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Officials at LIVE EARTH Johannesburg have blamed the effects of climate change for poor audience attendance at Saturday’s (07Jul07) South African event.
Organiser John Langford believes extremely cold weather in the region - it snowed last week (ends06Jul07) for the first time in a quarter of a century kept people away from the concert, which starred Joss Stone, UB40, Angelique Kidjo and Baaba Maal.
Speaking before the event, Langford said, "We’re expecting 10,000 here tonight. It’s a bit chilly, and we’ve had a strange winter… is it climate change? We had snow in Jo’burg last week for the first time in 25 years." But critics have blamed poor publicity for the weak turn-out.

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AMERICAN IDOL runner-up CLAY AIKEN has reportedly been involved in an air-rage bust-up on a flight from Los Angeles to Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday (7Jul07).
Aiken rowed with a woman after his foot was resting on her armrest and she gave him a "minor shove" according to reports.
When the plane landed, passengers were held at Tulsa International Airport until they were interviewed by FBI agents.
FBI Special Agent Gary Johnson has confirmed there was an altercation between a male and female passenger, but refused to confirm Aiken was involved. No arrests were made.
The singer hinted of the incident at his gig at Tulsa’s Brady Theater on Saturday, telling fans he had been beaten up by a girl - but his representative has yet to confirm the incident took place.

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Spoof rockers SPINAL TAP have reunited for a spectacular performance at the London leg of LIVE EARTH.
The band created for 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap - David St. Hubbins (Michael McKean) Nigel Tufnel (Christopher Guest) and Derek Smalls (Harry Shearer) - were introduced onstage by their manager Marti DiBergi, played by the film’s director Rob Reiner.
He said, "When Al Gore asked me if I would reunite the band for live earth I was thrilled. After the film came out Spinal Tap and I fell on tough times.
They were unhappy with the film and described it as a bloody pile of crap." The band were joined onstage by dancing dwarves dressed as monks as they performed classic Stonehenge and a new song, Warmer Than Hell, written especially for the event.
At the end of their set they were joined by musicians from Metallica, The Beastie Boys and other artists performing at the event, to create a supergroup.
Speaking after their performance, McKean - as St. Hubbins - said of the Wembley Stadium venue, "They built a new one for us. Last time we came here it was a dump."

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A school in Nigeria has received 300 laptop computers - but there is no electricity to use them.
The computers - one for each pupil - were donated by the One-Laptop-Per-Child programme (OLPC).
The Galadima Primary School is the first facility in Nigeria where each child has its own laptop.
However, Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien, an OLPC co-ordinator, admitted the school has no electricity so powering them up could become a problem.
Electricity is a big issue in Nigeria, the world’s sixth largest exporter of crude oil, and is mainly provided in the cities, where there is an erratic service.
Most homes and private businesses rely on generators.
The OLPC was founded by Nicholas Negroponte, an American professor, to provide laptops to all pupils 2008, as a way of ensuring the penetration of information and communication technology in developing countries.

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A US man has attacked a peacock after claiming the bird was a vampire.
The bird was sitting on the top of a car in New York fast food car park being fed bread by restaurant employees when it was attacked.
Onlookers claim the man grabbed the peacock by the neck, threw it onto the ground before stamping on it.
When asked what he was doing, the man screamed: "I’m killing a vampire!" The restaurant employees immediately called the police, but the man ran as soon as he saw them.
The peacock later had to be put down due to its severe injuries.

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A Madrid hotel let 30 "highly stressed out people" demolish its rooms with a sledge hammer.
The hotel chain was planning renovate the whole building and decided to let a team of psychologists pick 30 people who they thought needed to lower their stress levels.
The chosen group donned protective dust masks, goggles, white overalls, helmets and gloves as they swung hammers into television sets and bedroom walls while throwing beds and desks to the ground.
The NH Alcala hotel decided to let selected customers start its facelift as a way to generate some extra publicity.
A statement said: "Who hasn’t dreamed, in the middle of a stress attack, of breaking everything around them?" Psychologist Laura Garcia Agustin explained: "After a few blows comes exhaustion and with it the release of pain-relieving endorphins which make us feel much better."

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Chinese villagers have dug up dinosaur bones and boiled them in a soup to help heal sick people.
The group also ground the bones for use in traditional medicine as they believed they were from flying dragons and had healing powers.
Up until last year, the fossils were being sold in Henan province as ‘dragon bones’ but when they found out the bones were from dinosaurs they donated them to the Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Institute professor Dong Zhiming said: "They had believed that the ‘dragon bones’ were from the dragons flying in the sky." He added that the calcium-rich bones were sometimes boiled with other ingredients and fed to children to help their dizziness and leg cramps. They were also ground up and made into a paste that was applied directly to fractures and other injuries.

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A US mayor wants to have robotic public toilets fitted to stop "homosexual activity".
Florida mayor Jim Naugle believes the invention would be a good idea as it only allows occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door opens.
The outspoken Christian said said: "We’re trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom, without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act. You can only stay in there for around a minute - probably not enough time for illegal sex." The toilet is already in use in New York, Atlanta and Seattle and it also plays music and cleans the seat automatically.
Gay lawyer Dean Trantalis disagrees the locking system will deter sexual activity, insisting: "I’m not an expert on public toilet sex, but there are those who would say one minute would be enough."

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A condom manufacturer in Australia is looking for testers.
Durex in Australia say anyone aged over 18 can apply for one of 200 unpaid positions.
While testers will not be paid, they will receive £25 worth of products, and one lucky participant will receive a £400 bonus.
Marketing manager Sam White said: "With this job on your CV, it really will be a chance to brag to your mates about the special skills you possess, not to mention that your new role will work wonders with the opposite sex.
"Who wouldn’t want to have a chance with an actual authorised professional?" All applicants must say why they would make expert testers and be prepared to provide honest feedback about their performance.

