A couple have named their new-born son Messi after Argentina's soccer captain, having been granted permission to circumvent a 45-year-old law banning the use of last names as first names.
Barcelona striker Lionel Messi (picture) may be one of the highest-profile figures in Argentina but due to a 1969 statute in the South American country, proud father Daniel Varela had to petition city authorities to be granted an exception to the law.
Fertility kits fraudulently sold
A Kentucky man, who made international news for saying he was trying to clone humans, must close or sell his business after pleading guilty to a federal charge that he misled customers about in-home fertility kits, according to court documents.
Panayiotis Zavos faces up to a year in prison when he is sentenced in January on the misdemeanor charge. His attorney, Jarrod J. Beck, said on Friday he hopes his client will avoid prison.
Film titles on Sampdoria shirts
Sampdoria’s shirts will be turned into billboards for the latest cinema releases by the club’s movie producer president Massimo Ferrero.
The club currently have no shirt sponsor so Ferrero has struck a deal with a distribution company to display film titles instead for the next three weeks.
Accused of cooking girlfriend’s dog
A northern California man is in police custody after allegedly stealing his ex-girlfriend’s pet dog, cooking it and feeding it to her, police said.
Ryan Watenpaugh, 34, of Palo Cedro was arrested and charged with counts of domestic violence, false imprisonment, stalking and cruelty to animals, according to records from the Shasta County Jail.
Woman threatens boy over clarinet
Sheriff's deputies in Colorado arrested a 60-year-old woman who pointed a rifle at her neighbour’s 11-year-old son as he played his clarinet in the backyard, authorities said.
Officers were called to an address in the Rocky Mountain city of Grand Junction after Cheryl Pifer allegedly told the boy, who was doing his music class homework for school, to “get his ass back inside”, the Mesa County Sheriff's Office said.
Golfer injured in hand by chainsaw
Golfing great Greg Norman has injured his hand while working with a chainsaw and is recovering in hospital, the 59-year-old Australian said yesterday.
The former world number one golfer, who won the British Open in 1986 and 1993, posted a picture on photo-sharing site Instagram of himself lying in a hospital bed with a heavily-bandaged left arm.
“Working with a chainsaw always be respectful of the unexpected. I was one lucky man today. Damaged, but not down & out. Still have left hand,” Norman, nicknamed the Great White Shark, said in a message on Twitter with the picture.
No further details were available but Norman recently posted another photo of himself working with a chainsaw to cut a small tree. Australian media reported the incident happened in the United States.