Father slit kids' throats to spite estranged wife

Father slit kids' throats to spite wife

UK: A father took a horrific route to spite his estranged wife. He slit the throats of his daughter and son, reports Daily Mail.

The man has been put behind bars for three decades and is likely to spend the rest of his life there.

The dreadful incident occurred when the children aged 8 and 10 were living with their 62-year old father over the weekend. He knifed his own children while they were ‘defenceless’ in the early hours of the morning. The court heard that in all likelihood the kids fought him off to defend themselves till he overpowered them.

He then phoned his 44-year old wife and told her to ‘come and get the bodies’, the daily said.

Wife asks for divorce on road sign

UK: In an extreme step, a wife asks her husband for a divorce by using a banner on one of Britain's busiest motorways.

The shocking sign read in festive red paint: "For Xmas Dan, Jude wants a divorce".

The fed-up wife's notice to her husband, Dan, was the talk of the town, reports The Sun.

Neighbours feel the wife has simply had enough and wants to vent her frustration in public.

However, it is not the first case where a big banner has been used to announce the news of a relationship imploding, the daily said.
 

Passenger's pistol fires at airport

A pistol discovered in a passenger's carry-on bag was accidentally fired inside the Atlanta airport, grazing a police officer, authorities said.

Security screeners at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport spotted the .22-caliber pistol on Sunday via an X-ray machine and notified Atlanta police, Transportation Security Administration spokesman Jonathan Allen said.

Authorities said the gun was loaded with five rounds of ammunition known as "snake shot," which typically is used to kill small animals. As a police officer tried to remove the rounds while pointing the weapon at a screening table, the gun was unintentionally fired, according to an incident report.

"I was grazed by a pellet fragment on the left side of my face," the officer wrote in the report.

The passenger, a 43-year-old Georgia man, was arrested on weapons charges and remained in jail early on Monday. He told police that he "travels to Florida often on business and keeps the weapon on him for protection, not to kill anyone but in an attempt to scare people off," the report said.

So far this year, TSA has discovered more than 1,100 firearms at airport security checkpoints, the agency said.

Taxi driver told fare 3220km away

UK: A cabbie in London was asked to pick up a labrador dog 3,220km away and 38 hours way at Madrid in Spain.

The taxi driver obviously could not believe his ears. A woman who had used his cab before called him and asked him to name a price to pick her pet dog from Spain to London's Knightsbridge, reports Herald Sun.

The amazed driver agreed and he drove to catch a ferry to Santander, Spain, before driving for four hours to Madrid to pick up the dog and its helper as well.

 Skyscraper design looks like Twin Towers collapsing

A south Korean developer says it will not alter the design of a twin-tower project despite complaints in the United States that it mimics the explosions at New York's World Trade Center in 2001.

The towers, one with 54 floors and the other with 60, are designed by Dutch architects MVRDV and will be built at the entrance to Seoul’s redeveloped Yongsan business district by 2016.

The towers will be connected midway up by a cloud-shaped bridging section that will house amenities including sky lounges, a swimming pool and restaurants.

But families of victims of the 9/11 attacks see a marked resemblance between the project known as The Cloud and the clouds of debris that billowed from the World Trade Center after hijacked airliners ploughed into the towers.

"Allegations that it [the design] was inspired by the 9/11 attacks are groundless," said White Paik, spokesman for the Yongsan Development Corporation.

"There will be no revision or change in our project," he said, adding that construction would begin in January 2013 as scheduled.

MVRDV said it "regrets deeply" any painful connotations.

"It was not our intention to create an image resembling the attacks nor did we see the resemblance during the design process," it said in a statement on its website.

"We sincerely apologise to anyone whose feelings we have hurt," it added.

Jim Riches, a retired New York deputy fire chief whose son was killed on 9/11, said he did not believe the architects.

"It looks just like the towers imploding," the New York Daily News quoted him as saying. "I think they’re trying to sensationalise it. It’s a cheap way to get publicity.”

Tori Spelling gets a new pet goat

US: Tori Spelling has two new pets - a goat and a chicken.

The reality TV star's already busy home has even more residents after her husband Dean McDermott decided to surprise his wife with the animals.

Speaking on this week's episode of 'Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood', Dean said: "I'm thinking I want to do a little something nice for my wife. What would be better than a house full of animals?"

The new goat will act as a friend for the couple's other goat, Totes McGoat, while the chicken will join the family's other bird Coco.

Tori - who gave birth to the couple's third child, daughter Hattie, in October - is very excited about the family's newest animals, because she believes it will be good for the other pets to have new playmates.

The '90210' star - who also has a pet pig called Hank - said: "I believe that everyone does better with a playmate!"

Tori and Dean also have a four-year-old son Liam and three-year-old daughter Stella, but despite having a packed house, the 38-year-old actress insists she enjoys having a large family.

She recently said: "People say, 'Oh my God, it's utter chaos after two.' But it's not, it's great. You lost your mind after the second one, so ... the third, it's like you're so far gone, it's just kind of the same." 

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