THE WORLD LAST WEEK -GLOBAL WARMING
August 30th, 2009 at 10:40 pm (World Last Week)
Saturday
Two women were thrashed, tonsured and paraded naked by the residents of Butgodar Village in Jharkhand and finally they were forced to drink their urine for allegedly killing a youth by witchcraft.
In a freak accident a 5 year old girl who ran out to welcome her father was crushed to death after her father accidentally pressed the accelerator instead of the brake pedal at Adambakkam, Chennai.
A new study suggests that global warming may heat up the oceans to the extent that it could cause the earth’s axis to tilt from its 23.5 degrees from the vertical in the coming century.
64-year-old former London Mayor a keen Newt-fancier is getting married to a 41 year old lady in the city’s zoo. He has vowed to set the gorillas on any uninvited guests.
Eight detonations were found in the school bag of a seven year old second standard student. The boy said he found the detonators from the waste dump in the school compound. Timely action averted a worst disaster in the classroom.
Sunday
A barber who has a Barbershop in Central London was recently flown over Brunei for trimming the Sultan of Brunei’s hair and gets paid 15000 sterling pounds.
A scientist of Indian origin from Iowa State University has created a new super computer called Cystorn, which can carry out 28.16 trillion calculations per second.
A six year old boy has landed a dream job at the National Museum in England after, applying for the post he saw advertised in the news papers. The staff of the museum was so impressed the 6 year old was appointed a honorary Director of Fun at the Museum.
Two-time legislator and once an MP 71 year old Narayan Sahu wants to become a Master of Philosophy and enrolled himself at Utkal University Bubaneshwarar for the postgraduate course.
55 year old Martin Strel with bulging belly has had the most adventurous swim in the world. Strel has successfully swam non stop along the dangerous Amazon covering 3274 miles in 66 days.
Monday
A homeless man in Sydney, Australia earns up to 50,000 dollars annually by begging outside a store in Sydney. He sits up for 16 hours a day, seven days a week.
A man who used a public toilet in a shopping mall in Australia had to be taken to a hospital to remove the toilet seat from his back as some one smeared the toilet seat with glue. The hospital used industrial solvents to remove the pasted seat cover from his back.
A fake driving license has been issued in the name of the Congress General Sectary Rahul Gandhi in Bihar’s Saran District. The license also mentioned Mr Gandhiji’s father name as Rajiv Gandhi.
A Cincinnati man Bennie Crabtree is most arrested man in Hamilton county records show that he has been arrested 146 times since 1998. The police also say that he was arrested many more times in decades before that.
According to data released in the United States the number of women, driving under the influence of alcohol is rising fast. The FBI says the trend is very alarming.
Thuesday
A devotee from Mumbai whose name has been kept secret has donated a diamond studded gold crown worth 1.3 crore to the Shri Sathya Saibaba Temple in Shirdi.
Maharashtra Cabinet appears to upstage a 309 feet statue of Maratha King Shivaji off Mumbai’s Cost. Once erected the statue would be four feet taller than the statue of Liberty in America, which is only 305 feet tall.
A two and a half year old Jain boy Manan Sanghavi from Mumbai did Paryirshan a fast for 40 hours. The boy did not eat any food since 5.00 pm on 15th August and drank only boiled water till 17th August.
The 38 year old assailant who short dead an elderly couple in Panaiyur dies in Police custody. This is the second custodial death in Adyar during last eight days.
A 46-year-old woman has been arrested having poisoned 28 stray dogs and 20 birds including crows and kites in a village near Selam to avenge the death of her goat that was bitten by a stray dog.
Wednesday
77 year old Edward Kennedy the last stalwart of the famous Kennedy Dynasty and one hailed as the ‘Lion of Senators’ dies of brain cancer in the United States.
A pair of scissors was left in a woman’s abdomen at an Orissa hospital during a surgery 6 years ago was removed after lot of pain and expense. The state Government ordered to pay her Rs.50,000 and take action against the doctors concerned.
Bandu Doshi a 39 year old diabetic died after eating 6 to 7 laddus in a laddu eating competition organized by a private FM Radio Channel in Hyderabad.
A 33 year old man was arrested in Florida for leaving his 4 and 3 year old children in his car while he was in a strip club drinking in the bar.
Indian woman are the worst among the world when it comes to smoking according to the latest tobacco Atlas India the ranks third, United States on top and China next.
Thursday
A six year old boy in Australia took a kitchen knife to school and threatened to stab a classmate after an argument over a paper aeroplane.
17 year old Mike Perhan former Britain has become the youngest person to sail solo around the world enters the British waters after 156 days at sea.
A British build steam car has broken the land speed record for steam-powered cars for the first time in 100 years after it achieved an average speed of 225 KMPH.
A Metropolitan Magistrate posted at Delhi’s Tis Hazar Courts was taken to task when he was caught with a call girl in a rented house in Panipet.
Thulu Borah now 63 years who hails from Central Assam Town of Tezpur has been voluntarily languishing in a secluded room in his house for the last 47 years. He has not been seen or heard outside his residence since 1962.
Friday
A woman in Sanfancisco who was kidnapped when she was 11 years old has been reunited with her family after 18 years.She was kept in a hidden backyard and had two children with her abductor.
A 50 year old angry shopper after a dispute over the delivery of a bed drove his 1983 Rollys Royce 15 feet into a Tesca super store injuring 6 sales girls.
A 7 year old boy in Britian was celebrating after passing the High School Maths exam which is normally undertaken by students twice his age.
An 11 year old boy travelled more than 1000 kms by bus to the US border in search of his mother who lives in Laredo, Texas. He was in good shape after traveling and awaits contacts with his relatives.
A rare surgery to remove a lung abnormality described as a first in medical history was successfully performed at a Chennai hospital on a 48 year old patient who suffers from bleeding while coughing since birth.
