QUIRKY WORLD...Teen scales 104-floor World Trade Centre
Justin Casquejo, 16, of Weehawken, New Jersey, was carrying his camera when he crawled through a small hole in the construction fence encircling the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan shortly after 4am on Sunday, a spokesman for the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said.
He then clambered up scaffolding to enter the building, took an elevator to the 88th floor and climbed stairs to the tower’s antenna, which rises 1,776 feet above the ground.
Joseph Pentangelo, a spokesman for the Port Authority, the public agency that owns the building, declined to directly address reports that the guard assigned to protect the skyscraper’s upper floors was asleep at the time. “I’m going to characterise it as ‘inattentive’,” he said, adding that the guard had since been fired.
A 19-year-old Finnish supermarket cashier with millions of internet fans of her language imitation YouTube video is heading for America hoping her gibberish hit will open up a new career.
In two weeks, Sara Maria Forsberg’s “What languages sound like to a foreigner” video has drawn more than nine million viewings, transforming her into a sought after celebrity that prompted the mayor of her hometown of Pietarsaari (20,000 inhabitants) to hand her the town keys as a gesture of appreciation.
Her agent Jere Hietala said that Forsberg was headed for Los Angeles on March 29 after “numerous advertising related companies” had been in touch.
Golfers are urged to swing with care after US scientists proved that titanium-coated clubs can cause course-side vegetation to burst into flames.
Fire officials said results confirm a suspicion investigators have had for years, that titanium clubs were likely the true cause of at least two blazes on California golf courses, including one that burned 12 acres in 2010.
Professor James Earthman at the University of California, Irvine, said the clubs can produce sparks if hit upon a rock. And the sparks will burn for more than a second, which is plenty of time to ignite a fire. The local fire authority is now giving golfers permission to “improve their lie” — that is, to move their ball away from rocks and dry vegetation.
A British animal charity has welcomed the arrival of one of the world’s rarest breeds of sheep normally found in Africa.
The unnamed male Cameroon lamb weighed in at 1lb 4oz at Artisan Rare Breeds in Dartford, Kent, this week.
Charity director Wayne May said there are just over 650 of the domesticated animals left in the world, but this latest birth will go some way to helping protect the rare species.
A Swiss Emmentaler has been named the top cheese at an international competition in Wisconsin, handing the nation its fourth win in the past five years.
Cheesemaker Gerard Sinnesberger took top honours at the 2014 World Championship Cheese Contest with his Original Schweizer Rohmilch Emmentaler, a large, big wheel Swiss cheese.
The cheese was deemed the best of 2,615 entries from 22 countries. An Austrian entry, called Erzherzog Johann, was second. Another Swiss entry, Gruyere AOP, was third.
The beloved hotel cat that was snatched over the weekend in Fort Collins has been found safe but scared.
Two Armstrong Hotel guests found Oreo crying out from behind an art museum about a block away.
Hotel general manager Nick Gliszinski says Oreo’s return marks the end of a citywide search for the famed feline, but authorities are still trying to find the perpetrators.
According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, videos showed two men catnapping Oreo from the hotel lobby last Saturday.
Oreo first came to the hotel in 2004. Since then, she has warmed her way into the hearts of hotel guests and owners.
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