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Man torches car battling frost (Reuters)

Reuters – A 76-year-old German man trying to thaw out his car incinerated it instead when he decided to speed things up by putting a blow heater under the hood. Share…

Dog washed out to sea has lucky escape (Reuters)

Reuters – A dog had a lucky escape when a Polish boat rescued him from an ice floe that had carried him more than 100 miles up a river and…

Leader slaughters goats to ward off evil? (Reuters)

Reuters – Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has a black goat slaughtered at his house almost every day to ward off “evil eyes” and protect him from “black magic,” a…

Church offers for a prayer for wedding day nerves (Reuters)

Reuters – The Church of England is offering to pray for lovestruck couples to help ease any jitters ahead of their wedding day. Share This    

Crazy News

• South Korean scientists have used cloning techniques to create glow-in-the-dark dogs. The four puppies look like typical beagles by day but glow red under ultraviolet light. Their nails and abdomens, which have thin translucent skin, look red even to the naked eye. Seoul National University professor Lee Byeong-chun, who headed the research team, said the technique of using fluorescent genes went beyond the novelty of glowing dogs. He said: "What's significant in this work is not the dogs expressing red colours but that we planted genes into them. "If we insert human disease-related genes in them, we can use them as great model to study diseases." Scientists in the US, Japan and in Europe have previously cloned fluorescent mice and pigs, but this is the first time dogs with modified genes have been cloned successfully. Professor Lee said his team took skin cells from a beagle, inserted a gene that produces a fluorescent red protein into them and put them into eggs before implanting them into the womb of a surrogate mother. Source: MSN #
• An 81 year old was cited hit-and-run, nudging a woman twice causing her to have bruises on her thighs...the 81 was impatient because the woman was supposedly walking too slow #