Let's have a thread on interesting stories you pick up from whatever news scources you frequent. Let me begin:
A French woman has admitted attempting to open an airplane door mid-flight so that she could smoke a cigarette.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4456076.stm
Ex-glam rock star Gary Glitter has been accused of having sex with two girls, one aged 12, police in Vietnam said.
"Obscene acts with a child" can lead to 12 years imprisonment while child rape carries the maximum penalty of death before a firing squad.
A police officer in Vung Tua said: "Having sex with a 12-year-old girl, regardless of whether he had her consent, is still considered child rape under Vietnamese law."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4454486.stm
Door thwarts Bush's news conference exit strategy
This was a link to a video on the BBC front page. I couldn't watch the video, but the title says it all!
A woman had her husband's ashes made into an egg timer when he died so he could still "help" in the kitchen.
and:
Only 68 of 200 Anglican priests polled could name all Ten Commandments, but half said they believed in space aliens.
Both from: http://www.thisistrue.com/
Man stole porn site
Police found bulge in pocket
By Nick Farrell: Monday 31 October 2005, 06:29
A MAN who stole a porn site and made millions from it has been arrested by Mexican coppers.
Stephen Michael Cohen, 57, was arrested as he applied for a work permit and was turned over to US authorities.
A federal judge in 2000 found that Cohen had hijacked the sex.com domain name by forging a letter from the domain name's real owner Gary Kremen.
The judge ordered Cohen to return the site and pay Kremen $US65 million. However Cohen skipped to Mexico with most of the cash.
Kremen, who later went on to invent match.com, said he spent $4.5 million in legal fees trying to regain control of sex.com and get some of the money from the site back.