Offbeat

Most of you out there heard of poor Meredith, a 20 year old brit student who went abroad, in Italy, with the ERASMUS programme, and ended up with her throat slit open in her own home by her own friends and roommate. The murder of Meredith Kercher was discovered on 2 November 2007 in Perugia, [...]

David Bain’s sister, Laniet, confessed to her employer that she had been having sex with her father, Robin and that she is planning to go to the police. Stephen Cousins, Laniet’s employer, said that the women told him about her escapades with her father during her stay in Papua New Guinea and later when they [...]

Miss Rhode Island, Alysha Castonguay, is taking Carrie’s part. She said that Carrie is not fairly seen at the time being, and that people should stop harrassing her for the much-discussed picutres. Now, I am not sure if this has anything to do with what I am writting below, but thissudden comrad-ship is a bit [...]

One of the best chefs over at Cape Olive Garden is Jennifer Dineen. Of course, she would probably prefer us to use the title “culinary manager”. And a manager she is, as she misses no opportunity to improve and learn about the trade. Her last experience was no less than some 4.000 miles away, in [...]

Many of you out there probably enjoy  a nice gave of cards with friends every in a while. Some poker, among others. But I can “bet” that none of you so far won 720,000 Euros in a single game. The sum was won by Vaness Rousso, a pro poker player of French origins. She is [...]

A Briton was picked to do what was called the “best job in the world” this Wednesday. 16 finalists hoped that they will be the caretakers of an Australian tropical island, but Ben Southall, aged 34, became one. The marketing campain powered by Tourism Queensland that desires to promote tourism in the Australian state attracted [...]

January 4, 1 p.m., a blue Volvo just passes a speed camera at 103 mph on the A14 in Newmarket, Suffolk. The car was drove by Tom Riall, a divisional chief executive at Serco, a speed camera firm. The Serco’s home Affairs division head was caught by one of his own traps, as Serco installed [...]

Most people who stay up to date via blogs and news subscriptions already know the story of Nikki Catsouras and the rest of the Catsouras family. Some three years ago, the tragic death of Nikki grieved her family, as well as friends and neighbours in Orange County, California. Post-traumatic stress does not bother a dead [...]

January, a helicopter crashes in Russia in the mountains near the border with Kazakhstan. Nothing weird so far, but the snapshots taken by the environmentalists from the crash site show that a hunting took place there. So why would you go in remote mountains to hunt? Because there is the house of the Argali goats, [...]

May 5 is here. Actually, that is Cinco de Mayo. Why is that important? Because on this day in 1862, the Mexican troops have defeated the French troops in what has proven to be a “decisive victory” if it were to quote Barack Obama’s words. Although Cinco de Mayo is today, President Barack Obama decided [...]