Kidnapp Kidnapped

Headline: Anti-kidnap expert kidnapped
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 16.12.8
Caption: Sleepwalking is one thing, but..

A TOP US anti-kidnapping expert was kidnapped in northeast Mexico last week, reports said today, in an audacious move amid a wave of drug-related violence and kidnappings.
Security adviser Felix Batista, 55, was abducted on December 10 in Saltillo in Coahuila state after taking part in two conferences on business security, Reforma Daily said, quoting local government officials.

Headline: Sleeping woman 'zzz-mails' friends
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Sleepwalking is one thing, but..

A WOMAN in deep sleep sent emails to friends in what doctors believe is the first reported case of using the internet while asleep.

Headline: Giants Fan in Skimpy Santa Outfit Kicked Out of Stadium
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Naughty, Naughty

The New York Giants need another sack — to cover a flamboyant fan who wears skimpy outfits.
Sondra Fortunato went to Giants Stadium last week wearing a Santa Claus outfit, a tiara, fishnet stockings, a bathing suit bottom and high-heeled boots.
She also had a suitcase and two 11-by-17 signs reading "Go Giants" and "Have a No Guns Christmas," referring to the team's wide receiver shooting himself in the leg.
She insists nothing naughty was showing even though she's "well-endowed." As the middle-aged woman puts it, "You couldn't even see my underwear."

Headline: Luxury fashion hotel to refrigerate beach
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: Tender Tooties

A LUXURY hotel in Dubai is to create the first refrigerated beach so hotel guests can walk comfortably across the sand on scorching days. The Palazzo Versace fashion house will have a network of pipes beneath the sand containing a coolant that will absorb heat from the surface, reports The Australian.

HEADLINE: Man was killed for watering his lawn
Clip from: news.com.au
Date of clip: 15.12.8
Caption: H2O Murder

A MAN has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of a homeowner he wrongly accused of ignoring water restrictions.

Todd Munter, 37, of Carringbah in Sydney's south, punched 66-year-old Ken Proctor in the face as he was watering his lawn at Sylvania last October, at a time when he was legally entitled to do so.

Mr Proctor allegedly turned the hose on Munter, after he called him a "stupid old goat" for disregarding water restrictions, prompting a physical altercation.

Munter was accused of punching him, pushing him to the ground and kicking him.

Headline: Santas freak out screaming toddlers
Clip from: FOXNews.com
Date of clip: 14.12.8
Caption: Claus's Ho! Ho! Ho! Freaks Kids

He's a huge, strangely dressed man who sneaks into people's homes at night, then yells, "Ho! Ho! Ho!" at the top of his lungs. Who wouldn't be afraid of Santa Claus?

"A 2-year-old knows what a regular person looks like, and Santa ain't it," author Nancy Watkins says.

Authors Denise Joyce and Nancy Watkins know at least 250 toddlers who are. The two recently published a book called "Scared of Santa: Scenes of Terror in Toyland" that shows photos of children on St. Nick's lap -- most of whom are desperate to leave.

The project started at the Chicago Tribune, where both Joyce and Watkins work. They asked readers to send in their photos and got an overwhelming response that's still going strong. Last week, the Tribune's "Scared of Santa" Web site had 2 million hits.