Posted on Wednesday, 7th July 2010 by Interloper
Cheryl Cole, X Factor judge, solo artist, hot tamale and member of the pop group Girls Aloud, is believed to have contracted malaria during a recent holiday to Tanzania.
Cole is said to have collapsed during a photo shoot earlier this week, before being rushed to hospital to receive treatment.
Despite the existence of a vaccine, malaria [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 6th July 2010 by Interloper
Authorities in Pennsylvania were recently alerted to the fact that an old woman was living with the exhumed remains of both her husband and twin sister.
The 91-year-old widow had the bodies of her loved ones dug up shortly after each of them were buried and placed the embalmed corpses on couches. Her sister was afforded [...]
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Posted on Monday, 5th July 2010 by Interloper
A missing letter by a famous philosopher, a mathematics professor who doubles as a document thief and a journey across the seas to a new colony… such a story could have all the trappings of a Hollywood blockbuster. But just such a tale came to light recently when a lost letter by philosopher René Descartes, [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 22nd June 2010 by Interloper
In this “modern age” of ours, you could be forgiven for assuming that if somebody was going to attack you, they might use a firearm to do it.
Clearly, things are different in Utah where a man was recently attacked in the forest… by a spearman.
The victim, who is reportedly in “fair” condition (sounds like a [...]
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Posted on Monday, 21st June 2010 by Interloper
Back in March, Los Angeles police received a report that a man was “causing a commotion” in Venice.
As it turns out that man was Nicholas Brendon, better known to many by his Buffy the Vampire Slayer moniker of Xander Harris. Brendon allegedly threw punches at police officers and attempted to flee on foot before he [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 16th June 2010 by Interloper
I found this recent ABC News update mildly disturbing, particularly the part where one professor tells that vehicles in the future could be “bristling” (his word, not mine) with “little insect eyes and brains”.
Researchers in the physiology department at the University of Adelaide have been working with flies to determine how the insects judge the [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 8th June 2010 by Interloper
Growing up in Australia, you are taught from a young age to be wary of the multitude of deadly things that could be lurking beneath your feet at any given moment. These range from brown snakes, to redback spiders and even blue-ringed octopodes; all the colours of the deadly colours of the rainbow.
But even though [...]
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Posted on Friday, 4th June 2010 by Interloper
As many as 1,000 blondes took to the streets in Riga last week, in an effort to bring “positive energy” to the people of Latvia.
The Blonde Parade formed part of Riga’s annual “Go Blonde” festival and was organised by the Latvian Association of Blondes (called LAB).
“…small things like a playground or a blonde parade can [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 2nd June 2010 by Interloper
By now you’ve probably already seen terrifying pictures of the Guatemalan sinkhole.
Severe tropical storms are believed to have triggered the appearance of the 30-metre-deep (almost 100 feet) hole, which swallowed a three-storey building and left an eerily symmetrical wound in the Earth. Surprisingly, no human lives were lost, despite unsubstantiated reports by a local newspaper [...]
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Posted on Friday, 21st May 2010 by Interloper
A strange and frightening creature has allegedly washed up on a beach near a Canadian town with the unlikely name of Kitchenuhmaykoosib.
The creature was discovered by two hikers who were walking their dogs, when one of the animals is said to have dragged the corpse out of the water. The hikers took photographs of the [...]
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