Crazy World: Man drinks wife's blood for 3 years

INDIA: No, this is not a scene from a vampire movie, but a real life incident which occurred in central India.

A 22-year-old woman from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh told the police officials that her husband drank her blood for three years, reports The Times of India.

She was quoted by the daily as saying: "He used to take a syringe and draw blood from my arms. He would then empty it in a glass and drink it. For three years he did this on a regular basis, threatening me of dire consequences if I revealed this to anyone."

The couple got married in 2007 and a few months into their married life, the husband started drawing blood from his wife's veins and consuming it. The agricultural labourer did not stop his vampirish act even when his wife became pregnant.

The woman started protesting after giving birth to a baby boy a few months back. She complained to the police that she would often feel drained after the blood extraction. She was physically assaulted by her husbandn for resisting the horrific act, said the paper.

The woman escaped to her parents' place and revealed all to her family, who then helped her make a formal complaint to the police.

Hospital gives 2 mothers wrong babies

AUSTRALIA: An Australian hospital says staffers accidentally mixed up two newborns and gave them to the wrong mothers, who breast-fed the infants before the mistake was caught.

Stephen Roberts, CEO of St. John of God Hospital in southeastern Victoria state, says a family member of one of the mothers noticed something was wrong and alerted staff after the women had been with the wrong infants for more than eight hours Friday.

The hospital said in a statement Monday that staffers did not check the infants' identification bracelets against the ID bracelets on the mothers.

Both women have been offered counseling.

Chilli used as weapon by army

INDIA: This chilli is so hot that its seeds are used as weapons.

UK tabloid The Sun says, "It scores a fearsome 1,001,304 points on the Scoville scale that measures peppers' heat. The average jalapeno comes in at about 10,000."

The same species will soon hit Tesco, a supermarket chain in Britain.

The bhut jolokia will undoubtedly be the hottest chilli available in the high street, says the paper.

Woman blames GPS for driving straight into a lake

AUSTRIA: A van driver ended up submerged in Austria's Lake Grundlsee after misunderstanding her GPS instructions.

She was looking for a shortcut to reach her destination and had typed into her sat nav that she wanted to go to the lake. The GPS took her request a little too literally, reported UK daily Metro.

After being briefly unsighted by undergrowth, the female driver ended up driving straight into the water. Officials have Not been able to understand what exactly she was doing when the van was being driven straight into the lake, said the paper.

'She insisted the satnav system was to blame,' one rescuer told the paper.

The woman managed to escape safely enough before firefighters arrived to haul the stricken vehicle from the water.

Parents 'donate' conjoined twins

INDIA: A poor couple's joy of giving birth to twins was short-lived when they realised that they had delivered conjoined twins.

Barely able to make two ends meet, the parents decided to "donate" their new-borns to the hospital despite being promised by the health officials that they would provide support.

The ouple filed an affidavit on a R50 stamp paper and authorised the hospital to take care of the babies, reports Hindustan Times.

Since the babies are healthy and their internal organs are separate, a surgery to separate them would not be a complicated one, doctors told the daily

However, a surgery would cost around Rs 10 lakh, which is a huge amount for the couple who hail from a small village in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.

Legal experts told the dailythe donation and adoption is “illegal”. “Parents cannot desert their children in this manner."

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