Underwear fetish - Japanese man decorates street with womens panties

A man from Japan is being arrested for decorating his street with panties. He uses to walk in ladies underwear himself all the time. But it arouses him to shock other people with panties. Therefore he threw some of them on bycicles and doorhandles in his street. Because it is not illegal to have a fetish, the police charged him with littering. They confiscated 200 panties from his home and also some sex toys.

Furious dad chops off arm daughters boyfriend

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A known to be violent man from Greece chopped off the arm of his daughters boyfriend after he found out his 14 year old daughter had gotten pregnant. When he heard the news he went after the 17 year old boyfriend and taped him to a chair. Then he cut off his arm with sword. The boy is in life danger. The man was earlier arrested for a violence crime.

Webcam in the Netherlands saves live at Aruba

An Aruban man who was chatting with a woman from Holland tried to commit suicide by taking pills. The Dutch woman saw this over her webcam and instantly called the police in her town. They contacted the Aruban police and told them about the unusual call. The police from the island got to action and went over to the man's house. They were just in time to take him to the hospital. If the woman hadn't called, the man would certainly have died according to the staff of the hospital.

Russian youths hate meddling of US government

Russian youth movement Nasji accuses yhe US geovernment of meddling. According to them the Americans are trying to get the Nasji to protest against the current authorities. Us believes the latest elections have been rigged. And now they are trying to investigate. But the American ambassy in Moscow says it's unthinkable for the US to meddle in Russian business.

Blow job at Dutch government

VVD counsil member Jolanda van Veluw gave blow job to political opponent Paul Depla in the bike parking lot at City hall. A surveillance camera taped everything and the rest is history. Dutch media attempted to speak to either one of them but got nothing more than "no comment" out of them. Since these two people are each others opponents in the counsil, people are wondering what Depla is to do in return politically speaking. People fear their work is going to be influenced by their relationship.

This is how you take advantage of the devaluating dollar

Say, you want to buy a house in the UK. You loan $450.000 and immediatly convert them to Euros. You will then have approximately €300.000. Now you have a house worth €300.000 in combination with a loan that is worth €300.000. When the dollar sinks even further, which it will, your loan is becoming worth less measured in Euro while your house will just gain value. And don't worry about geting a loan because American bankers will prefer goodwilling Europeans over deadbeat Yankees who can't come up with their mortgage.

Pound hits 26-year US dollar high

The UK pound has hit its highest level against the US dollar in 26 years.
The pound has gained on the perception that US interest rates will be cut this week, while UK interest rates will be left unchanged next week.
When UK rates are higher than US rates, investors are encouraged to exchange dollars for pounds to benefit from better rates of return.
At one point the pound touched $2.070, before paring gains to $2.067, while the dollar sank to a new euro low.
The last time the pound was at these sorts of levels was 5 November, 1980, when it reached $2.446.
Many analysts expect the Federal Reserve, the US central bank, to cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point on Wednesday, in an attempt to limit the impact of a housing market slowdown.
The Fed cut its main interest rate by half a percentage point to 4.75% from 5.25% last month, after problems in the housing market were seen to be spreading to the wider economy.
The move sent the greenback in a downward spiral against the euro, sliding to a new record low on Tuesday at $1.4444, its third record low in as many days.
Recession risks
House prices in the US have been falling and the number of foreclosures has surged in recent months after the Fed spent almost two years between 2004 and 2006 raising rates in an attempt to slow inflation.
While inflation fears have been simmering in previous months, mainly stoked by the surging oil price, many analysts now say that the biggest worry is consumers reining in their spending.
Should that happen, they argue, the US economy could splutter into a recession.

Happy UK shoppers hit US

department store and one thing is striking.
An awful lot of the voices - and particularly those coming from the people clutching the biggest number of bulging bags - seem to be British.
Stop by other large retailers - Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue or any Gap store - and the same experience is repeated, with the odd French or other European accent thrown in.
While Americans are feeling the pinch of a credit crunch, housing slump and rising fuel prices, it seems their European cousins are ready to make the most of a dollar which has slid to near record lows.
As the Brits happily point out, an exchange rate of over $2 to £1 makes clothes, cosmetics and electronic goods so much cheaper that it seems worth paying for a flight and hotel.

