When asked to prune a sycamore tree on the grounds of a luxury hotel in Lancashire, England, handyman Peter Aspinall, 64, climbed a ladder placed against the branch he was removing instead of the tree trunk. He sawed through the branch, which fell to the ground, followed by the ladder and Aspinall. The injured worker sued the hotel. "It is an unusual accident. Laurel and Hardy do that sort of thing," the hotel's attorney, David Walton, told the court, which nonetheless awarded Aspinall $2,977, blaming the hotel for not training him better how to position the ladder. Aspinall had been on the job only two weeks, having worked 24 years for British Aerospace. (Britain's Daily Mail) After a night out with her husband, Melanie Shaker became angry with him while walking along a Chicago street ...
... Beach Administration Committee told the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, "so our workers are wearing...
BEIJING - Three miners survived 25 days trapped in a flooded mine in southern China by drinking dirty water and chewing coal before rescuers burrowed through a collapsed tunnel to reach them, a local official and state media said Monday. The men and 13 others became stuck when the mine flooded June 17. On Sunday, rescue workers digging into the mountainside cleared a path to the miners and saw their lights, which still gave off a dim glow, said Wang Guangneng, a Communist Party spokesman in the Guizhou province county of Qinglong.
... protected them from the flood, the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper reported. The ceiling had collapse...
After a gas station attendant in Wiggins Junction, Colo., reported the driver of a pickup truck left without paying for gas, suspect John Wade Biggs, 31, wanted for a variety of charges in Colorado and New Mexico, led law-enforcement officers on a 30-mile chase that ended when the truck flipped over on the driver's side, causing Biggs to shoot himself in the stomach. "He was probably getting ready to shoot it out with us," Morgan County Sheriff Jim Crone said, noting Biggs had a holster on his belt and a pistol in his hand when taken into custody. "He certainly wasn't holding it for his own comfort. Broderick Lloyd Laswell, 19, an inmate in the Benton County, Ark., jail filed a federal lawsuit charging he is "literally being starved to death." Claiming to have lost 105 pounds after eig...
... traffic official in Yangjiang told the Beijing Youth Daily. "Our chances of capturing them are ne...
A British scientist who has been studying the connection between sleep position and personality traits has come up with the six favorite sleep positions and what they say about your personality. The most popular position is the "fetus" (curled up on the side, holding the pillow), which indicates a person with a tough exterior who is actually a very sensitive person; the "starfish" (spread-eagled on the back) indicates a good listener who makes friends easily; a "free faller" (sleeping on the front) has a brash exterior but a nervous personality; a "soldier" (sleeping on the back) is quiet and reserved; a "log" (sleeping on the side) is relaxed and social; and a "yearner" (on the side with raised arms) is suspicious and cynical. (The Telegraph)
... attributes his virility and longevity to daily walks and plenty of meat in his diet. HE MIGHT BE ...(Beijing Youth Daily). BIG HAIRY DEAL. You better stop shav...
BEIJING - When Li Shiming was stabbed through the heart by a hired assassin, few of his fellow villagers mourned the local Communist Party official many say made their lives hell by seizing land, extorting money and bullying people for years. Instead, villagers in the northern town of Xiashuixi have made Li's teenage killer something of a local hero. More than 20,000 people from the coal-mining area petitioned a court for a lenient sentence.
... to Li's family, the state- owned Beijing Youth Daily newspaper said. But Li's eldest son rejected...
China and other Asian nations are beginning to assess how the recent election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) will alter Japanese defense policies. Beijing is hoping for a reversal or at least a slowdown of Japan's efforts in recent years to build up its defenses against the growing military power of China, especially any joint defense efforts with the United States.
...Hong Kong's center-left Sing Tao Daily warns that if Japan "wants to ride this recovery t...Beijing's Youth Daily says Mr. Hatoyama's stated intention not to ...
... China Tennis Open To Be Held Annually in Beijing Each September . --Emma Partners with Beijing's Laargest Media Company Beijing Youth Daily to Launch Emma Ticket . With offices in New ...
BEIJING -- After watching Chinese stock prices gallop upward for months, Ding Xiurui wanted a piece of the action. The 45-year-old office worker stood in line at a bustling brokerage Friday to open her first trading account. She brought her sister, who opened an account, too. They joined millions of other novice investors who are jumping into a market that has soared to dizzying heights, with prices up nearly 50 percent this year.
...The Beijing Youth Daily carried a photo of a Buddhist monk opening a...
* THE WEST TENNESSEE Detention Facility (Mason, Tenn.) made a video pitch for California inmates, hoping some would volunteer to be outsourced under that state's program to relieve overcrowding. The hard-timers should come east, the video urged, because of West Tennessee's "larger and cleaner jail cells, 79 TV channels, including ESPN, views of peaceful cow pastures, and ... the 'Dorm of the Week,' [with its inmates] staying up all night, watching a movie and eating cheeseburgers or pizza," according to a March description in Nashville's The Tennessean. "You're not a number here," said one inmate. "You come here, it's personalized." (California's outsourcing program is facing a lawsuit from the prison guards' union anxious about job loss.) * PEOPLE IN NEED of Adult Supervision: (1) Gary...
...* ACCORDING TO a Beijing Youth Daily report distributed by Reuters news ser...
BEIJING The Chinese capital prepared to usher in the Lunar New Year with a bang Saturday, after authorities lifted a 12-year ban on fireworks. As residents stocked up on fireworks, officials were urging caution, fearing the sharp rise in injuries and fires that accompanied the holiday period before the ban was imposed.
... populated areas of Beijing, the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper reported. The city's hot line for ...
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