Until the State Department put their images on its Flickr page, most people in Spain had never seen the elusive teenagers. You’d think someone in the diplomatic corps would know how the prime minister feels about his children’s privacy.
Critics are firing political arrows at the English city’s leaders for spending taxpayer money on a nine-day, $16,000 journey to look at tourist attractions. So much for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor.
Here’s something you don’t see every day: a monkey standing on a goat, which is balancing on a vase, which is sitting on a tightrope during a show at China’s Monkey Island tourist attraction. See the photo at London’s Telegraph.
Apparently lights and badges aren’t the only things that some Australian cops enjoy flashing. A gathering held by several police officers Down Under took a wrong turn when they allegedly commandeered a bus without permission and started running around the vehicle naked when it stopped at traffic lights.
A full-size, two-story English home made of 3.3 million Lego bricks may be destroyed if no one wants the plastic palace. It would be nice to see someone snap up this kid-friendly creation.
The 400-square-foot palace of plastic includes a bedroom, bathroom and lobby. Even the toilet is made of the hotel chain’s green and white room key cards. No word on whether there’s a deck.
A breakthrough with primate peepers may help lead to a cure for human color blindness. The research may sound bananas, but let’s hope scientists keep swinging for the senses.
A history buff, science fiction fan and occasional guitar player, John Moore has worked as a reporter or copy editor at the Rocky Mountain News; the Omaha World-Herald; and the Wichita Falls, Texas, Times Record News. He is one of the site’s editors and covers general news and stories of the bizarre.