Amongst the bizarre loot found in almost deposed Colonel Gadhafi’s military compound in Tripoli was a photo album.
Oh, ha ha ha
Comedian Nick Helm has won the award for the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe with: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.” If your belly isn’t aching enough already, here are the Top Ten jokes from the Fringe: Jokes
No opinions allowed
The rock band Kiss have been removed from the bill of a Michael Jackson tribute concert in Cardiff and the organisers have been criticised for booking the band after comments made by bassist Gene Simmons in an interview with Classic Rock magazine last February. During the interview he said: “Where there’s smoke there’s fire. There’s no question in my mind …
What a homecoming surprise
In most other countries it would be burglary, breaking and entering, criminal damage and a host of other charges leading to a spell in jail, but not in the UK for some reason, they just move next door. With so many similar cases occurring over the years, why there has been no review and amendment to the law relating to …
Let ’em all stay
You couldn’t make it up. A judge in the UK shortened the sentence of Jamaican drug dealer Vincent Miller, who had previously been deported twice and stole identities to return and evade capture for ten years, to prevent him being deported (again) on the grounds that sending him home would be ‘devastating’ for his three children.
Home comforts
I suppose if you have the money, but ostentatious or what! Ashton Kutcher’s villa on wheels. It will come as no surprise to learn that Mariah Carey had one of these once. But at $8,750 a week…
Quest for speed
A test flight of an experimental aircraft, subtly named the Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2, capable of speeds of 20 times the speed of sound ended prematurely on Thursday morning when the arrowhead-shaped plane failed and stopped sending back real-time data to engineers and scientists who were monitoring the mission. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle 2 – Fail
DIY atom splitting
Richard Handl, a Swedish man who tried to set up a nuclear reactor in his kitchen at home, has admitted his plan was “crazy” and said that he had jsut been curious and wanted to see if he would be able to split an atom.
The bigger Apple
Apple now has more cash to spend than the United States government, the latest figures from the US Treasury Department showing that the country has an operating cash balance of $73.7bn while Apple’s most recent financial results put its reserves at $76.4bn.
The perils of sleeping soundly
A 50-year-old South African man was rather taken aback when he woke up inside a mortuary at the weekend and screamed to be let out, an action which only scared away attendants who thought he was a ghost.