three wise monkeys

MARCIN ZOLTOWSKI
The Associated Press
October 10, 2007 at 12:59 PM EDT

KAZIMIERZ DOLNY, Poland — Police pushed their way into a Polish convent Wednesday and evicted about 65 rebellious nuns – arresting the mother superior and a monk who had occupied the complex with them illegally for two years.
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Does mummified baby have living cousin?
RENE JOHNSTON/TORONTO STAR

Sep 24, 2007 04:30 AM
Francine Kopun
Feature Writer

Mummified baby was newborn boy
It was a newborn boy that was laid to rest, wrapped in a blanket and newspaper dated 1925, beneath the floorboards of a Toronto home, an autopsy and X-rays have confirmed.

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The traditionally neutral Swiss army has staged an unplanned invasion after troops blundered into Liechtenstein.

A 171-strong Swiss company got two kilometres into its neighbour before realising the mistake and heading back.

Liechtenstein authorities made light of the intrusion, saying they only knew about it when the Swiss told them.
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Liver, part of a head mistakenly delivered to house instead of research lab; 28 other packages, intended for medical research, could have gone astray
Mar 03, 2007 04:32 PM
Associated Press

CASCADE TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Two packages containing human body parts – including a liver and part of a head – meant for a medical research lab instead were delivered to a home.

The body parts, sent from China, were mistakenly dropped off Thursday at Franck and Ludivine Larmande’s home by a DHL express driver who believed the bubble-wrapped items were pieces to a table.

“My husband started to unwrap one and said, ‘This is strange, it looks like a liver,’” Ludivine Larmande said. “He started the second one, but stopped as soon as we saw the ear.
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If you haven’t read Donovan Webster’s book, or watched the associated documentary, Aftermath: Remnants of War, this story is a timely reminder that war stays with us a very long time indeed.

Highly recommending reading and viewing.

Italian woman finds live grenade in potato bag

Grenade was harvested in French field, officials explain
Feb 28, 2007 12:03 PM
Reuters

NAPLES, Italy – A 74-year-old Italian grandmother who bought a sack of potatoes at the her local market found a live grenade among the spuds.

“I found a bomb in the potatoes,” Olga Mauriello said in a telephone interview with Reuters.
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Feb 24, 2007 05:47 PM
Nick Kyonka
Staff Reporter

Residents of a downtown neighbourhood woke up today to the stench of 100 dead sheep wafting in from the back yard of a nearby rooming house.
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Paraglider survives killer storm

Feb 16, 2007 10:52 AM
Rob Taylor
Reuters news Agency

CANBERRA – A German paraglider was encased in ice and blacked out after being sucked into a tornado-like thunderstorm in Australia and carried to a height greater than Mount Everest. She survived.
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Feb 14, 2007 04:30 AM
Linda Nguyen
Staff Reporter

A Wal-Mart greeter in Vaughan was punched in the face after she tried to stop a shoplifter with a cart full of baby formula, York Region police say.
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The science of keeping up with yesterday
‘To actually not procrastinate takes planning, effort and will,’ expert says
DAWN WALTON

From Thursday’s Globe and Mail

CALGARY — Do not delay. Read this story now. Although I know some of you will likely never get to it, I understand. You have other things to do. Sleeping, watching television and checking e-mail.

But it’s not your fault.

“Procrastination is natural,”

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John Slattery
Reporting

(CBS) NEW YORK The family of 50s songwriter, Julius Dixson, has filed suit against a Manhattan Hospital charging the elderly man died of neglect after routine surgery.
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