THE PRESIDENT OF YEMEN HAS GOT A BAD HEAD
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The list of places Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh can probably never visit again grew to one on Saturday with the inconvenient addition of Yemen.Saleh's 33 years in power appear to be coming to an end after what is universally being referred to as his "compound" came under attack from angry militia guys with bombs and rocket launchers.He flew across the border to get medical attention in Saudi Arabia, and when he got off the plane his face looked all beaten up.No one thinks he's gonna go back, and the people of Yemen are celebrating that in the street."So Saleh can wait"The fighting between state forces and rebels has so far left around 160 humans dead. Some are saying the conflict is part of the "Arab Spring" – you know, that surge of popular unrest organised over Bebo that's left dictators with nothing to dictate in Egypt and Tunisia – but it's not, really.Not the fighting, anyway. Anti-poverty protests are taking place a few miles from where people are getting shot in Yemen's capital, Sana'a, but the militant rebels don't want democracy, they're just the sons of a dead sheikh who want Saleh's power.The peaceful can't agree on what they want, either. Apparently there are over 100 different groups pushing for change for different reasons in a country that's notoriously argumentative.GIGANTIC HUNGRY RATS ARE EATING BABIES ALIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA(via)
"I can't forget how ugly my child looked after her eyes were ripped out," said Bukiswa Dwadwa, 27."She was eaten from her eyebrows to her cheeks, her other eye was hanging by a piece of flesh."Nothing could have done that but rats."South African townships: not great places to be.MIXED FORTUNES FOR FERRIS WHEELS
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It was an eventful week on Planet Ferris Wheel. One taller than the London Eye is going to be built in Las Vegas, but more tragic is the news from New Jersey, where an 11-year-old girl died after falling 100ft from her gondola.Abiah Jones was on her own on the ride at a park called Mariner's Landing in a place called Wildwood.An investigation found that there was nothing mechanically wrong with the Giant Wheel, and police are treating it as a freak accident.In Nevada, they're putting up a 500ft thing called the Las Vegas Super Wheel, which will put our 443ft London Eye in the (metaphorical) shade.Personally I can't see how putting a 500ft ferris wheel in Las Vegas, idiot capital of the world, would present any kind of safety risk to the public.A HOT AIR BALLOON PILOTED BY A NINE-YEAR-OLD BOY LANDED SAFELY IN NEW MEXICO(via)
When Bobby Bradley came down after 26 minutes in the sky, he drank sparkling cider and recited something called the balloonist's prayer, as apparently is tradition among the members of the hot air balloonists' cult.The winds have welcomed you with softness.
The sun has blessed you with his warm hands.
You have flown so high and so well
that God joined you in laughter
and set you gently back into
the loving arms of Mother Earth.A humble bunch.MAC HACKETTPreviously: The Hangover News
The list of places Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh can probably never visit again grew to one on Saturday with the inconvenient addition of Yemen.Saleh's 33 years in power appear to be coming to an end after what is universally being referred to as his "compound" came under attack from angry militia guys with bombs and rocket launchers.He flew across the border to get medical attention in Saudi Arabia, and when he got off the plane his face looked all beaten up.
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"I can't forget how ugly my child looked after her eyes were ripped out," said Bukiswa Dwadwa, 27."She was eaten from her eyebrows to her cheeks, her other eye was hanging by a piece of flesh."Nothing could have done that but rats."South African townships: not great places to be.MIXED FORTUNES FOR FERRIS WHEELS
It was an eventful week on Planet Ferris Wheel. One taller than the London Eye is going to be built in Las Vegas, but more tragic is the news from New Jersey, where an 11-year-old girl died after falling 100ft from her gondola.
Annons
When Bobby Bradley came down after 26 minutes in the sky, he drank sparkling cider and recited something called the balloonist's prayer, as apparently is tradition among the members of the hot air balloonists' cult.The winds have welcomed you with softness.
The sun has blessed you with his warm hands.
You have flown so high and so well
that God joined you in laughter
and set you gently back into
the loving arms of Mother Earth.A humble bunch.MAC HACKETTPreviously: The Hangover News