Mr Putin, who will be 57 in October, showed off a set of rippling arm muscles as he demonstrated his butterfly swimming stroke. The photos will inevitably trigger mass swooning by women all over Russia — as well as unfavourable comparisons of their husbands to Mr Putin’s manly physique. They will also confirm the Russian Prime Minister’s status as a gay icon.
"I don't think there's anyone in Russia who doesn't know what a drunk person looks like," Katya Kushner ... told the Moscow Times.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 23 (UPI) -- Thousands of people in the Netherlands say they expect the world to end in 2012, and many say they are taking precautions to prepare for the apocalypse.
Some who spoke to the newspaper were optimistic about the end of civilization.
"You know, maybe it's really not that bad that the Netherlands will be destroyed," Petra Faile said. "I don't like it here anymore. Take immigration, for example. They keep letting people in. And then we have to build more houses, which makes the Netherlands even heavier. The country will sink even lower, which will make the flooding worse."
Mountain people have long been considered exotic. The eminent British historian Sir Arnold Toynbee described the residents of Appalachia in 1947 as "the American counterparts of the latter-day white barbarians of the Old World -- Rifis, Albanians, Kurds, Pathans, and Hairy Ainus."
-Salon.com
Coffee Bukkake Man Arrested
December 11, 2007 | by James | Filed Under Strange Japan
A man has been arrested in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture for assaulting 5 schoolgirls with coffee via drive-by spitting attacks. Here’s a report from Asahi TV:
The spitter, who was nicknamed “Coffee Bukake Man” [コーヒーぶっかけ男] by locals, had carried out 5 attacks since the end of October. All of his victims were junior high school or high school girls wearing their uniforms, and all of the attacks involved spitting coffee onto their faces from his car window. His final attack took place on December 7th, when a 16-year-old schoolgirl he spit on was able to come to her senses quickly enough to spot his license plate number and memorize it. This led to the arrest of 26 year-old Yoshiro Sumiyama, who admitted attacking the girls. Sumiyama told police that he was irritated after having been dumped by a woman and carried out the spitting attacks to relieve some stress.
If you didn’t feel like sitting through that whole Japanese language news report or reading the above text, here is a summary in form of a cartoon reenactment created by Asahi TV’s skilled graphics team:
More information on the Bukkake Man is available in this article from Sankei Sports (Japanese).[Language note: Bukkake comes from the Japanese verb bukkakeru, which means to splash or to douse.]
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) ― A baby who from Liberia came to Minnesota about a month ago for life-saving surgery is now happy and healthy.
Emmanuel Johnson Junior is from a small town in Liberia where medical care is hard to come by. Emmanuel was born without an anus and a year after he was born, he and his mother came to Minnesota.
"It is very dangerous. If a person had been in this disaster, he would have had almost no chance of survival. The trees flew downwards, under the ground," said Dmitry Zaitsev, a local Emergencies Ministry official interviewed by the channel.
Officials in Nizhegorodskaya region, on the Volga river east of Moscow, said water in the lake might have been sucked down into an underground water-course or cave system, but some villagers had more sinister explanations.
Swarms of giant hornets renowned for their vicious stings and skill at massacring honeybees have settled in France.
telegraph.co.uk; Feb 21, 2007
