Vandals chop 500-year-old `parent' of gru-ve wine

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Vandals chop 500-year-old `parent' of gru-ve wine
A great-great "grandparent" of one of the world's most popular white wines Havin survived wars, turmoil and insect pests for 500 years ... the grapevine was found chopped to pieces by vandals.
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Don't just eat dinner -- wear it
If you really loved your meal at one New York restaurant, you can now walk out with the skin of the animal you ate.
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Semen in yogurt linked to store worker
Police have matched DNA taken from a 31-year-old man to semen found in a yogurt sample that was offered at an Albuquerque grocery store.
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Intoxicated man didn't realize he was hit by train
'According to police, he did not seem to realize what hit him. He did, however, indicate he had pain in several parts of his body.'
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French penis-leash couple nabbed at shops
French police say they have arrested a 63-year-old woman who was leading her 40-year-old companion along a busy shopping street by a leash attached to his exposed penis.
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The homeless cat who can't find a new family because he looks like Harry Potter villain
Ugly stray Charlie has been unable to find a new home - because he looks too much like Harry Potter's evil archenemy Lord Voldemort
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Four-year-old Iowa girl walked quarter-mile in snow, cold to save mom, brother
A 4-year-old girl is being praised as a hero after escaping a car accident to get help for her trapped mother and injured little brother.
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Multi-tasking Chinese Driver: Have IV, Will Travel
A Chinese man has become an Internet sensation ... images of him driving while receiving an IV treatment receiving more than 100,000 hits in just two hours!
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Teenage girl collapses and dies after first kiss
A teenager girl collapsed and died from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS) minutes after she was kissed for the first time, an inquest has heard.
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Drugged, mutilated, then cut
A WOMAN allegedly slipped sleeping tablets into her former de facto's dinner and waited for him to fall asleep before tying his hands and feet and cutting off his penis.
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Golden-voiced Ted Williams left rehab because it was a 'scripted circus'
' "My reason for leaving treatment was because it gave me a sense of it being scripted. I was doing live telephone call-ins with Dr. Phil and my girlfriend and my ex-wife and all my kids,"...'
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Cars Crash Trying to Navigate Icy Roads
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Third-century Roman sculptures discovered
Archaeologists have unearthed a set of six marble sculptures in Rome that likely belonged to a high-ranking official of the Roman Empire.
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Nurse accused of stealing drugs from patient
Prosecutors claim a Minnesota nurse took painkillers from a patient who was supposed to be sedated before surgery.
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Man steals $314 from stripper's garter belt
A man is charged with grand theft for allegedly swiping a stripper's tips from her garter belt.
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Beauty queen sues after she is stripped of her crown 'for becoming overweight'
A beauty queen is suing pageant organisers after she claimed she lost her crown for failing to lose weight.
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Jobcentre told me to dress as a man to get work, says transsexual labourer
A transsexual is considering legal action after Jobcentre ­workers told her she would have more chance of getting a job if she dressed as a man.
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Heart-shaped cucumbers go on sale for Valentine's Day
UK - The supermarket is selling heart-shaped cucumbers that it has grown especially for February 14.
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Surgeon sparks child HIV scare after using unsterilised scissors
A surgeon sparked a HIV scare for over 100 children after he failed to sterilise his scissors while operating on dozens of children.
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Genetic map of prostate cancer cracked
The genetic code of one of the most deadly cancers has been mapped by scientists for the first time in a breakthrough that could "transform" our understanding of the disease.
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