Quirky World: 11-year-old becomes Celtic goal hero
Jay Beatty, who has Down syndrome, recorded 97% of the vote in the Scottish Professional Football League’s competition for January. He netted a penalty in a half- time competition during Celtic’s 2-0 win against Hamilton on January 17 after being invited to the game as a guest of the Lanarkshire club.
The Lurgan, Co Armagh youngster shot to fame when former Celtic star Georgios Samaras picked him out of the crowd during Celtic’s title-winning lap of honour last season after then Celtic manager Neil Lennon gifted him his winners’ medal.
Nevada Assemblywoman Michele Fiore has drawn criticism over a comment about concealed weapon permits.
The Las Vegas Republican came under fire from Assembly leaders and women’s groups after she was quoted in the New York Times as saying “hot little girls” need concealed weapons to defend themselves from rapists.
She said assaults would decrease once sexual predators got bullets in their heads.
The Nevada Women’s Lobby and Democratic Assembly Minority Leader Marilyn Kirkpatrick issued statements against Fiore’s comments, calling them unrepresentative of rape victims and objectifying of women.
Fiore didn’t back down and said on her website that the quote was not the most “eloquent” but she still stood by the sentiment behind it.
The deep freeze sweeping across the US has transformed Niagara Falls into an icy spectacle, encasing the trees around it into crystal shells and drawing tourists braving temperatures well below freezing.
The Niagara River keeps flowing below the ice cover, so the falls are not completely frozen over, but the massive ice build-up near the brink has become a tourist magnet for the second year in a row after several relatively mild winters.
Visitors have been flocking to Niagara Falls State Park, next to the American Falls, one of three waterfalls that make up the attraction.
Days of sub-zero temperatures have created a thick coating of ice and snow on every surface near the falls, including railings, trees and boulders. And things are not expected to thaw out soon: Temperatures dipped to minus 23C in Niagara Falls early yesterday.
A confused American student found herself at the centre of a Twitter storm after her fictional namesake, Bobby Beale, murdered his sister in EastEnders.
Californian teenager Bobbie Beale, who had never seen the soap, started receiving menacing tweets at the climax of the Lucy Beale murder mystery which marked the show’s 30th anniversary. The second tweet proved particularly perplexing for Bobbie, as Lucy was also the name of her pet dog.
While the French are unimpressed by British love scenes and Indian viewers enjoy them — it is a sense of humour that attracts viewers around the world to British TV shows, according to new research.
A study commissioned by BBC Worldwide found that British humour is the most popular reason why homegrown TV shows enjoy an international audience. The quality of content came second, closely followed by the love of a British accent.
The depiction of English characters and a love of original British dramas completed the top five reasons why people watch British shows. The British sense of humour is particularly popular in Germany, China, the US and Australia, researchers found.
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