Quoted: A wealthy New York woman is sentenced to 11 years in jail for keeping two Indonesian women as slaves.

whoa.

Quoted: Construction of the world's first moving building, a 80-storey tower with revolving floors which give it an ever-shifting shape, is due to begin.

Quoted: Voters in Bolivia's gas-rich Tarija province overwhelmingly back greater autonomy in a referendum, exit polls suggest.

Quoted: A three-legged, one-eyed, cancer-afflicted dog named Gus has been crowned the World's Ugliest Dog at a fair in California.

fucking crazy amazing.

Quoted: Executives said the trader may not have sought personal gain from the fraudulent deals.

until you get to:

The bank, one of France's largest, has arranged a rights issue worth 5.5bn euros in new capital in order to offset the losses.

But it said it would still make a profit of 600m to 800m euros for 2007, despite the blow to its balance sheet.

Quoted: A Nigerian lesbian goes into hiding from Islamic police with the four women she "married" at a huge ceremony.

yeah, this is a big deal. imagine if one of those prisoners were suspected zombies that haven't reanimated yet. and then your loved one received their kidneys, and then--BOOM: fucking zombie case on yr hands, in yr sheets, and probably all over the whole damn house and town if yr unlucky. from now on, carefully check the organ source of transplant patients amongst your family or friends. the source could be a zombie. additionally, make sure to arm yourself when in proximity to recent transplant patients....

Quoted: China sets out regulations intended to stamp out illegal human organ transplants, state media reports.

Quoted: The famous 11m-long gypsum crystals in the Mexican Naica mine complex grew under perfect temperature conditions, say scientists.

Quoted: Thousands of pictures were taken in Lebanon during the recent conflict, but it was a surprising picture that was chosen as best news picture of the year.