Realistic Nativity
A nativity scene that includes naked women and transvestites standing near the baby Jesus has caused outrage in Italy.
The scene was created by the Scuotto siblings from Naples, who are famous for carving traditional nativity scenes. Their latest, more controversial, offering is now on show at the San Giacomo church in Rome. Father Raffaele has refused to remove the set despite members of the congregation expressing their outrage at the "blasphemous" scene.
Defending the sordid depiction of the birth of Christ, Salvatore Scuotto said: "Such scenes are a part of reality. The real scandal is when figures such as George Bush are used in nativity scenes".
Missing Lions?
Five lions have been found in an abandoned circus truck in the middle of a Brazilian motorway in the middle of the interstate road between Uberaba and Conceição das Alagoas.
A police spokesman said "We could not believe our eyes and ears when we saw all those lions together in this abandoned truck in the middle of the road - and boy they looked hungry!"
Meanwhile the lions are being kept at a police station where they are eating 10 kilos of meat per day each.
How's your DNA?
An aristocrat is planning to give his £1million mansion away to a total stranger - with the right DNA.
Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade, 59, will hand it over to the person with the closest DNA match to his. "None of my relatives wants anything to do with my dump. So as long as the new man pays the bills and looks after the place, I don't mind who inherits it."
He tried to sell the restored nine bedroom house with 1,500 acres, three lakes, 430 cattle and 12 peacocks in North Newton, Somerset, but couldn't find a buyer.
He and partner Kirsten Hughes, 39, do not want the responsibility of the home anymore. Sir Ben said: "If I had the choice I'd live in a council house."
A TV firm filming his quest has so far traced 5,000 Slades in the US with a potential heir in North Carolina. How's your DNA?
The Gasman Cometh
A couple who waited all day for a gasman to reconnect their supply were shocked to discover that an engineer had called at their home at 3am.
Michael and Catherine Hopcroft from Bristol woke to find a card from Wales & West Utilities on the doormat. "Did they really think we would be up? I really couldn't believe it, I thought it was a joke."
The gas was first shut off at the couple's home as a precaution while workmen dug up the road outside to fix a gas leak. They were told in the afternoon that the work had been completed and an engineer would visit shortly to reconnect the meter."
A nativity scene that includes naked women and transvestites standing near the baby Jesus has caused outrage in Italy.
The scene was created by the Scuotto siblings from Naples, who are famous for carving traditional nativity scenes. Their latest, more controversial, offering is now on show at the San Giacomo church in Rome. Father Raffaele has refused to remove the set despite members of the congregation expressing their outrage at the "blasphemous" scene.
Defending the sordid depiction of the birth of Christ, Salvatore Scuotto said: "Such scenes are a part of reality. The real scandal is when figures such as George Bush are used in nativity scenes".
Missing Lions?
Five lions have been found in an abandoned circus truck in the middle of a Brazilian motorway in the middle of the interstate road between Uberaba and Conceição das Alagoas.
A police spokesman said "We could not believe our eyes and ears when we saw all those lions together in this abandoned truck in the middle of the road - and boy they looked hungry!"
Meanwhile the lions are being kept at a police station where they are eating 10 kilos of meat per day each.
How's your DNA?
An aristocrat is planning to give his £1million mansion away to a total stranger - with the right DNA.
Baronet Sir Benjamin Slade, 59, will hand it over to the person with the closest DNA match to his. "None of my relatives wants anything to do with my dump. So as long as the new man pays the bills and looks after the place, I don't mind who inherits it."
He tried to sell the restored nine bedroom house with 1,500 acres, three lakes, 430 cattle and 12 peacocks in North Newton, Somerset, but couldn't find a buyer.
He and partner Kirsten Hughes, 39, do not want the responsibility of the home anymore. Sir Ben said: "If I had the choice I'd live in a council house."
A TV firm filming his quest has so far traced 5,000 Slades in the US with a potential heir in North Carolina. How's your DNA?
The Gasman Cometh
A couple who waited all day for a gasman to reconnect their supply were shocked to discover that an engineer had called at their home at 3am.
Michael and Catherine Hopcroft from Bristol woke to find a card from Wales & West Utilities on the doormat. "Did they really think we would be up? I really couldn't believe it, I thought it was a joke."
The gas was first shut off at the couple's home as a precaution while workmen dug up the road outside to fix a gas leak. They were told in the afternoon that the work had been completed and an engineer would visit shortly to reconnect the meter."
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