World’s biggest boxes of pasta on sale in Turkey
Shoppers can buy a half-ton box of pasta from Thursday at supermarkets in Turkey, but not in the world’s spaghetti capital of Italy. Too heavy and too big for the shopping trolley, delivery is included in the price. Italy’s Barilla, the world’s biggest pasta maker, and Turkey’s Migros Ticaret supermarket chain teamed up to produce More...
Prince Charles turns weatherman for Scotland
Television audiences watching the weather forecast in Scotland received an unexpected surprise on Thursday as Britain’s Prince Charles delivered the local weather report for the region. Dressed in a dark suit, More...
Scientists may recreate beer from 1840′s shipwreck
Finnish researchers say they may be able to recreate beer from the 1840s after finding living bacteria in beer from a shipwreck near Aland islands. The 2010 discovery of the ship, believed to have sunk in the 1840s, More...
German man has last laugh with “new home” obituary
A man who announced his change of address in a local newspaper sparked national media attention on Thursday due to the unusual location of his “new home” – six feet under the ground. Karl Albrecht, More...
British tourist mauled by ‘tame’ cheetah
A British tourist who tried to protect a girl being mauled by captive cheetahs has told of how the animals then turned on her. Violet D’Mello, 60, from Aberdeen, said she survived by “playing dead” More...
An aussie becomes world’s oldest graduate at 97
An Australian man will break his own record as the world’s oldest graduate when he receives his masters degree at the age of 97, local media report. Allan Stewart, who entered the Guinness World Records in More...
Condom ‘not grounds for divorce’
The Bombay High Court has ruled that a wife’s refusal to have sex with her husband without a condom does not constitute grounds for divorce. Pradeep Bapat told the court his wife Prerna refused to have children More...
WWII profile of Hitler uncovered
Adolf Hitler developed a “messiah complex” towards the end of World War II, a newly unveiled report written for wartime British intelligence says. The report, written in 1942 by Cambridge academic Joseph More...