Some random news stories..

Some amusing and quirky news stories that caught my eye today (yes, slow day at uni).

First, the amazing fish man plans to conquer the Amazon river. He's risking death by: poisonous freshwater stingrays, bull sharks, piranhas, anacondas, rapids, whirlpools, and the possibility of tidal waves. Not to mention the toothpick fish that can enter the body by swimming up the penis, and can only be removed by surgery. Starting in the uplands of Peru, and finishing at the mouth of the Amazon at Belem, he's set to enter the record books on completing the feat. Madness!
Source: BBC NEWS

Then, also from BBC NEWS we have the 'oh-so-streotypical' "Mexicans March in Tortilla Protest". Corn prices have risen due to high demand. Seems, biofuel isn't such a good thing after all in the eyes of the poorest Mexicans. Perhaps not a funny story in the detail as we are dealing with potential malnourishment, but the headline was at least amusing.

Reuters then reported on rampaging elephants in Thailand. According to a local: "Sometimes the whole elephant herd, six or seven of them, stand in middle of the road... some of them try to pull sugar canes from the lorry, when they can not, they just break the wind shield,". Elephants fight back. Brilliant.

And this could only surely happen in Italy? Berlusconi..every man's favourite villain (and a little bit of hero). Source: Reuters UK