| Care attendant sacked for removing residents' pubic hair |
A care attendant has been sacked from a nursing home in Australia for removing the pubic hair of 14 elderly residents.
The woman, who works at the Kingston Centre in Melbourne, used hair removal cream on the residents during bathing.
It's believed she acted out of a misguided sense that she was improving the residents' personal hygiene...
| Odeon to sell alco-popcorn on Halloween |
Sambuca and Irish Cream flavoured popcorn will also be available at Odeon cinemas in Kingston-upon-Thames, Newcastle, Leicester, Glasgow, Southampton and Coventry.
"Feedback from customers was that they'd like more choice of popcorn flavours and alcohol flavoured popcorn turned out to be a popular request."
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal grand jury has indicted a Los Angeles podiatrist on fraud charges for billing Medicare for procedures on patients that turned out to have no feet or to have been dead.
He submitted bills for "two-foot" services on about 40 Medicare recipients who had had one or both feet amputated.
Return to Waco
In 1993, 80 members of the Branch Davidian sect died when US agents stormed their compound in Waco. The dead included their 33-year-old leader David Koresh and 17 children.
The Davidians who still attend church at Mount Carmel every Saturday believe Koresh is coming back in the not too distant future. To them, he wasn't just a prophet - he was Christ.
"I know for a fact he was," says Catherine Mattison, one of the survivors. "The second coming of Christ was in 1959, the year David was born."
| Cow hit by train lands on farmer's wife |
A farmer's wife in Turkey has been taken to hospital after a cow was hit by a train and landed on top of her.
The cow was hurled into the air and, according to daily newspaper Milliyet, landed on the woman, who was sitting a few metres away.
She was taken to hospital where she received treatment...
| Man killed dog to retrieve eaten bank notes |
A Chinese man killed his dog so he could retrieve bank notes it had eaten while it was supposed to be guarding them.
They were able to piece together 14 notes
PHILADELPHIA -- Workers at a Philadelphia demolition site made a gruesome discovery Monday morning -- a pile of human bones that had been tossed into a trash container.
On Oct. 1, excavation crews at the 6th Street site unearthed an unmarked cemetery and human skeletal remains. The builder was ordered by the courts to rebury the bones at a proper burial site.
Sources said a construction crew whisked the bones away Monday afternoon in a truck after shoveling the remains out of the trash container and into a garbage bag.
Professor studies ‘playlist from hell’
“Earworm” is the term coined by University of Cincinnati marketing professor James Kellaris for the usually unwelcome songs that get stuck in people’s heads.
He surveyed about 500 students, faculty and staff asking about the type, frequency and duration of earworms, and possible causes and cures. Among the songs respondents picked as most likely to become stuck were: “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” the Chili’s restaurant “baby back ribs” jingle and “Who Let the Dogs Out.”
The study showed:
Women report more irritation and frustration as a result of earworms. People who are constantly exposed to music suffer them more frequently. There may be a connection between earworms and a person’s level of neurosis. “People with higher neuroticism scores tend to react to the onset of an earworm by saying ‘Oh no, here it goes again, I wonder how long this is going to last,’”
One theory is that stuck songs are “the brain’s attempt to resolve missing information,” and that retrieving the forgotten lyrics of a song will provide closure that “unsticks” an earworm.
Student expelled over story
ATLANTA (AP) -- A freshman honor student who was expelled for writing a fictional story in her journal about a student killing a teacher will be allowed to return to school on Monday.
After newspaper and broadcast reports about Rachel Boim's expulsion, the Fulton County School Board said Friday that it would reconsider its decision...
The 14-year-old was expelled after a teacher confiscated her journal ...
"This piece of work is clearly an imaginative piece, a piece of fiction -- totally nonthreatening," Georgia poet laureate David Bottoms told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Winnipeg eyes garbage dump thieves
WINNIPEG (CP) - The City of Winnipeg is setting up 10 security cameras at the Brady Road garbage dump to deter thieves.
Dan McInness, the city's manager of solid waste, pointed out it's dangerous for people to scavenge in the garbage pile...
The cameras are part of a $1-million upgrade of the landfill.
McInness wouldn't say how the videotape will be used or if the cameras will be monitored.
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