Posted on December 31st, 2006 by BRiT
Named in honor of Charles Darwin, the father of evolution, the Darwin Awards commemorate those who improve our gene pool by removing themselves from it.
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2006 Darwin Award Winner, Confirmed True by Darwin
(2006, England) The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who, uh, remove themselves from it…
Like two people, […]
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Posted on December 30th, 2006 by Jason
MADRID, Spain (AP) — A 67-year-old Spanish woman became the world’s oldest mother after she gave birth to twins in the northern city of Barcelona on Saturday, a hospital official said.
The woman, whose identity has not been revealed by Sant Pau hospital, gave birth by Caesarian section on Saturday, having previously undergone in vitro fertilization […]
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Posted on December 30th, 2006 by MaxPower
LAYTON — Christmas became XXX-mas for a 14-year-old Layton boy who discovered hard-core pornography on a video game he received as a gift.Kolton Mahoney was shocked when he put the Madden NFL 07 game in his new Xbox 360 console Christmas day and an explicit image popped up on his television screen.
“This is definitely not […]
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Posted on December 29th, 2006 by Jason
Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location in Baghdad, for crimes against humanity.
Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT).
The news was confirmed to the BBC by the Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister, Labeed Abawi.
Two co-defendants, Saddam Hussein’s half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti and former Iraqi […]
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Posted on December 28th, 2006 by reflex
WASHINGTON (AP) — Far too many kids are fat by preschool, and Hispanic youngsters are most at risk, says new research that’s among the first to focus on children growing up in poverty.
The study couldn’t explain the disparity: White, black and Hispanic youngsters alike watched a lot of TV, and researchers spotted no other huge […]
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Posted on December 27th, 2006 by reflex
Dec 27 (Reuters Life!) - A New Zealand woman is in critical condition in hospital after being crushed by a dolphin that leaped on to her boat, media reported on Wednesday.The 27-year-old woman had been watching from the bow of the small boat cruising among the marine mammals off the North Island’s Coromandel Peninsula on […]
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Posted on December 26th, 2006 by Jason
TOKYO - A powerful earthquake struck off southwestern Taiwan on Tuesday, triggering a potentially destructive tsunami that was headed toward the Philippines on the second anniversary of the waves that killed more than 200,000 in southern Asia, seismologists said.The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake registered magnitude 7.1, while Taiwan’s Central Weather Bureau measured it […]
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Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Jason
Two men from the Syracuse area have been arrested for animal abuse after the cat they set on fire touched off a blaze on a parked car.
During the evening of Wednesday December 20th, State Police in Elbridge responded to the Champion Trailer Park for a report of a vehicle fire. Investigation into the incident revealed […]
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Posted on December 21st, 2006 by Jason
MINEOLA, New York — Her husband has been arrested, accused of trying to hire a hit man to kill her for insurance money — and specifying that it needed to be done before Christmas.
But Tina Paul said she does not believe a word of it.
“I don’t believe anything [authorities] say because I believe my husband,” […]
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Posted on December 21st, 2006 by MaxPower
(AP) A woman mistakenly put her 1-month-old grandson through an X-ray machine at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said. A startled security worker noticed the shape of a child on the carry-on baggage screening monitor and immediately pulled him out, the Los Angeles Times reported for a story in Wednesday’s editions.
The infant was taken to […]
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