Open wide; this won’t hurt a bit: Hoping to cut down on binge drinking among Britons, the British government says it will ban drinking games in pubs, including the “dentist’s chair,” in which a drinker leans back and various spirits are poured directly into the patron’s gaping mouth.
That’s a shame, considering it’s probably the closest most Brits get to an actual dentist’s chair.
Viva la evolucion! Cuba has lifted a ban on sex-change operations and is now paying for the operation for those it deems ready for the procedure.
If Fidelita Castro emerges as the new president of Cuba, wearing an olive green dress and smoking a cigar, you’ll know what the leader of the Cuban revolution has been up to since 2008.
Plenty of sand: Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed a 2,000-year-old ruin that may have been a temple to the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet. Among the artifacts are several statues of cats.
Other artifacts that strengthened the belief that the temple was dedicated to Bastet were a golden can opener, a collection of jewel-encrusted cat toys and hieroglyphics that read, “The Litter Box of the Gods needs changing.”
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