From Geneva, Switzerland.

SCIENTISTS claim the giant atom-smashing Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is being jinxed from the future to save the world.

In a bizarre sci-fi theory, Danish physicist Dr Holger Bech Nielsen and Dr Masao Ninomiya from Japan claim the LHC startup has been delayed due to nature trying to prevent it from finding the elusive Higgs boson, or “God particle”.

They say their maths proves that nature will “ripple backward through time” to stop the LHC before it can create the God particle, like a time traveller who goes back in time to kill his grandfather. read more…

From Texel, U.K.

A six-month-old sheep need never worry again about being turned into lamb chops after being sold for a record-breaking £231,000.

The Texel tup called Deveronvale Perfection became the most expensive sheep in the world after it was auctioned at a livestock market in Lanark.

The pedigree ram was bred by Graham Morrison, of Banff, and bought by Fraserburgh farmer Jimmy Douglas. read more…

FromTokyo, Japan.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan’s next prime minister might be nicknamed “the alien,” but it’s his wife who claims to have had a close encounter with another world.

“While my body was asleep, I think my soul rode on a triangular-shaped UFO and went to Venus,” Miyuki Hatoyama, the wife of premier-in-waiting Yukio Hatoyama, wrote in a book published last year. read more…

From Oregon, USA.

An Oregon woman is accused of shooting her husband after he shot her pet chicken.

The Eugene-Register Guard reported Mary Kay Gray, 58, has been jailed on felony assault charges.

Her husband, Stanley Edward Gray, 43, is recovering from a gunshot wound to the shoulder. read more…

From Coolgardie, Australia.
A 22-YEAR-OLD motorist will face an outback court on Monday for driving more than 20km along a remote highway - backwards.

Scott William Poulton was clocked in his early-model Ford LTD doing 66km in reverse by a passing police patrol on an isolated stretch of the Great Eastern Highway between Bulla Bulling and Coolgardie, about 510km east of Perth. read more…

From Berlin, Germany.
A dog playing fetch in Germany found and delivered a live World War II hand grenade to its owner.

Local police in the western town of Erkrath reported that Sunday they were called by the dog’s owner who stopped while walking her pooch when she recognized the “rusty” object it was carrying was a weapon. read more…

From New York, US.
How can a hypnotist paralyze your hand just with words? By making a part of your brain butt in on the process that normally makes your hand move, a study says.

So the brain region that’s ready to move your hand ignores its usual inputs and listens to this interloper, which says, “Don’t even bother,” the research concluded. read more…

From Florida, US.
A couple of accused burglars decided to ask a Volusia County Sheriff’s deputy for a ride home at 4 a.m. Monday, according to the sheriff’s office.

Deputy Austin Littleton said he was suspicious when he saw the duo walking along East Fairbairn Drive, so he stopped to investigate. Littleton said the accused crooks told him they had gotten lost after leaving a friend’s house, but couldn’t pinpoint the house they’d came from.

While trying to convince the deputy to give them a lift, one of the accused burglars did a dance for the deputy, claiming he was a up-and-coming rapper, according to a news release. While cutting a rug, the accused burglar revealed some stolen items he had shoved down his pants, the deputy said.

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