Steep rise in Europe cocaine use

An annual report on drug use says around 4.5 million Europeans are likely to have used cocaine in the past year - a million more than in 2006.
The EU drugs agency (EMCDDA) says the increase in cocaine seizures and quantities also confirms its status as "Europe's stimulant drug of choice".
Prevalence of the drug is highest in Spain and the UK but the biggest increases are in Denmark and Italy.
About two million Europeans are said to have used cocaine in the past month.
The drugs agency bases its figures on information covering 2005. In that year, it says that seizures of cocaine reached record levels. A total of 107 tons of the drug was recovered - up more than 45% on the previous year.
Spain and Portugal are the main points of entry into Europe.

U.S. dollar falls to all-time low vs euro

BERLIN, Germany (AP) -- The U.S. dollar fell to an all-time low against the 13-nation euro Tuesday as traders awaited housing data from Washington.

The dollar has been falling steadily against the euro since August.

In morning European trading the euro bought $1.4767, up from $1.4667 late Monday in New York.
The British pound rose to $2.0597 from $2.0497 in New York, while the dollar rose to purchase 110.42 Japanese yen from 109.85.
The euro and the pound have been climbing steadily against the dollar since August amid fears for the health of the U.S. economy, stoked by the subprime credit crisis.
The euro hit its last all-time high of $1.4752 on November 9.

Dalai Lama 'may pick successor'

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, says he is considering breaking with centuries of tradition and naming his own successor.
Usually, following the death of a Dalai Lama, senior Tibetan Buddhist officials, guided by dreams and signs, identify a young child to succeed him.
But the Dalai Lama said he feared China would try to influence this process.
He said he was considering whether his successor should be picked by him, or elected by high ranking Buddhist monks.
"If the Tibetan people want to keep the Dalai Lama system, one of the possibilities I have been considering with my aides is to select the next Dalai Lama while I'm alive," he told the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun during a visit to Japan.

Skin transformed into stem cells

Human skin cells have been reprogrammed by two groups of scientists to mimic embryonic stem cells with the potential to become any tissue in the body.
The breakthrough promises a plentiful new source of cells for use in research into new treatments for many diseases.
Crucially, it could mean that such research is no longer dependent on using cells from human embryos, which has proved highly controversial.
The US and Japanese studies feature in the journals Science and Cell.

Darling admits 25m records lost

Two computer discs holding the personal details of all families in the UK with a child under 16 have gone missing.
The Child Benefit data on them include name, address, date of birth, National Insurance number and, where relevant, bank details of 25m people.
Chancellor Alistair Darling said there was no evidence the data had fallen into criminal hands - but urged people to monitor their bank accounts.
The Conservatives described the incident as a "catastrophic" failure.
In an emergency statement to MPs Mr Darling apologised for what he described as an "extremely serious failure on the part of HMRC to protect sensitive personal data entrusted to it in breach of its own guidelines".

Rare Leica camera fetches record price

VIENNA -- A rare Leica camera fetched a world-record price of 336,000 euros (US$492,000) for cameras of its type at auction in Vienna Saturday, news agency APA reported.
The tiny portable black camera dating from 1923 becomes the most expensive small camera in the world and the second most expensive camera ever sold at auction.
It was bought by an anonymous European

How can a teapot be sexy?

Some tea connoisseurs are calling the Soropot the "sexiest teapot ever," but we just think it's downright architectural. There's function behind that form, too, where the arched handle is supposed to act as a heat sink to keep the tea from oversteeping. Its arched support straddles a burner on the stove, and the water in that horizontally oriented boiler acts like an old-timey locomotive, getting all hot and steamy until it's ready to pour over your favorite teabags. All this stainless steel and glass and design overload isn't quite available yet, but when/if it is, we tea drinkers at the Giz are even willing to forsake our gorgeous Michael Graves teapot from Target for one of these

Bill Nye, Restraining Order Guy

Bill Nye, television's Science Guy, requested a restraining order against his former fiancée, claiming she may have tried to poison him, legal papers show.

Nye sought the order Sept. 4 in a Los Angeles court seeking to keep Blair Tindal, 47, away from his Studio City home and forbid her from contacting him.

On Sept. 3 at 11:30 p.m., Tindal, who was dressed in black, "emerged from my backyard ... carrying two plastic bottles filled with some sort of solvent. Apparently she was trying to poison my plants including some vegetable(s)," say the documents. "She fled on foot and then a car sped away from the scene."

Nye, 52, also stated that Tindal had driven by his house twice in the previous three weeks. Nye also complained in an abuse report that Tindal "left a coffee pot on my porch" on Aug. 16.

Tindal filed a response Nov. 13 saying she didn't agree with the restraining order.

A lawyer for Tindal had no comment. A message for Nye's attorney went unreturned.