Drip-free tomatoes to go on sale in UK!

September 28th, 2009 LONDON - UK's biggest burger boasting of 2,645 calories is up for grabs in Bristol. The 'Super Scooby', weighing more than 3lbs and standing six inches tall, is priced at 10 pounds, and is also served with a side portion of chips.

September 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A Q Khan, Pakistani nuclear scientist, widely regarded as the founder of Pakistan's nuclear program, is a free man again and many consider that he may share the secrets with establishments around the world. In January 2004, Khan had confessed to having been involved in a secret international network of nuclear weapons technology proliferation from Pakistan to Libya, Iran and North Korea.

August 28th, 2009 LONDON - California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is holding an online "garage sale" in a bid to balance the 26-billion dollar deficit of the state budget. The "Governator" has put up 6,000 items including cars, computers and binoculars for sale on eBay and Craigslist.

August 13th, 2009 HONG KONG - A 109-year-old tea has gone on sale at Hong Kong's first international tea fair, a media report said Thursday. Just 10 grams of the pu-erh tea, which takes its name from Pu'er county in Yunnan province in south-west China, costs 8,000 Hong Kong dollars ($1,025), the South China Morning Post newspaper said.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - The American Jewish Committee is suing the German branch of online retailer Amazon for allegedly putting up books for sale, which questioned the Holocaust and "trivialised" the Nazis. The committee's research reports that almost 50 books instigating hate against the minorities were up for sale this month.

July 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has said that it won't ban troops from smoking in war zones, despite a recent study recommending a tobacco-free military. The study by the Institute of Medicine calls for a phased-in ban over a period of up to 20 years.

June 20th, 2009 LONDON - Plants really do like it if you talk to them. And they prefer to hear a woman's voice.

May 27th, 2009 LONDON - A dog got stuck in a rabbit hole in Haverfordwest, West Wales, and could manage to crawl out only after it lost a third of his body weight due to starvation for 25 days. Well-fed Jack Russell Jake lost 2kg when it came out of the hole, and vets feared that he would not survive.

May 18th, 2009 LONDON - A Brit cafe has launched what could be called a 'tenfold feast' for its customers, by offering a giant breakfast with tens of everything for free, provided punters could eat it all in 20 minutes. And the 5,000-calorie 'ultimate breakfast' includes ten eggs, ten sausages, ten bacon rashers and ten slices of toast, plus beans, tomatoes and mushrooms.

May 7th, 2009 LONDON - An auction in New York witnessed a sheer lack of buyers for a painting by Picasso and a Giacometti sculpture, despite the fact that they had been expected to fetch up to 16million pounds each. The two items that failed to sell at auction were Picasso's The Daughter Of The Artist At Two-and-a-half Years With A Boat, and Giacometti's The Cat.

April 20th, 2009 LONDON - The country home where British reality star Jade Goody died March 22 is up for sale for almost one million pounds. The asking price for the Essex property is 949,999 pounds (1.39 million), reported dailymail.com.

March 30th, 2009 LONDON - A fully functioning Second World War Spitfire has been put up for sale at 2milllion pounds. While the plane was originally, a single-seater, it has been refitted with a passenger seat.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - An auction of murdered fashion designer Gianni Versace's possessions has raised over 7 million pounds. Items from his Villa Fontanelle home-including huge classical statues of naked wrestlers, furniture and paintings-went under the hammer on March 18.

February 11th, 2009 LONDON - Pop star Michael Jackson is suffering from MRSA skin disease, which could eat his flesh. According to thesun.co.uk, Jackson has been receiving antibiotics through drip and the disease has apparently spread throughout his body.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - The distinctive sandals and round metal-rimmed glasses worn by Mahatma Gandhi are to be auctioned off in New York in what has been described as a 'truly historic sale', a newspaper reported Wednesday. The unique sale by Antiquorum Auctioneers is to be held March 4 and 5, the Daily Telegraph reported.