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Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
CANBERRA (Reuters) - An elderly man who went out to fetch a morning newspaper ended up driving nearly 400 miles after getting lost and taking a wrong turn onto a major Australian highway, police said on Wednesday. The man, 81-year-old Eric Steward, eventually stopped and asked for directions after driving for nine hours, from the New South Wales country town of Yass to Geelong in the southern Vi. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
SYDNEY (Reuters Life!) - New Zealand was on Wednesday named the world's least corrupt nation out of a list of 180 countries, unseating Denmark after a year in which the global recession and ongoing conflicts proved challenging.
The annual index by Transparency International ranked 180 countries on a scale of zero to 10 according to 13 independent surveys, with zero being perceived as highly c. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
A teenager who had been going door to door trying to sell marijuana early Thursday was arrested after he went to the residence of a Brownsville police officer, police said.
Anthony Carrazco, 19, was arrested at the officer’s apartment at approximately 3:30 a.m. when he tried to sell the officer three ounces of marijuana, said police spokesman Jimmy Manrrique. He was later charged with one cou. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
Unfriend - the act of removing someone as a friend from social networking site Facebook - has been named word of the year.
It topped a list heavy with tech-related terms in the New Oxford American Dictionary's Word of the Year list.
The verb, used across several social networking sites, has been defined by the dictionary as: "To remove someone as a 'friend' on a social networking site such. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
Seattle police say an intoxicated 25-year-old man, who told officers he believed he was a ninja, was impaled on a metal spike Monday night after a failed attempt to jump a 5-foot fence.
Around 11:15 p.m., officers responded to the 600 block of Seventh Avenue after a 41-year-old man called police to say he had been assaulted, said police spokeswoman Renee Witt. Officers arrived and found the i. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
A French hotel is offering guests the chance to live like a hamster for a day.
It's a unique concept according to its creators. A hotel in the French city of Nantes is offering the chance for people to become a hamster.
For 99 euros (£88) a night, visitors to the hotel in Nantes can feast on hamster grain, get a workout by running in a giant wheel and sleep in hay stacks in the suite call. . .
Posted 11/18/09 by InsayneJayne
MORRISVILLE, Vt. (AP) - What possesses a man to steal his ex-employer's bus, take it for a three-state joy ride and then post a video of the lark on YouTube? "It was inspired," Jacob Rehm, 38, said outside court Tuesday. "I felt inspired."
The vehicle's owner, Lamoille Valley Transportation, was not amused. Neither were authorities, who charged Rehm with theft of services, operating a vehicle. . .
Posted 11/17/09 by InsayneJayne
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