Saturday
A 6 year old Mexican boy has been fined by traffic police for riding his toy motorcycle, a Christmas gift to him, arrested for reckless driving after he crashed onto a car.
The Duchess of York 52 year old Sarah Ferguson faces more than 20 years in jail after Turkey authorities charged her for breaching privacy of orphans in that country by secretly filming them for a T.V. documentary.
A British Government Survey has now estimated that youth ends at 32 while old age begins at 54 years.
Weather forecasters in South Africa have been threatened with prison sentence if they got the predictions wrong, 10 years in prison or fine up to 800,000 pounds for any incorrect weather warnings without official permission.
An 18 year old youth in Mumbai had a miraculous escape when he fell from the terrace of his 13th floor building he ended with only a leg fracture first he fell on a tree then on his father’s car.
Scientists say they have discovered a compound called “Parabens” a chemical used in daily toilet products and food products in tumours of 40 breast cancer patients.
Sunday
A group of thieves in Fallow Field Manchester prepared for months and dug a tunnel to reach an ATM only to get away with 6000 pounds due to limited funds in the machine.
Internet addiction has for the first time been linked with changes in the brain similar to those people addicted to alcohol, cocaine and cannabis according to a consultant psychiatrist at Imperial College, London.
A 90 year old Chinese man got struck up on the window edge of his 8th floor flats when he tried to pickup his keys he accidentally dropped through the window still, he was spotted by passerby and rescued by firefighters.
New maps produced by the Layman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) abroad NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed features of the moon’s Northern and Southern pole regions, hitherto were in the dark.
Researchers from Cambridge University who examined variations in earth’s orbit and global climate patterns calculated that the next ice age should begin within the next 1500 years.
A villager in provincial, Russia has caused a national scandal after finding 79 assault rifles in the crates of logs that he bought to use as firewood. The logs were supposed to be disposed from the factory where the rifles are manufactured.
A French Court has ordered to pay 146,000 Euros to a passenger who said that he was served with poisoned coffee on a flight in 2006. The man sued Air France for using Toxic liquid used to clean drains in the coffee.
Monday
Researchers at Cambridge University have managed to grow the three types of veins and arteries in a laboratory which were 90% effective in tests.
Normally travellers leave a lot of their belongings in the travel lodge but in a bizarre incident staff at a Nuneatan travel lodge got a Christmas surprise when they found an 18 month old baby was accidentally left behind.
A team at Lancashire University has found out when people are bored at work they think of having some chocolate or a hot coffee even plan to hit the bar after leaving office.
To put an end to the age old debate a study by dozens of academics from across the World have now confirmed that money can buy happiness.
In a worst fire accident a part of the Chepauk Palace a heritage building was destroyed by fire, in the fire fighting process a fireman was killed and 3 others were badly injured.
South America’s Pygmy Marmosets are the World’s smallest monkeys weighing only 5 ounces with a body just 5 inches long.
The grand son of slain Baloch Nationalist Akbar Bugti has put a bounty worth Rs 10 crore on Pakistan’s former military ruler Perverz Musharraf’s head.
The captain of the Italian luxury ship Costa Concordia has been arrested for abandoning the ship before all the passengers were safe violating the Navigation code.
Tuesday
The World’s biggest Quran has been unveiled in a ceremony at a library in Kabul Afghanistan the Afghan calligrapher has taken 5 years to create the World’s biggest Quran.
Chennai registered its lowest temperature in 22 years on Tuesday night with the Mercury dipping to 17.7 Celsius. The last time Chennai register 16.9 degrees Celsius was in January 1990.
British Scientists have found scores of fossils collected by evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his piers that had been lost for around 150 years.
Researchers at the University of the Minnesota have found those children who secure bond with their mothers during the first 18 months are likely to have more successful relationship later on in life.
Satyendra Singh Huja the only Sikh resident of Charlottesville, 120 miles South West of Washington having a population of 43,000 has been unanimously elected as the Mayor of Charlottesville a historic city in Virginia.
persons were killed and over 112 were injured during the World famous Jallikattu held in Tamil Nadu during Pongal Festival.
One of the cooks of the Cruise ship Costa Concordia that capsized off Italy said the captain of the ship ordered him to make his dinner after the ship had crashed onto rocks.
Wednesday
66 year old Tacome who was climbing Mount Rainier in Washington said he brunt his socks and money to keep himself warm after getting lost in a blizzard.
A 21 year old student was allegedly raped live by a 31 year old male model on television in front of millions of viewers in Brazil.
14 year old Parmeswaran from Dharmapuri who saved 3 girls who were about to be drowned in a pond will be one of the 24 children to receive National bravery award from the Prime Minister on the Republic day.
Scientists have claimed that chunks of Meteorite which fell in Morocco last July were from Mars a rare event which happened for the first time in 50 years.
German dictator Adolf Hitler’s book the Mein Kampf will be reprinted for the first time since the Nazi dictator’s fall in 1945 just as Holocaust survivors hit at the move.
Russian scientists claim that a hardy type bacteria recently discovered in the permafrost of Siberia could help slow down the ageing process.
Swiss survivors have revealed the theme tune of Hollywood’s blockbuster Titanic was played in Costa Concordia as it suddenly foundered on rocks.
Thursday
132 year old America’s best known photographic icons who invented Hand held cameras, Roll type films, digital cameras etc Kodak has filed bankruptcy protection.
A team at Chell General Hospital in Seoul, South Korea found various rations of two enzymes which can be extracted from pregnant mothers blood indicate the baby’s gender as early as five or six weeks.
Scientists of IBM Researchers in Zurich have created a miniature World Map measuring 22 by 11 micrometres which has been accepted by Guinness World Records as the World’s Smallest World 3D Map.
U.S scientists at Boston School of medicine are working on a blood test which will reveal who will live up to 100 years.
A 65 year old woman in the U.S has been arrested at Fortworth International airport Texas for carrying a loaded 38 calibre revolver in her hand bag.
Chef K. Damoderan the first Indian to get a doctorate in hotel management will cook 16000 kgs chicken biriyani in Paddappai a village near Chennai on 17th March his second attempt to enter Guinness Book of World Records.
A 1.95 metre tall Bronze sculpture of Mahatma Gandhi was unveiled in a University in Southern Australian city Adelaide. The sculpture was created by Indian sculptor Gautam Pal.
Friday
31 year old student Bryony Balen has become the youngest Britain to Ski from the edge of Antarctica land mass at the Hercules Inlet to the geographic South Pole. He skied 1134.9 kms in 56 days.
A 29 year old South African woman has been arrested for murder over allegations that she sliced open a pregnant woman and kidnapped the baby and left the mother to die.
Canteen staff at a Crown court in East London is being questioned by police after food which is provided for judges and barristers were allegedly laced with urine.
Iran has closed down dozens of toy shops for selling Barbie dolls; their aim is to fight western cultural influence in the country.
Researchers claim to have found evidence that 86 medical disorders are linked to lack of sleep which if left untreated can raise the risk of developing other illness.
Pakistani police have arrested a man who pretended to be an army lieutenant general and called up government ministers and politicians and fooled them into doing him favours.
According to Travel & Leisure Magazine’s survey, New York the mega metropolis is the rudest city among the top 20 rudest cities in America followed by Miami, Washington DC, Los Angeles and Boston.
The Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh is one of the five World leaders whom United States President Barrack Obama considers to be his nearest and dearest friend in the global stage.