News Flash From All Over The World

Love Blossoms From Dreamland

2007-04-26T22:02:00.000-07:00

LONDON

Love can come from anywhere. An Englishman, David Brown (24), got a wife after calling the phone number he obtained from his dream. It started when Brown got up one morning after a night out with his friends. In his sleep a phone number kept circling his head. Finally Brown decided to call the number and left a message, "Did we meet last night?". On the other end of the phone was Michelle Kitson (22). Initially she was confused to receive a call from a stranger. However she decided to reply the phone. They both started to exchange messages. After a while they met and fell in love. "I was feeling a bit awkward at first, but I fell for him in the end." Said Kitson to Daily Mail newspaper. "Mom and Dad warned me 'he could be a serial killer on the move'. But I knew there was something special in him." Continued Kitson. After going on a date for sometime, this couple got married and went to Goa India for honeymoon. Brown said :"I don't know how her phone number could get into my head. Her number only differs a little from mine." Brown could be a psychic without his realising it, don't you think?

The Power Of Faith

2007-04-26T21:52:00.000-07:00

JAMMU

A Hindu disciple in city of Jammu, Kashmir India, Suresh Kumar (24) cut his tongue and presented it to God. He had to be treated in hospital for that. So it was stated by the local police on Wednesday (11 April 2007). The doctor said that Suresh was unlikely to be able to speak anymore after losing his tongue. Suresh did that on Tuesday (10 April 2007) night in a temple that worshipped God Kali in the suburb of Jammu. He used a knife to cut his tongue and gave it to a priest to present to God. He was soon run to hospital afterwards."I am a loyal disciple and my strong faith gave me the strength to present my tongue." So Suresh wrote on a piece of paper when got visited by reporters in the hospital.

An Amazing Detective Grandma

2007-04-15T22:05:00.000-07:00

BERLIN

Marple was a brave and intelligent grandma. This 95 years old grandma succeeded in solving a series of mysterious thefts in her nursing home. It all started when she got upset because thefts often happened in the nursing home she lived in. She decided to put an end to the thefts once and for all. She then set up a trap. She put some money on the table in her room. She went inside the toilet and watched out from there. Her trap turned out to work just fine. A janitor was seen entering the room and took the money. He was not aware that he was being monitored by the grandma. The grandma soon pressed the alarm button in the toilet to let people in the nursing home know there was a thief. The staff of the nursing home caught the thief red handed. The janitor later admitted to the police that he was the thief in the nursing home that was located near resort Bad Lobenstein in Germany. "It turns out that there is still a brave old lady there." Said the police spokesperson, Thursday (5 April 2007).

Crime Out Of Love

2007-04-15T22:00:00.000-07:00

SYDNEY

A husband and wife, sentenced to 5 year imprisonment in year 2001 for murdering their blind and mentally retarded child, was freed by Sydney court order on Wednesday, 4 April 2007. A judge said that they did the crime out of love. The prosecutor sued Raymond Sutton (63) and his wife, Margaret Sutton (60). They were found guilty in 2001 by New South Wales high court of murdering their son Matthew (28). At that time, judge Graham Barr sentenced them to 5 year imprisonment provided that they were well behaved. Should they misbehave within that 5 year, they both would then be imprisoned for 25 years. It was not mentioned how the son was murdered. The parents, however, got deeply depressed and stressed having done what they did. The son, who was blind by birth and loved music, "died" one day before undergoing brain surgery to recover his hearing and smelling senses. "With all our love to Matt, we borrowed his courage and spirit to free him from all misery and diseases." Said Margaret Sutton. In court Raymond Sutton said that their son was given a sleeping pill before "being freed from the world". Their statements showed that they were very depressed indeed.

After Tsunami In Thailand

2007-03-04T04:10:00.000-08:00

BANGKOK
26 Desember 2004, the world was horrified by the damages Tsunami caused. The world got together to give aids to those countries badly affected, like Indonesia and Thailand. There was news that most aids coming from worldwide did not reach the victims in Indonesia. The victims were not well taken care of. Things were different in Thailand. Even the spirits of the dead were put at ease. According to news agency Agence France Presse, 20 February 2007, 2 years after Tsunami, the spirit experts had been busy purifying the wondering spirits of the dead whose lives were taken away by force. The ritual giving respect to the dead was performed regularly. The latest issue was the making of a statue by an American artist of French descendant, Louise Bourgeois (96). The statue was placed at Nopparat beach, Krabi province, with background Phi Phi islands, which got heavily damaged by Tsunami. 700 tourists died there. One part of the statue depicted a kid’s hand waving for help. Another part of the statue depicted the hands of a man and a woman. “Those hands are like saying ‘I won’t let go. Don’t let me drift away. Hold me tight forever.’.” Said Bourgeois. There were 5400 victims of Tsunami in Thailand.

