Nov 10, 2005

Stressed out Dogs and other things!

1. The governor of a Cambodian province is suing an American Internet cafe owner over a Web site that promotes a sleepy corner of the war-scarred southeast Asian nation as an ideal place for people who want to kill themselves. read more..

2. A U.N. helicopter carrying a senior U.N. official and Western and Pakistani reporters landed by mistake on the Indian side of the heavily fortified border Sunday during a tour of the Pakistani earthquake zone. read more...


3.
Two historians are suing the publishers of Dan Brown's best-selling religious thriller "The Da Vinci Code" in a case which lawyers said Thursday was due to start early next year.

Richard Leigh and Michael Baigent are suing Random House for lifting "the whole architecture" of the research that went into their 1982 non-fiction book "The Holy Blood, and the Holy Grail." read more...

4. Man's best friend has certainly not been treated that way.

More than a quarter of all dogs in Britain are as stressed out as their over-worked owners, and a third are prone to vomit or have diarrhea as a result of neglect, a survey said on Thursday. read more...

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