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...
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...
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"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...
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"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."
"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,...
" 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...
"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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