The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov prohibited the residents of the country to celebrate New Year in the entertainment places, the ban became the consequence of recent accident in the Russian night club, where 150 were killed, Ferghana.ru reports.
Since 20th December, the restaurants and cafes all over Turkmenistan stopped accepting New Year celebration order. The ban is effective through 3rd January and moreover, the visitors are prohibited to consume alcohol.
On the other hand, the prohibition …

Busy M11 motorway had to be closed after a herd of pigs escaped and ran on the carriageway, Sky News reports.
The southbound M11 towards London was shut after a HGV carrying a consignment of 82 pigs crashed.
Essex Fire and Rescue Service attended the scene of the collision at Junction 8 near Stansted Airport to discover about 12 animals had escaped from the lorry and were running free on the road.
A spokesman said that at 5.21am, …

A couple from Virginia crashed on Tuesday the White House state dinner, the Secret Service that is supposed to protect the President of the United States, are investigating, how the uninvited people could breach security at what’s supposed to be the most guarded place on Earth.
The Secret Service are now investigating their own security procedures after determining that the socialite couple, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, managed to slip into the White House dinner …

A decree banning women from wearing trousers in Paris is still technically in force, making the laissez-faire French capital theoretically stricter than hardline Sudan in the fashion stakes, the Daily Telegraph reports.
The rule banning women from dressing like men – namely by wearing trousers – was first introduced in 1800 by Paris’ police chief and has survived repeated attempts to repeal it.
The 1800 rule stipulated than any Parisienne wishing to dress like a man “must …

112-year-old Somalian Ahmed Muhmed Dore got married for the sixth time, this time to a 17-year-old girl Safia Abdulleh.
Dore and his teenage bride are from the same village, and he said that he had waited for her to grow up before proposing, the Daily Telegraph reports.
“I didn’t force her, but used my experience to convince her of my love, and then we agreed to marry,” he said.
The bride’s family said she was “happy with her …

A meteorite fell on Earth in Latvia’s Valmiera county near Estonian border, it punched a hole 50 feet wide and 16 feet deep.
The meteorite fell yesterday evening at 5:30pm local time (3:30 GMT) in a meadow next to a farm, Estonian Daily Newspaper reports. No one was injured.
“It wasn’t bigger than a football,” Latvian meteorite expert Uldis Nulle said.
Ansis Shteinbergs, who saw the meteorite fall, said that he first heard a noise that resembled a …

Two American pilots who overshot their destination by 150 miles and claimed that they had been having a heated discussion on airline policy may in fact have been asleep, The Times reports.
The pair were flying a Northwest Airlines Airbus A320 from San Diego to Minneapolis on Wednesday evening when they lost contact with air traffic controllers about an hour before their scheduled arrival time.
The aircraft, with 144 passengers and a crew of five, passed over …

Hollywood film stars including Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers are being banned from using Twitter because bosses think “tweets” are damaging the industry, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Studios want to stop actors from leaking film information on social network sites, and are inserting clauses in their contracts forbidding them. Stars affected include Cameron Diaz and Mike Myers, who are due to make a Shrek follow-up next year for studio DreamWorks.
A recent talent contract from Disney includes a …

The coach of the Bosnia-Herzegovina national football team has ordered players to kiss each other on the lips in order to create a special bond between team mates, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Miroslav Ciro Blazevic – who has Portsmouth star Asmir Begovic in his squad – said: “I take two of my players and tell them, “Love him! Kiss him!” and he kisses him.”
He claimed the unorthodox morale-boosting exercise has already proven successful: Blazevic has taken …

Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that Russia and its military allies set up a rival version of the Eurovision song contest, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Putin spoke out in favour of a new international modern song competition that he said should be called “Intervision”. He suggested the new song contest should be set up in the incongruous framework of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO), a six-nation defence bloc that is more accustomed to conducting joint military …

A study claims that Britain is the worst place in Europe to live despite offering the biggest salaries, since high incomes here are cancelled out by long working hours, poor annual leave, rising food and fuel prices and the lack of sunshine, the Daily Mail reports.
Researchers weighed up official data for ten European countries, including France, Spain, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Poland. They found that Britons enjoy the highest after-tax household income, which, at £35,730-a-year, is …

Police are set to use taxpayers’ cash to give drinkers free taxi rides home – in a bid to cut down on late-night street violence, the Daily Mail reports.
Officers believe the controversial scheme to combat thugs will lead to a significant cut in crime and anti-social behaviour.
Councillors in the market town of in Watton, Norfolk, backed the initiative to crack down on attacks and yobbish behaviour. The town council have themselves pledged £350 to help fund …

A desperate homeowner plagued by yobs has made a last ditch appeal for police action by taking out an advert in his local paper – offering a £2,000 reward, the Daily Mail reports.
Retired primary school teacher Ted Nottingham, 71, was forced to take the unusual approach following a total failure by police to catch the culprits responsible for a five-year-long harassment campaign.
He spent £610 on the half page appeal addressed directly to his Chief Constable …

Toyota issued a safety recall for 3.8 million Lexus and Toyota cars because of potentially deadly floor mats, CNN Money reports.
The world’s largest automaker and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration warned drivers to remove the mats or risk a forced-down accelerator pedal that could lead to a fatal crash.
The seven models being recalled could potentially have removable mats that would interfere with the pedal and cause it to stick.
“A stuck open accelerator pedal may …

Finland’s Government are drafting a new smoking law in order to become the first country on Earth where people don’t consume tobacco.
Finnish Ministry of Social and Health Affairs gave the draft of the new law to the Parliament today, Finnish national broadcasting reports.
“As the first country on Earth, we have written a law to end smoking at all,” Government’s adviser Ismo Tuominen said. “If we only tried to reduce it, that would be accepting smoking …

A Wisconsin tourism lobbying group are changing their name after realizing their initials formed a crude acronym, AP reports.
The Wisconsin Tourism Federation group did a quiet rebranding in July, changing their name to the Tourism Federation of Wisconsin and updating their logo from WTF to TFW, after it was featured on Web sites and blogs poking fun at it.
Lead lobbyist for the group, Chet Gerlach, said that the federation made the change after the meaning …