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Giant pregnant Burmese python caught in Florida

The largest Burmese python ever found in Florida has been caught in the Everglades, scientists said Tuesday, and it contained 87 eggs -- also thought to be a record.“This thing is monstrous, it‘s about a foot wide,” Kenneth Krysko, the herpetology collection manager at the Florida Museum of Natural History, said of the 17-foot-7-inch (5.35-meter) creature.Scientists at the University of Florida-based museum examined the 164.5-pound (74.5-kilogram) snake on Friday as part of a government research

Technology Aug. 14, 2012

Giant pregnant Burmese python caught in Florida

Man selling ‘Michael Jackson’ bird poop

A Chicago-area man put the windshield of his car up for auction because it has a bird dropping he says looks like the late pop star Michael Jackson.“One of two things will happen,” said owner Brandon Tudor, an Oswego salesman and father of three. “It will go for an astronomical amount or I‘ll get nothing.”Tudor, 29, said he was driving along U.S. Highway 30 near Big Rock Wednesday when bird poop hit the windshield of his 1996 Cadillac Seville, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.He said he immediatel

Aug. 14, 2012

Harry, Amelia top baby names in Britain

The Office of National Statistics for England and Wales said the top baby names for 2011 were Harry for boys and Amelia for girls.The office said Harry was followed on the list by Oliver, Jack, Alfie, Charlie, Thomas, Jacob, James, Joshua and William.Meanwhile, Amelia was followed on the girls‘ list by Olivia, Lily, Jessica, Emily, Sophie, Ruby, Grace, Ava and Isabella.“There are a number of possible reasons why the popularity of baby names can change over time,” the office said in a release. “T

Aug. 14, 2012

Jennifer Aniston is engaged to screenwriter Justin Theroux

For the first time after her ill-fated break-up with Brad Pitt, US actress Jennifer Aniston is engaged to be married again -- this time to a much less known actor-screenwriter, Justin Theroux, his publicist announced late Sunday.“Justin Theroux had an amazing birthday on Friday, receiving an extraordinary gift when his girlfriend, Jennifer Aniston, accepted his proposal of marriage,” Theroux‘s representative told People magazine.According to the magazine, the couple, who both starred in the movi

Film Aug. 13, 2012

Man, 76: Mom of girlfriend, 25, approves

A 76-year-old British lawyer who left his 55-year-old girlfriend, a judge, for a paralegal who is 25 says he has the blessing of the young woman‘s mother.Anthony Arlidge of London said he met Heather Lockwood last September and they quickly fell in love, causing him to end his relationship with Judge Constance Briscoe and move out of her $1.5 million home to get an apartment with Lockwood, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday.Arlidge said he and Lockwood are “very happy” together.“I’ve met her mo

World News Aug. 13, 2012

Unique dime sells for $1.84m

A unique dime minted in 1873 in Carson City, Nev., sold at auction in Philadelphia for considerably more than its face value -- $1.84 million.The “No Arrows” dime went to an anonymous buyer in the auction at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, KYW News Radio reported. It was described as the world‘s most valuable dime. Coin Update News said the dime was probably sent to Philadelphia for assay and was supposed to be melted down along with others in the series because the weight of

World News Aug. 12, 2012

Bear family consumes 100 cans of beer

A mama bear and her three cubs are suspected of breaking into a cabin in northern Norway and knocking back more than 100 cans of beer, officials said.“They had a hell of a party in there,” cabin owner Even Borthen Nilsen told NRK. “The cabin has the stench of a right old piss up, trash and bears.”The bear family is believed to have ripped a wall off of the cabin to gain entry, The Local.no reported.“The entire cabin was destroyed,” Nilsen told the local Finnmarken.no daily.“The beds and all kitc

