With grades of 3.9 average, genius student Colin Carlson was put off his studies by the University of Connecticut. They say he is too young to go on a South African field trip.
Read how Carlson has filed a discrimination claim against the university.
With more and more people turning to online purchasing, service reps may need to find innovative ways to tell disgruntled customers why their package has not been delivered.
This was the case with an Amazon customer.
Read what happened when Will Collier was told his package had been eaten by an alligator…
Where would you hide a fortune in ancient treasure if you didn’t want to pay high security costs? A derelict Spanish country mansion.
A nosy gardener alerted to young youths to the find and they three stole the lot, unsuspecting that the haul was worth millions.
Read how after a fight erupted the two young Romanian thieves quickly gave themselves up to the police…
An excert of a video was recently aired on Russian television, of a wedding guest, who shot himself in the head with a rubber bullet, while playing a game of Russian roulette, at a wedding in Astrakhan, Russia. The first guest shot without any incident, but when a second guest grabbed the gun the result was devastation. Read who else is known to have played Russian roulette…
The Celebrity Majesty delayed its next voyage by two days, after having oubreakes of norovirus among its guests, on three of its cruises between February and March.
Read how 50 extra workers had to be recruited to disinfect the ship from top to bottom…
When well known ABC Channel 13 News anchor, Melanie Lawson leant over to try to pass something to weatherman, Dan, she lost her seating and crashed to the floor, in front of thousands of Houston viewers.
Keeping her head she yelled for the team to go straight to the weather. Reclaiming her seat she continued to read the news.
Read some of the other great gaffs made by very public figures…
The battle is on for Cyber Space, as the Internet giant Google stands toe to toe with the Chinese Government, over the Chinese Internet Great Firewall.
140 million users will finally learn just how much their government is refusing to let them have access to.
Read what pressure the Chinese government is facing, that make them no so willing to simply cut off Internet access to Google.com.hk…
The Louis Majesty cruise ship was recently hit by Three Sister rogue waves off the coast of Spain, killing two passengers and injuring several others.
Waves up to 10 meters in height, slammed into the cruise ship off the coast of Spain, shattering the windows of the forward lounge. Read how this is not the first time the Louise Majesty has been hit by a rogue wave…
Chili farmers in India are rejoicing in the new and much wider market for their hot hot ‘bhut jolokia’, as the world’s hottest chili is to be turned into a military weapon.
The thumb sized chili was listed by the Guinnes World Records as being the hottest chili on the planet, in 2007.
Read what the Indian government plan to do with nature’s hottest weapon…
When 19 year-old Saxon Bird, national title holder of the Australian Life Saving Competition, lost his life, because of the rough weather conditions caused by Tropical Cycle Ului, a police investigation was opened up.
The spectators were commanded to leave the beach as 10 inflatable boats and several skis searched for the Bird. Read how it is a replica of an identical incident that took place, on the same beach, in the same National competition in 1996…
