Woman Arrested For Killing Hisband With Couch

"I guess you could say it was mashed couch potato."

ST PETERSBURG (Reuters) - A Russian woman in St Petersburg killed her drunk husband with a folding couch, Russian media reported on Wednesday.

St Petersburg's Channel Five said the man's wife, upset with her husband for being drunk and refusing to get up, kicked a handle after an argument, activating a mechanism that folds the couch up against a wall. Full story

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Female Mice Wanted For Secret Experiment?

There are so many things they could be used for. The thing I'm stumped by is why they have to be female.

clipped from news.yahoo.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - Wanted: 3,200 white mice. Must be female. No more than 18 grams. Purchaser: the Kremlin security service. So why does the Kremlin guard, which is made up of former spies and elite troops who protect President Vladimir Putin, want to buy so many female white mice? "Everyone is wondering what they are for. But if they were ordered then that means they are needed," an official from the service said with a gruff chuckle. Some Russian media have also speculated the mice could play a role in testing toxic substances or indicating the presence of dangerous gases.

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Army Rocket Hits House - Owner "Understanding"

Well at least they hit something.

clipped from news.yahoo.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's military Thursday offered compensation to a homeowner after a small rocket veered off course and hit his country house outside Moscow. A defense ministry official told Reuters two rockets had gone astray during a military exercise near Moscow Wednesday afternoon. One hit the roof of an unoccupied house 3.5 km (2.2 miles) away. "The damage is estimated at 60,000 rubles ($2,466). It will be compensated for in two days," said Yevgeny Konashenkov, spokesman for Russian land troops. "The owner of the house treats the incident with understanding. He has no legal claims."

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Firting with a Computer

Well, some women have said I sound like a machine when I try to chat them up..

clipped from news.yahoo.com MOSCOW (Reuters) - Internet chatroom romantics beware: your next chat may be with a clinical computer, not a passionate person, trying to win your personal data and not your heart, an online security firm says. A Russian website called CyberLover.ru is advertising a software tool that, it says, can simulate flirtatious chatroom exchanges. It boasts that it can chat up as many as 10 women at the same time and persuade them to hand over phone numbers. An Australian anti-virus software firm, PC Tools, has warned that the software could be abused by identity fraudsters trying to harvest people's personal details online. The Russian site denied it was intended for identity fraud. "Not a single girl has yet realised that she was communicating with a programme!" it said, adding that the programme could also simulate virtual sex online.

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