Quirky World ... Kim Jong-Un lookalike sizzles in China
Chubby, with a round face and sporting Kim’s trademark side-shaved haircut, the vendor was pictured cooking skewered meat on a rusty barbecue.
Though his identity remains unknown, he works in the north-eastern Chinese city of Shenyang, not far from the border with North Korea.
Like Kim, the vendor has a penchant for high-buttoned jackets, and a smoking habit.
But he appears to lead a simpler existence than his powerful doppelganger — who is reported to enjoy a luxury lifestyle — and was seen at the weekend sitting on a small plastic stool, tending to his meaty wares.
Thousands of Chinese internet users commented on the images, with many referring to Kim by the nickname “Fatty the Third”, a reference to his weight as well as his inheritance of his position from his father and grandfather.
Beijing has long been Pyongyang’s closest ally, but the North’s continued nuclear programme is said to have chilled ties, and Chinese social media users often skewer the young leader with irreverent criticism.
“This has got to be Fatty the Third’s brother — quick, bring him back!” wrote one user of Sina Weibo, a social media service similar to Twitter.
China provides the bulk of North Korea’s trade and aid, and another user wrote: “Fatty the Third finally has a money-making career.”
Another added: “If Kim Jong-Un saw these pictures, I’m sure he’d hire him as a body double.”
Three elephants escaped from their handlers at a circus and damaged several vehicles in the car park before they were recaptured.
Television station KMOV reported that the female elephants escaped from the children’s ride section of the Moolah Shrine Circus in Missouri. TV station KSDK said the circus issued a statement saying the handlers were able to occupy the animals and that “they are now resting comfortably in their compound”.
Police said the animals also damaged the venue’s loading door.
A furious pheasant has been terrorising a local community by attacking vehicles and chasing cats and dogs at a farm.
Anne-Marie Hamilton told the BBC that the male bird, which she described as “a complete lunatic”, arrived at Wood Farm in Hail Weston, Cambridgeshire three weeks ago.
She said the bird had chased her Jack Russell and a driving lesson had to be abandoned after the pheasant blocked the car in.
The traditional office tea round is becoming extinct, with workers saying they are too busy to make colleagues a cuppa, according to a study.
Research among 1,200 employees found that a third would rather just make themselves a drink and get back to work.
Many of those polled by older people’s charity Royal Voluntary Service admitted they made excuses for not making a round of drinks, such as waiting until colleagues left the office, or deliberately making a poor brew so they were not asked again.
Two out of five workers said their boss never made them a cup of tea or coffee, even though on average they have five hot drinks every day.
California legislators may reverse a law banning bare-hand contact with food at restaurants and bars.
Since January, workers have been required to use gloves or utensils to handle ready-to-eat food, including the rice in a sushi roll and the mint in a mojito. California chefs and bartenders say adding more gloves to kitchens is unnecessary, wasteful, and even unhygienic. They fear workers may forget to change gloves or lose hand-washing habits.
However, regulators say hand-washing is not enough to stop outbreaks of food-borne illness. Forty-one other states already have the ‘no bare hands’ law. Democratic Assemblyman Richard Pan of Sacramento said he wants to repeal and revisit the law to make it more flexible for clean restaurants.
Inspectors are not enforcing the law until July.
The lives of 10 “remarkable” people whose centenaries of birth fall this year are celebrated in a new set of stamps. The Royal Mail said it wanted to recognise the achievements of individuals ranging from Welsh poet Dylan Thomas to actors Alec Guinness and Kenneth More.
The first-class stamps, feature portraits of the 10, as well as details of what they had contributed to British society. Others featured are footballer and manager Joe Mercer, economist Barbara Ward, special operations agent Noorunissa Inayat Khan, Nobel laureate Max Perutz, broadcaster Roy Plomley, writer Joan Littlewood, and graphic designer Abram Games.
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