Pregnant man may have more children 懷孕男子可能生更多小孩

The world's first pregnant man says he and his wife may have more children in the future.

Thomas Beatie, who is due to give birth to a girl in four weeks, said that he was "on top of the world".

"I feel fantastic," he said in his most revealing interview since falling pregnant. "I cannot wait to see my baby's face."

Mr Beatie also disclosed that he was inseminated using a syringe supplied by a vet, and that an earlier attempt to get pregnant resulted in a miscarriage.

Mr Beatie changed sex ten years ago but kept his ovaries and womb so he could have children.

He said the love and support he and his wife Nancy received from friends and families prompted the decision to have more kids in the future.

"All the people who really know us and love us, our friends and family, have been incredibly supportive," Mr Beatie told the News of the World.

"So much so we might even have more children. We will just see what the experience is like with our daughter's arrival first and then give it some thought." (News of the World)

Canada deploying cardboard cops to nab speeders 加拿大部署紙板警察來嚇阻超速者

Police in westernmost Canada are deploying life-size cardboard replicas of traffic cops pointing a radar gun at oncoming traffic to try to reduce speeding and road fatalities, authorities said.

And these mock-ups are so realistic that while being tested on a Vancouver street this week, "a tow-truck driver pulled up and started talking to it," Staff Sergeant Ralph Pauw told a press conference.

Eight of the cut-outs will initially be deployed on city streets, Pauw said. And in case some drivers aren't fooled by the facsimiles, "there may or may not be a (real) police officer behind one of these cut-outs," he added.

The police initiative called Operation Silhouette follows similar trickery used elsewhere, including "bait cars" for thieves, fake intersection cameras and mechanical moose used by Canadian wildlife officers to nab poachers. (AFP)

Thong-faced robbers 丁字褲蒙面的搶匪

Police are hopeful of catching robbers who were caught on camera using thongs as masks.

The skimpy ladies pants left most of the daft duo's faces visible, say police in Colorado.

CCTV cameras caught the pair holding up a convenience store in Arvada, reports Sky News.

One wore a green thong while the other opted for blue - but their noses, mouths and chins were barely covered.

Officers also have a few more clues to work with as one of the men failed to cover up a distinctive tattoo on his arm.

The men, believed to be in their 20s, were not armed. They stole cigarettes and cash which they stuffed in a pink backpack.

The suspects also wore T-shirts and pants. One had a left arm tattoo. (roundup)

Indonesian man sends thousands of dollars down from the sky 印尼富商空中撒下鈔票

An Indonesian businessman sparked a scramble for cash when he dropped 100 million rupiah (10,700 dollars) in banknotes from an aircraft Sunday to promote a book he has written.

A 13-year-old girl lost consciousness running after the notes and had to be rushed to a nearby hospital, the Detikcom online news service said.

Tung Desem Waringin, who is promoting his second business motivation book, got the aircraft to fly four times over a soccer stadium in Serang city, some 60 kilometres (40 miles) west of here.

He had wanted to release the money over Jakarta but was refused permission from police.

The money was released in bills of 1,000 and 5,000 rupiahs (11-53 cents).

Detikcom said that on the first and second run, the notes fell around 500 metres from the stadium, and on the latter runs mostly inside the grounds.

Rumours of the stunt had been circulating since Saturday, and many people were waiting in the open air for the plane to fly over.

Waringin has been quoted in his blog as saying he would rather share money earmarked for a conventional promotional campaign with people who needed it. (AFP)

Smiling bumblebee caught on camera 大黃蜂對著鏡頭微笑

Bumblebee has been caught 'smiling' on camera in a once in a lifetime shot.

The image was captured by Chris Cox at his home in Holywell Bay, Cornwall.

'I was testing my camera and thought I'd take some shots,' he said.

'It wasn't until a few days later I looked over the images and couldn't believe my eyes. The bee looked as if it was posing for the camera.' (Metro.co.uk)

Man squirts milk from eyes 大陸男子眼睛能噴出牛奶

A Chinese man has stunned onlookers by demonstrating his ability to squirt milk out if his eyes.

