'Sick' Mafia boss back behind bars
Wednesday November 25 2009
A CONVICTED Mafia boss who got out of jail by faking paralysis and anorexia has been arrested at a restaurant after more than two months on the run, police in Sicily said yesterday.
Officers arrested Francesco Di Stefano on Monday as he dined at a seaside village near the Sicilian city of Catania.
Police hunt for home wreckers
THE people of Bergen rolled out the cookie dough as local police tried to sniff out vandals who destroyed the Norwegian city's traditional Christmas decoration -- a town of gingerbread houses.
Vandals had entered a massive tent in central Bergen and crushed most of the 650-cookie-house town.
Darwin book sold for €114,000
A RARE first edition of naturalist Charles Darwin's 'Origin of Species' sold yesterday at auction for £103,250 (€114,315) in London.
Christie's auction house said it had languished for years on a toilet bookshelf.
Scary Santa gets €48,000 facelift
A SANTA in New Zealand with a droopy eye has received a NZ$100,000 (€48,000) facelift in the run-up to Christmas so that he doesn't scare children.
The 20-metre tall fibreglass Santa has been among the festive decorations in Auckland since 1960.
Spammer jailed for four years
A MAN described as one of the world's most prolific senders of spam email has been jailed for more than four years for his role in a 2005 fraud that netted him £1.6m (€1.8m).
Alan Ralsky, of Oakland County's West Bloomfield Township in Michigan, had admitted sending millions of emails trying to influence Chinese stock prices.
Model off hook in nude photoshoot
A NEW YORK judge dismissed public lewdness and other charges against a model who posed for a nude photoshoot at a museum while visitors looked on.
Kathleen "KC" Neill was arrested in August during photographer Zach Hyman's shoot in the arms and armour department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Irish Independent
