So, multi-medallist Michael Phelps has been given a token slap on the wrist after being photographed smoking cannabis at a party. Phelps has been banned from competition for three months, the ban ending just nicely in time for him to prepare for the US Championships on July 7th, a sort of trial for the World Championships in Rome two weeks …
Maybe Bruce doesn’t know yet!
According to reports in several Spanish newspapers, the Bruce Springsteen concert in Sevilla has been changed from July 30th to July 28th. Presumably this is just a switch with the existing Benidorm concert originally planned for July 28th. The official Bruce Springsteen website still shows Sevilla for the 30th.
In hot water…again
Jeremy Clarkson, no stranger to controversy, has found himself in deep water once again after describing Prime Minister Gordon Brown as ‘a one-eyed Scottish idiot’ during a trip to Australia.
Scepticism over death of Nazi war criminal
Nazi hunters who have spent decades searching for Aribert Heim, a death camp doctor who performed perverse medical experiments on inmates, have expressed serious doubts over recent claims that he is dead. If he were still alive, he would be 94 years old. Dr Aribert Heim, known at Mauthausen concentration camp as ‘Dr Death’, is said to have died in …
Mass expulsions from MySpace
The social networking website MySpace has removed 90,000 sex offenders from its website. The total is apparently double the figure anticipated by MySpace. Both MySpace and Facebook had earlier pledged to root out known sex offenders in an effort to make the sites safer for children. Last month, paedophile teacher Mark Little was jailed at Chester Crown Court for five …
Abandoned
Police in Laredo, Texas, found over 9,000 kilos of marijuana hidden in a school bus abandoned at the side of the road. No wonder they call it High School. The drugs, which have a retail value of around $4 million, were in 560 bundles hidden in false floors and ceilings. Someone is going to be in trouble for leaving that …
US executive salaries to be capped
US President Barack Obama has announced a ‘cap’ on executive pay for companies who are applying for government assistance, or ‘bail out’ money as it has become known. The President believes it is ‘shameful’ the way some firms, particularly banks, were awarding themselves huge bonuses at the same time as asking the government for money to keep them afloat.
It was a whopper
Green Anacondas are the world’s heaviest snakes, weighing in at around 250 kilos. Reticulated pythons are the world’s longest snakes, measuring up to 10 metres.
Happy Birthday Facebook
Facebook, the social network site, is celebrating its fifth birthday and users are getting a variety of virtual presents. It all started in 2004 as a college project to connect friends online but has now mushroomed to become the largest social network with an estimated 150 million members. MySpace, its closest rival, has about 130 million members, although the two …
Pigeon moussaka?
An Australian traveler returning home was detained at customs after officers discovered two eggs concealed in a vitamin jar. A further search revealed he had two pigeons and an undeclared aubergine down his trousers! The pigeons were wrapped in padded envelopes and held to his legs by a pair of tights.