Tag: Offbeat
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Offbeat : Spain | Man dies after being gored by bull in town fiesta
A Spanish man has died after being gored by bull during a summer festival in a southwestern Spanish town. Coria town spokeswoman Clara Iglesias said yesterday ... -
Offbeat | Islamic State group blows up 2 mausoleums in Syria’s Palmyra
A Syrian official says the Islamic State group has destroyed two mausoleums in the historic central town of Palmyra. Maamoun Abdulkarim, the head of the Antiquities ... -
Offbeat | 60 pizza-makers create nearly mile-long ‘pie’ in Milan
The wait was on the long side for the pizza – 18 hours – but this was an extraordinary pie: 1.59545 kilometers, or nearly a mile ... -
Offbeat | US court: Workers can be fired for using pot off-duty
Pot may be legal in Colorado, but you can still be fired for using it. The Colorado Supreme Court ruled last week that a medical marijuana ... -
Offbeat | Indonesia: Thousands refuse to leave volcano danger zone
Thousands of villagers are refusing to leave their homes on the slopes of one of Indonesia’s most volatile volcanoes despite warnings that it is poised for ... -
Offbeat | Count the zeroes: Zimbabwe allows old banknote exchange
Zimbabwe’s central bank says banknotes from its old currency, which collapsed and was discarded years ago because of runaway inflation, can be exchanged for American dollars. ... -
Offbeat | Man dismissed from jury duty for wearing prisoner costume
A Vermont man has escaped jury duty — by getting dismissed for wearing a prisoner costume. James Lowe says he was released from jury duty on ... -
Offbeat | UK theme park shut after roller coaster crash injures 4
The owners of Britain’s Alton Towers said yesterday that they don’t know when the amusement park will reopen after four people were seriously injured in a ... -
Offbeat | Israeli military punishes soldier for eating a pork sandwich
A U.S.-born Israeli soldier is deep in the mud after pigging out during training. The military sentenced the soldier to 11 days in prison for eating ... -
Offbeat | German police alerted to armed mob, find asparagus pickers
Police in rural northeastern Germany rushed out to track down a reported mob of up to 15 people armed with knives and sticks. Instead, they found ... -
Offbeat | USA: Aerosmith’s Tyler not really doing a strawberry farm show
Police have alerted residents of a New Jersey township that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will not be performing at a small pick-your-own strawberry farm. NJ.com reports ... -
Offbeat | Air France jet in near miss with giant volcano in Cameroon
Air France says one of its jets had what investigators call a “serious incident” by flying too close to a volcano while maneuvering around a storm ... -
Offbeat | ‘Heroes’ welcome for Sweden’s Eurovision winner
Hundreds of elated fans welcomed Eurovision Song Contest winner Mans Zelmerlow upon his return Sunday to Sweden, a mini-superpower in the world of pop music and ... -
Offbeat | Turkmenistan unveils massive gold-leaf statue of president
Turkmenistan has unveiled a grandiose gold-leafed statue of the president carrying a dove and riding atop a horse — a move aimed at burnishing the leader’s ... -
Offbeat | Disney World tells riders to stop using selfie sticks
Disney World is looking to crack down on guests who use selfie sticks on rides at the park. The Orlando Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1B9pYRZ) reports a spokesman said ... -
Offbeat: European officials sing “We Are the World” at NATO meeting
In a distinctly different note for a military alliance meeting, European officials ended a NATO meeting with a spirited rendition of “We Are The World.” Taking ... -
Offbeat: Stockholm transit boss fined for shoplifting in Hong Kong
The chief executive of Stockholm’s public transit company has been caught shoplifting at Hong Kong’s international airport. Swedish public radio says Anders Lindstrom yesterday was fined the ... -
Offbeat: 700 cannabis plants found next to Berlin subway station
It wasn’t the world’s best-hidden marijuana plantation. Berlin police say they were were called to a subway station this week by a street cleaner who reported ... -
Offbeat: Chinese billionaire gives France vacation to 6,400 workers
The billionaire chief executive of the Chinese conglomerate Tiens has given 6,400 of his best salespeople a vacation that started in Paris and ended with a ... -
Offbeat: Koala pays late night visit to Australian hospital
Staffers at an Australian hospital’s emergency department received a rather unusual late night visitor — a koala. The marsupial casually strolled through the automatic doors of ... -
Offbeat | US: UC Berkeley’s Mark Twain project finds cache of new writing
Scholars at the University of California, Berkeley have pieced together a collection of dispatches written by Mark Twain when the author was a young newsman in ... -
Offbeat: Oyez! Town crier at royal baby birth captures attention
As dozens of journalists trained their lenses on a set of firmly shut double doors, waiting for a glimpse of Britain’s new baby princess, a man ... -
Offbeat: Large tourist hotel abruptly closes in Puerto Rico
A large hotel in one of the main tourist districts of Puerto Rico has abruptly announced that it will close. Puerto Rico Hotel and Tourism Association ... -
Offbeat | Romania: robbers trained to steal jewels, cars detained
Prosecutors detained 14 people last week who are suspected of belonging to a network of well-dressed robbers who were trained to rob luxury items in Romania ... -
Offbeat: US Supreme Court rejects appeal over fish pedicure ban
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a salon owner challenging a decision by local regulators to stop her from offering pedicures using fish ... -
Offbeat: Egypt court sentences belly dancer for ‘insulting’ flag
Egyptian court has sentenced a popular Armenian belly dancer to six months in prison for “insulting the Egyptian flag” after she allegedly wore a tight dress ... -
Offbeat: Bosnians hope to break world record for biggest chicken stew
Bosnian chefs hope to break a Guinness World Record for the biggest chicken stew in the world by cooking up the meal for 14,000 people. Some ... -
Offbeat: Chimp Tushi turns drone-buster in Dutch Burgers’ Zoo
Beware! Chimp Tushi at the Dutch Burgers’ Zoo is a real drone-buster. When the zoo sent a drone over the chimpanzee enclosure for a better look ... -
Offbeat: Manufacturing firm seeks to build world’s largest surfboard
A Rhode Island engineering technology and manufacturing company has set out to build the world’s largest surf- board. WPRO-AM reports that Bristol-based mouldCAM is building the ... -
Offbeat: Selena’s estate sues record label over digital royalties
The estate of the late Texas pop star Selena is suing a record label it says owes it money from digital royalties. The lawsuit was filed ... -
Offbeat: A burglar in Siberia leaves his photo, note of apology
A burglar in a small town in Siberia has broken into a house and left his photograph with a note of apology. The burglar in Prokopyevsk, ... -
Offbeat | Against all odds: British couple win a million in lottery for 2nd time
A couple from northern England has defied the odds — again — by winning a million pounds (USD1.5 million) in the lottery for a second time. ... -
Offbeat: New research says Anne Frank likely died a month earlier
Teenage Jewish diarist Anne Frank likely died of typhus in a Nazi concentration camp about a month earlier than previously thought, the Amsterdam museum that honors ... -
Offbeat: 4-year-old girl rides US bus searching for 3 a.m. snack
A four-year-old Philadelphia girl has been returned safely to her parents after slipping out of her house at 3 a.m. and getting on a transit bus ... -
Offbeat: Grandma is a centerfold: Rest home bares all for calendar
The stars of a charity calendar are in their 80s and 90s, but that didn’t stop the men and women from an assisted living facility in ...
