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[ThunderTitan]

Wedding video after the jump:

Man, 24, loses 82-year-old wife

Newlyweds Reinaldo Waveqche (L) and Adelfa Volpe
Mr Waveqche began living with Ms Volpes (R) when he was 15

An 82-year-old Argentine woman who attracted media attention last month when she married a 24-year-old man has died as a result of heart problems.

Adelfa Volpes was admitted to hospital soon after she and her new husband, Reinaldo Waveqche, returned from their honeymoon in Brazil.

She died in a sanatorium in Santa Fe, the city where the couple were married.

Ms Volpes had rejected criticism over the age difference with the groom, who is the son of one of her best friends.

"I don't want to resign myself to the idea that I lost her," a disconsolate Mr Waveqche told EFE news agency.

The couple were married on 28 September in a civil service after several years of engagement, and later walked through a local church surrounded by reporters.

Their love is said to have blossomed when Mr Waveqche went to live with his future bride after his mother's death, when he was 15.

[ScarlettP]

Soo.... how many millions did she leave him?

[Elvin]

And they say love is blind Definitely takes a look at the others' pockets.

[asandir]

Jailbreak gang crash helicopter into prison

Two criminals escaped from a Belgian prison after a helicopter crash-landed inside the prison grounds as an apparent diversion, police said.

The two men, including notorious serial escapee Nordine Ben Allal, managed to flee in a car thanks to armed accomplices, police said.

The unknown accomplices had hijacked the helicopter then crash-landed it in the prison courtyard south of Brussels to allow Ben Allal, convicted of several armed attacks, to flee in the confusion and smoke, according to Belgian media.

RTL television reported that a prison guard had been taken hostage during the commando-style operation and that several people were injured.

A major police search, including helicopter surveillance, was underway.

Media reports said the car was found abandoned about five kilometres from the prison.

The prison did not wish to give any immediate information on the situation and the local police commander was similarly tight-lipped.

Ben Allal has escaped from prison before, notably in 2004 when two police officers were injured in the getaway.

[Ethric]

One from down under...

I'm outraged to hear that this got taken to court

[ThunderTitan]

And they say love is blind Definitely takes a look at the others' pockets.

You only need hands for that, eyes are optional.

[ScarlettP]

One from down under...

I'm outraged to hear that this got taken to court

Only because you can't find the video on YouTube.

[Ethric]

Well I haven't looked, the equipment at work is too slow to do much fun with... but what guy wouldn't fall instantly in love with a woman crushing bearcans between her breasts? Well, unless she was really bad-looking and did it out of desperation. But you know what I mean; woof woof

[ThunderTitan]

if she can crush beer cans with her hooters who cares about her face?! That's why God invented paper bags....

[asandir]

indeed TT

Well I haven't looked, the equipment at work is too slow to do much fun with... but what guy wouldn't fall instantly in love with a woman crushing bearcans between her breasts? Well, unless she was really bad-looking and did it out of desperation. But you know what I mean; woof woof

and I will add that who would ever get up that high to see her face?

[Ethric]

The face isn't the only place ugliness can materialise (warts and boils can crop up everywhere).

[ThunderTitan]

are we talking about ugliness or disease?!

[Ethric]

No.

[asandir]

The face isn't the only place ugliness can materialise (warts and boils can crop up everywhere).

true, but you're still looking at the wrong bits

[asandir]

topical

Halloween party-goer drunk, not dead

Passengers on a German train mistook a Halloween reveller dressed up as a gore-covered zombie for a murder victim and called the police.

The 24-year-old man fell into a drunken slumber on his way home from a Halloween party in Hamburg, police in the northern town of Bad Segeberg said.

Believing his hands and face were smeared with blood, passengers alerted police after getting no response from him.

A first aid team called to the scene soon cleared up the confusion. Police told the man to remove his make-up after which he was allowed to continue his journey.

"Bad Segeberg is in a rural area and Halloween isn't very well known there," police spokeswoman Silke Tobies said. "So people weren't expecting anyone to be dressed up in the train."

[ThunderTitan]

Go Colbert...

Million back comic for president

More than a million people have backed comic Stephen Colbert's fake candidacy in the 2008 US presidential election on social-networking website Facebook.

In nine days, more than 1m users joined an online group set up after the Colbert Report host announced his bid.

Tens of thousands of other Facebook users have joined about 500 groups supporting the comic's candidacy.

Colbert says he will run for president in his home state - South Carolina - as both a Democrat and a Republican.

After Colbert announced on 16 October that he would run, high-school student Raj Vachhani set up a group on Facebook called "1,000,000 Strong For Stephen T Colbert".

The group was growing very quickly and began overloading one of our servers, but we have since resolved that problem
Facebook spokeswoman

The group was inspired by a similar movement in support of Democratic nomination hopeful Barack Obama, called "One Million Strong for Barack".

While the group supporting Mr Obama took more than eight months to gain 380,000 members, Mr Vachhani's group backing a candidate running in just one state has become one of the largest political groups on Facebook in less than two weeks.

The group grew so quickly it caused technical problems for the website, which has nearly 50 million users around the world and is said to account for 1% of all internet traffic.

"The group was growing very quickly and began overloading one of our servers, but we have since resolved that problem," a Facebook spokeswoman told the New York Times.

Colbert has already started his "campaign", appearing before several hundred fans at the University of South Carolina on Sunday.

Playing to interstate rivalry, Colbert vowed: "I promise, if elected, I will crush the state of Georgia."

He has said he will run for both the Democrats and the Republicans because he would "like to lose twice".

[asandir]

Give us your money, this is a ketchup

Two thieves armed only with ketchup ambushed a supermarket employee as he was taking cash to the bank, Greek police said.

"The thieves jumped out of the bushes and threw two big bags of ketchup on the front window to stop the car," said a police official who requested anonymity.

The man fought with his attackers who managed to flee on a motorcycle with only 400 euros ($625) of the 140,000 euros he was carrying.

[Elvin]

You know a ketchup has many uses and can be lethal in the hands of an expert.

[Kalah]

Reminds me of that Norwegian cartoon, where a bank robber hands the cashier a note, saying: "Gimme the money, or' I'll start playing the flute".

[ThunderTitan]

GUYS, if you want to live longer, stop chasing skirts:

Why Males Die Before Females

In humans and many other animals, males age faster and die earlier than females. New research suggests this might happen because of intense competition over sex.

Scientists compared monogamous species with polygynous species, in which each male mates with many females. Males in monogamous species, such as the barnacle goose or the dwarf mongoose, naturally compete less over females than ones in polygynous species, such as the red-winged blackbird or the savannah baboon.

After investigating about 20 different vertebrate species, researchers Tim Clutton-Brock and Kavita Isvaran at the University of Cambridge in England found the more polygynous a species was, the more likely their males were to age faster and die earlier than females.

The researchers explained that as competition among males for sex grows more intense, each male on average has less time to breed. As such, there is no strong incentive to evolve longevity among males in such species.

Since men age faster and die earlier than women, these findings suggest that "at the time when current human physiology evolved, perhaps around the late Stone Age, polygynous breeding was the norm," Clutton-Brock told LiveScience. "Of course, this doesn't provide any justification for polygyny or promiscuity now for males."

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