object that crashed into Earth in 1908 and was later called the Tunguska meteorite.
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Topic: Terror - on August 13, 2004 at 11:48:00 AM CEST
Inside Al-Qaeda’s Hard Drive
Eventually he led me to a semiliterate jewelry salesman with wide-set eyes and a penchant for gold chains. This was the man who that December would take $1,100 from me in exchange for two of al-Qaeda's most valuable computers—a 40-gigabyte IBM desktop and a Compaq laptop. He had stolen them from al-Qaeda's central office in Kabul on November 12, the night before the city fell to the Northern Alliance. He wanted the money, he said, so that he could travel to the United States and meet some American girls.
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Topic: DRUGS - on August 13, 2004 at 11:45:00 AM CEST
'Spot Pot, Get A Lot' program gives tipsters $$
Utah hunters are being asked to keep their eye out for a different type of wildlife than what they're used to: marijuana plants.
Hikers, hunters, 4-wheelers and other outdoor enthusiasts have been successful in spotting entire groves of the illegal plants in Wasatch Front canyons. Thousands of plants worth millions of dollars have only been found with help from citizens, Townsend said. "When you pluck up 9,000 plants in the canyons, it leads you to believe there's more than we're aware of," he said.
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Topic: SPORT - on August 13, 2004 at 11:33:00 AM CEST
So much to see in the Olympic swimming pool
British Olympic swimmers are to have their modesty protected after discovering their swimsuits are see-through in water.
Members of the British female triathlon team have had special "modesty patches" fitted to their swimsuits.
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Topic: POLICE REPORT - on August 13, 2004 at 11:27:00 AM CEST
Moose breaks into grocery store
Arne Halberg thought his store was being robbed when its security alarm started howling early Thursday. The prowler turned out to be a moose, who apparently was hungry or confused, or both.
The moose, who may also have been somewhat mentally disturbed, first crashed through the main window of the grocery story in Elverum, just east of Hamar.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:25:00 AM CEST
Flowery carpet for Brussels
How to improve a city plaza where a wispy Gothic spire towers over exquisitely preserved medieval guild houses, a market square that writer Victor Hugo, a one-time resident, called Europe's most beautiful?
Belgians try to do it with flowers. For one weekend every two years, they carpet the Grand Place with about 800,000 begonia blossoms, creating intricate designs evoking images ranging from archangels to the gardens of Versailles.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:20:00 AM CEST
TV Nudeswomen to Reveal the Bare Facts
It aims to be, literally, the naked truth.
Starting nightly from Aug. 16, Get Lucky TV will broadcast via satellite to European audiences the daily news read by a series of nubile young women who will gradually -- but tastefully -- remove their clothes on camera.
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Topic: NEWS english - on August 13, 2004 at 11:14:00 AM CEST
7th-graders back in lemonade business
Two seventh-grade girls really know a thing or two about turning lemons into lemonade. They were doing a booming business at their lemonade stand Wednesday - a day after a neighbor complained and the city Health Department temporarily put them out of business.
Mim Murray, 10, and Marisa Miller-Stockie, 12, of St. Louis, have sold lemonade together for three summers, hoping to save enough for laptop computers before school starts.
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Topic: SCIENCE - on August 13, 2004 at 11:13:00 AM CEST
Monkeys Turned into Workaholics
By suppressing a gene in their brains, scientists at the National Institute of Health have managed to turn procrastinating monkeys into workaholics.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2004 at 11:12:00 AM CEST
Ants Form Supercolony Spanning 60 Miles
Normally clannish and agressive Argentine ants have become so laid back since arriving in Australia decades ago that they no longer fight neighboring nests and have formed a supercolony here that spans 60 miles, scientists say.
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Topic: NATURE - on August 13, 2004 at 11:11:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Bees Swarm Neighborhood
A Santa Ana neighborhood is getting back to normal after thousands of bees swarmed the streets this afternoon, stinging bystanders, firefighters and news reporters.
A woman and little girl were hospitalized after being stung.
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