It’s the part-time job generations have been waiting for, and no special qualifications are required – working in a pizza restaurant for just one hour for a juicy $31,000.
That’s the job offer Domino’s Pizza Japan Inc. has placed on its website as it celebrates its 25th anniversary in the country.
Anyone over 18 years old who is eligible to work in Japan can apply, said the Japanese unit of the popular US pizza chain.
“Let’s cheer up Domino Pizza’s 25th anniversary together,” the company said, offering the 2.5 million yen ($31,000) job and promising to release further information next Wednesday. (AFP)
Horse shelter to limit Roma carts
Sofia will open a shelter for confiscated horses in a bid to crack down on the number of Roma carts in the city’s streets, the municipal council announced yesterday.
Carts are banned in the Bulgarian capital but remain a common sight, and police have been frustrated in their attempts to clamp down because they lacked anywhere to keep the horses.
Now, owners will have two weeks to reclaim their horses from the shelter in exchange for a fine, or the animals will be sold at a public auction.
Laden with scrap, firewood or construction leftovers, horse-drawn carts provide a living to Bulgaria’s poorest groups, notably the Roma minority. (AFP)
Muggers beaten up
Two would-be muggers got more than they bargained for when the woman they targeted turned out to be a kickboxing champion.
Sophie Pittaway was walking along St Peter’s Street in Islington, north London, one night when she was accosted by the men, causing her to lose her balance and drop her phone.
The 38-year-old fitness trainer and kickboxing champion fought back with a volley of punches and kicks, the Evening Standard reported. (PA)
Voting the best medicine?
A US pensioner was taken home from hospital by an ambulance – and managed to persuade the paramedics to stop at a polling station to ensure he could cast his vote.
Charles Gorby, 83, from Philadelphia, revealed that he talked the emergency crew into stopping to let him vote in the mid-term elections as they took him home after a two-week hospital stay.
Mr Gorby voted from a stretcher with his legs protruding from under the voting booth’s curtain. (PA)
In search of Romeo
A female Police Community Support Officer was handed a hefty fine after she admitted illegally using police records to check out potential romantic partners.
Lucy Bevan, 25, who had been a PCSO with Northumbria Police since 2008, used the force’s confidential database to check up on prospective partners she met while out on the beat.
She used the Police National Computer system, which holds details of people, vehicles, crimes and property, hundreds of times in her quest to find the perfect man. A North Tyneside Magistrates’ Court official confirmed that Bevan, of Camsey Close, Longbenton, pleaded guilty to 11 counts of obtaining information illegally and was fined £1,100, as well as a £15 victim surcharge. (PA)
114-year-old dies
Eugenie Blanchard, a nun who was considered to be the world’s oldest person, has died on the French Caribbean island of St Barts at the age of 114.
Hospital director Pierre Nuty said she died at the Bruyn Hospital, where she was admitted in March 1980.
Ms Blanchard was born in St Barts on February 16, 1896 and lived most of her life in a convent in Curacao before returning home. (PA)
Decade of hunger
A woman opposed to sweeping powers granted to the military in north-eastern India has now spent 10 years on hunger strike.
Irom Sharmila was arrested after she began to refuse food and water on November 4, 2000 to protest against the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, and is alive today because Manipur state authorities have been force-feeding her through her nose.
This week marks the 10th year of her hunger strike, which she began after soldiers gunned down 10 civilians near a bus stop. (PA)