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Thursday, October 22, 2009
15 days downtime for Ugabuga News Digest
To visitors, subscribers & readers:
We are very sorry, for we would not be making any regular posts from the 22nd of October to the 5th of November. We are going to be a bit tied up in work during this period and hope that you will understand. Again, we are very very sorry.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Google's Awkward Suggestions
Uhh...This curious discovery was made by a friend of ours. He still refuses to disclose what he was searching for when he typed in the query.
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(Ugabuga News Digest)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Leech Points Police to Criminal
7:14AM BST Mirror.co.uk NEWS, Sydney--
Australian Police have used blood from a leech to identify a criminal after 8 years, believed to be a first in forensics.
While the men didn't leave any fingerprints, a leech was found gorged with blood on the floor next to the tied-up victim.
Because neither the victim nor any of the officers had been bitten, police deduced the blood in the leech must belong to one of the assaulters. So the DNA of the blood in the leech was added to their database.
In 2008 Peter Cannon was charged over a drug offence and his
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The photo crasher Squirrel
10:20AM BST Daily Mail, Alberta-- The cheeky ground squirrel popped up in the foreground after Melissa Brandts and her husband had set the timer on their camera for a picture of them by Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park. The photo has become the highlight of the couple's Canadian vacation and an Internet sensation and is now being photoshopped into all sorts of pictures around the world. 
In the isolated beauty of the Canadian lakes, this couple thought it was safe to take a holiday snap without a stranger wandering into shot.
The image is so startling that, had it not ran on the prestigious National Geographic magazine's website, many might have assumed it had been digitally altered.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sunday, October 18, 2009
World's Smartest Child: Oscar Wrigley
8:00AM BST Telegraph, London--
While other two-year-olds are discovering the joy of 
playgrounds, Oscar Wrigley, World’s Smartest Little Boy, would rather be learning about wildlife or the history of Ancient Rome. With an IQ of at least 160, he has the same score as the likes of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
playgrounds, Oscar Wrigley, World’s Smartest Little Boy, would rather be learning about wildlife or the history of Ancient Rome. With an IQ of at least 160, he has the same score as the likes of Einstein and Stephen Hawking. Oscar's father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire, said: "Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins. I'm fully expecting the day to come when he turns around and tells me I'm an idiot."
Mother Hannah, 26, added added: "His vocabulary is amazing. He's able to construct complex sentences. The other day he said to me, 'Mummy, sausages are like a party in my mouth'."
Oscar has recently taken to conducting classical music as he listens in the back of the car and identifies the different instruments.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The 1 in a million apple: Half red-Half Green
7:00AM BST Telegraph, London--
Fruit grower Ken Morrish, 72, was
left stunned when he found a golden delicious apple on his tree split exactly half green, half red down the middle.
Experts believe that the odds of finding an apple with such a perfect line between the two colours are more than a million to one. In such cases, the red side usually tastes sweeter than the green side – because it has seen more sunshine during its growth.
The apple has caused such a stir in the village of Colaton Raleigh, Devon, UK, that Mr Morrish is inundated with neighbours queuing up to take pictures of it.
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Information from: The UK Telegraphwww.telegraph.co.uk
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
This should hurt only a little...
"Right there, yeah, that's the spot. Oh my gosh, I have been trying to scratch there for days...THANKS DOC!"(AP Photo)
Friday, October 16, 2009
Rags-to-riches: Bottleman scores big
11:49am EDT Reuters, Moscow--
A 63-year-old hom
eless Russian man has gone from street life to stock market trader after collecting thousands of empty booze bottles for cash, a popular Russian tabloid reported this week.
Pictured in a majestic purple suit and matching violet jewelry, Leonid Konovalov told the Tvoi Den paper he collected around 2,000 bottles a day over the past year since the economic downturn hit Russia last autumn.
"Russians are drinking a little bit more due to the crisis, and this helped me get out of the rubbish dump," said Konovalov, an ex-engineer from the industrial city of Kemerovo in eastern Siberia who has spent the last 20 years living in a tip.
The bearded ex-tramp said he was encouraged by his two grandchildren to take risks on the stock market and said his first transaction was a 50,000 euro ($74,120) share-purchase. And incase you are curious, a glass bottle can fetch about 2 rubles ($0.06).
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Information from: Reuters Newswww.reuters.com
Friday, October 16, 2009
Thief takes $60, but Ga. man just wants penny back
12:26 PDT Macon, Georgia (AP) --
Ralph Baker isn't too upset that he lost $60 when someone broke into his Macon apartment and stole his wallet. It's the penny that was tucked inside the black billfold that really has him riled. Baker found the once-shiny penny at a Long Island train station the day he left to join the Navy in 1965.
It has stayed with the 27-year Navy veteran through the Vietnam War, the aftermath of the Beirut barracks attack and his time in Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm in 1991.
Baker says he feels like he lost a part of him Monday when the penny was pilfered.
The 61-year-old says "It's like me — it's all washed up, burned out and tarnished...but it's been to more places than most people."
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Information from: The Macon Telegraph, www.macontelegraph.com
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