How We See The World

Strike a pose! The nosey sea lion pups who couldn't resist their reflections in the camera By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 10:24 AM on 11th February 2010 Comments (3) Add to My Stories In a 'nosey' encounter these adorable sea lion pups could melt the stoutest heart as they playfully pose for underwater pictures. The naughty duo, thought to be young sisters, kept giving their watchful mother the slip so they could swim over to investigate British marine biologist Rory Moore. Rory was tagging manta rays near Los Islotes, Mexico, last month, when the chance encounter with the sea lions occurred. Curious: A sea lion pup p…

Heavy snow and icy roads cause travel chaos as temperatures plummet to -8c By David Derbyshire and Sophie Freeman Last updated at 2:04 PM on 11th February 2010 Comments (188) Add to My Stories Severe weather warning for 'heavy and drifting' snow in South East Treacherous driving conditions due to widespread ice across Britain Eurostar delayed AGAIN but this time it's due to track failure Heavy snowfalls and ice were causing disruption to roads, rail and schools today with as much as six inches (15cm) falling in some parts of the South East. Kent and East Sussex were deluged with heavy snow overnight with drifting - caused by stro…

Woman referee becomes first to take charge of Football League game... after coming on as a sub By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 1:00 PM on 11th February 2010 Comments (8) Add to My Stories A woman referee has made history by becoming the first ever to take charge of a Football League match. Amy Fearn, 31, was drafted in during the last 20 minutes of a clash between Coventry and Nottingham Forest when the referee was forced off the field with a calf strain. The move to call her up from the touch line this week destroys one of the last bastions of male sporting dominance. The crowd responded in highly amused fashion, cheering as she …

'Baby Factory' mother has 14th child taken into care By Daily Mail Reporter Last updated at 3:50 PM on 10th February 2010 Comments (71) Add to My Stories 'Baby factory': Theresa Winters has seen all her 14 children taken into care A mother of 14 who has seen all of her children taken into care has today revealed she has had a contraceptive implant fitted in a bid to win them back. Dubbed the ‘human baby factory’ Theresa Winters last year defiantly vowed to continue having babies until she was allowed to keep one. However, the 37-year-old has now pledged to stop reproducing to prove to social services that she can be trusted to l…

Chinese girl, 9, becomes one of world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a baby boy By Richard Shears Last updated at 2:17 PM on 02nd February 2010 Comments (37) Add to My Stories A nine-year-old Chinese schoolgirl has become one of the world's youngest mothers after giving birth to a healthy boy. The unnamed girl was brought to a hospital in Changchun, which lies in the north-east of the country, when she was eight and a half months pregnant. Two days later, she gave birth to the 6lb boy by Caesarean section, a Chinese newspaper has reported. The girl, nine, who apparently gave birth to a healthy baby boy is said to come from…

Ambassador calls for divorce after veil-wearing Muslim bride reveals a beard and crossed eyes By Peter Allen Last updated at 1:12 PM on 10th February 2010 Comments (50) Add to My Stories Nice personality: A Muslim woman wearing the veil (file picture). The would-be bride kept her face hidden behind a niqab throughout the courtship An Arab ambassador called for an instant divorce after discovering his veil-wearing fiancée had a beard and was cross-eyed, it emerged today. The would-be bride had hidden her face behind a Muslim niqab throughout their short courtship, meaning the diplomat had no idea what she looked like. But as s…

Obesity epidemic as number admitted to hospital soars by 60% By Carol Driver Last updated at 11:53 AM on 10th February 2010 Comments (19) Add to My Stories The number of people admitted to hospital for obesity has soared by 60 per cent to nearly 8,000 in just a year, figures today have revealed. There were also 4,220 weight-loss surgeries carried out by the NHS, such as stomach stapling or gastric band procedures carried out in 2008/09 – a 55 per cent rise from the 1,950 in the previous year. The NHS Information Centre also revealed a sharp increase in the number of drugs prescribed for obesity – with 1.28 million items dispensed in 2008, …

Because we need one. I watched The Rescuers for the first time last week. Brilliant film. :cheesy:

Britons glued to the TV 'for a whole day each week' By Paul Revoir Last updated at 7:48 AM on 10th February 2010 Comments (37) Add to My Stories Old favourite: Sharron Davies was appearing as Amazon in Gladiators in 1992 - when TV was last this popular We are watching more television than at any time since 1992, research has revealed. The average viewer tuned in for three hours and 45 minutes a day last year - the equivalent of more than a day a week. And the figure was even higher in the first and last three months of the year, with Britons watching three hours and 56 minutes of TV each day - or 27-and-a-half hours each week. The …

Pick on somebody your own size! Plucky vole does battle with a coyote... and lives to tell the tale By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 1:56 PM on 10th February 2010 Comments (14) Add to My Stories A courageous vole took on a coyote a hundred times his size - with surprisingly successful results. The tiny rodent's chances of survival looked slim when he was plucked out of the snow by the hungry predator but, instead of giving in, he stood his ground. Apparently unafraid of the huge coyote towering above him, the plucky vole raised himself up on his back paws to confront his attacker. Courageous: The vole squares up the curiou…

Hello! This is the first book I read in real English, not any adapted version and I just wonder if anyone has read it and if you liked it? please don't tell the end... I still have 20 pages left, and maybe someone will read it:P

