Man attempts suicide inside bush pit toilet
PAPUA New Guinean villagers have rescued a man attempting suicide at the bottom of a bush pit toilet, local media reports.
The man told villagers in Kalem, Western Highlands Province, that he wanted to kill himself because all his family members had died.
Naomi Elias told PNG's National newspaper she got the shock of her life when she entered the toilet last Saturday.
"I heard someone pleading: 'Please forgive me'," she told the paper.
"The pit opening was very narrow, so how he entered the hole and ended up in the pit is unbelievable."
Ms Elias said she first thought it may have been spirits or a sorcery trick and fled the scene in fear.
Residents demolished the toilet and found the man from Nipa village, Southern Highlands Province, lying inside.
Ms Elias ran to the nearby village of Timur to get a local journalist, who in turn took photographs.
Kalem community leader Sak Murumaki said villagers pulled the suicidal man out with sticks and gave him money to return home.
Game challenges Koreans to spot real spies
South Korea's normally clandestine intelligence agency is running an internet game challenging citizens to spot real North Korean spies and uncover communist moles.
South Korea's National Intelligence Service is running the game on its website, challenging ordinary citizens to keep a close eye on people who praise the communist North.
It also asks people to dob in anyone taking photos of sensitive military bases, those who stick up pro-North Korea propaganda, and even anyone who covers their mouth when they talk.
The spy agency is offering laptops, cameras and game consoles to 200 winners.
Police union calls for ‘climate cops’
The federal police union says it wants more information from the Government about what role the Australian Federal Police (AFP) would have in enforcing the proposed Emissions Trading Scheme.
Australian Federal Police Association chief executive Jim Torr says companies who fail to comply with the ETS would be committing a crime against the Commonwealth and it would fall to the AFP to investigate.
"Someone who cheats on the scheme will gain the competitive advantage against the majority of organisations, and I'm particularly talking about larger carbon emitters where the scale of the crime would make it profitable," he said.
Mr Torr says they have approached Minister for Climate Change Penny Wong but her office will not release the details of any enforcement mechanisms in the legislation.
"This is going to become a bigger issue as the years go by, it could become the AFP's number one crime type as years go by that we investigate," he said.
He says more resources would be needed to carry out the investigations.
"One of the AFP's specialties is investigating complex crime against the Commonwealth, we don't know what the full arsenal of techniques and practices will be," he said.
"I don't rule on anything ranging from undercover, long term investigations, to satellite sensing, remote sensing, all those sorts of things, but now's the time."
Chunky monkeys swing into shape
A Japanese zoo has successfully put a group of monkeys through a dramatic weight-loss program after the animals became morbidly obese.
About a third of the rhesus monkeys in the Osaka zoo were considered obese.
One male even topped the scales at 30 kilograms, which is about three times the animal's healthy weight.
Zoo officials say the monkeys packed on the kilograms after being fed fatty snacks by visitors.
After a strict diet program and a ban on rubbish food, all but 10 of the animals are down to a healthy weight.
The heaviest has trimmed down to 17 kilograms, but zoo staff say it now has a problem with excess skin.
The line.
Not this little black duck.
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6 dead, 118 injured in toy factory brawl
A brawl at a toy factory in China has ended with the deaths of two people and a further 60 hospitalised after a dispute flared between workers of different ethnic backgrounds in the Muslim Xinjiang region.
More than 400 police were called to break up the fight involving hundreds of people at the factory in Shaoguan, in the southern province of Guangdong, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
A total of 118 people were injured in the fight.
It was not clear what triggered the dispute, but the two dead were both members of China's Uighur minority, the South China Morning Post reported, adding that 81 of the injured were also Uighurs.
Xinjiang is home to about eight million Uighurs, a Turkic ethnic group, and many members of the mainly Muslim community say they have suffered under Chinese political and religious persecution for decades.
China has long said it faces a deadly threat from Muslim separatists as justification for extremely tight controls in the region.
Guangdong's communist party chief, Wang Yang, met relatives of the dead to offer his condolences and promise that the provincial government would hunt down and prosecute the killers, the newspaper said.
Mr Wang said the incident should not affect Beijing's policy of encouraging firms to hire minorities from the western region to help reduce the income gap between the western region and other parts of China.
"We should not allow such an occasional case to affect economic co-operation between east and west zones or our national unity," Mr Wang said.
Hong Kong tycoon Francis Choi, who owns the factory through the holding company Early Light International, has agreed to reassign Uighur workers to other factories to prevent future disputes.
The factory recruited 800 migrant workers from Shufu county in Xinjiang in May and June.
Two-year-old ‘world’s youngest smoker’
A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy from the city of Tianjin in China is the world's youngest smoker.
Well, at least the youngest to admit it.
Except he didn't admit it, his dad did, after proudly teaching Tong Liangliang how to spark up between tantrums and milky vomits.
Liangliang's dad said his son was born with a hernia, and being too young for an operation, has taken up smoking to help him deal with the pain.
Now he's a pack-a-day man. Pack-a-day toddler. And he won't give up, screaming and throwing himself on the floor if he's refused a durry.
"The father wasn't aware how serious the toddler's habit had become until the child began to increase the number of cigarettes he smoked per day," news agency CRI said.
The Guinness Book of World Records is unlikely to accept the feat, as it has refused such requests before on the grounds that it "promoted a harmful habit".
Priest blames holy wine for drink-driving
An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit pleaded to police that it was only because of the Holy Wine he had drunk as part of the mass, Ansa news agency reported yesterday.
Police rejected the priest's excuse and revoked his driving licence anyway.
Now the 41-year-old priest is set to appeal against the ruling, saying his alcohol consumption was not "voluntary" since it was part of the Catholic ritual in the four masses that he had celebrated during the day.
He was caught coming off the Milan-Turin motorway with a blood alcohol content of 0.8 grams - above the authorised limit in Italy of 0.5 grams.
- AFP
Kentucky pastor preaches ‘BYO guns’
A church pastor in the American state of Kentucky has held a special service where the congregation were invited to bring their guns.
Pastor Ken Pagano says the gathering was intended to promote safe gun ownership and celebrate the right to bear arms.
People arriving at the church had their guns checked to make sure none were loaded.
The sermon was followed by a raffle in which the first prize was a handgun.
- BBC
Second Life is outright BANNED in The Land Down Under
You heard me right Minister Stephen Conroy announced today that
“under the filtering plan, it will be extended to downloadable games, flash-based web games and sites which sell physical copies of games that do not meet the MA15+ standard.”
So not only is this game being banned but ANYTHING that could possibly be considered offensive.
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Sorry RU