PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - A woman who tried to escape from the police station in Peterborough, Ont., through the ceiling was thwarted by a falling tile.
Police say the woman was in an interview room last Thursday to be questioned about the theft of an Internet router and laptop computer.
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A German tourist caught spraying graffiti on the rocks and ice face of New Zealand's Franz Josef Glacier was forced to clean up his handiwork, local media reported Tuesday.
A teenage boy in Serbia survived an electric shock of 25,000 volts when he climbed on top of a train to get his football back.
Doctors said it was a "miracle" Damir Minarivic, 14, was still alive after he was blasted by the high voltage charge.
Doctors said it was a "miracle" Damir Minarivic, 14, was still alive after he was blasted by the high voltage charge.
A pet mouse grounded a plane in China after it escaped from a passenger's pocket.
The mouse was taken on board by a female passenger, Liu Yulian, who hid it in her coat pocket and smuggled it past airport security.
"I went to sleep, and after I woke up, I found the mouse had gone missing. So I contacted the crew to see if they could help," says Liu.
The mouse was taken on board by a female passenger, Liu Yulian, who hid it in her coat pocket and smuggled it past airport security.
"I went to sleep, and after I woke up, I found the mouse had gone missing. So I contacted the crew to see if they could help," says Liu.
Police dogs in the western city of Duesseldorf will no longer get their feet dirty when on patrol - the entire dog unit will soon be equipped with blue plastic fiber shoes, a police spokesman said Monday.
"All 20 of our police dogs - German and Belgian shepherds - are currently being trained to walk in these shoes," Andre Hartwich said. "I'm not sure they like it, but they'll have to get used to it."
"All 20 of our police dogs - German and Belgian shepherds - are currently being trained to walk in these shoes," Andre Hartwich said. "I'm not sure they like it, but they'll have to get used to it."
For the viewers of Turkmenistan's popular nightly news programme, Vatan, it was another routine bulletin. But as the newsreader began the 9pm broadcast, viewers across the central Asian country spotted something unusual crawling across the studio table: a large brown cockroach.
A lorry driver was an accomplice to a real-life Chicken Run after making a 100-mile trip with a live HEN under his bonnet.
The trucker only heard it clucking when he arrived at an Asda depot near Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
It had been sitting on his engine since he left Staffordshire.
The trucker only heard it clucking when he arrived at an Asda depot near Chepstow, Monmouthshire.
It had been sitting on his engine since he left Staffordshire.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been caught on camera swearing at a member of the crowd at the annual farming fair in Paris.
The video clip, which has been posted on the internet, shows a man at the Salon International de l'Agriculture refusing to shake the president's hand.
When offered Mr Sarkozy's hand, the man draws back and says: "Oh no, don't touch me, you'll dirty me."
The video clip, which has been posted on the internet, shows a man at the Salon International de l'Agriculture refusing to shake the president's hand.
When offered Mr Sarkozy's hand, the man draws back and says: "Oh no, don't touch me, you'll dirty me."
A Japanese man who turned up at a school dressed in a girl's uniform and a long wig was arrested for trespassing, police said.
Tetsunori Nanpei, 39, put on the uniform he had bought over the internet and took a walk near the high school in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday.
Tetsunori Nanpei, 39, put on the uniform he had bought over the internet and took a walk near the high school in Saitama, north of Tokyo, on Wednesday.
On top of fears that the world will run out of ice caps and oil this century is the added worry that it will run out of nice names for new things. The theory is that quickening global communication and commerce, conducted in such a way as to avoid nomenclatic repetition, trademark clashes or offensive meaning in any language, will eventually result in every possible private and brand name being used up.
There are assorted indications of this coming 'name drought'. Registrations of new web domain names are now falling, due to 'someone almost always having got there first', while the time it takes to find a unique name for a new MySpace account increases by 10 per cent each month. And, despairingly, creative minds at Nokia recently found themselves picking the same name - 'Prism' - for both their new 7500 and 7900 phones.
There are assorted indications of this coming 'name drought'. Registrations of new web domain names are now falling, due to 'someone almost always having got there first', while the time it takes to find a unique name for a new MySpace account increases by 10 per cent each month. And, despairingly, creative minds at Nokia recently found themselves picking the same name - 'Prism' - for both their new 7500 and 7900 phones.
