Exotic dancer assaulted bus-driver-and-stripper husband (Vancouver Sun)
(An exotic dancer was found guilty Thursday of assault for kicking her estranged Ottawa bus driver husband — who moonlights as a stripper — before a therapy session. During trial, Vanessa Hagel admitted kicking Eric Hagel on Jan. 24 after the couple started arguing while awaiting a meeting with their therapist. Hagel testified she inadvertently kicked her husband as she uncrossed her legs to flee the waiting room. However, the counsellor, who witnessed the incident, said Vanessa Hagel stood up, "chambered" her leg and deliberately kicked Eric Hagel as he sat in a chair.)
Bus crash kills Togo soccer players and officials (USA Today)
(Former national team goalkeeper Charles Balogou was among six people killed when a bus carrying players and officials from a topflight club plunged into a ravine and caught fire. Togo football federation spokesman Aime Ekpe said another 25 people from the Etoile Filante delegation — 19 of them players — plus the driver were injured in Saturday's crash.)
Man hit by TTC bus may lose foot (CBC)
(A Toronto man who was hit by a TTC bus Saturday afternoon may end up losing his foot. The accident happened near Bloor Street West and Dufferin Avenue at about 3 p.m. The man was struck by the bus and his foot was badly injured. According to police his ankle was nearly severed in the accident. Doctors tried to reattach the ankle during emergency surgery but there is no word yet on whether the operation was successful.)
Fire destroys hockey bus in Newfoundland (CBC)
(Fire destroyed a bus carrying hockey players on the Trans-Canada Highway in central Newfoundland Thursday night. The bus was carrying eight members of the Grand Falls-Windsor-based Cataracts hockey team. They live on the Avalon Peninsula but were headed to Grand Falls-Windsor for two home games on the weekend. Mark Yetman, the Cataracts goalie said his $5000 hockey pads were burned in the fire.)
Box office report: 'Twilight: Breaking Dawn' and 'The Muppets' lead Thanksgiving holiday weekend (Inside Movies)
(As expected, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn–Part 1 led the box office once again over the extended Thanksgiving frame, but Disney’s The Muppets reboot more than held its own in second place. Meanwhile, newcomers Arthur Christmas and Hugo started modestly, and The Descendants, My Week with Marilyn, and The Artist all impressed in limited release. Here’s how the box office played out over the holiday weekend...)
Woman pepper sprays other Black Friday shoppers (CBS)
(A woman trying to improve her chance to buy cheap electronics at a Walmart in a wealthy suburb spewed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppers and 20 people suffered minor injuries, police said Friday. The attack took place about 10:20 p.m. Thursday shortly after doors opened for the sale at the Walmart in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley.)
Grandpa Released from Jail After Black Friday Brawl (My Fox Phoenix)
(Police swarmed a Buckeye Walmart Thursday night after a man inside was tackled to the ground during a rush to grab video games -- and there are differing stories about what led up to his arrest. Some witnesses told Fox 10 that the actions taken by a police officer during a fight at that Walmart were wrong, but Buckeye police have a different story.)
'Star Wars' Fans Trek For Charity (My Fox NY)
(His once sparkling white armor is dusty, weather-beaten and cracking; he has welts behind his knees and elbows and the skin on his stomach and back is rubbed raw. But the stormtrooper keeps trudging, pushing his rickety three-wheeled trolley along the edge of Australia's Eyre Highway, every step taking him closer to his goal of walking 3,100 miles (5,000km) from Perth to Sydney.)
Forget billboards...Nicolas Cage appears on the cover of bizarre eighth grade Serbian biology textbook (Daily Mail)
(Images of Hollywood movie stars turn up in a variety of places, whether it be on a billboard, at a bus shelter or the obligatory DVD cover. But Nicholas Cage may never in his wildest dreams have guessed that he would land on the cover of a Serbian school textbook. A 1998 eighth grade biology book with a picture of the 47-year-old actor in the 1987 film Raising Arizona has been uncovered by a Twitter user from the Southeast European country.)
'Harry Potter and yoga are evil', says Catholic Church exorcist (Telegraph UK)
(For most people it is a way of toning the limbs and soothing the stresses of everyday life, but the Catholic Church’s best-known exorcist says yoga is evil. Father Gabriele Amorth, who for years was the Vatican’s chief exorcist and claims to have cleansed hundreds of people of evil spirits, said yoga is Satanic because it leads to a worship of Hinduism and “all eastern religions are based on a false belief in reincarnation”.)
