Man likely shot himself while sleepwalking

Police said a Boulder man who told police he woke up to a "bang" and realized he suffered a gunshot wound to his knee likely shot himself while sleepwalking. The Daily Camera reported that 63-year-old Sanford Rothman told investigators he had no clear recollection of the incident. No one else was in Rothman's home at the time. Boulder police Sgt. Paul Reichenback said that Rothman keeps a 9 mm handgun near his bed and takes presciption medication for pain. Police said no alcohol or illegal drugs played a role in the incident. Rothman was treated at a hospital and released. emirates247.c...

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FIFA World Cup 2010 Predictor - Paul the Octopus Died

Paul the Octopus, the cephalopod who became a global sensation after successfully predicting matches at the World Cup, has died peacefully in his sleep aged two. Stefan Porwoll, general manager of the Oberhausen Sea Life centre in Germany - where Paul made his predictions - confirmed the news. "He died last night, a peaceful and natural death," Porwoll said. Paul, who was born in January 2008 in Weymouth, correctly predicted the winner of all seven of Germany's matches at this summer's World Cup in South Africa. He then correctly chose Spain over the Netherlands before the final. Paul made his predictions by choosing between two feed boxes...

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Mayan prophecy pegged to wrong year?

It's a good news/bad news situation for believers in the 2012 Mayan apocalypse. The good news is that the Mayan "Long Count" calendar may not end on Dec. 21, 2012 (and, by extension, the world may not end along with it). The bad news for prophecy believers? If the calendar doesn't end in December 2012, no one knows when it actually will - or if it has already. A new critique, published as a chapter in the new textbook "Calendars and Years II: Astronomy and Time in the Ancient and Medieval World" (Oxbow Books, 2010), argues that the accepted conversions of dates from Mayan to the modern calendar may be off by as much as 50 or 100 years. That...

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Bored lottery winner drank himself to death

A father-of-two who won £9 million on the lottery was so 'bored' after he gave up his job as a baker he drank himself to death. Keith Gough, 58, of Bridgnorth, Shropshire, was thought to be penniless when he died in March after suffering a heart attack brought on by drinking and stress, the Daily Mail reported.  “read more” But he had actually left nearly £800,000 in his will, it emerged last week. Gough and his wife Louise won £9m in 2005 and splashed out on a top-of-the-range BMW, racehorses and an executive box at Aston Villa Football Club. But the couple, who were married for 27 years, separated two years later after Gough quit his...

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Adriana Lima reveals her $2m diamond bra

Supermodel Adriana Lima brought part of New York to a standstill yesterday, by arriving at a lingerie store wearing a $2m bra. Lima was modelling the Victoria's Secret 'Bombshell fantasy' bra -- also dubbed the bling-bra -- at their store in Soho. The bra is encrusted with more than 3,000 cut white diamonds, light blue sapphires and oval-shaped topazes, all hand-set in 18 karat white gold. Designed by Damiani it has a total carat weight of 142ct and the pattern is meant to be based on swirling stars and constellations. Apparently 29-year-old Lima was also wearing a blue satin gown at the promotional event… we can't sae we noticed. The bra...

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"Dr. Death" sells human body parts online

The move has provoked strong condemnation from German churches which accuse him of degrading human dignity. A whole body from www.plastination-products.com costs about 70,000 euros ($97,400), torsos start at 55,644 euros and heads come in at around 22,000 euros each — excluding postage and packaging. For those on a tighter budget, transparent body slices are available from 115 euros each. But these real body parts — which have undergone plastination, a process which replaces water and fat with plastic for preservation purposes — are not available to everyone. Only “qualified users” who can provide written proof that they intend to use the...

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Austria's first 'bionic' man dies in car crash

 The car mechanic lost both his arms when he climbed a high-voltage electricity pylon as a dare. An Austrian man who became the first person outside the US to wear thought-powered "bionic" arms has died from injuries sustained in a car crash, the hospital where he was treated said. Doctors at the Medical University of Graz said they switched off the life support machines of Christian Kandlbauer on Friday night after determining he was clinically brain dead. Kandlbauer, who would have turned 23 next month, sustained severe head injuries when the specially modified car he was driving served off the road in the south east of Austria and...

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