Prison Break - Lebanon

According to Naharnet a real life prison break (there’s a TV show called Prison Break in case you don’t know) is currently taking place in Lebanon. 11 prisoners escaped from the Zahle prison this week end and the police already got 5 back in. I am pretty sure that unlike the show those prisoners did […]

Crazy Saudi Arabia

Prosecutors in Saudi Arabia have begun investigating 57 young men who were arrested on Thursday for flirting with girls at shopping centres in Mecca.
For more info on the crime read the story on BBC!
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An Abandoned Russian City

Check out those pictures of Promyshlennyi, a Russian city that was abandoned by its citizen after the fall of the soviet Union. Apparently the government was too busy with other thing so they just cut off everything from the city and the people just left when the supplies ended!

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I read a lot of weird news stories but this one must be the weirdest! The story is in French but here’s a small translation by me:
Apparently a cab driver in a small town in Nigeria is accusing one of his customer of stealing his penis using a pigeon! The union of drivers is threatening […]

Spot the Difference!

Try to spot the difference between these two photos taken from yesterday’s BBC “In Pictures”.
Picture 1:

In Lebanon, a protester holds up a piece of bread during a strike by agricultural and transport unions to protest against the rising cost of living.
 Picture 2:

 
French teaching unions hold protests in the town of Caen over government plans to […]

33 Weird Statues and Sculptures

Check out this collection of 33 Weird Statues and sculptures from around the world.

Visit the original blog post to read how this tap works and see the 32 other sculptures.
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Since our politician still can’t decide anything alone we receive a lot of foreign politicians in Lebanon. One of our regular guest in the French foreign minister Bernard Kouchner, we got used to seeing him once a month on TV since the crisis started so here are some facts about him that might interest you.

He […]

Modern Days Robinson Crusoe

Actually it’s not one, it’s 11 new Robinson Crusoe and they were not lost in an island, their ship wrecked in Russia and they managed to survive for 3 months from fish they caught and some flour they found in an old abandoned military base! Read the complete story from BBC here.
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War Quotes

Here’s a selection of some war quotes I like that I found on the net, all of them are true but people will never learn that war never solves anything!
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor […]

EDIT: The article is apparently old. The Girl was freed, check the comments for more info.
The crazy regime in Iran is about to commit a new crime! They are sentenced a 17 years old girl to death by hanging for defending herself against three men that wanted to rape her! The 3 rapists attacked her […]

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