Cannibalistic Pasta

An Australian publisher is reprinting 7,000 cookbooks over a recipe for pasta with "salt and freshly ground black people."
Penguin Group Australia's head of publishing, Bob Sessions, acknowledged the proofreader for the Pasta Bible should have picked up the error, but called it nothing more than a "silly mistake." The "Pasta Bible" recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for black pepper.
"We're mortified that this has become an issue of any kind and why anyone would be offended, we don't know," he told The Sydney Morning Herald for a story printed Saturday. "We've said to bookstores that if anyone is small-minded enough to complain about this ... silly mistake, we will happily replace (the book) for them."
The reprint will cost Penguin 20,000 Australian dollars ($18,500), but books already in stores will not be recalled because doing so would be "extremely hard," Sessions said.

Deadly Sins

Australia is the most sinful nation on Earth, a study has claimed as the country ranked first overall in the seven deadly sins, which include lust, greed and pride.
"Australia has been ranked first overall in a study of the seven deadly sins, according to Courier Mail that quoted the BBC's Focus magazine. While the US topped the table for gluttony, South Korea topped the list for lust. Iceland ranked number one for both pride and sloth, and Mexico topped the list for greed. The article, which argues that people are "bad" by nature has found social data to compare nations under the seven categories.

Smarty fish

Fish can remember things for months, according to researchers, who have dismissed the myth that the animals have a three-second memory. The view that fish lack the brain power to retain memories is "absolute rubbish," said Dr Kevin Warburton of Charles Sturt University's Institute for Land, Water and Society in Australia.
He made his conclusions after studying the behavior of Australian freshwater fish such as the silver perch, which can remember a predator for several months after only one encounter. "They can learn to avoid predators after being attacked once and they retain this memory for several months," he added.

Chicken smuggler

An employee at a Johannesburg jewelers has been arrested after trying to smuggle gold out of the store in a cooked chicken. The unnamed worker was nabbed at a security checkpoint set up by Browns jewellers at its head office in northern Johannesburg. Police said the man had stuffed the unspecified amount of gold into the cooked bird and was attempting to leave the premises when he was caught. Following the alleged theft, Browns issued a company edict telling female workers to wear bras without underwire at its Dunkeld workshop. Belinda Phillips, the general manager, declined to say whether the new policy was a bid to avoid interference with metal detectors.

Crash-test baby

A 6-month-old baby had a miracle escape after his pram rolled onto the tracks and into the path of an oncoming train at a railway station in Melbourne. Security video footage released on Friday shows the baby's mother looking away for a moment as the pram suddenly rolls off the edge of a station platform and onto the tracks at Ashburton station. The mother looks back and panics as she watches the oncoming train hit the pram, dragging it about 130 feet along the track as the desperate driver tried to stop the train. Miraculously, the baby boy survived with only minor injuries, including a bump to his head.