Mayors on one-way street to head-on collision
Police in Paris are dealing with traffic anarchy after the mayors of two feuding suburbs declared the same busy street one-way - but in opposite directions.
There was chaos among bemused drivers at the point where the rival systems converged, with all traffic forced down one side road.
The confusion followed a decision by the Mayor of Levallois who wanted to introduce a one-way system to free up traffic through his borough.
Fearing an overspill into his district, the Mayor of Clichy, Gilles Catoire, brought in a one-way system running the opposite direction.
The local prefect, representing the French state, has issued a decree ordering the immediate return of two-way traffic in Clichy, accusing its Mr Catoire of provoking serious disorder.
Mr Catoire is refusing to back down, saying he will challenge the decision in court.
- BBC
ABC 2-9-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/02/2674323.htm
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Novel published one tweet at a time
An American writer who failed to find a publisher for his novel is putting the book on Twitter - 140 characters at a time.
Matt Stewart, a San Francisco-based novelist, began "tweeting" his first book, The French Revolution, on the micro-blogging service on Tuesday (local time).
"As far as I can tell, I'm the first person to release a completed full-length literary novel on Twitter," Stewart wrote on his website, www.thefrenchrev.com.
"Loosely structured on the greatest identity crisis ever, The French Revolution tells the story of a San Francisco family forging its place in history," he said.
Stewart says putting the book on Twitter is a "social experiment" to "see how the world reacts to a long-form tale told in snippets."
He also acknowledges that he has been unable to find a publisher.
"My agent submitted The French Revolution to all the major publishing houses," Stewart said.
"Many of them loved it, but none were willing to buy what they viewed as a 'risky' novel - vivid language, elements of fantasy and farce, raunchy humour," he said.
Stewart says it will take approximately 3,700 "tweets" to transmit all of the 480,000 characters in his book.
- AFP
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/15/2626221.htm
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Police clear street over kids' 'nuclear reactor'
Two six-year-old boys pretending to have built a mini nuclear power plant has prompted German police and the fire brigade to clear their street, authorities said.
The school children in the western town of Oelde had built the nuclear reactor mock-up out of a computer casing and taped a "radioactivity warning" they had printed out from the internet on its side.
"When the boys returned to their 'nuclear power plant' from a brief stop at home they were sent away again as the area and a wide radius around it had been cleared and blocked off," police said in a statement.
Residents were ordered not to leave their homes and firefighters tested for a radioactive leak.
The boys' parents thought the fire department was conducting a drill until they read about the operation online and what led to it.
They reported to the police station and explained their six-year-olds had not managed to build an actual nuclear reactor.
- AFP
ABC 24-6-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2606539.htm
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Qantas had to take a plane out of service because of escaped snakes earlier this week.
Four baby pythons went missing from the cargo hold on a flight from Alice Springs to Melbourne on Tuesday.
When staff realised they had escaped from their cage, the aircraft was taken out of service and fumigated, causing delays for passengers.
The snakes remain missing.
ABC 16-4-9
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/16/2544073.htm
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Killer SMS rumours sweep Egypt
The Egyptian Government has sought to dispel rumours that a mobile phone text message "from unknown foreign quarters" is spreading around the country and killing those who receive it.
The extraordinary move by Egypt's health and interior ministries follows press reports that an SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man in the town of Mallawi south of Cairo.
"He died vomiting blood, followed by stroke, shortly after he received a message from an unknown phone number," the Egyptian Gazette reported.
"The number begins with the symbol (+) and ends with (111)," it said.
An "official security source" was quoted by the official MENA news agency as denying that those who receive the SMS "get splitting headaches followed by brain haemorrhage that leads to death."
A statement from the health ministry quoted health officials in several regions as saying that they had "received no cases with such symptoms"
"These rumours contradict all scientific facts," the statement said.
Egypt's interior ministry has detained three workers at an oil company for allegedly starting the rumours "and they are now being interrogated," MENA said.
- AFP
ABC 26-3-9
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Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery.
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323.
"The group of vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone.
"They pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a goat.
"We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat."
Belief in witchcraft is widespread in parts of Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation.
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Barry Manilow music used as punishment
A US judge has hailed as a success a new form of punishment for people who go to court for being too noisy - an hour of listening to Barry Manilow or the theme tune from the children's TV show Barney And Friends.
Judge Paul Sacco said he decided to try something new after noticing that violators brought before his Colorado court for playing their stereos too loudly or disturbing neighbours with band rehearsals kept doing it again.
The usual practice of fining these offenders was not proving to be a deterrent, so he decided to give them a dose of their own medicine and make them listen to his musical selection at high volume for one hour.
"This is a way, when I look back, of teaching manners to people," Mr Sacco, a judge from Fort Lupton Municipal Court in Colorado, told Reuters Television.
He said his methods had cut the number of repeat offenders appearing in his court.
- Reuters
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