World News Aug. 12, 2012

Study: Men equally affectionate as wives

A study by the University of Texas found husbands and wives are equally romantic, but they express their feelings in different ways.Researchers at the university interviewed 168 couples at four points in their marriage, Britain‘s The Daily Telegraph reported Saturday.Husbands and wives were questioned separately about how close and attached they felt to their partners, as well as a number of questions about each other’s behavior over the past 24 hours.Researchers found wives “seem to show love b

Technology Aug. 12, 2012

Study: Men equally affectionate as wives

Jamaica Bolt to 4x100m world record

Usain Bolt‘s Jamaica smashed the 4x100m world record and Britain’s Mo Farah clinched a magical distance double in a rousing climax to London Olympics track action on Saturday.Sprint legend Bolt anchored Jamaica‘s 36.84sec around the Olympic Stadium, which lowered their own mark set last year and pushed him out to a unique “double treble”: the 100m, 200m and 4x100m titles, twice in a row.Aided by Nesta Carter, Michael Frater and Yohan Blake, it put the seal on a glorious Games for the party-lovin

Olympic Games Aug. 12, 2012

Naked man causes traffic delays

Authorities in Australia said they arrested a naked man who caused traffic delays by running across a bridge and setting off fire hydrants.A Sydney police spokeswoman said the naked man ran across the Sydney Harbor Bridge around 6 p.m. Tuesday and turned on “a number of fire hydrants” along the way, The (Sydney) Telegraph reported Wednesday.“After a foot chase across the bridge he was apprehended,‘’ the spokeswoman said.The man was taken to a local hospital for assessment. Authorities said there

World News Aug. 9, 2012

Bear steals candies, comes back for more

A black bear stole candy from a store in the Colorado resort town of Estes Park in the U.S., according to news reports.The bear reportedly entered the front door, grabbed some candy, took it outside and ate it. It later returned for more.It visited the shop multiple times within 15 minutes on a day in July, and finally went away when alarmed by a passing car.Store owner Jo Adams said the bear didn‘t break anything but left some dirt on the counter.She said that the bear managed to pop open the d

World News Aug. 9, 2012

Gangsters kill sleeping homeless person by setting fire

Police found charred human remains in a supermarket parking lot on Tuesday in the U.K., according to news reports. The remains reportedly belonged to a homeless person who slept in the car park. Sources said a CCTV caught three gangsters pouring petrol onto the sleeping person and set him or her alight. The charred remains were so badly burnt that authorities are finding it difficult to find out the sex or age, the police said. Many internet users said they were shocked by the news. “How terribl

World News Aug. 8, 2012

Mystery of ‘monster’ stars solved

Astronomers in Germany say four “monster” sized stars in a nearby galaxy, but so far found nowhere else, are the result of “mergers” of stars in twin systems.The stars, as much as 300 times as massive as the sun, were discovered in 2010 in the giant star cluster R136 in the nearby galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud, astronomers said.Until that discovery, observations of the Milky Way and other galaxies had suggested the upper limit for stars formed in the present day universe was about 150 times

Technology Aug. 8, 2012

Woman spends summer as mermaid

An Oregon woman who has been seen swimming in public pools while dressed as a mermaid said she is living out a childhood fantasy.Pauline Long, 56, said she wanted to be a mermaid as a child and she decided to spend this summer swimming in Portland pools while wearing her homemade fins, which were inspired by a woman she met a few years ago, KGW, Portland, reported Monday.Long, who said she is part of a 23-strong group known as The Northwest Mermaids, said she knows she isn‘t a real mermaid, but

People Aug. 7, 2012

'Apewoman’ to return to Mexico

The remains of carnival attraction and “Apewoman” Julia Pastrana will be returned to her native Mexico, Oslo University in Norway said. Her body has been kept in Norway since the 1920s for research purposes, but a letter from Oslo University to Mexico‘s Ministry of Education, published in the scientific journal Uniforum, announced plans for a return to her home country for burial, the Norwegian news agency The Local reported Monday.Pastrana was a dancer, born in 1834 in Mexico with hypertrichosi

Technology Aug. 7, 2012

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