German WWII assault gun stolen near Moscow

A rare German-made self-propelled assault gun has disappeared from a memorial site at a small village in the Moscow region after being replaced with a copy during restoration, prosecutors stated on Monday. One of the few remaining Sturmgeschutz III Ausf D assault guns was dug up from a marsh in the 1980s and set up as a memorial near the village of Strokovo – the site of fierce battles during the German push on Moscow in 1941. The car was ...

Submited at Saturday, October 8th, 2011 at 2:00 am by sofia

One-armed man fined $200 in Belarus for clapping at unsanctioned rally

A court in Belarus fined a one-armed man for taking part in unsanctioned “clapping” protests in Minsk earlier in the week, Belarusian information website Khartiya-97 reported on Friday. “The court ruled that the disabled man by the name of Konstantin will have to pay a fine of 1.05 million Belarusian rubles [some $200],” the website said. The man was found guilty by the court of clapping in a public place. The fact that the man was clapping was proved by ...

Submited at Friday, July 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by madison

Russian retiree shoots wife instead of pig

A Russian pensioner is facing up to two years in jail for accidentally shooting his wife dead as he was preparing to kill a pig, the Investigative Committee regional directorate stated on Thursday. The 60-year-old resident of the Tula region, about 200 km south of Moscow, was loading a homemade firearm to shoot a pig when it accidentally went off, fatally injuring his wife who was standing nearby. The man has been charged with negligent homicide and ordered not to ...

Submited at Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by admin

California diver launches underwater search for bin Laden’s body

Eccentric California salvage diver and entrepreneur Bill Warren, 59, has announced that he wants to find Osama Bin Laden’s body as proof the al Qaeda leader is really dead, the New York Post said. “I’m doing it because I am a patriotic American who wants to know the truth. I do it for the world,” Warren told the paper. The almost decade-long hunt for the elusive al-Qaeda leader, believed to be the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, ended on May ...

Submited at Sunday, June 12th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by sofia

Clocks in Sicily inexplicably run ahead

For over a week digital clocks and watches in Sicily are complicating their owners by running more than 15 minutes fast, local media said. The mysterious time changes caught the attention of two young locals, who set up a Facebook page calling for those affected to come forward. One of the young men, Francesco Nicosia, told French on-line magazine Rue89 “I realised something was wrong when I started getting to work earlier. After some investigation I noticed that I was ...

Submited at Saturday, June 11th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by robert

Bite marks lead Russian police to rapist

A woman in Russia’s central Nizhny Novgorod Region helped to catch a man who raped her by biting his penis. The woman was raped in January 2011 in the grounds of the Dzerzhinsk Municipal Children’s Hospital. According to investigators, the suspect raped the victim and then threatened to kill her. The woman bit the man so hard that he had to go to hospital. The suspect was arrested in January, after police investigators had warned local hospitals that a man ...

Submited at Friday, June 10th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by chuck

Pigs cause traffic jam on Siberian bridge

Eight pigs in the West Siberian city of Novokuznetsk rocked and overturned a trailer on a bridge and escaped causing a huge traffic jam, a spokesman for the local traffic police department stated on Wednesday. “The pigs might have been under stress during the ride and started rocking the trailer,” the spokesman said. The truck’s driver, traffic police and sympathizers were catching the pigs,” he said. Other drivers wishing to cross the bridge faster helped haul the trailer away. NOVOKUZETSK, ...

Submited at Wednesday, June 8th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by admin

Chinese teen sells kidney to purchase iPad 2

A teenager in China’s Anhui Province sold his right kidney to purchase a new iPad 2, satellite TV channel Dongfang reported on Thursday. Seventeen-year-old Xiao Zheng had been dreaming of a new iPad 2 for a while, but the price was way beyond his means. Zheng found an agent ready to purchase his kidney on the world wide web and travelled to Hunan Province in central China to undergo surgery in a local hospital. With the 22,000 yen ($3,900) he ...

Submited at Thursday, June 2nd, 2011 at 9:00 pm by admin

U.S. couple creates Facebook profile for unborn baby

A young U.S. couple from Whitehouse, Texas, opened a Facebook profile for their unborn baby girl, Marriah Greene, U.S. media reported on Wednesday. The parents of the soon-to-be-born Marriah, Ellie and Matthew Greene, stated that they had created a page to inform the relatives and friends about Ellie’s pregnancy. “Everybody is on Facebook, all of our friends are on Facebook, things fly through Facebook now,” Ellie told the local KLTV TV channel, adding that within a day Marriah had over ...

Submited at Wednesday, June 1st, 2011 at 9:00 pm by sofia

Jobless man injures teenager with shotgun for ‘disrupting’ booze session

An unemployed man from Russia’s Krasnoyarsk region on Sunday wounded a teenager with a shotgun who was riding a noisy motorcycle and “disrupting” him while drinking, a local police source said. “A resident of [the town of] Sosnovoborsk, aged 52, had been drinking alcohol in his garage on Sunday evening. At the same time a college student, 16, was riding his motorbike between the garages,” a statement by the local police said. The intoxicated man decided that the noise coming ...

Submited at Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 9:00 pm by chuck