영국 런던의 한 상점에서 사람의 눈물을 모아 만든 조리용 소금을 판매해 화제다.구매자가 선택할 수 있는 눈물의 종류도 화가 나서 난 눈물과 슬픔의 눈물, 웃음 뒤의 눈물, 양파를 썰다 난 눈물 그리고 재채기를 하다 난 눈물 등 으로 다양하다.제품을 판매하는 온라인 쇼핑몰에 따르면 이 소금은 사람의 눈물을 체취해 끓인 후, 결정화 과정을 거쳐 손으로 일일이 거두어들이는 제조과정을 거친다.소금의 가격은 한 병에 7파운드(약 1만 3천원)이며, 5병 들이 한 세트는 30파운드(약 5만 5천원)으로 온라인과 오프라인 매장에서 판매된다.또한 이 가게는 울적함과 고통을 무마시켜 준다는 사탕 등 독특한 제품들을 판매해 고객을 늘리고 있다. <영문 기사>U.K. shop sells salt made from human

Two men engulfed themselves in towering flames outside a temple that is a popular tourist site in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule has reached the tightly guarded Tibetan capital. The official Xinhua News Agency said one of the men died and the other was hospitalized after they set themselves on fire Sunday outside the Jokhang Temple. The r

 A London emporium has launched a type of cooking salt made from human tears, the Daily Mail reported. Customers can choose the salt product from a range of tears, including anger, sorrow, laughter, chopping onions or sneezing.According to the shop, Hoxton Street Monster Supplies, their salt “combines centuries-old craft with the freshest human tears which are gently boiled, released into shallow

A Russian general consul to Japan died after falling off a cliff during a volleyball game, reported Russian media Saturday citing the Russian embassy in Tokyo.Vladimir Pushkov was attending a party with colleagues in the state of Agano when he tried to return a ball that had overshot the court. But he lost control and fell off a cliff.Pushkov's deputy was then seriously injured in an attempt to re

 An Israeli man says he wants to divorce his wife because she refuses to part with her 550 cats.The man, whose name was not reported, petitioned the Rabbinical Court in Beersheba for divorce from his cat-loving wife this week, The Times of Israel, Jerusalem, reported Sunday.He told the court he was unable to sleep in the couple's bedroom because his wife's hundreds of cats were constantly sleeping

President Lee Myung-bak on Monday urged "pro-North Korea" groups in South Korea to wake up to reality and stop blindly accepting nonsense assertions Pyongyang makes, calling their unconditional following of the communist regime "problematic."It was the first time Lee, who has tried to avoid ideological remarks, has openly criticized those sympathetic to North Korea by using the word, "jongbuk," wh

A New Jersey couple received long prison sentences for carjacking a visitor to Atlantic City, forcing him into the trunk of his car and then stabbing him.Craig Arno, 46, was sentenced Thursday to 120 years, The Press of Atlantic City reported. Superior Court Judge Michael Donio said Arno must serve at least 100 years without parole, guaranteeing he will die in prison.Arno's former girlfriend, Jess

A 16-year-old in Germany who solved a centuries-old math problem credited his accomplishment to "schoolboy naivety."Shouryya Ray, whose family moved from India to Dresden when he was 12, solved a pair of fundamental particle dynamics problems posed by Isaac Newton more than 350 years ago to make it possible to calculate the flight path of a ball and predict how it will hit and bounce off a wall, T

Some people try to avoid all thoughts of death but U.S. researchers advise thinking about death can bring out the good in people.Kenneth Vail at the University of Missouri reviewed experiments involving people thinking about death. He also reviewed assessments of how people who were not directly involved in catastrophes responded after learning about them.Vail said people commonly felt a need to r

Potential presidential hopeful Ahn Cheol-soo has recently brought in a former presidential press secretary as his spokesman in a move seen as suggesting the popular professor and software developer is gearing up his bid for the top office. Ahn, 50, has been widely considered a potential opposition candidate in December's presidential vote since he demonstrated powerful influence over voters during

Chimpanzees and orangutans really do have personalities "like people," British researchers say.The new findings address a long-standing debate about whether great apes possess human-like personalities or if such perceived behavior is an anthropomorphic projection of human observers, they said.Using a statistical method to remove any biases in human observers of apes' behavior, researchers at the U

A 10-week-old kitten that got her head stuck in a car wheel was rescued after one hour of struggle. The stray cat was discovered by a man living in Sparkbrook, Birmingham, who heard a desperate meowing and contacted one of the U.K.’s animal welfare charities, The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Rescuers from the RSPCA tried to pull her out of the spare tire but failed. “I t

South Korea on Thursday warned North Korea of "grave consequences" and new international sanctions if the North goes ahead with a nuclear test, with Seoul officials assuming that Pyongyang is technically ready to conduct a third nuclear test. Officials and analysts believe that the North may soon set off a nuclear device following its failed launch of a long-range rocket on April 13. Pyongyang's t

A New York man has sued his ex-fiancee -- who twice broke off their engagement -- for nearly $50,000 in rent and wedding deposits he said she owes him.Steven Silverstein filed the suit Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court. He said even though Kendra Platt-Lee returned a $32,000 engagement ring, she still owes him, including half of the $54,367.87 she withdrew from their joint bank account, the New Y

The 20-year-old son of a rich English jeweler was sentenced to at least 16 years in prison Tuesday for strangling his 17-year-old girlfriend.Elliot Turner was convicted Monday of the murder of Emily Longley, a model from New Zealand, The Daily Telegraph reported.His parents, Leigh and Anita Turner of Bournemouth, were found guilty of perverting the course of justice for allegedly trying to cover u

 A pet parakeet that escaped from its Japanese home has been reunited with its owner - after it was able to tell police its address.The baby-blue bird flew from its owner's home in Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, into a nearby hotel where it perched on the shoulder of a guest.Its owner, a 64-year-old woman, had lost a pet bird before and was determined to prevent it from happening again - so she taught

Seven Filipinos have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling the equivalent of 16 billion won (US$13.7 million) from South Korea, police said Wednesday.The suspects include a 58-year-old group leader detained under formal arrest and six others who were booked without detention for allegedly smuggling the remittances of Filipino workers in South Korea, according to the international crime investiga

Chile declared a health alert at a site where 500,000 pigs, abandoned by a slaughtering company, were dying in large numbers until authorities stepped in Tuesday.Health Minister Jaime Manalich visited the plant in Freirina, 800 kilometers (500 miles) north of Santiago in the parched Atacama region, and said that without food, water, cleaning or care the pigs had started to die.The incident began w

California's Senate passed a bill to create guidelines for autonomous vehicles' -- self-driving cars -- to be tested and operated in the state, officials said.The bill will now go to the state Assembly for consideration next month, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.The passage in the Senate comes as Google Inc., Caltech and other groups are busy developing vehicles that use radar, video camera

South Korea's economy is expected to grow at a slower pace than previously anticipated this year largely due to a weak global recovery and sluggish trade conditions, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said Tuesday.In its annual outlook report on South Korea, the Paris-based club of industrialized economies said Asia's fourth-largest economy will likely pull off 3.3 pe