UK Broadband Users Might Pay 'Download Tax'

People living in the UK already pay a tax based on the number of televisions they have in the household, so a new proposal to tax downloaders of pirated software really comes as no surprise.In the proposal, which is garnering lots of heat from angry citizens online, the...

12-year-old girl stung by Wal-Mart scorpion

When a twelve-year old girl picked up a seedless watermelon in Wal-Mart in West Virginia, she was stung by a tan coloured scorpion about 2.5 centimetres long. It had apparently stowed away in a shipment from...

Bees swarm police in sting operation

"ABOUT 100 police officers in Mexico were forced to bolt from an open-air firing range when they were attacked - and stung - by swarming killer bees."

Millions of Bees terrorize Calif. Highway

"Honey, have you been sinning more than usual lately? God's sending swarms of insects again.""SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Millions of swarming honey bees are on the loose after a truck carrying crates of the insects...

Q&A on Stingrays

"They're very rare. Australian publications report 17 known deaths worldwide as of a decade ago. Only one other case of a fatal ray sting to the heart had been reported by 2001, according to the Medical Journal of Australia."

Home where man was fatally stung had quarter-million bees

"Exterminators have removed a hive containing an estimated quarter-million Africanized bees from a home near Bisbee where a man was fatally stung on Aug. 20." Read the original story at KVOA News 4, Tucson,...

Arizona man stung to death by "killer" bees (Reuters)

" PHOENIX (Reuters) - A swarm of "killer" bees attacked a man and his father as they repaired a roof in a small town in southeast Arizona, killing one man and hospitalizing the other, police said on Monday. Cochise County Sheriff's Department said the Africanized honey bees...

EEEK!

"Thousands of holidaymakers in the Mediterranean have been stung by jellyfish as huge swarms of the creatures invade coastal waters. " Of course it could be worse:- In July of this year a nuclear power plant in...

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