Shane Thomas, 10-Year-Old Pianist, Called the Next Mozart

Shane Thomas is a 10-year-old pianist from Woking, Surey in England, and already he is being called the next Mozart due to his amazing abilities. He has only been having piano lessons for four months and practises...

Boy collapses after playing World of Warcraft for 24 hours straight

With the recent release of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King, gamers have spent all day and all night trying to level up and explore the new features of the game. A 15-year old schoolboy collapsed and...

Schoolboy, 13, becomes 'youngest person ever' charged with possessing a gun

Most kids, nowadays, are so reluctant with their surrounding. Being a part of a gangster is the only way to find their identity. It's easy for them to have a gun without any license once they join in."A boy of 13...

Youth sentenced to life for knife murder of schoolboy

A 16 year old was today sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 14-year-old boy. The sentence is one of the longest handed out for a youth in the UK."A 16-year-old youth was today sentenced to life for murdering the schoolboy Martin Dinnegan last June. Joseph Chin will...

107-Year-Old Man Leads High School Alumni Parade

He's 107 years old, and leading the Phillips Academy parade in his golf cart. Let's hear it for C. Yardley Chittick, who was a schoolboy with Humphrey Bogart."C. Yardley Chittick sneaked off school grounds with...

Nico Marquardt, "Apophis -- The Killer Asteroid" and NASA

And what if NASA is wrong...and the asteroid Apophis, named after the ancient Egyptian god of darkness and destruction, will not "agree" with the NASA calculations and collide with Earth? Look at the new...

Yaoi fangirl cafe opens in Tokyo

Yaoi - literature about gay relationships between beautiful young men - has always been popular genre with women in Japan, and now fangirls can experience yaoi heaven for real when they visit Cafe Edelstein in...

Mum gets schoolboy a stripper for his birthday

This story is bizarre. Not that strippers are anything strange, but the fact that the teacher let the stripper go ahead with the show is what makes it strange. I suppose she was too dumbfounded at first to do...

Surrey: B.C. schoolboy found carrying 9mm handgun

Makes one wonder why it is not safe for your children to attend school when incidents like this are becoming a common occurence ."A 13-year-old boy will be appearing in Youth Court in Surrey, B.C. after a...

Flick some paper, go to court

Good thing he didn't dip anyone's pigtails in an inkwell- it could have been so much worse!"A boy of 12 boy was dragged through the courts for three months after being charged with grievous bodily harm for flicking a piece of paper at a classmate. He was told to go to his...

Firefighters Clean-Up Funds

"FIREFIGHTERS took a break from tackling blazes to give Rushden vehicles a good clean at the weekend. Drivers donated more than £900 after 15 firefighters spent Saturday hosing and scrubbing cars at Rushden Fire Station. One motorist handed over £250. The money raised will...

Forty years on, DNA helps police close in on boy's killer

"Forty years after the murder of Brighton schoolboy Keith Lyon on the Sussex downs, police said yesterday they finally have the DNA which could lead them to his killer. The officer leading the hunt for those responsible for the death of the musically precocious 12-year-old...

"Manhunt 2" Banned in the UK

Not a good week for video games in the UK. I predict an appeal from Rockstar games on this one: Ultimately a video game like the one described below not meant for impressionable minds, whatever that may mean*,...

Theme park to ride on Harry Potter's magic

"Writer J.K. Rowling has given her blessing to a theme park inspired by her creation, schoolboy wizard Harry Potter. The Florida theme park will be joint venture between Warner Bros. Entertainment, which created...

Probation officers in schoolboy murder case sacked

"Probation officers in schoolboy murder case sacked Thursday 11 January 2007 Two probation officers involved with supervising Julien C, the man charged with murdering schoolboy Jesse Dingemans in December, have been sacked for failing to do their job properly. A third has...

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