Wanita separuh bogel berlari di lebuh raya

Terjun dari trak yang dicuri

LOS ANGELES – Seorang wanita yang hanya berseluar dalam, coli dan berkaki ayam ditangkap polis di sebuah lebuh raya di pinggir bandar raya ini, lapor sebuah akhbar semalam.

Wanita itu ditangkap selepas dia terjun dari sebuah trak penarik kereta yang dipandunya. Dia merampas trak itu kerana keretanya mahu ditarik.

Pemandu trak penunda itu memandu kereta wanita tersebut untuk mengejar traknya yang telah dirampas.

Dua buah kereta polis kemudian mengejar trak yang dipandu oleh wanita itu.

Namun, wanita tersebut terjun dari trak itu yang sedang bergerak di sebuah lebuh raya.

Beberapa anggota polis kemudian turun dari kereta dan berlari ke arahnya sebelum bergelut dengan wanita itu serta menangkapnya.

Seorang anggota polis Los Angeles, Leftenan Wayne Lightfoot menyatakan, wanita tersebut akan didakwa mencuri kenderaan.

Lelaki 87 tahun pernah berkahwin 107 kali



BELLO MAASABA duduk bersama tiga orang isterinya.

BIDA - Seorang lelaki di Nigeria, Bello Maasaba berusia 87 tahun telah berkahwin dengan 107 wanita dan memiliki 185 orang anak, lapor sebuah akhbar kelmarin. Anak bongsunya baru berusia sebulan.

Bekerja sebagai seorang pengamal perubatan Islam, Bello kini memiliki 86 isteri berusia dari 19 tahun hingga 64 tahun. Sembilan isterinya telah meninggal dunia manakala dia menceraikan 12 yang lain.

"Saya mendapat ilham daripada Tuhan yang memberitahu saya wanita yang mana patut saya berkahwin," kata warga emas tersebut.

"Tanpa ilham tersebut, saya tidak akan mengahwini lebih daripada dua isteri," tambahnya. Dia tinggal bersama keluarganya di sebuah rumah yang memiliki 89 bilik di sini.

Seluruh keluarganya termasuk mertua, ipar, sepupu dan anak saudara kini berjumlah sekitar 5,000 orang.

Bello pernah dipenjara tiga tahun lalu apabila dia enggan menceraikan semua isterinya kecuali empat isterinya seperti yang diarahkan pihak berkuasa agama Islam Nigeria.

Semasa kes itu dibicarakan, puluhan isterinya memberi keterangan bahawa mereka berkahwin dengan ikhlas. Selepas mendengar keterangan 57 wanita, hakim mahkamah terbabit mengarahkan supaya Bello dibebaskan.

Mengenai kehebatannya di ranjang, Bello memberitahu, ia adalah anugerah Tuhan. "Sekiranya saya gagal memuaskan isteri-isteri saya, mereka akan meninggalkan saya," ujarnya.

Imej misteri dalam jentera bomba

GAMBAR ahli keluarga Rozaidi yang dirakam di hadapan sebuah
jentera bomba yang memaparkan imej misteri wanita berambut panjang
(dalam bulatan) di Dataran Merdeka baru-baru ini.

KUALA LUMPUR – Seorang pemandu peribadi, Rozaidi Ahmad, 42, terkejut dengan kemunculan imej misteri di dalam gambar yang dirakamnya semasa mengunjungi Hari Bomba Malaysia di Dataran Merdeka di sini baru-baru ini.

Menurutnya, imej tersebut yang menyerupai seorang wanita berambut panjang dikesan pada gambar yang dirakam menggunakan kamera digital pada 7 Mei lalu.

“Kami sekeluarga menyedari imej pelik berkenaan dua hari selepas itu semasa anak sulung saya memasukkan gambar-gambar daripada kamera ke komputer riba.

“Kami terkejut apabila ada imej lain yang menyerupai seorang wanita berambut panjang di dalam jentera bomba,” ujarnya kepada Kosmo! di sini semalam.

Ikuti berita selanjutnya di Kosmo! hari ini.

Air quality in five towns nears unhealthy level

PETALING JAYA: The air quality in five towns in three states dropped close to unhealthy levels Wednesday.

