Mike Hammond put the advertisement in his village post office so his widowed 88-year-old father Jack could have someone to chat to on twice-weekly visits to a southern England pub from a local nursing home. "It's got to be the
One carcass was placed on a hurdle on the school's track. The other was placed on a railing near the front entrance of the main building, with internal organs on the ground around it. Wayne Beatty, Natrona County School District
Bush told NATO leaders at a Bucharest summit on Thursday that when Sarkozy visited the United States recently, he was seen as "the latest incarnation of Elvis". Such an example of "Burning love" marks a sea change from the "Suspicious
But Teruo and Miyoko Oba say there's nothing eerie about their new family grave site, equipped with a mobile phone bar code to offer connectivity long after their own bells have tolled. The family plot in this rural city near
Pupils at Oteha Valley primary school north of Auckland have been told they are allowed to celebrate their birthdays, but the cake must stay at home, the New Zealand Herald newspaper reported. The Ministry of Education has been on a
It's not a male or female desire to have a child. It's a human desire," a thinly bearded Thomas Beatie said. "I have a very stable male identity," he added, saying that pregnancy neither defines him nor makes him feel
Branko Zivkov, 76, told Belgrade daily Kurir he had been ready to give his wife Vukadinka her equal share of everything earned during their 45-year marriage, but was furious at being asked to give away half his farming equipment. Instead,
The gruesome find was first made by two young children playing on the foreshore at Arbroath on Tuesday. The head had been concealed in a plastic bag and the first hand was found shortly after by police. A wider search
The 53-year-old from the central city of Hanover admitted accepting 156,000 euros ($244,000) in total for awarding doctorates to students who failed to make the grade. The man also told the court in nearby Hildesheim he had given female students
COLUMBIA, Tenn. - The much maligned mule is getting a day of celebration but will have to share the spotlight with a breed of even sorrier reputation - the politicians.
