Hansen Sinclair – AHN News Reporter New York, NY, United States (AHN) – Steven Slater, America’s most famous former flight attendant, appeared in a courtroom in New York Tuesday with his attorney to work on a plea deal that would keep him from serving jail time. Slater originally pleaded not guilty to the charges of [...]
Lawrence Mijares – AHN News Contributor Paris, France (AHN) – Internet pranksters have made “Trou du cul” ( or a**hole) the most searched searched term on Google in France that when clicked, links to the Facebook.com account of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Called a “google bomb,” several hundreds of webmasters make a coordinated and concerted [...]
Hansen Sinclair – AHN News Reporter Dublin, GA, United States (AHN) – The mayor of Dublin, Georgia, was expected to sign into law Tuesday an ordinance that bans the wearing of saggy pants in public, penalizing violators with a fine of up to $200. Mayor Phil Best said the indecent exposure ordinance will go into [...]
Columbus, Ohio, United States (AHN) – A new report from Ohio radiologists recommends using ultrasound technology to identify teens engaging in disturbing self-harm behavior, including a trend known as “embedding.” A report from the Nationwide Children’s Hospital to be published in the October print issue of Radiology, defines self-embedding as when people cut themselves and place [...]
Houston, TX, United States (AHN) – A 24-year-old web developer of a marketing firm got the surprise of his life on Wednesday when his bank balance turned negative to the tune of $888,871.91 after PayPal charged him almost a million dollars. Derek Lanphier of PopLabs initially panicked after discovering a $3,000 purchase on his PayPal [...]
Tehran, Iran (TML) – It all began in the early 1990’s with Internet search engine startups like Excite, Galaxy, Lycos and Webcrawler. Then Yahoo and Alta Vista moved in, followed only a few years later by what would become the neighborhood bully: Google. Now Iran would like to introduce the new kid on the block… [...]
New York, NY, United States (AHN) – A federal court has ruled that secretly recording telephone conversations is okay if done for legitimate purposes. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handed down the ruling in a case involving a man that secretly recorded a conversation in a kitchen between his dying mother [...]
Seoul, South Korea (AHN) – What determination! A South Korean grandma has created headlines after she finally earned a driving license after undergoing a driver’s test for a record 960th time. “Grandma Cha Sa-soon,” as she has become known nationwide, first applied for her drivers license in April 2005. The 69-year-old woman underwent at least [...]
Bogota, Colombia (AHN) – Edward Nino Hernandez is a normal 24-year-old Colombian male with his likes, dislikes and dreams. What makes him special and different from others is his size because Size Does Matter! The Guinness World Records has officially certified him as the shortest living man on the Earth at just 27 inches or [...]
Buffalo, NY, United States (AHN) – A woman who is known as the “Black Widow” of eating contests because she makes mincemeat of her male competitors ate 181 chicken wings on Sunday securing herself another win. The voracious eating feat of nearly 4lbs of meat was accomplished in 12 minutes at the 2010 Buffalo Wing [...]
