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October 21, 2006
Top Austrian sculptor Erwin Wurm has "dropped a house upside down" on the roof of the Viennese Museum of Modern Art. The art project, entitled "House-Attack," is intended to look as if the house has fallen out of the sky and landed on the famous museum in the center of the Austrian capital.
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October 16, 2006
A women who gave birth to her grandchild may have found a way to side-step the Japanese government. A Japanese women in her 50s acted as a surrogate for her daughter and her son-in-law. Her daughter had her uterus removed because of cancer and was unable to have children. This marks the first time a woman has been a surrogate for her daughter in Japan.
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August 18, 2006
Topics money, calendar, clothes, nude, london, reuters, kate, bare, nudity, cancer, film, girls, world and people
London traders are taking their clothes off to raise money for charity. The KatCanDo charity is making a calendar that will feature 12 nude people with strategically placed objects covering their embarrassing bits.
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August 1, 2006
Topics flowers, cancer, software, email, plus, telephone, e-mail, baby, wife, hospital, school and man
An Atlanta software company is suing a former salesman who falsely claimed his 3-year-old son had cancer, and collected benefits for months. Lancope Inc. tried to send flowers after being told Michael Ruffalo's son had died. The salesman said his son had cancer shortly after he was hired as a salesman, and was given paid leave. A judge turned down a defense request to dismiss the suit, which seeks $40,151 in salary plus unspecified punitive damages.
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July 30, 2006
The police in Poland were investigating allegations criminals have bribed doctors to give them fake cancer diagnoses to get early release from prison. Initial investigations showed dozens of criminals have been freed from prison under the scam.
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