What follows is probably very imprecise. I have not been able to find it on any British news site, but it was reported in different forms by two Italian newspapers. This is my translation of the longer report, from today's La Repubblica.
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For the last five days Bombay's densely trafficked roads have been the hosts to a stationary 30-metre long wingless Boeing 737 ( Read more... )

Anyone who ever attended an Indian or Pakistani wedding knows that they are monumental events, with guests in the thousands and bride and groom dressed (and behaving) like a king and queen. Except that in a wedding that took place in a village in Bihar state recently, the prospective "king" fell rather short of expectations. He turned up at his ( Read more... )

The husband-and-wife pair of Andre' Agassi and Steffi Graf, representing probably about one-quarter of all the raw tennis talent existing in the world at large, were preparing to play a charity mixed doubles match in Houston, TX. Agassi swung his racket out for a backhand and caught his wife full in the face. She needed three stitches.

The Carabinieri, one of Italy's two nationwide police forces, must be spitting blood. They have the nicer uniforms, the longer history, and the tougher image - and when Italians tell stupid jokes, they tell them about them, not about their rivals. But their rivals, the Italian State Police (PS) have come up with a novelty worth five of that. ( Read more... )

From today's Sky News:

An Independent councillor who sold a woman with learning difficulties for sex has been given a 12-month suspended jail sentence.( Read more... )

Nobody with a modicum of self-control HAS to fall in love

(The author of the Roscesvalles blog, to be precise.)

Which goes to show that intelligent people can write the most fantastically idiotic things when they go outside their own areas of experience. IN other words, if you have never been in love, shut up about it.

The corporate mind continues to provide me with rich pickings for my You Couldn't Make It Up Department. From today's CNA bulletin:
LOUISVILLE,KY, February 23 (CNA) - The U.S. based Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) company, long known for its fast-food chicken is planning to sell fish for the first time and has asked for Pope Benedict XVI’s blessing ( Read more... )

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From AFP via Breitbart come these peculiar quotes from Iranian newspapers ( Read more... )