Human rights lawyers called in to try to force divorce of girl, 12, married to 80-year-old man By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 3:36 PM on 08th February 2010 Comments (16) Add to My Stories Saudi Arabia's human rights commission has hired a lawyer to help a 12-year-old girl divorce her 80-year-old husband in a move activists hope will lead to a ban on child marriages. The country, which applies an austere version of Sunni Islam, has no minimum legal age for marriage. Fathers are granted guardianship over their daughters, giving them control over who their daughters marry and when. The girl from Buraidah, a conservative town near the…

New Zealand student sells virginity for £20,000 on the web By Richard Shears Last updated at 12:46 PM on 03rd February 2010 Comments (4) Add to My Stories A teenage New Zealand student has accepted a stranger's offer of £20,000 after putting her virginity up for auction on the web` The 19-year-old woman, calling herself Unigirl, says on a website that she was fully aware of the possible consequences of having sex with a stranger. Just how and where she will meet the man who has won the right to sleep with her has not been revealed because Unigirl says she will not be talking further about her actions, which have outraged women in New Zealand a…

We are living in broken Britain - and almost half of us want to emigrate, says poll Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1249531/We-living-broken-Britain-Most-voters-pessimistic-state-country.html#ixzz0f3Yxvp0z (Richard Pohle/The Times) A closed down shop on a high street in south London: voters are increasingly pessimistic about the state of modern Britain Add to My Stories Most voters believe we are living in broken Britain, according to a poll. Nearly three fifths say they hardly recognise the country they are living in and are deeply pessimistic about the state of Britain today. The survey shows that 70 per…

He is awesome!! And I can't WAIT for Coraline!

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Raided ... Paris Hilton BURGLARS targeted PARIS HILTON because they thought she was "dumb" and her home would be easy to raid. The teenage "Bling Ring" then raided the heiress's Los Angeles mansion using a key she left under the mat. Paris, 29, didn't even realise she had been burgled until the gang struck again two months later, grabbing £1.2million in cash and jewellery. Raider Nick Prugo, 18, said: "Who'd leave the door open and a lot of money lying around? Stupid." Prugo is one of six youngsters facing years in jail for raiding celebs including ORLANDO BLOOM and LINDSAY LOHAN. Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/bizar…

Immigrants wanting to settle in France to sign a 'no burka' contract By Ian Sparks Last updated at 9:38 AM on 09th February 2010 Comments (52) Add to My Stories National identity: Immigrants must sign a 'no burka' contract before being allowed to live in France Immigrants should sign a 'no burka' contract before being allowed to live in France, the country's families minister has said. It would be added to an 'integration agreement' that all newcomers already have to commit to, which also bans forced marriages and polygamy. Nadine Morano said: 'Equality between men and women is a fundamental principle of French society. '…

A criminal in uniform: Teflon Commander Ali Dizaei used race card to dodge jail for years. Now he's got four-year term for framing an innocent man PLUS: How his bosses limply played along - and the myriad women who shared his chequered life By Stephen Wright and Richard Pendlebury Last updated at 10:01 AM on 09th February 2010 Comments (335) Videos Add to My Stories Swaggering: Ali Dizaei bullied anyone who crossed his path He swaggered around Scotland Yard believing he was above the law. Commander Ali Dizaei bullied, intimidated and threatened anyone who crossed his path. If that didn't work, the Iranian-born office…

Sorry if one already exists/existed, I just found it kind of sad that we have baseball/hockey/tennis threads, but nothing devoted to the most popular sport in the United States. Any fans around? This evening I've been suffering from a mild depression due to the Titans narrow playoff loss to the Ravens tonight (we lost 10-13 after turning the ball over three times in the red-zone :cry:).

Why is Taylor Swift winning all these music awards? Is she bribing people? Is it based on music sales or is it just a group of judges saying "Ahh, she's so sweet, let's give her the best album award." ? Stevie Nicks sure drowned her out at the Grammy's the other night.

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You really can be bored to death, scientists discover By Jonathan Petre Last updated at 2:01 AM on 07th February 2010 Comments (33) Add to My Stories Tedium: People with dull jobs must find outside interests, experts warn Boredom could be shaving years off your life, scientists have found. Researchers say that people who complain of boredom are more likely to die young, and that those who experienced 'high levels' of tedium are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to die from heart disease or stroke than those satisfied with their lot. More than 7,000 civil servants were studied over 25 years - and those who said they were bored w…

The Birds: But don't worry, it's just 50,000 rooks chatting on the party line By Luke Salkeld Last updated at 7:16 AM on 08th February 2010 Comments (10) Add to My Stories For a bird watcher it's an impressive sight - rooks gathering in their thousands, their weight straining the telephone wires. But for a movie fan, it's a rather more ominous spectacle - recalling scenes from the Alfred Hitchcock thriller The Birds. In the 1963 film, gulls and crows line the wires over a Californian town before descending to attack the people below. Enlarge Safety in numbers: Rooks at a pre-roost gathering in Yare Valley, Buckenham, Norfo…

'Lotto lout' Michael Carroll back on the dole after squandering his £9.7m on drugs and prostitutes By Luke Salkeld Last updated at 12:15 AM on 08th February 2010 Comments (73) Add to My Stories Lotto winner Michael Carroll is relying on Jobseeker's allowance after spending his £9.7million in eight years He is the Lotto Lout who turned up to collect his £9.7million win wearing an electronic offender's tag. But eight years on, Michael Carroll, the self-styled King of Chavs, is back to where he started - on the dole. The 26-year-old former dustbin man yesterday revealed he has squandered his multi-million fortune on drugs, gambling and …