A Japanese research team is planning to run a campaign on environmental awareness by entering a racecar that runs on cooking oil, used to fry tempura, in the Dakar rally. Hidefumi Onaka, a lecturer at the Osaka Sangyo University, said Toyota's Land Cruiser 100 would be the first racecar to run on bio-diesel in the prestigious sporting event. Onaka told the Canadian Press, "We want to show what tempura oil can achieve, as a way to raise environmental awareness. . . We're not doing it just for fun, so we decided to enter an internationally acclaimed event and appeal to the world. "

With no female partner to give him a helping hand, Briton Graham Burney, a former gardener, has been honored with a parenting award for raising his six sons and one daughter alone after his wife died suddenly last year. Burney quit his job after his wife's death in order to be there for his children 24 hours a day - making breakfast in the morning, doing the chores and housework, cooking dinner, and being by his children's side and helping them deal with the lost of their mother.

On Wednesday a chef pleaded guilty to second-degree assault for stabbing a waiter who criticized him for using a rotten tomato in his cooking. The victim, 18-year-old Martin Vu, threatened the chef, Mohammed Uddin, 43, he was going to tell the manager Uddin was cooking with a rotten tomato because "Mohammed didn't care what I told him. " Vu told police he wanted to make sure the customers were getting fresh food.

A Kenyan woman suffering from starvation placed a curse on God and then died in her sleep. Local newspapers said Thursday that the women invoked a potent tribal curse from the Kamba community, which is located in the drought-stricken Kangundo district, reports Reuters.

Nancy O'Donnell, 56, is charged with four counts each of aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person. She is being charged with trying to poison her adult daughter and her family with bleach, which she poured in the Macaroni and cheese served during a Saturday night dinner. O'Donnell's daughter, Victoria Lynn O'Donnell, 24, was preparing dinner around 6:30 p. m. for her live-in boyfriend, Jamal Scott, 30, and their 6-year-old son and 2-year-old daughter, in the home she shares with her mother.