Frosty the Snowman arrested for 'brawling with police' during Christmas parade (Daily Mail)
(Who says 'Frosty the Snowman' has to be jolly? A man in a 'Frosty the Snowman' costume was arrested Saturday during the annual Christmas parade in Chestertown, on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
He's accused of scuffling with police and kicking at a police dog. John A. Dolgos tells The Star Democrat of Easton that 52-year-old Kevin Michael Walsh became agitated when a dog-handling officer tried to escort him away from the crowd.)
Man uses scuba gear to evade Australia bushfire (BBC)
(A man who stayed behind to defend his home from a bushfire in western Australia used scuba-diving equipment to escape the blaze. While others in the town of Margaret River fled their homes, Peter Fabrici got his wife to safety and then went back to fire-proof his home. Seeing houses in the distance going up in flames, he donned wet clothing, an oxygen tank and goggles.)
Sleazy Aussie Landlord Caught Hiding In Air Vent To Spy On Naked Tenants (My Fox DC)
(A sleazy 75-year-old Australian landlord was caught lurking in an air vent with a camera -- filming his young tenants having sex, the Manly Daily reported Thursday. Bruno Silvolli, of Narrabeen in Sydney, also cut holes in the bathroom wall of his tenants' apartment so he could spy on those inside. The married man is due for sentencing in January after pleading guilty in the Manly Court to several counts of filming and watching without consent, as well as indecently assaulting a female tenant.)
‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’ scene apparently caused two seizures (Washington Post)
(“Twilight: Breaking Dawn” has elicited shrieks of joy from Twihards, yawns from some film critics and groans from unwilling partners dragged to the vampire love story. But the film’s gory birth scene, which contains rapid flashes of black and red light, has apparently also caused two men to have seizures.)
Man stuck in Utah 'quicksand' for over 8 hours (ABC)
(A 25-year-old man is recovering after being stuck in “quicksand” for over eight hours Wednesday evening. The Wayne County Sheriff’s Office tells ABC 4 News that at approximately 5 p.m. Wednesday evening, the Richfield Communications Center received contact from an Air Force station in Florida, stating that an emergency alert beacon was being transmitted from the Dirty Devil River in the Robber's Roost area of Wayne County. Officers and a helicopter were dispatched to the area.)
Arizona woman tries to rob store with toy penguin, police say (AZ Central)
(A woman attempting to rob a gas station had threatened the clerk with a concealed bomb later determined to be a toy penguin, authorities say. A Yavapai County Sheriff's Office statement late Friday said the woman entered a Chevron on Wednesday evening and claimed she had a bomb in a hand concealed under her sweater. She demanded cash from the clerk and threatened to blow up the store. The clerk explained that because the gas station was closing, the register was empty. The woman pressed on, but the clerk continued to refuse until she left the store, Sheriff's Office spokesman Dwight D'Evelyn said.)
Montreal schools move to scan playground chatter (Ottawa Citizen)
(The playgrounds, hallways and cafeterias of Quebec's largest school board will soon be French-only zones as authorities move to silence other languages - even during recess. In a bid to ensure its 110,000 students master French, the Commission scolaire de Montreal has announced a new code of conduct declaring French de rigueur at all times during the school day. Diane De Courcy, the board's chairwoman, said the approach will be persuasive, not punitive.)
'Brick' breaker: Lego bible too racy for Sam's Club (CNET)
(For more than 10 years, Brendan Smith has been telling the story of the Bible in a very unusual way: with Legos. Through his hit Web site and three popular books, Smith has spread the gospel of "The Brick Testament." But now, because of what it says are concerns about "mature content," Sam's Club, one of the nation's largest retailers, has banned in-store sales of the fourth book in the series, "The Brick Bible.")
Christian Bale hanging up his Batman cape (Reuters)
("The Dark Knight Rises" may be Christian Bale's final performance as crime-fighting superhero Batman, the actor told the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Set for release in July, the movie is Bale's third stint as Gotham's Caped Crusader for director Christopher Nolan, after "Batman Begins" (2005) and "The Dark Knight" (2008). "I wrapped a few days ago, so that will be the last time I'm taking that cowl off," Bale told the newspaper during an interview in Beverly Hills. "I believe that the whole production wrapped yesterday, so it's all done. Everything's finished. It's me and Chris -- that will be the end of that Batman era.)
Man goes batty over Batman memorabilia
(UPI)
(A man living in Indianapolis has amassed a collection of almost 1,600 pieces of Batman memorabilia, which he, of course, keeps in his own Batcave. Kevin Silva's obsession with Batman began when he was 5 years old in 1966, the year ABC's live-action Batman TV series debuted, The Indianapolis Star reported.)
