The Daily Surprise

A couple was caught having sex up a clock tower in Sydney, in full view of watching crowds, in the middle of the day.

Thus far, nobody know who these two people are but newspapers in Australia is wanting them to come forward to "reveal themselves".

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A prisoner claims his human rights are being breached when he was told to get rid of his pet bird.

Paul Brown, 42, serving life in prison for stabbing a man to death outside a pub in 2002.

Apparently he talks to the bird all day.

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A fake 47-year-old British aristocrat has been detained in Spain for allegedly conning women out of millions of dollars by promising to marry them.

The con man collected money from the victims telling them he needed the money to cover lawyers' fees and other miscellaneous expenses in relation to inheriting a multi-million dollars.

Some of his victims, who believed he was going to marry them, gave him up to $1 million. But upon obtaining the money, he would disappear.

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Alexander D. Smith, 31, was charged with disorderly conduct and two counts of forgery after he walked into the bank and tried to open an account by depositing a fake $1 million bill.

The bank teller who refused to open the account called police while Smith started to curse at bank workers.

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A ghostly image of Father Henry Garnet who was executed for treason over the Gunpowder Plot has appeared on a 17th century book bounded in his skin.

The book will be auctioned at Wilkinson's Auctioneers in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, on Sunday.

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This is the Boxster RS 60 Spyder Limited Edition. It pays tribute to the winning Type 718 RS.

Just 1,960 of these cars will be made available at a price of approximately $78,000.

Hurry up - this is definately a "while stocks last" offer.

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Existing next to the black market trade older white women are visiting Kenya for sex with young black boys. This is obvious at the bars and on the sand once the sun goes down. Thousands of elderly white women are seeking romantic short term relationships with very much younger Kenyan men.

The women are in their 50s and 60s and the boys are mostly in their early 20s. Experts say some of these older women thrive on the social status and financial power that comes from taking much poorer, younger lovers - its like returning a colonial past, where white women are served, serviced, and pampered by black minions.

One 22 year old Kenyan boy who is built like an Olympic basketball star, said he has slept with more than 100 white women, most of them 30 years his senior.

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An anonymous collector has paid more than $30 million for a collection of rare U.S. prototype coins, some from the 1700s, that never went into circulation.

The coin collection consists of approximately 1,000 coins that is referred to as pattern coins — trial designs that never went into production because the U.S. Mint chose other designs.

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Aragawa (Tokyo): Expect to spend at least $550 a person at this exclusive but modest little steakhouse in Tokyo's Shinbashi District--most of that on steak, which is the only entrée.

L'Arpege (Paris): A meal here will set you back $495 for the mandatory nine-course tasting menu.

Restaurant Gordon Ramsay (London) At $224 (not including a 12.5% gratuity) the seven-course tasting menu here is the priciest dinner in town.

Joel Robuchon (Las Vegas) At this restaurant at the Mansion at the MGM Grand, expect to pony up $360 for his legendary 16-course tasting menu. The wine list is astronomically priced, with few wines below the $100 mark.

La Pergola (Rome) Its nine-course tasting menu runs $285, (choose six courses and the meal will only set you back $250--still a much better value than ordering a la carte).

Alinea (Chicago) Its 24 courses menu will cost you $195. The wine list starts at around $40.

Masa (New York) Fresh fish and shellfish flown in daily from Tokyo is just one of the reasons a meal at Masa will cost you $400 right off the bat.

The French Laundry (San Francisco): There is no a la carte dining here, only a $240 nine-course menu.

El Bulli (Roses, Spain): The restaurant closes six months out of the year so that the chef, foam king Ferran Adria, and his crew may spend time inventing new dishes at their Barcelona "kitchen lab." Fans know to always expect the unexpected from the $270 30-plus course menu.

Tetsuya's (Sydney, Australia): The 10-course minimum will set you back about $195.

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Biologists in Oregon have already been using cloning to produce a monkey embryo and extract stem cells. Now, the possibility is very much higher than before that a human embryo will be cloned and that, inevitably, a cloned human will be born.

Whilst American and European scientists have made the most progress in biotechnology, God as defined by some Western religions is still a very large obstacle, in further pursuit of biotechnology.

Scientist in Asia, however, do not seem to face any religious restrictions.

“Asian religions worry less than Western religions that biotechnology is about ‘playing God,’” says Cynthia Fox, the author of “Cell of Cells,” a book about the global race among stem-cell researchers. She says, “Therapeutic cloning in particular jibes well with the Buddhist and Hindu ideas of reincarnation.”

“Most people in Hindu and Buddhist countries, have a root tradition in which there is no single creator God. Instead, there may be no gods or many gods, and there is no master plan for the universe. Instead, spirits are eternal and individual virtue — karma — determines what happens to your spirit in your next life. With some exceptions, this view generally allows the acceptance of both embryo research to support life and genetically modified crops.” says Dr. Silver, a molecular biologist at Princeton. Dr. Silver analysed the clashes of spirituality and science in his book “Challenging Nature”.

On the other hand, in the Judeo-Christian tradition, God is the master creator who gives out new souls to each individual human being and gives humans “dominion” over soul-less plants and animals. To traditional Christians who consider an embryo to be a human being with a soul, it is wrong for scientists to use cloning to create human embryos or to destroy embryos in the course of research.

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