The Department of Environment reported higher-than-normal Air Pollutant Index (API) readings for Port Klang (97), Nilai (92), Banting (82), Bukit Rambai in Malacca (87) and Muar (84).

An area's air quality reaches an unhealthy level when its API hits 101, a very unhealthy level at 201 and hazardous when it exceeds 301.

The air quality of an area is considered good if its API reading is between 0 to 50.

Director of air quality unit Kalsom Abdul Ghani attributed the decrease in visibility in various parts of the country to southwesterly winds blowing haze from open burnings in Sumatra hotspots.

"It occurred under transboundary conditions due to the wind, which normally takes this direction at this time of the year,” Kalsom said.

Haze situation not hazardous, air quality improves

PETALING JAYA: The current haze situation is still manageable and Malaysians need not worry that it will be hazardous to their health.

Malaysian Meteorological Department (MMD) application deputy director-general Alui Bahari said the department was continuously monitoring the weather conditions and so far, the haze was not at an unhealthy level.

"There is no need for the public to panic or worry. So far, the condition is still normal. The situation can be considered 'business as usual'," he said, adding that outdoor activities could still be carried out.

The Department of Environment website revealed that Port Klang's API fell into the "unhealthy" category when it registered a reading of 104 at 11am Thursday. However, at 5pm, no "unhealthy" API readings were recorded.

In a press release, the MMD said the number of hot spots decreased from six in peninsular Malaysia on Tuesday to three on Wednesday.

The number of hot spots in Sumatra, Indonesia also fell from 156 to 119 for the same period.

Satellite images revealed that no hot spots were found in peninsular Malaysia at 5pm Thursday, while five were spotted in Borneo island.

Flipping Jupiters! Why some planets spin backward

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Some planets are just flipping backward.

Of the more than 500 planets detected around stars besides our Sun, the vast majority appear to spin the same way the star does, scientists reported on Wednesday in the journal Nature.


Jupiter

 But some of these extrasolar planets spin in the opposite direction of the stars they orbit, astronomers found. These strange, backward-spinning planets are usually gassy giants called hot Jupiters, not rocky orbs like Earth.

Besides their backwards twirling, which the astronomers call flipped orbits, these big planets huddle close to their stars, unlike Jupiter, which is about 483 million miles (778 million km) from the Sun, more than five times as distant from the Sun as Earth.

"That's really weird, and it's even weirder because the planet is so close to the star," Frederic Rasio of Northwestern University said in a statement.

"How can one be spinning one way and the other orbiting exactly the other way? It's crazy. It so obviously violates our most basic picture of planet and star formation."

Astronomers have long theorized that big gas planets form further away from their stars, while Earth-like rocks are born closer in.

But just because a Jupiter-like planet forms in the planetary boondocks doesn't mean it stays there, Rasio and his colleagues reported.

When planetary systems contain more than one planet, in addition to a star, each planet has its own gravitational force, causing the planets to interact and eventually pulling the gas giants close to the star and even reversing its orbit, the scientists found.

This process is known as gravitational perturbation, or an exchange of angular momentum.

Astronomers have been detecting extrasolar planets since 1995, but have seen only a handful. The others are inferred by the gravitational pull they exert on the stars they orbit, creating a starry wobble that indicates one or more planets present but unseen in the planetary system.

Remaja miliki kaki kanan terbalik

KINI Dugan Smith yang berusia 13 tahun selesa
menggunakan kaki kanannya yang terbalik.

FOSTORIA, Ohio - Seorang budak berusia 13 tahun, Dugan Smith memiliki kaki kanan yang terbalik, lapor beberapa buah akhbar semalam.

Dia menjalani satu pembedahan semasa berumur 10 tahun untuk menyambung kakinya dalam keadaan terbalik di sebuah hospital.

Doktor-doktor membuat keputusan untuk memotong kakinya dari atas lutut dan menyambung dalam keadaan terbalik.

Tujuan kaki itu disambung dalam keadaan terbalik adalah bagi mengelak dia kehilangan terus kakinya akibat penyakit kanser.

Walaupun dalam keadaan terbalik, Smith kini masih boleh bermain besbol. - Agensi