Family says six-year-old girl was dropped off from school bus at stranger's home (CTV)
(A Beausejour-area father says his six-year-old daughter found herself in an emergency situation Wednesday morning. Steve Jeffery says his daughter Sydnee was en route to classes in Beausejour when she told the driver she wasn't feeling well. Jeffery says the driver dropped her off at the home of a stranger in a village 10 minutes north of Beausejour, instead of taking the six-year-old to school with the rest of the children.)
Nepal bus plunges off mountain road 'killing 43' (BBC)
(At least 43 people were killed when a bus veered off a mountain road into a river in eastern Nepal, police say. Other passengers are missing after the accident in remote Sindhuli district, about 100km (62 miles) from Kathmandu.)
Man wrongly accused through social media of Surrey homicide(Vancouver Sun)
(Police investigating the weekend murder of Jamie Kehoe said today that a man identified on social media sites as the teenager's murderer has been ruled out as a suspect. The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT) said that some web sites have wrongly identified Garnet Ford as the person who fatally stabbed Kehoe in the neck when he and a friend attempted to stop a fight on a bus Friday night in Surrey.)
Bus Driver Faces 160 Years In Prison (Boston Herald)
(A Milton bus driver faces 75 to 160 years in jail if convicted of sexually assaulting three disabled children and videotaping the acts. Judge Landya B. McCafferty entered an innocent plea Wednesday on behalf of John Allen Wright, 45, of 52A Charles St., and ordered a psychiatric evaluation after Wright’s lawyer raised the issue of competency.)
Bus monitor caught on camera beating, biting 14-year-old boy (ABC)
(The 70-year-old bus monitor who was caught on camera beating and biting a 14-year-old student admits she broke school rules but doesn't believe she broke the law. Yvonne Branch resigned from the Polk County School District in June shortly after administrators began an investigation into the allegations she attacked a young boy on the bus while it was parked at Lakeland High School.)
Black magic sperm? Gang of women arrested for drugging, kidnapping and raping men to steal their semen (Daily Mail)
(Police investigating a spate of 'ritualistic' kidnappings and sex attacks on male hitchhikers have arrested three women.
Detectives in Gweru, Zimbabwe, seized 33 used condoms from a suspect vehicle following reports of attacks on men seeking lifts in the town, as well as Harare and Mashonaland West.)
Utah officials trying to evict reptile rescuer (ABC)
(Utah transportation officials are trying to evict a reptile rescuer who's using his rental home as a shelter for hundreds of animals. The Utah Department of Transportation filed papers on Friday against James Dix of West Valley City. The Deseret News of Salt Lake City reports (http://bit.ly/qpCxgM) Dix has more than 900 rescued animals at his home.)
Driver with snakes arrested on I-75 (AJC)
(Here’s a traffic stop on I-75 that gave Cherokee County Sheriff’s deputies pause: The driver warned them that he had snakes in the car. Lots of them. The incident happened Monday when deputies pulled over a vehicle driven by Nicholas Mesa of Indiana.)
'I'm not staying here!' Adventurous Alfie, 3, flees first day of nursery and walks home to his mother (Daily Mail)
(Youngster scaled 3ft wall and crossed busy road. Teachers didn't even realise he was missing.
Mother: 'You trust these people to look after your children and then something like this happens')
Two pregnant women 'attacked two others with a knife' when they were all visiting the same man at a hospital (Daily Mail)
(A Philadelphia hospital room looked more like the scene of a bar brawl than a place of recovery Tuesday afternoon. Two pregnant women got in a knife fight with another woman and a teenage girl inside a Pennsylvania hospital. The reason for the fight is unknown to police, but all four women were apparently visiting the same man who was a patient in the hospital.)
Saddam's bronze buttock up for auction (News AU)
(A BRONZE buttock from the statue of late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein toppled in Baghdad after the US-led invasion in 2003 is to be auctioned in the UK. A former soldier from Britain's elite SAS regiment retrieved the 0.6m wide piece of history and took it back to the UK with him shortly after US Marines dragged the statue down on live television.)
With mom driving getaway vehicle, alleged robber is busted (WVEC)
(A man is behind bars after being shot as he reportedly to rob a restaurant. The driver of the getaway vehicle was his mother. It all happened Saturday, October 1 at Philadelphia Hoagie Factor in Ocean View. Police say Michael Fulton threw on a skull mask and tried to rob the owner, Carnet Horton, as he tried to take out the trash.)
Ice cream recalled in Illinois, 9 other states (QC Times)
(Kroger is recalling ice cream sold in 10 states because it may contain peanuts not mentioned on the label. The nation's largest grocery store operator says people with peanut allergies could have a serious or even life-threatening reaction if they eat the Private Selection Extreme Moose Tracks ice cream being recalled.)
Bank robbery foiled by crook's poor handwriting (News Lite)
(A would-be bank robber was forced to flee empty-handed when staff were unable to read his note demanding they hand over cash. Thomas Love had apparently walked into a WSFS Bank in Delaware and handed over a poorly penned note, which the teller was unable to read.)
