Three US amputee veterans have climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, enduring tumbles and sores to reach Africa's highest peak with only one good leg among them.
(...) The hikers were Dan Nevins, 37, who lost his legs in Iraq; Neil Duncan, 26, who lost both legs in a roadside bomb attack in Afghanistan in 2005; and Kirk Bauer, 62, who lost a leg in Vietnam in 1969.
"Um maço de ‘fumar mata’, se faz favor": é isto que os fumadores europeus vão passar a dizer, em breve, no quiosque onde compram os cigarros se for adotada a proposta da Comissão Europeia para eliminar todos os logótipos e demais elementos distintivos da rotulagem dos maços de tabaco – exceto, evidentemente, as referências sanitárias.
Ron Sveden had been battling emphysema for months when his condition deteriorated.
He was steeling himself for a cancer diagnosis when X-rays revealed the growth in his lung.
Doctors believe that Mr Sveden ate the pea at some point, but it "went down the wrong way" and sprouted.
Allaetin Can said witnesses mistook the dance for domestic violence as it involved moves that resemble punches, kicks, slaps and choking.
The dance, named the kolbasti, is thought to have been first performed by drunks in a Black Sea resort town.
The name translates as "caught red-handed by the police".
Hungarian voluntary firefighters were fined for parking violations while saving people from fire in the country's southern city of Kaposvar, local radio said on Thursday.
The fire broke out in an office building in downtown Kaposvar. Voluntary firefighting detachments arrived at the site to join other firemen in extinguishing the blaze.
While the volunteers were busy putting the fire out and saving people, parking control officials attached parking tickets to the windshields of their cars for parking in non-designated zones.
The radio report said the cars had identification tags showing they were firefighters.
The public condemned the parking control officials, however, the local parking control service's chief said his subordinates had no right to decide which car owners should be ticketed and which should not.
Eventually the fines were cancelled due to wide public protests.
Judge Albert Bartz from Gummersbach in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia said that the road rules in regard to this issue may actually violate the principle of equality as enshrined in the German constitution. After all, Bartz wrote in his ruling, if it is against the law to use a mobile telephone while driving, then why isn't it also illegal to do other dangerous things while you're behind the wheel? As examples of such risky activities, the 62-year-old judge mentioned masturbation and engaging in sexual activity -- "either under or over clothing" -- with a consensual passenger.
MOSCOW, August 28 (RIA Novosti) - A Latvian animal park experienced a "great escape" of Hollywood proportions when resident beavers chewed down trees in a diversion tactic that allowed some 157 deer to escape into the nearby countryside, a local paper reported.
However the setting of this mass breakout was not an allied POW camp, but the Buku Audzetava animal park in Latvia's central Valgunde municipality. The beavers gnawed trees in the park, which flattened the fences around the deer enclosure as they fell, giving the animals the opportunity to make a run for it, the Novaja Gazeta reported.
Professional snipers have been brought in to guard a vulnerable colony of penguins in Australia.
The deployment follows the mysterious deaths of nine of the flightless birds over the last two weeks.
The mutilated bodies of the animals, known as fairy penguins, were found in a national park near Sydney harbour.
The main suspects are dogs and foxes. At 40cm tall, the world's smallest penguin species is clearly no match for such aggressive enemies.
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