Dog-gone it! Canine gets head stuck in wall

California animal rescue officers were called in after an eight-month old German Shepherd dog mysteriously got his head stuck in a wall this week. Stricken pooch Rebel was found whimpering with his head sticking out one side of the 18-inch thick wall in Desert Hot Springs, east of Los Angeles, while his body remained firmly on the other. 'My initial reaction was, 'Wow, how?d he get in there?' said Riverside County Animal Services Sergeant James Huffman. "And why is there a hole that big in the wall?" "It was a very odd situation .. It was uncertain if he was chasing another animal, or just curious," he added. After checking that Rebel could...

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Gran, 103, is 'world's oldest Facebook user'

A 103-year-old grandmother is believed to be the world's oldest Facebook user. Lillian Lowe, from Tenby in Pembrokeshire, regularly keeps her online friends updated about her life using her iPad. And being signed up to the social network also enables her to keep track of what her seven grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren are up to. Mrs Lowe, who is just two months away from her 104th birthday, took the oldest Facebook user title following the death of 104-year-old Ivy Bean in July. Despite some of the Facebook goings on that would shock many her age, Lillian says she isn't fazed by any of her grandchildren's "antics". She said: "I have...

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Student Finds Time-travelling Coin with Next Year's Date On It

Student Sarah Legg is hoping to make a mint by cashing in on a very unusual 50p coin she has found - with next year's date on it. 17-year-old Sarah of Fareham, Hants, was shocked when she saw the coin marked with the 2011 date stamped on it - which she got in change as she was buying lunch. Sarah, who is training to be a forensic scientist, was buying lunch at at Fareham College when she spotted the temporal anomaly. She said: 'I was just getting some food at college and thought the coin looked very shiny, so I took a closer look. I thought I had gone into the future with the markings it had. Where the date it is made was, it said 2011. 'I...

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Emirates Palace Erects $11m Christmas Tree

It holds a total of 181 diamonds, pearls, emeralds, sapphires and other precious stones. Christmas came in extravagant fashion to the emirate of Abu Dhabi as a glitzy hotel unveiled a bejewelled Christmas tree valued at more than $11 million. It is the "most expensive Christmas tree ever," with a "value of over $11 million," said Hans Olbertz, general manager of Emirates Palace hotel, at its inauguration. The 13-metre (40-foot) faux evergreen, located in the gold leaf-bedecked rotunda of the hotel, is decorated with silver and gold bows, ball-shaped ornaments and small white lights. But the necklaces, earrings and other jewellery draped around...

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Michael Jackson’s Clothes Sell For Millions At Auction

A glove and hat worn by Michael Jackson sold for over $400,000 at auction on Saturday, December 4. The items, a fedora which sold for $72,000 and a glove which reached $330,000, were part of the star’s wardrobe for his ‘Bad’ tour in 1980s and were sold through Julien’s Auctions as part of their ‘Icons and Idols’ sale. A jacket signed by the ‘Thriller’ hitmaker, who died from acute Propofol intoxication aged 50 in June 2009, was bought for $96,000. While the Michael Jackson collection, featuring over 100 items from the star’s life and career including a custom-made costume for his friend and companion Bubbles the chimp – took centre stage at...

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Ancient Egyptian Lake Discovered from Space

American researchers have said they discovered the remnants of a massive lake in Egypt as large as one of the Great Lakes. The discovery of the over 100,000 years old lake was confirmed from space shuttle imagery. ScienceNews.org reported that the images revealed a lake wider than Lake Erie that once existed a few miles west of the current Nile River. From the time it first appeared about 250,000 years ago, the lake in Egypt’s Tushka region would have grown and shrunk periodically until finally drying up about 80,000 years ago, researchers say. Knowing where such ancient bodies of water were located helps archaeologists understand the kind...

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