Offbeat

Offbeat

Elderly Pakistani short listed for one way trip to the red Planet

An elderly Pakistani (according to his profile on the Community Mars One website) is among the hundred candidates from 200,000 hopefuls  who…

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Robot vaccuam cleaner eats woman’s hair

A woman whose hair was swallowed up by a robot vacuum cleaner while she was sleeping on the floor had…

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Transgender ex-elite US Navy seal commando to challenge US congressman

A transgender former member of the  US Navy SEAL's elite commandos unit, is mounting a challenge against the second-ranking Democrat…

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Death did not part them: Young couple locked in 6000 year eternal embrace

Archaeologists in southern Greece have discovered the grave of a man and woman buried as they died some 5,800 years…

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Shark eats Japanese man in Australia

A man was killed earlier this week after both his legs were apparently bitten off by a shark in eastern…

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Harvard varsity bans sex between students and professors

World renowned Harvard University has banned its faculty members from having sex with undergraduates, revising a (code of) conduct policy…

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Why do cats sleep in cardboard boxes?

Scientists may have cracked the answer to one of the great mysteries of the animal kingdom: why do cats sleep…

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Pigeons alot smarter then thought

The common pigeon, a permanent resident of all cities across the world, is smarter than we think although its brain…

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Colombia’s FARC rebels invite Miss Universe to attend peace talk

Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels have invited the newly-crowned Miss Universe Paulina Vega, a native of the country's Caribbean coast, to…

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