Archive for April, 2008


Reel World: April 30, 2008

Mike Sargent interviews legendary film composer Lalo Schifrin.

‘Pixie dust’ helps man grow new finger

A man who sliced off the end of his finger in an accident has re-grown the digit thanks to pioneering regenerative medicine. View full article »

Niteshift: April 29, 2008

Mike Sargent interviews Robert Downey Jr. and Jeff Bridges, stars of the upcoming film “Iron Man”.

Penis theft panic hits city

Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.

Read the rest at Reuters

‘Tree man’ Dede Koswara almost died from his disease

The 37 yearold entered an Indonesian hospital because of the huge tree-like growths that had encased his limbs for 20 years.

But an X-ray quickly revealed that the immune deficiency stopping him fighting the warts had also allowed a potentially deadly TB infection to take hold.

Dr Rachmat Dinata, leading the team treating Dede at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, said: “Five years from now, he would have been dead.


Read the rest at The Daily Telegraph

What are you staring at?

An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train.

A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose name was not revealed, to 10 days in prison and a 40 euro ($63) fine after a 55-year old woman filed a complaint for sexual harassment. View full article »

Horn robbers could go stiff

JOHANNESBURG – Amorous men ingesting rhino horn as an aphrodisiac may find themselves going stiff in a way they did not really expect, the Iziko Museum in Cape Town warned yesterday.

Iziko chief executive Henry Bredenkamp said thieves who lifted priceless rhino horns from the museum over the weekend might have let themselves in for more than they bargained for, as these had been treated with highly poisonous solutions. View full article »

Russian sleeps it off, with knife in back

MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian electrician slept off a night’s drinking with a long knife stuck in his back and didn’t notice until his wife spotted it in the kitchen the next day, Russia‘s Komsomolskaya Pravda paper reported on Thursday.

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Niteshift: April 22, 2008

Niteshift: April 15, 2008