YouTube has secured an agreement with the UK societies that collect royalties for 50,000 composers, songwriters and publishers to legitimise the use of recorded music on Google’s popular video-sharing website. The agreement to license 10m pieces of music to YouTube – in return for a flat fee which has not been disclosed – is the [...]
Israeli police arrested a woman who stole a pair of Crocs shoes when she returned to the store hours later to exchange them because they did not fit her son, a police spokesman said Friday. “The store clerk identified her from security camera footage and called us,” said Amos Shimoni, police spokesman in the northern [...]
A wealthy Russian tried to buy a U.S. B-52 bomber from a group of shocked American pilots at an airshow near Moscow, a Russian newspaper reported Friday. The unidentified Russian, wearing sunglasses and surrounded by bodyguards, approached the U.S. delegation and asked to buy the bomber, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper said. An astounded member of [...]
A woman set fire to her ex-husband’s penis as he sat naked watching television and drinking vodka, Moscow police said Wednesday. Asked if the man would make a full recovery, a police spokeswoman said it was “difficult to predict.” The attack climaxed three years of acrimonious enforced co-habitation. The couple divorced three years ago but [...]
A handcuffed woman being transported for treatment after she was taken into custody by sheriff’s deputies jumped out of a moving ambulance, ran into some woods and vanished, according to Orange County sheriff’s deputies. Investigators said Lisa McCoy, 34, was picked up Wednesday on an outstanding warrant. She was wanted for failure to appear on [...]
An Estonian man who was caught driving a car even though he is blind has been at it again, police said on Monday, and this time he faces jail. Police first arrested the man, 20, a week ago. “We arrested the same blind man driving his car again on Saturday in the town of Torvandi, [...]
The owner of a stolen boat took to the air to find his $180,000 pleasure craft. An hour and a half after Steve Boone rented an airplane and took off from Olympia Airport, he spotted the 34-foot boat, then followed it from above as it was towed along a highway until two people were stopped [...]
Vietnamese fishermen flying a Malaysian flag as a decoy while sailing in Malaysia’s northeastern waters gave the game away by mistakenly flying it upside down. This is an unusual mistake, because “Stripes of Glory” as the flag is known at home, carries a blue rectangle in its top left corner emblazoned with a yellow crescent [...]
It looks like a big flashlight — but it’s really a nonlethal weapon designed to make you sick. Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., of Torrance, Calif., has been granted a contract by the Department of Homeland Security to develop what it calls the “LED Incapacitator,” according to a DHS online newsletter. The handheld device using light-emitting [...]
A man who became the subject of a book called “The Radioactive Boy Scout” after trying to build a nuclear reactor in a shed as a teenager has been charged with stealing 16 smoke detectors. Police say it was a possible effort to experiment with radioactive materials. David Hahn, 31, was being held Friday on [...]