Aliens ‘hijack’ Nasa’s Voyager 2 spacecraft, claims expert Aliens have hijacked a Nasa spacecraft and are using it to try to contact earth, a UFO expert has claimed. uk telegraph Hartwig Hausdorf, a German academic, believes that the reason Voyager 2, an unmanned probe that has been in space since 1977, is sending strange messages that are confusing scientists, is because it has been taken over by extraterrestrial life. Since its launch, Voyager 2 has been sending streams of data back to Earth for study by scientists, but on April 22, 2010, that stream of information suddenly changed. Nasa claimed … Continue reading Aliens have hijacked a Nasa spacecraft!

Frano Selak: ‘world’s luckiest man’ gives away his lottery fortune A music teacher, Frano Selak, who was dubbed the world’s luckiest man after cheating death seven times before winning the lottery has now decided to give away his fortune. By Andrew Hough telegraph uk Frano Selak, who has been dubbed the world’s luckiest man, is now giving away his fortune. Photo: CEN The 81 year-old won £600,000 five years ago in the lottery in Croatia, to celebrate his fifth marriage, after earlier surviving plane and train crashes. He also survived other disasters including landing on a haystack after falling out … Continue reading Frano Selak: My Hero of the week

Manx bees to save dying British colonies Queen bees from the Isle of Man are to be posted to Britain in an effort to bolster dwindling hive populations. By Nick Collins telegraph uk Queen bees from the Isle of Man are to be posted to Britain Photo: ALAMY The Manx Government’s bee inspector will send 12 healthy queens to Britain in ventilated envelopes in a test project to find out if they can repopulate and cure hives infected by disease. The bee population on Britain’s mainland has declined rapidly in recent years due to disease and harsh weather conditions. But … Continue reading Queen bees come to the rescue in the UK

Loved up kangaroo sets sights on female joggers A kangaroo in the mood for love has made advances towards several female joggers in an Australian outback town, prompting a flood of complaints to police. telegraph uk The woman said that she shouted at the animal, which was obviously aroused, but that it was persistent and only bounded off when other walkers approached. Photo: AP Officers in the Northern Territory have received reports of the amorous kangaroo stalking residents in the Honeymoon Ranges near the township of Tennant Creek, including one woman on her morning walk. “There was no doubt about … Continue reading Sex-hungry kangaroo jumps female joggers

The rise and rise of SuperClegg The Liberal Democrats may have lost five seats in the general election, but the stature of their leader has risen immeasurably Alexander Chancellor The Guardian As the man who mows my lawn was saying during his coffee break this week: “David Cameron claimed during the campaign that if we voted Lib Dem, we’d get Gordon Brown. Gordon Brown claimed that if we voted Lib Dem, we’d get David Cameron. But what neither told us was that, actually, we’d get Nick Clegg.” Now, indeed, we have got Clegg – and what a man he has … Continue reading Clegg 🙂

Deep prejudice about the deep south I’m tired of elitist US liberals who ridicule southerners and then profess their love for Nina Simone and crawfish etouffee Seema Jilani guardian.co.uk Nina Simone: the acceptable face of the US south for sneering east and west coast liberals? Photograph: David Redfern/Redferns I am tired of apologising. I apologised for being Muslim, post-9/11 and more recently for my Pakistani origins. Now, I apologise for being a southerner too. When an environmental catastrophe erupted in my backyard, I looked to the media to tell our stories and instead, found quotes from experts ruminating on energy … Continue reading Deep prejudice about the deep south

Got any ID? These checks are out of hand Challenging the culture of routine checks on British citizens’ identities is as crucial as taking on the ID card scheme Josie Appleton guardian.co.uk Both the Lib Dems and the Conservatives have said they would scrap ID cards, and this is good news. What is equally important, however, is the way in which ID cards are used. Citizens in some countries with national ID cards (such as France or Spain) rarely show them on a day-to-day basis. Paradoxically, we don’t yet have cards, but we do have a culture of routine ID … Continue reading Ask me ‘Got any ID?’ and I will reply ‘You want a kick in the nuts?’

Don’t interfere with campus conflicts Debate in universities needs to be had – but it shouldn’t be interfered with by outsiders deciding what is or isn’t acceptable Antony Lerman guardian.co.uk I was a Jewish student at the then very radical Sussex University in the early 70s and have vivid memories of having to face campus extremism. I was regularly accosted by Maoists who backed me into a corner in the library cafe and harangued me with a kind of stream of consciousness about the iniquities of the west and the wonders of the cultural revolution. This had nothing to do … Continue reading Debate in universities needs to be had – but it shouldn’t be interfered with by outsiders deciding what is or isn’t acceptable

Comment: The last chance for a great generation —Zaair Hussain Our young elite are our future leaders. They, too, must be nurtured, must be directed and beyond all must be given hope that, with them, their country stands a chance. Hope is the air without which patriotism cannot blaze This aphorism oft rings like a bell without a clapper: hollow and pointless. After all, children were also our past, and our present plainly and evidently leaves a great deal to be desired. But there are moments in history that breathe life into tired phrases, and it is a matter of … Continue reading Pakistans youth are the last chance for its survival

Hawalas trouble US anti-terror probes dawn.com Faisal Shahzad is also believed to have tapped into such a network to help fund a plot to detonate a car bomb at Times Square on May 1. — Photo by Reuters World US arrests three in Times Square bomb probe US arrests three in Times Square bomb probe NEW YORK: Long before there was MoneyGram and Western Union, people in South Asian countries often used an informal network of brokers, called a ”hawala,” to transfer money over long distances when it was too inconvenient or dangerous to send cash by courier. Today, the … Continue reading Halwa eating Hawalawalas trouble the FBI?