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The Raleigh Chopper - the bike that became an icon for the 1970s - is remembered as the funeral takes place of its designer Alan Oakley.
Amsterdam has a problem. There are 300,000 bikes in public spaces in the city at any one time, but only 200,000 official bicycle parking spots, meaning that 100,000 are parked unofficially, and in some cases illegally. A company called Velominck has been building underground bike parking garages in the city since 2005, but its latest plan is to site them on the roofs of buildings instead.
An armed man in Brazil has stolen an 18-carat gold-plated vibrator selling for $4,000 (£2,600) at a luxury sex shop.
Police say he walked into the Erotica Luxo store in Brasilia, tied up a sales assistant and took the item from its display case. He stole nothing else.
The family of a man who died in a three-in-the-bed sex romp have won $3million in damages against a doctor who failed to warn him about extreme physical activity.
William Martinez, 31, suffered a fatal heart attack caused by the excitement and physical activity with a woman and another man.
The married father-of-two died a day before he was due to have a heart stress test.
Locations for 60 new woods created to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee have been revealed by the Woodland Trust.
Landowners across the UK have planted millions of trees to form the Diamond Woods - each at least 60 acres in size, the equivalent to 30 football pitches.
Victims of crime can now track the progress of police investigations at the touch of a button – from arrest all the way to sentence.
A national crime-mapping website has been logging reports of crimes on a street-by-street basis since January.
Now it is displaying the outcomes of investigations, too.
A thief, Alister Lamb, is facing jail after he appeared on the Jeremy Kyle Show instead of completing his court-imposed community service.
Debate may continue for years as to whether the Western intervention in Afghanistan has made the world safer or more insecure in the post-9/11 era. But it has not only done nothing to reduce global supplies of illicit opium; rather, it has made the problem worse.
Here’s chapter and verse on a more-or-less comprehensive list of things banned in the Leviticus book of the bible. A decent number of them are punishable by death.
A human foot has been posted to the headquarters of Canada's Conservative party and another body part discovered when police intercepted a second suspicious package, according to police in Ottawa.
Car drivers were also asked whether they had ever jumped a red light, and almost 32 per cent answered yes. But of those drivers who were also cyclists, that proportion was only 21.3 per cent. When the cyclist gets behind the wheel of a car, he or she is less likely than other drivers to jump that red light. Therefore, cyclists make more cautious and law-abiding drivers.
As for Diageo, once you cut through the glam veneer of pseudo corporate responsibility this incident shows them to be a band of dishonest hammerheads and dumb ass corporate freaks. No soul and no morals, with the integrity of a rabid dog and the style of a wart hog.
Kate Beckinsale, Judy Greer and Andrea Savage "spread" the message that the one thing women really want in their vagina is the government.
A beachcomber on British Columbia's Haida Gwaii islands has discovered what may be the first piece of debris from the Japanese tsunami to arrive in Canada.
Peter Mark was riding his ATV, exploring an isolated beach on Graham Island on April 18, when he made a spectacular find.
This is about as small and mobile as a ‘home’ gets, short of a tent you pack right on your back – a flip-out trailer dwelling made to be pulled behind a bicycle.
Some motorists want cyclists to pay ‘road tax’. They need to realise that bicycles, as non-polluting vehicles, would be classified as Band A vehicles and hence would have to pay the same as cars that pay nothing for their ‘road tax’. With 25 million bicycles in ownership, that would be £25m to get each bicycle a valid tax disc. Do motorists really want to pay a lot extra for their car tax to subsidise registration and duty compliance for millions of bicycles?
The Robin Hood of modern crime returns!
He robs from the evil and heartless rich, and gives to the wronged and deserving poor–in the process, keeping a percentage for his own expenses. He doesn’t work for the law, the government, or anyone else. He is a lone wolf…an adventurer, a detective, a rogue, but always…a gentleman!
In “The Sizzling Saboteur” – The Saint travels to Texas in pursuit of a man who has been sabotaging weapons factories, but when his quarry turns up burned to crisp, he has to contend with both the local police, a trio of mysterious men behind the sabotage, and a beautiful Russian.
While the art industry celebrates the return of the stolen Cezanne masterpiece "Boy in a Red Waistcoat," recovered this week in Serbia, thousands of other famous stolen works of art continue to be traded on the black market or collect dust in storage.
According to the Art Loss Register, an international index of stolen works, there are 350,000 stolen works of art in the world. Once thieves realize they can't sell the paintings at auction or get paid a ransom fee without getting caught, many try to obtain cash or collaterall illegally, said Chris Marinello, general counsel for the Register.
IkeaHackers.net is a site about modifications on and repurposing of Ikea products. Hacks, as we call it here, may be as simple as adding an embellishment, some others may require power tools and lots of ingenuity.
I don’t want to be reassuring to people whose awful bogosity I oppose. I want to provoke and challenge, I want to change the status quo, I want to tear down the gooey conventionality of morality and narrow standards of public behavior. I want us all to mock and laugh at public professions of piety. I want to change how people think, and I want people to reject the absurd claim that our morality is founded on an odious holy book.
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