Zhang Yinming drank milk through his nose and then squirted it up to two metres with his eyes.

Zhang, from Shandong province, showed off his unusual skills in Nanjing city, the capital of Jiangsu Province.

He also used his ears to blow up two balloons at the same time, reports the People's Daily.

Amazed onlookers say they would never believed it without seeing it with their own eyes. (People’s Daily)

Woman married Berlin Wall 女子嫁給柏林圍牆

A Swedish woman with a fetish for inanimate objects has revealed she's been married to the Berlin Wall for 29 years.

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the concrete structure in 1979, reports the Daily Telegraph.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who has been diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality, claimed she fell in love with the wall when she first saw it on TV as a child.

She began collecting "his" pictures and saving up for visits. On her sixth trip in 1979 they tied the knot before a handful of guests.

While she remains a virgin with humans, she insists she had a full, loving relationship with the wall.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who lives in Liden, northern Sweden, said: "I find long, slim things with horizontal lines very sexy.

"The Great Wall of China's attractive, but he's too thick - my husband is sexier."

While the rest of mankind rejoiced when the Berlin Wall was largely torn down in 1989, its "wife" was horrified.

She's never been back and now has only model to remind her of "his" former glory.

Mrs Berliner-Mauer, who has shifted her affections to a nearby garden fence, said: "What they did was awful. They mutilated my husband." (Daily Telegraph)

Woman strips in anger at wolf whistles 女子脫光衣服讓對她吹口哨的臭男人「好看」

A woman who felt harassed when road workers whistled at her stripped naked in response, police said.

Workmen in the small northern farming town of Kerikeri, New Zealand, were repairing the main street when the young woman, an Israeli tourist, took offence at their attention.

She calmly stripped bare to use an ATM - bringing an abrupt halt to both the whistles and the road work - then put her clothes back on and walked away.

Sgt. Peter Masters said the woman told police she didn't take kindly to the men's wolf-whistles.

"She said she had thought '... I'll show them what I've got,' " as the men whistled at her, he said.

"She gave the explanation that she had been ... pestered by New Zealand men. She's not an unattractive-looking lady," he said.

Police treated the incident "as a one-off."

"She was taken back to the police station and spoken to and told that was inappropriate (behaviour) in New Zealand," he added.

The woman was due to leave New Zealand later today. (Metro.co.uk)

Acrobatic dog steals show 特技狗大出風頭

A Chinese dog has performed a breathtaking high wire stunt in front of thousands of spectators.

The two-year-old Tibetan mastiff (西藏獒犬) called Hu Hu (Tiger) performed the stunt at a special event to showcase dog tricks in Chongqing city.

They watched as he climbed to the top of a four metre platform and balanced along two thin steel wires.

Spectators held their breath and occasionally called out "slow down, slow down" to Hu Hu.

He paused occasionally before completing the 10 metre walk to the other end.

The dog's owner, Mr. He, says Hu Hu was a gift from a friend. He trained Hu Hu for more than a year to walk across wires, reports Chongqing Business News. (Chongqing Business News)

Lost parrot tells veterinarian his address 走失的鸚鵡告訴獸醫牠的地址

When Yosuke the parrot flew out of his cage and got lost, he did exactly what he had been taught - recite his name and address to a stranger willing to help.

Police rescued the African grey parrot two weeks ago from a neighbor's roof in the city of Nagareyama, near Tokyo. After spending a night at the station, he was transferred to a nearby veterinary hospital while police searched for clues, local policeman Shinjiro Uemura said.

He kept mum with the cops, but began chatting after a few days with the vet.

"I'm Mr. Yosuke Nakamura," the bird told the veterinarian, according to Uemura. The parrot also provided his full home address, down to the street number, and even entertained the hospital staff by singing songs.

"We checked the address, and what do you know, a Nakamura family really lived there. So we told them we've found Yosuke," Uemura said.

The Nakamura family told police they had been teaching the bird its name and address for about two years.

But Yosuke apparently wasn't keen on opening up to police officials.

"I tried to be friendly and talked to him, but he completely ignored me," Uemura said. (AP)