QUIRKY WORLD ... Putin all set for Downward Dog challenge
In a meeting with Indian prime minister Narendra Modi in the Russian city of Ufa, the Russian president said he wants to try out the discipline of yoga.
Putin, speaking through a translator as the two met for a summit of the BRICS economic group, said “this is a very appealing kind of sport. I will consider what I can do in yoga, based on what I do in sports.”
Putin often shows himself as athletic and adventurous, engaging in judo bouts or arranging encounters with wild animals. In one incident, he reportedly shot a tranquiliser dart at a tiger that charged his group in a forest.
Authorities say they are searching for a man who police say walked into an Albuquerque convenience store, grabbed a handful of gummy bears, and then nearly ran over a clerk.
KRQE-TV reports that the man casually strolled into the store, yanked the gummy bears then tossed some of the sweets at the entrance.
A video posted by Albuquerque police captured the man stealing the sweets before trying to run over a chasing clerk with his car.
Investigators say nobody was injured during the bizarre heist.
Albuquerque police identified the man as Greg Romero and say he is facing a number of charges, including two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Police in New Jersey say a drunken man twice called 911 to report a fake accident because he wanted officers to give him a ride home.
Hackettstown police say the initial call from the 38-year-old man came on Tuesday night around the same time the department received a domestic violence call. Some officers who were headed to the domestic violence call instead were diverted to the reported accident.
While officers were en route, the man called 911 again and asked the dispatcher “where the police were”.
But when officers arrived, they couldn’t find a crash. But they soon found the man and determined he had called 911 because he wanted a ride home. The man was charged with falsely calling 911 and improper behaviour.
A mountain lion has been spotted on four separate occasions around San Francisco in the past several days in the first such sightings in the city in years, officials said.
why does there have to be a mountain lion in San Fran while I'm in San Fran
— Danielle Fabiano (@dannixofabiano) July 8, 2015
Three people have reported what is believed to be a single adult male mountain lion since June 30, according to a statement from the National Park Service, San Francisco Animal Care and Control, and the Presidio Trust.
The puma, which was also caught on a neighbourhood security camera, has not been seen since last Friday and was believed to be heading south, the statement said.
Email — the most commonly used tool to communicate at work — is also the most likely to cause confusion and ruin productivity, says a new report.
The study by EF Education First found that while 87% of global firms use email as their most common communication tool, 70% of managers said miscommunication via email was the biggest source of conflict in business today.
Eight hundred directors and managers working from around the world were the subject of the report, and nearly half of those asked (49%) said that email had the greatest potential to cause confusion and misunderstanding across their “virtual teams”. The most common cause of this confusion was said to stem from language barriers.
A West Virginia man had been keeping two deer in captivity at his home for at least a year, officials said.
Authorities reportedly discovered the two white-tailed bucks when they visited the home of the Cabell County man after receiving a tip-off from a concerned citizen.
West Virginia man charged over keeping deer in his home: http://t.co/u6dJkPqDjD pic.twitter.com/KIYCGUps4M
— ABC News (@ABC) July 8, 2015
Officer Joshua Addesa, with the state division of natural resources, said the two deer had a healthy supply of hay available to them inside the home. He said officers set the deer free but because the animals were domesticated, they may be considered for relocation.
A rare orange-brown split-coloured lobster has turned up off the coast of Maine in the US.
The unusual lobster arrived last week at Pine Point Fisherman’s Co-Op in Scarborough, the Press Herald reported.
According to research by the Lobster Institute, the chance of finding a split-coloured lobster is one in 50m. The institute said only the albino lobster is rarer, with the chances of catching it at one in 100m.
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