Ice cream man taunts customer, becomes web hit (News Lite)
(A video of an ice-cream man jokingly taunting a holidaymaker by serving him a treat and then taking it away again has become an online hit. Footage shows the Turkish-style vendor handing a young customer his ice cream before quickly swiping it back and leaving him empty-handed.He then performs a series of impressive tricks -- including spinning a multiple-coned snack away from him and presenting a massive ice cream - as the bemused boy looks on.)
Bizarre urban myth ruining business at Chinese restaurant (Telegraph)
(It sounds like a punch line to a bad joke, but there is nothing funny about it to the owners of an upmarket family-run restaurant. Diners are shunning their Chinese eatery after an urban myth spread around the area that a woman choked on a dog's identification chip as she ate her meal.)
Owl curry, adder with butter and stir-fried craneflies! Meet the man who has survived on a diet of ROADKILL for 30 years (Telegraph)
(Rat stir fries and owl curries hardly sound like the stuff you would serve your friends for dinner. But surprisingly, Jonathan McGowan's exotic roadkill dishes are a big hit with his guests. The 44-year-old bachelor has lived on a diet of roadkill for the past 30 years to avoid buying meat from the supermarket.)
Arkham City is the ultimate Brit-made superhero game (Metro)
(All-American heroes seem to be made in Britain at the moment, even in the gaming world, so it's no surprise that the UK's Rocksteady Studios have produced possibly the best Batman yet with Batman: Arkham City.)
A sweet tooth means a sweeter personality (MSNBC)
(Finally, there's some good news for people with a sweet tooth, and it comes in time for that sweet-gathering holiday, Halloween. People who prefer sweeter tastes seem to have sweeter dispositions, a new study suggests. So grab your favorite candy and read on. Psychology researchers wondered whether there was any link between our taste preferences and personality traits.)
Piranhas communicate with sound, say researchers (BBC)
(Despite a nasty reputation, piranhas seem to bark more often than bite. Scientists have discovered that the fearsome fish use sounds to communicate - often intimidating their rivals rather than attacking. With underwater microphones, scientists recorded the sounds the fish made when they confronted one another.)
One in 10 Brits leaves web passwords in their will (The Register)
(Your gran could pass on her iTunes password along with the family silver as a survey suggests that 11 per cent of Brits have either put internet passwords into their wills or plan to do so. The main reason for passing on the keys to internet accounts was the valuable content amassed in the cloud – with 25 per cent of the 2,000 adults questioned saying that they had collected films, music and software worth at least £200.)
Robot biologist solves complex problem from scratch (Xenophilia)
(First it was chess. Then it was Jeopardy. Now computers are at it again, but this time they are trying to automate the scientific process itself. An interdisciplinary team of scientists at Vanderbilt University, Cornell University and CFD Research Corporation, Inc., has taken a major step toward this goal by demonstrating that a computer can analyze raw experimental data from a biological system and derive the basic mathematical equations that describe the way the system operates.)
Using Magnets Aimed at the Brain to Influence Whether People Lie (Time)
(Zap one part of the brain with a magnetic pulse and people become more likely to lie. Stimulate the opposite side of the region and truth-telling increases, according to new research. In the study, 16 participants were asked to view red or blue colored disks on a computer monitor and, at their own discretion, to sometimes lie about the color and identify red as blue, or vice versa.)
The Black Death Bacterium Decoded (Time)
(Wresting DNA from the 663-year-old teeth of victims of the Black Death, researchers have reconstructed the genome of the bacterium that originated in Asia and wiped out up to half of western Europe's population. It's the first time that scientists have successfully pieced together the genome of an ancient microbe from skeletal remains.)
Runner disqualified for taking bus during marathon (Taiwan News)
(After crossing the finish line in third place and smashing his personal best, Rob Sloan celebrated and boasted how he'd just completed an "unbelievably tough" marathon. It turns out things weren't quite what they seemed.)
Radiation spikes in Tokyo neighborhood, officials say (CNN)
(An extraordinarily high level of radiation was detected in one spot in a central Tokyo residential district Thursday, prompting the local government to cordon off the small area, local officials said. Radiation levels were higher in Tokyo's Setagaya ward than in the evacuation area around the badly damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to ward Mayor Nobuto Hosaka.)
Seattle 'superhero' dons mask to enter courtroom (AP)
(A self-proclaimed superhero wore a charcoal-colored mask Thursday as he entered a Seattle courtroom where prosecutors said they hadn't yet decide whether to file charges against him in an alleged pepper spray attack. Phoenix Jones, whose real name is Benjamin John Francis Fodor, was arrested early Sunday after police say he sprayed four people who had left a downtown nightclub. Fodor said he was trying to break up a fight when he was attacked; the club-goers insisted to police they hadn't been fighting.)
Harold Camping's Back, With a Brand-New Doomsday Prediction (Time)
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