The 37 yearold entered an Indonesian hospital because of the huge tree-like growths that had encased his limbs for 20 years.
But an X-ray quickly revealed that the immune deficiency stopping him fighting the warts had also allowed a potentially deadly TB infection to take hold.
Dr Rachmat Dinata, leading the team treating Dede at the Hasan Sadikin Hospital in Bandung, West Java, said: “Five years from now, he would have been dead.
An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train.
A judge sentenced the man in his 30s, whose name was not revealed, to 10 days in prison and a 40 euro ($63) fine after a 55-year old woman filed a complaint for sexual harassment. View full article »
JOHANNESBURG – Amorous men ingesting rhino horn as an aphrodisiac may find themselves going stiff in a way they did not really expect, the Iziko Museum in Cape Town warned yesterday.
Iziko chief executive Henry Bredenkamp said thieves who lifted priceless rhino horns from the museum over the weekend might have let themselves in for more than they bargained for, as these had been treated with highly poisonous solutions. View full article »
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian electrician slept off a night’s drinking with a long knife stuck in his back and didn’t notice until his wife spotted it in the kitchen the next day, Russia‘s Komsomolskaya Pravda paper reported on Thursday.
This sizzling lap dance was all fun and games until someone nearly lost an eye.
A Manhattan man is suing a members-only strip club after, he says, a dancer poked him in the eye with the heel of her shoe during a no-holds-barred lap dance.
In a suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Stephen Chang said he “sustained serious personal injuries” during a bump-and-grind gone bad at the Hot Lap Dance Club in November.
Maybe men had it right all along: It doesn’t take long to satisfy a woman in bed. A survey of sex therapists concluded the optimal amount of time for sexual intercourse was 3 to 13 minutes.
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This elegant gold necklace looks as if it was only made yesterday.
In fact the nine inch necklace is four thousand years old and marks the oldest known worked gold artifact ever uncovered in the Americas, also representing the earliest evidence of an elite emerging among the simple people who lived there.
Igor Volodin believes vodka is no more harmful than chocolate. He is proud to be the first Russian to produce the spirit in a special women’s version, designed to be sipped with salad after a workout in the gym.
Touted as a glamour product for upwardly mobile women in booming Russia, Damskaya or “Ladies” vodka worries doctors, who fear a fresh wave of female alcoholics in a country already suffering one of the world’s worst drink problems.
Males will go to extreme lengths to get females, but playing dead might not seem like an obvious strategy. Some male nursery web spiders, however, regularly feign death, and those that do are more likely to mate.
A Chinese bride burned her new husband to death after he got into bed after a drunken argument without washing his feet, state media reported.
“Wang and his wife, Luo, were married on February 2. The couple, however, frequently fought over trivial things while still on their honeymoon,” the official Xinhua news agency quoted a local newspaper as saying. View full article »
Instant Underpants – Archie McPhee
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These underpants are conveniently compressed into a compact pellet. Just soak them with water momentarily and, BAM, Instant Underpants!