A peacock has become tame enough to enter a family home after becoming accustomed to living in the garden and eating bird seed. telegraph uk Bhajan Pabla and his wife Kulwinder Pabla with Sheru the peacock Photo: DERBY TELEGRAPH The peacock, who sleeps in a tree and spends the day in the family’s garden in South Normanton, Derbyshire, has begun exploring the kitchen when the back door is left open. The stray male, named Sheru by Bhajan Pabla and his wife Kulwinder, briefly went missing last week but has since returned after being found roaming the streets. Mr Pabla, 56, … Continue reading Peacock moves into family home

USSR planned nuclear attack on China in 1969 The Soviet Union was on the brink of launching a nuclear attack against China in 1969 and only backed down after the US told Moscow such a move would start World War Three, according to a Chinese historian. Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Peter Foster in Beijing telegraph uk US President Richard Nixon in Moscow with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in 1974 Photo: AP The extraordinary assertion, made in a publication sanctioned by China’s ruling Communist Party, suggests that the world came perilously close to nuclear war just seven years after the … Continue reading The Soviet Union was due to launch a nuclear attack against China in 69!

How to: delete your Facebook account, and adjust key privacy settings Facebook is embroiled in an ongoing row over privacy. Here, we talk you through some of the key things you need to do to manage your Facebook account By Claudine Beaumont, Technology Editor telegraph uk Facebook, founded by Mark Zuckerberg, is facing a backlash from users and the technology community over recent changes to its privacy policy Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS Facebook‘s privacy policy is a whopping 5,830 words long. As the New York Times recently pointed out, the Constitution of the United States is just 4,543. In recent months, … Continue reading Facebook is embroiled in an ongoing row over privacy.

People, take heed of Twitter’s power The latest uproar over a comedian’s tweets in Australia shows how ignoring the web’s public nature is disingenuous Judith Ireland guardian.co.uk Australia has been utterly captivated over the past week, but not by the old motherland’s general election or the hoopla over its own federal budget. The biggest story has concerned nothing but a couple of tweets. It started with Australia’s annual television awards (the unfortunately named “Logies”), which inspired comedian and the Age newspaper columnist, Catherine Deveny, to let fly on Twitter. When Steve Irwin’s 11-year-old daughter hit the red carpet, Deveny observed: … Continue reading Twitter – Just starting out here!

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