Odd news

Enviromentally friendly lungs. Russian guy Artyom Sidorkin grows fir tree in his lung. The doctors thought he had lung cancer until they operated. Xray pic and article here

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,2...405-663,00.html

Warning if you are squeamish don't click on the Daily Mail link
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/...nside-lung.html

Use a condom, thwart that evil Hitler sperm



Mock-up for an ad campaign designed by Grey Group. Another in the series depicting a Mao sperm has allegedly drawn the ire of China, and the campaign has been canned.

Time for seatbelts in the toilet on airlines?

It's official! Afghanistan has become the capital city of Iraq. The Associated Press See text beside story under photos.

"U.S. army soldiers from the 4th Engineer Battalion, 225th Engineer Brigade, sit on board a U.S. air force cargo aircraft that will transport them to Afghanistan in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, April 23, 2009. Only in Iraq a few weeks, nearly 500 U.S. Army combat engineers who specialize in clearing roads of explosives learned they were being shipped off to southern Afghanistan, one of the clearest signs of America's shifting wartime priorities. (AP Photo/Marko Drobnjakovic)"

a bull in a [s]china shop[/s] supermarket


(I actually heard about it on German news.)

Just to give you a little insight into my hometown: http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/041209...428276457.shtml

I love this. I feel so proud. Great.

A pilot in Africa managed to land his passenger Plane safe and sound, one small problem though , it was the wrong Airport!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090424/tod-o...ot-6d5fb3c.html

Croatian Hen Lays Green Eggs - sorry, no ham

CNN: Global hunt for accidental millionaires

This one made me laugh, what a great drunken steal that would be!

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/news/wwlp_local_ho...raffe_20090503#

This is funny...only in the US of A...
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/04/r...roes/index.html

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1902420,00.html

Another one

Not suitable for the faint of heart or weak of stomach

Man finds dead mouse in malt loaf

Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash

Makes you wonder, doesn't it? Fate and all that...

I read about it yesterday or the day before, even. IIRC the article said they'd flown to Munich and were driving back home when the accident happened.