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A dog in the UK is having withdrawal symptoms following the smoking ban.
Sarah and John Taylor, from Devon, claim their pet collie Archie loves inhaling cigarette smoke in pubs and become irritable since smoking was banned in public places.
Sarah revealed: "He couldn’t get enough of looking at people smoking and if one stubbed out, he switched his attention to another.
"He loved to sniff it and just watch it drift through the air. It’s a bit bizarre I know but he seems to be well and truly hooked.
"A smoke-free pub is going to make him very unhappy.
"The locals have been joking that we’ll have to get him a nicotine patch to wear - but I think a type of nicotine dog biscuit would be better."

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A Polish priest has opened a chain of café-bars which will only employ sexy waitresses.
Father Henryk Jankowski is set to open a chain of 16 cafe-bars across Poland and has promised patrons only attractive women will be hired to serve them.
He said: "Ugly women need not bother apply to become waitresses in my cafes.
"Only attractive women will be hired. Ugly girls won’t have a chance." The priest - who played a prominent role in the Solidarity movement - dismissed critics saying it was all for charity.
His company, the Father Henryk Jankowski Institute, has already launched several other projects including manufacturing perfume and wine labels, and all profits have been donated to good causes.

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Sharks in German aquariums are being serenaded with romantic music in a bid to get them to mate.
All ten of the country’s Sea Life aquariums will play sharks love songs for an hour twice a day because they are not producing enough offspring A spokesman said: "We tried everything else, and it didn’t work, so we are taking a new approach. It has been tried with pandas and primates, and we have nothing to lose by trying the music." ‘Endless Love’ by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get it On’ are among the playlist.
After special requests from visitors, one aquarium has also added ‘A Good Heart’ by Feargal Sharkey and the Beach Boy’s ‘Good Vibrations’.

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A Canadian pizza restaurant has started delivering pornographic images as a side order.
Winnipeg’s Porno Pizza puts the X-rated pictures in the box under the pizza as an exciting after-dinner treat for its customers.
Corey Wildeman - who came up with the idea while working for another pizza restaurant - said: "I’m absolutely thrilled with how successful it’s been.
"It runs the full gamut. There are some that are very Playboy-esque and others which Larry Flynt would blush at." But the biggest surprise has been that the majority of customers are women.
Wildeman said: "It’s about 75 to 80% female that are placing the orders and are taking orders at the door."

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The European Union has produced a ’soft porn’ film to promote European cinema.
The 44-second video - advertising a fund that helps distribute successful EU films throughout member states - features 18 couples having sex.
The film begins with a man and a woman stripping each other naked, followed by couples - gay and straight - making love.
The sex scenes are alternated with images of bottles rattling on a shelf and an egg on toast shaking under a grill.
The film, entitled ‘Film Lovers Will Love This’ culminates with the couples’ orgasms and the slogan: "Let’s come together.
"Millions of cinema lovers enjoy European films… every year. Europe supports European films".
A Polish member of the European Parliament has complained the EU was using "immoral methods".

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A Bulgarian professor has promised A grades to his students if they write about Angelina Jolie’s breasts.
Professor Stefan Karastoyanov of Sofia University’s Geology and Geography Department made the promise as a protest after he was not paid for three months after cash problems.
The professor said: "If they write about Angelina Jolie’s boobs and buy my book they’ll get an A." So far 80 of the 120 students under Karastoyanov’s tutelage have ordered his book.

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An American lesbian has been thrown out of a New York restaurant for looking too masculine.
The woman had been using the ladies toilet at Caliente Cab Company Mexican restaurant during last month’s gay pride parade, when she was asked to leave.
Khadijah Farmer was having dinner in the restaurant and visited the bathroom when a male bouncer burst in and banged on the stall door, saying a customer had complained there was a man in the ladies.
Farmer said: "I told him, ‘I am a woman and I am where I am supposed to be.’ "I offered to show him some identification. I was told that’s neither here nor there." The 27-year-old was escorted to her table and ordered to pay her bill and leave.

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An icicle in a Kashmiri mountain cave, worshipped by Hindus as a god, has melted away by the body heat of those paying homage to it.
The Lingam - a naturally formed icy stalagmite - is visited by thousands of pilgrims ever year as they believe it to be an incarnation of the Lord Shiva, the Hindu god of destruction and regeneration.
Shakeel Ahmed, head of the University of Kashmir’s Geology and Geophysics Department, said: "One of the main reasons for its melting is the conduction of body heat of the huge crowds at the formation." Almost 400,000 pilgrims are expected to make the two month, ten mile trek to the Amarnath shrine 13,500ft above sea level.
A party of 12,000 have already begun the journey.
One of the organisers said: "There will be some disappointment for the pilgrims."

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A British teenager has offered to sell her virginity for £10,000 to help pay her university fees.
Carys Copestake, 18, used a false name to advertise herself on a website popular with prostitutes, without her parents’ knowledge.
The advertisement reads: "Virginity For Sale £10,000.
"Hey, I think the title says it all. I’m an 18-year-old virgin with student funds to pay and I’m looking to sell my first time right here. I’m brunette, 34C, green eyes, all in proportion and good looking." Copestake still lives with her parents, but was struggling to afford the tuition costs for the four-year physics course at Salford University, where she is due to begin in September.
The teen now claims to have found a "buyer" willing to pay her in cash.

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