NASA rover on its way to Mars (Montreal Gazette)
(NASA successfully propelled a $2.5-billion probe carrying a minivan-sized rover into space on Saturday, the first leg of an eight-month journey to Mars. The probe, dubbed ``Curiosity,'' which will use a Canadian-made sensor to search for signs of life on the red planet, launched at precisely 10:02 a.m. ET from Cape Canaveral, Florida, where weather conditions were favourable, the U.S. space agency said. As the rocket blasted into the Florida skies, a booming sound echoed through the air followed by a bright flash of light.)
Auckland porn study receives $800k (NZ Herald)
(An Auckland University study into pornography has received a grant of almost $800,000. The study, which will look at the relationship between porn and people's lives, is one of 88 projects to get a share of $53.8 million handed out in Marsden Fund Grants last month, Fairfax Media reports. However when the $790,000 grant was publicly announced last month it was described only as a project examining ''public engagement towards a more inclusive and equitable society''.)
Climate not as sensitive to carbon dioxide as some fear (CHRON)
(A woman trying to improve her chance to buy cheap electronics at a Walmart in a wealthy suburb spewed pepper spray on a crowd of shoppers and 20 people suffered minor injuries, police said Friday. The attack took place about 10:20 p.m. Thursday shortly after doors opened for the sale at the Walmart in Porter Ranch in the San Fernando Valley.Let’s see if an intriguing new paper in Science, released this afternoon, can break through your somnolent Turkey Day afternoon. Led by Oregon climate scientist Andreas Schmittner the paper suggests the rate of warming from a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide may be less than the most dire estimates.)
Dyslexics may have trouble blocking noise (UPI)
(Dyslexia symptoms, including trouble reading and spelling, may be at least partly due to difficulty blocking out background noise, U.S. researchers say. Rachel Beattie of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles said dyslexia affects as many as 17.5 percent of the U.S. population, but its cause remains somewhat unknown. The study, involving 37 undergraduate students, found poor readers performed significantly worse than the control group only when there were high levels of background noise.)
A Homer Simpson 'D'oh' was man's first words (News Lite)
(Scientists claim the D'oh catchphrase of Homer Simpson could have been one of the first words ever uttered by modern man. Boffins from the University of Amsterdam say this is because of the way in which our prehistoric ancestors vocal tract was formed. The shape and mechanics of the mouth and throat meant that while speech would have been limited, the 'u' sound would have been one of the easiest to make.)
South Korea to start testing robot prison guards (I Heart Chaos)
(Robots are becoming a little more common over a wide variety of job situations, and now South Korea will be the first in the world to test robots in prison. Yes, here we are in the future, where prisons are guarded by robots. Under a project sponsored by the Ministry of Justice, trials of the robots will be held for a month at a jail in the city of Pohang, southeast of Seoul, from March.)
Pee-powered fun hits bar toilets (The Sun UK)
(A BAR has installed a state-of-the-art video game in the toilets — controlled by URINE. Drinkers can enjoy a spot of simulated skiing or extinguish some virtual flames while relieving themselves at The Exhibit bar in Balham, south London. High-tech sensors detect the direction of urine and translate it into action on a 12-inch screen above every urinal.)
Record Crowds Turn out for Black Friday Shopping (Time)
(More Americans hunted for bargains over the weekend than ever before as retailers lured them online and into stores with big discounts and an earlier-than-usual start to the holiday shopping season. A record 226 million shoppers visited stores and websites during the four-day holiday weekend starting on Thanksgiving Day, up from 212 million last year, according to early estimates by The National Retail Federation released on Sunday.)
Facing Eviction, Occupy LA Says They'll Stay (Time)
(With the clock winding down on a midnight deadline to abandon their weeks-old Occupy Los Angeles protest, hundreds of demonstrators weren't going anywhere Sunday, as they made plans instead to hold an "eviction block party." Although city officials have told protesters they must leave and take their nearly 500 tents with them by 12:01 a.m. Monday, just a handful were seen packing up Sunday.)
Sue Paterno Told To Leave Penn State Campus Pool (Huffington Post)
(A person close to former Penn State coach Joe Paterno's family tells The Associated Press his wife was turned away from a campus pool. Sue Paterno is an avid swimmer. The person who requested anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation said the rejection left the family saddened. A university spokesman said he was unaware of any directive.)
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