Draco Malfoy

The actor who plays Harry Potter villain Draco Malfoy is reportedly related to real-life witches.

Researcher David Nelson said: “I have discovered concrete proof of a link between Tom and some of those who were executed.

“He is a distant relative of John Proctor – who was hanged on August 19, 1692. I have informed Tom’s manager about witches in his family tree.”

Felton, 19, has become a household name, appearing in all the films of JK Rowling’s books as Harry’s arch enemy at Hogwarts school.

Lake Disappears

A glacial lake in Chile has disappeared and no one knows exactly why.

The five-acre lake was still at the Bernardo O’Higgins National Park in March this year

But by late May it was nowhere to be seen.

The lake was in the region of Magallanes, and situated 1,250 miles south-east of the capital Santiago.

Toddler’s painting sells for £27,000

Theatre director Sir Trevor Nunn paid £27,000 for a ‘Damien Hirst’ painting – that was reportedly made by a two-year-old.

He writes: “Trevor Nunn, who had studiously ignored me up to that moment, was over in a flash, congratulating me on a wonderful performance.

“He swivelled round to address Damien. ‘Ah Damien, so good to meet you. I have one of your spin paintings’.

“‘Oh yeah? Which one?’ The answer was something like Squirly Hoops Touch My Nuts Peace and Love.

“‘How much did you pay for it?’ said Damien. ‘Oh, er…’, said Trevor looking away. ‘Go on, how much?’ ‘Twenty-seven grand.’

“‘Oh right. Well that one was done by Keith’s son Alfie and my son Connor’.”

‘Dead’ man wakes up at funeral

An 87-year-old man gave his relatives a shock in Taiwan – when he woke up at his own funeral.

The family had been told by the hospital which had been treating the man that the only thing keeping him alive were oxygen hoses, and that he would die quickly if they were removed. The family opted to take him out of the hospital so that he could die at home.

Doctors were amazed and bizzared at this.

Pole Dancer causes Stir

People who are visiting the Gatwick Airport are greeted by the image of a naked pole dancer – but not too many people are happy about it.

The picture is an 100,000 sq.ft. advertisement for a website.The ad is viewable only from the air and not the ground and hence the owners are refusing to dispense with it.

19th Century Bomb Found in Whale

Part of a 19th century bomb has been found inside a whale.

The fragment is part of a time delay bomb that was introduced in 1879 and manufactured until 1885, reports the BBC.

It suggests the bowhead whale may have swum its first strokes not long after the American Civil War.

Scientists say it is rare to find a whale over 100 years old but believe some may reach 200.

The bowhead whale was killed by indigenous hunters off Alaska as part of their subsistence quota.

The 9cm fragment was lodged in the whale’s shoulder blade in a wound inflicted about 1890.

But a BBC expert says 19th Century hunters would not have been bothered with a young whale, so it could have already been around for some time before that date.

Man’s 50mph wheelchair ride

A disabled man was taken for a 50mph ride along a US highway after his wheelchair got jammed in the grille of a lorry.

The back of the 21-year-old man’s wheelchair was scooped up as he passed in front of a lorry leaving a petrol station, Michigan State Police said.

After four miles, the driver pulled over at a truck stop where police caught up and told him about the man on his front end.

He refused to believe there was a man in a wheelchair stuck to the front of his truck until he saw it for himself, police said

Police in the town of Paw Paw, Michigan, said he told them “it was quite a ride”, and complained only that he had spilled his soda.

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‘Spam King’

The police have finally caught the ‘Spam King’,the guy who sends tons and tons of junk mail to internet users across the world.

The public recognized the server from which tons of junk mail was sent and reported it to the cyber crime patrol.

Finally,he was caught yesterday.Now all email users can heave a sigh of relief.

Woman had bullet in head for 64 years

A Chinese grandmother who went to hospital with a headache was found to have had a bullet in her head for 64 years.

Jin Guangying, 77, of Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, went to to Shuyang Leniency Hospital for an x-ray.

Jin remembers that she was shot in 1943 during the Second World War by the invading Japanese army when she was taking supplies to her guerrilla father.

Executed man gets last meal wish after he dies

A convicted murderer put to death in Tennessee this week got his last meal wish after he died.Philip Workman had turned down the usual final meal of his choice traditionally offered the condemned, asking instead that a vegetarian pizza be given to a homeless person.

Prison officials refused to send out a pizza and Workman died Wednesday by lethal injection.

Nashville’s Union Rescue Mission received 170 pizzas. Media reports said listeners to a radio station in Minnesota also ordered pizzas sent to another organization for troubled youngsters.

Dog’s two weeks on cliff ledge

A dog survived for two weeks on a 100ft high ledge by eating a dead bird and drinking from a waterfall.

When Bush the dog disappeared during a cliff walk, her owner Margie Brett launched a desperate search campaign.

Bush is now recovering at a vet’s surgery and will soon be reunited with Mrs Brett and her husband Hugh.

Thieves caught on YouTube

An Austrian computer store’s CC TV caught two teenage boys robbing his £1,000 worth laptop.

The video shows how one of the pair kept watch and covered what his pal was doing as the second teenager slipped the computer under his jacket.

The video was published on the video sharing website YouTube and the viewers living in that area recognized the pair and alerted the police.They were arrested in Linz.

Boy’s head stuck in toilet

Firefighters in Essex came to the rescue of a young boy who had a toilet seat stuck on his head.

The boy, aged two and a half, and his worried mother went to Braintree fire station after she was unable to get the small trainer seat off his head, reports the BBC.

Firefighter Chris Cox said: “We put some dish washing liquid on his head and ears and it slid off nice as pie.

“The boy was very brave and didn’t make a fuss and once we had got the seat off he toddled away as happy as can be.”

Mr Cox added: “The boy had put his head through it and couldn’t get it out again, he came in here wearing it like a collar.

“His mum had tried to get it over his head but couldn’t budge it so she walked him down here and asked us to have a look at it and we went to work and we managed to get it off in no time.”

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Man had bullet in heart for 40 years

A man shot in the heart by US troops during the Vietnam war has had the bullet removed – after 40 years.

Le Dinh Hung, 60, said from his bed in the Hanoi Heart Hospital: “I feel much better now. The chest pain has eased.”

He added: “I was very lucky to survive. People believe in their fate and I do too.”

When he was shot in 1968, the bullet tore through his stomach, hit his cardiac valve and lodged at the back of his heart.

Surgeons carried out a three hour operation to finally remove it after he went to hospital complaining of unbearable chest pains.

Dr Nguyen Sinh Hien, who also replaced his damaged heart valve with an artificial one, said: “It is the strangest case that I have ever seen.

“Normally a person with a bullet in the heart would die immediately if they didn’t have surgery right away.”

Hung was shot fighting for the communist North in Quang Tri province, near the former Demilitarised Zone that separated North and South Vietnam.

Surgeons tried to remove the bloodcaked bullet in 1969 but failed.

Despite being in constant pain, Hung, whose home is in the Ha Tay province, went on to work at a medical school and had three children with his wife.

Story filed: 09:10 Tuesday 17th April 2007

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