According to a study from Spain, cigarette smoking can act as a precipitating factor for headaches, specifically migraines. Furthermore, this investigation of 361 medical students at the University of Salamanca found that smokers have more frequent migraine attacks and that smoking more than 5 cigarettes a day can trigger this headache. Continue Reading »

Most of those following the Kolkata Open chess competition will inevitably remember Vladislav Tkachiev for the ‘doze-after-overdose’ act.

Even otherwise, the Russian settled in France after a stopover in Kazakhstan doesn’t conform to the average Indian’s idea of the staid world of chess. Continue Reading »

A BBC film crew recording a program in an extinct volcano in Papua New Guinea has discovered a new species of giant woolly rat, a frog with fangs, and around 40 other exotic creatures unknown to science. Continue Reading »

A Shi’ite on death row in Saudi Arabia for the last 16 years for insulting the Prophet Mohammed was sentenced to another five years in jail for criticizing the Saudi justice system.

The verdict issued Monday punished Hadi al-Mutif for criticizing the justice system and the U.S.-allied absolute monarchy’s human rights record in comments he made from prison to U.S.-funded Alhurra television in 2007. Prisoners are often able to access mobile phones from visitors to Saudi jails. Continue Reading »

In Israel, a woman was trying to be nice and buy her mother a new mattress so she scheduled and had it delivered. The old mattress was taken to a city dump before the mother returned home to learn her daughter had been so thoughtful as to buy her a new mattress.

Upon realizing what had happened, the mother informed her daughter that she had kept her life savings of approximately $1,000,000 in the mattress. Continue Reading »

Guangzhou, CHINA — A Chinese man heavily in debt spent five hours blocking traffic when finally a passer by got fed up and pushed him off the bridge he was considering jumping from.
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Conisbrough, ENGLAND — After years of jokes and tourists baring their all in front of the sign for pictures residents have renamed Butt Hole road.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Leo Gao and his girlfriend are on the run after their bank accidently gave them a $6.1 million dollar credit line. Continue Reading »

DNA results are in from the famous underage couple in England and it turns out 15-year-old Chantelle Stedman was a two-timing whore.
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Chinese communist leaders bulldozed a theme park in Chongqing named Love Land that was to open in October.
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