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A 59-year-old Brazilian man has surprised his family by turning up at his own funeral, local media report.

Relatives of Ademir Jorge Goncalves, a bricklayer, had identified him as the victim of a car crash in southern Parana state the previous day.

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Dracula have you been upto something???

A Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record, press reports said Tuesday, quoting doctors.
Reports in the local media about a Tunisian woman pregnant with 12 babies have caught the attention of Tunisian health authorities.

The woman was reportedly in her ninth and final month of pregnancy and was expected to have a normal vaginal delivery of the 12 babies, according to the newspapers Alchourouk and Assabah.

Confirmation was not forthcoming from the family or her lawyer, but the Tunisian Health Ministry intended to send an official delegation to the woman to investigate the report, a source close to the Tunisian government told the German Press Agency dpa.

A fire in a wedding party tent that killed 43 women and children in Kuwait was started deliberately by the ex-wife of the bridegroom, a Kuwaiti newspaper said today.

Al-Qabbas said that the 23-year-old former wife had admitted pouring petrol on the cotton tent and setting it on fire, furious at what she called her “bad treatment” by her former partner before their divorce. There was no official confirmation of the alleged confession.

Firefighters said that the blaze took less than three minutes to rip through the marquee, in which as many as 180 women and children were celebrating the wedding party. Many of those who died were killed in the stampede for the sole exit.

The men at the party celebrated in a separate tent, in line with the tradition of the conservative state.

Romanian Cosmin Olaroiu has been appointed new head coach of Qatar League team Al-Sadd.

Monster fish killed after terrorising Swiss swimmers

GENEVA (AFP) – Police divers have ended the reign of terror of a huge fish that was attacking swimmers in a Swiss lake.

The zander, which was 70 centimetres (two feet three inches) long and weighed eight kilos (17.5 pounds), was harpooned on Sunday after it bit six swimmers over the weekend, fish warden Fabio Croci told local media.

Two swimmers were treated in hospital for bite wounds up to 10 centimetres (four inches) long after being attacked on Lac Majeur, which borders Italy, he added.

Police divers at first tried to capture the carnivorous fish with a net, but when this failed they pursued the zander with a harpoon and managed to kill it.

The meat from the captured fish was served up to tourists at the lake.

Life in Qatar, for some (the lucky ones), happens in controlled environments, well insolated from most of the harsh, bad and ugly things that a conventional life may offer elsewhere.
People in Qatar live in bubbles, pleasantly cooled by the air-conditioning, leaving outside the nasty, extremely hot and yellowish-grey hazy - almost lunar - atmosphere.
Eric Weiner in his book “The Geography of Bliss”, described hotels in Qatar like big coffins that protected people from the harsh outside environment and where most of the foreigners’ life, took place.

Toilet snake attack: Urban legend comes true?

TAIPEI: A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as he sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on
Monday.

"As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake."

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Yesterday, there was a tragedy in Holland, yet Al-Qaeda was not behind it and the driver (thus far) does not have any links to Al-Qaeda...... strange..

Anyway, the story...

Five people were killed and 12 others injured in yesterday's attack after the man, identified by local media as Karst Tates, 38, rammed through two police barricades and sped towards an open top bus carrying members of the royal party.

Beatrix, 71, and other royals either cowered or watched in horror as the black Suzuki car drove through spectators at the Queen's Day parade in Appeldoorn, 60 miles east of Amsterdam, before crashing into a monument.

Pulled from his smashed-up car by police, Tates was arrested and taken to hospital, where he died overnight in an intensive care ward.

what started as an email by an outraged Qatari (women) employee in a government corporation, have soon turned into a call for strike on Sunday,8:30Am as an outcome of salary deduction on Qataris as part of the new unified HR law. The call have soon been circulated to Qatari employees of the government corporation(unofficially). In addition to facebook & Qatari forums. The caller of the strike written that she have prepared the sign boards & invited the local media!

A woman who secretly gave birth in an aeroplane toilet then allegedly abandoned her baby inside a bin in the cubicle could face criminal charges. Skip related content
Related photos / videos Secret Plane Toilet Birth Mum May Be Charged The 30-year-old mother is believed to have been travelling from Samoa to Auckland when she went into labour unnoticed.

Airline Pacific Blue said the baby was only discovered an hour after the flight landed at 5.20am, as one of its members of staff cleaned the toilet.

Meanwhile, the woman who disembarked was identified in the airport terminal because of her blooded clothes, local media reported.

She was taken by police to Auckland's Middlemore Hospital, where she underwent surgery and was reunited with her baby, whose gender has not been revealed.