News stories that caught my attention today:
‘Underpants’ minister loses job
An Australian politician has had to resign after dancing in his
underpants at a staff party.
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State Premier Nathan Rees said there had been too many reports of Mr
Brown in his underwear to ignore.Reports of the raucous party in Mr Brown’s Parliament House office,
surfacing in local newspapers, alleged the minister had danced in “very
brief” underpants to techno music on a green couch.
Royal mix-up over lager
delivery
Twelve barrels of lager destined for a pub called The Windsor Castle
were delivered to the Queen’s Berkshire residence by mistake.A lorry carrying 2,000 pints, ready for England’s football match with
Croatia, turned up at the real Windsor Castle.
Vertical stripes ‘less
slimming’
Wearing horizontal stripes can actually make a person appear thinner, a
university research project has found.Flying in the face of orthodox fashion advice, horizontal stripes are in
fact more slimming than vertical ones, said Peter Thompson, a perception
expert.
Mass fainting in Tanzanian
exam
Junior school pupils in Tanzania experienced a mass fainting fit while
taking their final year exams, an educational official has told the BBC.The 20 girls at Ali Hassan Mwinyi School in Tabora started fainting
after finishing their first paper.
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It is not the first such incident at the school – over the last month
there have been several mass fainting fits amongst the girl pupils.“Normally this happens in girls’ secondary schools. It is very common
here,” Mr Makungu said.
