An 89-year-old woman took a $3959.4 taxi trip to Greece – because she can’t stand waiting in airports.

Kathleen Searles is fascinated with history and Alexander the Great.

So, to visit Mieza, where he went to school, she ordered a cab to take her on the three-day journey through France, Germany and the Balkans. Read more

Ship’s doctor dies after dinner of blowfish

*Dangerous delicacy … A chef shows off a fugu / AP / The Associated Press*

A SHIP’S doctor has died in Western Australia after eating blowfish, a delicacy that can prove fatal if not prepared properly.

Authorities were called to an iron ore ship off Dampier early on Saturday after a 43-year-old Chinese man suffered paralysis and his breathing became laboured.

“We did a co-ordinated rescue effort through Australian Search and Rescue,” said Acting Sergeant Chris Hinch. Read more

TV helicopter camera catches man with mistress

A man who took his mistress to the beach made the mistake of waving to a film crew on a helicopter covering Italy’s bicycle race and was discovered by his wife.

According to media reports, the man was with his younger mistress on a beach in northern Italy when the helicopter passed overhead with a crew covering the Giro d’Italia cycling classic.

The man waved, the camera zoomed in, and the couple ended up on live television.

The brother of the man’s wife thought it was his sister he was seeing on television and called her on her mobile phone, sure that it was she on the beach with her husband. Read more

German man found after 7 years dead in bed

The decomposed corpse of a German man was found alone in his bed after nearly seven years, police in the western city of Essen said Thursday.

The police said in a statement the man was 59 and unemployed at the time of his death. He most likely died of natural causes on November 30, 2000, the date he received a letter from the Welfare Office found in the apartment, police said. Read more

Man dumps father’s body in canal after he couldn’t afford funeral

TOYAMA — A man who abandoned the body of his father in an irrigation canal because he couldn’t afford to pay for a funeral for him has been arrested, police said.

Hideki Kuwata, 51, stands accused of illegally abandoning the body of his father in Nanto, Toyama Prefecture, in mid-April. Read more

Doctor finds spiders in boy’s ear

These guys weren’t exactly Snap, Crackle and Pop. What began as a faint popping in a 9-year-old boy’s ear — “like Rice Krispies” — ended up as an earache, and the doctor’s diagnosis was that a pair of spiders made a home in the ear.

“They were walking on my eardrums,” Jesse Courtney said. Read more

Teacher accused of selling kid’s jacket

A Hillsboro mother found her daughter’s missing winter coat on eBay, and now a teacher at the girl’s elementary school faces charges of theft and computer crimes.

Elizabeth Logan, 41,is on paid administrative leave from Jackson Elementary. She denies stealing the coat, saying she got it from a lost-and-found, Cmdr. Chris Skinner said. Read more

Brazil nixes online ad for sale of wife

The government has ordered an Internet auction site to remove an advertisement in which a Brazilian man offered to sell his wife for about $50.

The Secretariat of Public Policies for Women announced late Friday it had ordered Mercado Livre, partially owned by eBay Inc., to remove the ad and warned it was violating a law banning the offer or sale of “human organs, people, blood, bones or skin.” Read more

Naked church organist found dead in plastic bag

A CHURCH organist, found dead in a huge plastic bag attached to a vacuum cleaner, was possibly carrying out a bizarre sex act, an inquest was told.

Teesside Coroner’s Court heard how Ian Kemp, 48, was found at home naked, with his hands and feet bound, inside the bag.

Coroner Michael Sheffield told an inquest there were no indications he had intended to die and that the vacuum had sucked all of the air out of the bag. Read more

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