Anti Discrimination Laws

2007-03-04T04:07:00.000-08:00

BEIJING
Discrimination is common to happen in many countries. China, however, is planning to issue laws that forbid discrimination, as reported by News Agency Xinhua, Monday (26 February 2007). For instance, a job-seeker who is not given a chance due to old age, physical shortcomings will be protected by the laws. A job-seeker that gets rejected due to belonging to a certain religious sect, or coming from a certain ethnical group will also be protected by the above laws. If only such laws exist all over the world…wonderful, isn’t it?

Fake Secret Lover Wanted!

2007-03-04T04:01:00.000-08:00

BEIJING
A businessman, name unrevealed, put an ad in a well-known site sina.com. It looked for a female, aged 35, to act as his fake secret lover. Her job was to show up only when his wife suspected him of having a secret lover. To ease his wife’s anger, the female should show up in front of his wife and be prepared to be beaten up or yelled at. She should bear the abuse until his wife was completely done expressing her disgust and anger, and no more hard feelings towards him. His intention was to deceive his wife so as not to lay hands on his real secret lover. That way he would be able to keep seeing his secret lover and make his wife happy at the same time. Already 10 women offered themselves to take the job which paid about USD 360 per 10 minutes. The selected contestant would only get paid if she did act.

SMS And Get Arrested

2007-02-26T07:04:00.000-08:00

MURRAY
Short message known as SMS not only can make romance blossom, it also can make your fiancé angry due to "black" SMS. In fact SMS can cause someone to get arrested. A teacher sent SMS to a drug dealer to ask for delivery of his share of narcotics. Do you know who the SMS was mis-sent to? To a US soldier by the name of Trooper Trevor Pervine, who was having lunch with his wife to celebrate parents’ day. Pervine thought someone was playing a practical joke and didn’t take it seriously. However the following series of pushy SMS’s that kept landing on his mobile phone became too much for him. Pervine then contacted the police in Kentucky State, USA and called the SMS sender. The sender turned out to be a teacher by the name of Ann Greenfield, aged 34, a resident of Murray. Greenfield agreed to meet and later arrested. The teacher, supposedly an example of a good citizen, was finally expelled and put on trial. (Reuters, February 2007)

Travel Cheap And Be A Tourism Ambassador

2007-02-26T06:55:00.000-08:00

BANGKOK
Issan northeast of Thailand is one of the poorest province. Many women from this panoramic area made a living outside Issan like Bangkok. Quite a few of them end up married to foreigners. No mention about how they came into contact the first time. Thailand tourism authority for northeast area, Sunday (25 February 2007) in Bangkok, was smart enough to utilize this situation. “We want to encourage these foreigner-husbands, which is quite a lot, to tour northeast Thailand.” Said Somporn Chaloothong, a tourism officer in Khon Kaen. 15 foreigner-husbands were then selected to enjoy the scenery, menu and the culture along the journey that will take place from 3-4th March 2007. They only need to pay about USD 30,= Very cheap indeed, however they should become Thailand tourism ambassadors in the country they come from. These foreigner-husbands agreed. They will be happy to tell about the culture, scenery, and hospitality of northeast Thailand. This idea of Thailand authority is quite original. Perhaps due to having wonderful wives, those foreigner-husbands are eager to be tourism ambassadors the way they were eager to wed their lovely wives. (Reuters)

Keep It Cold And Collect Pension

2007-02-23T07:54:00.000-08:00

MILAN
Gaetano Sivieri,aged 63,an Italian, was accused of hiding his father’s dead body inside his refrigerator for 2 years. He did that so that he could get his father’s pension. “I need the money.” He told the police, as reported by Reuters, Thursday 22 Feb 2007. According to news agency Ansa, Sivieri succeeded in collecting 105,000 USD of his father’s pension. As a result of his deeds, Sivieri would be charged of cheating and hiding corpse. However it wasn’t stated how the police found out about it.

Irresponsible Doctors

2007-02-23T07:44:00.000-08:00

BELGRADE
2 doctors in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, qualify as irresponsible doctors. They abandoned a patient in the middle of an operation just to fight. So ‘Politika’ newspaper 21 Feb 2007, Wednesday edition reported. It all started when surgeon Spasoje Radulovic was operating his patient’s appendix. When the surgery was taking place, all of a sudden doctor Dragan Vukanic entered the room and scolded Radulovic. An Anesthesist on duty there said, not only did Vukanic scold Radulovic, he also pinched Radulovic’s ear, slapped his face, then went out. Not accepting the abuse, Radulovic ran after Vukanic and striked back. Due to this sudden attack, Vukanic ended up having bruises, broken lips and teeth, and a broken finger. By the way, how about the patient surgery, did you ask? Fortunately the assistant doctor took over the operation and finished the neglected job well.