“Mr President, you have one million messages”
Obama calls European leaders in an attempt to smooth things over after allegations of wide-spread US phone tapping.
US bugs German Chancellor Merkel’s cell-phone
!["Angela, John Kerry speaking. I hear, [ from listening in on your phone conversations, of course], that you are upset."](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/26102013.jpg)
“Angela, John Kerry speaking. I hear, [ from listening in on your phone conversations, of course], that you are upset.”
“I’ve just found a girl called Maria”
![Greek Police charge a Roma [Gypsy] couple with abducting a blonde, blue-eyed girl named Maria. DNA shows she is not their child. [Investigations continue regarding 14 other children the couple claim as theirs, including 6 born within a 10 month period!]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/22102013.jpg)
Greek Police charge a Roma [Gypsy] couple with abducting a blonde, blue-eyed girl named Maria. DNA shows she is not their child. [Investigations continue regarding 14 other children the couple claim as theirs, including 6 born within a 10 month period!]
Raising the Titanic Violin
A Violin belonging to Titanic musician Wallace Hartley, which was recovered with his body after the ship sank, sells for £900,000 in auction
Abominable hair-day
Oxford geneticist claims he has solid evidence that the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman does exist after matching DNA in hair samples collected high in the Himalayas with a giant, prehistoric bear
“Putin on the fritz”
![Russian President Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic Flame in Red Square, but the Olympic torch went out en route to the Kremlin. [It was re-lit with a cigarette lighter]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/071020132.jpg)
Russian President Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic Flame in Red Square, but the Olympic torch went out en route to the Kremlin. [It was re-lit with a cigarette lighter]
The Wrath of Grapes
In a strange reversal, grapes crush a man in La Mancha. The worker reportedly fell into a holding bay just as 5 tons of wine-making grapes were being unloaded.
Berlusconi’s final bow?
‘Who is Sylvia? What is he?”
The Italian Senate recommends expulsion for ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and his allies refuse to back his attempt to bring down the government
“Jell-ala-bad”
![A jellyfish invasion clogged pipes and forced the shut-down of a nuclear reactor in Sweden. [UN wonders if this could be the solution to the Middle-East and North Korean nuclear standoff?]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/03022013.jpg)
A jellyfish invasion clogged pipes and forced the shut-down of a nuclear reactor in Sweden. [UN wonders if this could be the solution to the Middle-East and North Korean nuclear standoff?]
Barilla Pasta in hot water
“Pasta, Basta!” Boycott launched against Barilla Pasta after Chairman Guido Barilla makes anti-gay statements
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