A massive road construction project in Iceland was halted as locals protested that it was disrupting an important elf church. Meanwhile in Canada, Harper seems determined to push through approval of the Enbridge Pipeline despite many real environmental concerns.
Alan Turing, who cracked the German Enigma code in WWII, thus shortening the war and saving thousands of lives, who was then convicted of being gay and committed suicide, at last receives a posthumous Royal Pardon.
A fan of “Breaking Bad” who won a contest to watch the Series Finale with the Cast, has been arrested for making illegal drugs in a cement mixer and running a large drug distributing company.
Disgraced, crack-smoking, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford defiantly announces he will run for re-elction in 2014, claiming he is “the best mayor this city ever had” !
Volkswagon has discontinued production of its iconic Van and the final bus rolled off the assembly line on December 31st. [Apparently Westfalia failed in the East, South and North as well.]