Inflatable "Zorb" ball kills rider by tumbling over cliff

MOSCOW, January 8 (R-Sport) - An extreme sports enthusiast died and another was seriously injured when an inflatable ball they were in rolled down a snowy mountain and plunged off a cliff in southern Russia, authorities said Tuesday.

Cat and Mouse: Hacker taunts police with clue attached to cat

Japanese authorities recovered a memory card hidden on the collar of a cat on an island near Tokyo on January 5, the latest development in a wild goose chase orchestrated by a hacker thought to be responsible for a series of terrorist threats sent remotely from computers across the country last year.

Man tracks down stolen iPhone and fights thief

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SAN DIEGO - A dramatic video showing a fight over an iPhone is starting to go viral.

It all started on Dec. 30, when Kenneth Schmidgall lost his iPhone. He said he kept calling it, but no one would answer. His friend Greg Torkelson wanted to help.

"We just wanted the phone back," Torkelson said. "Some of it was a little bit of adrenaline… you know, it was the chase of trying to get the guy."

As a local freelance photographer, Torkelson is often following chases like that. This time, he was in the thick of it.

The two used the Find My iPhone app to track the signal and spent hours working on it until they pinpointed one person riding a bicycle.

Escalator malfunctions and injures 5 people

Five people suffered minor injuries in a bizarre and terrifying escalator malfunction at the Exchange Place PATH station this morning. Because really, the last thing you want to have happen on a Monday morning is to have your crowded "up" escalator start going down. Fast.

Gay Scout, Approved For Eagle Honor Despite Group's National Ban

In what may be a precedent-setting decision, a California chapter of the Boy Scouts of America has approved a gay former member's Eagle Scout application, despite the national organization's ban on gay participants.

Ryan Andresen, 18, was a scout from the San Francisco area when he was denied his Eagle Scout award in October 2011, NBC News reports. Andresen had come out in July and had completed all the requirements for the Eagle honor, including helping spearhead the construction of a “Tolerance Wall” at a local middle school to raise awareness about bullying.

Mother wakes to python wrapped around her 2-year-old daughter

Tess Guthrie, 22, of Lismore in the state’s north, was asleep with her daughter Zara in her bed when she woke at around 3:30am to find her cat on the bed hissing.

"I heard the cat hissing on the bed which is what woke me up in the first place," Ms Guthrie told Nine News.

"I thought it was a dream when I saw the python wrapped around Zara and I didn't think it was real."

Teen Finds Fried ‘Brain’ in Box of KFC

 

A HORRIFIED student has vowed never to eat at KFC again after finding what looked like a chicken's BRAIN in his meal.

Disgusted Ibrahim Langoo was tucking into a Gladiator box meal when he spotted what he thought was a “wrinkled brain” inside a piece of chicken.

Mexican restaurant’s offensive T-shirt

A Mexican restaurant in South Carolina is raising eyebrows for its T-shirts depicting “how to catch an illegal immigrant” — with old-style box traps using tacos as bait.

Taco Cid is located on Charleston Highway in West Columbia. On Sunday, the Free Times’ Corey Hutchins posted a photo of someone who appears to be a Taco Cid employee wearing the offensive shirt. If the shirt’s meaning isn't clear enough, the letters are colored with the red, white and green of the Mexican flag.

Man attacked by bobcat in his garage

BROOKFIELD — The last thing he heard before the bobcat's fangs and claws sank into his flesh was hissing.

Roger D. Mundell Jr. had just stepped into his garage at 9 a.m. Sunday to retrieve some tie-down ratchet straps for a friend waiting in a car outside. At the time, he didn't realize that the other door to the garage had been left open.

He heard the hiss and barely had time to register what it meant.

Children poisoned while Grandmother used barbecue to dry washing

Four young children had to be treated for carbon monoxide poisoning after their grandmother brought a barbecue indoors to dry her washing.

The woman, who has not been named, lit the device which she set up in the family kitchen before leaving the house.

Her three-year-old granddaughter collapsed when she was overcome by the deadly gas later that afternoon and was treated in hospital with five of her relatives.

They included two boys aged two and 10 months, a four-year-old girl and the woman's two daughters-in-law, aged 26 and 29.

Firefighters were called to the home on Hockley Avenue, in East Ham, east London, on Wednesday afternoon, soon after the grandmother set up her make-shift launderette.