WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s most celebrated centenarian, a rare reptile known as Henry, has discovered his mojo and become a father for the first time at the age of 111. Henry the tuatara, a lizard-like creature of prehistoric origin, has become the father of 11 offspring over the past four days, staff at the Southland [...]
Porn Crackdown SHANGHAI — China shut down 50 additional websites over the weekend as authorities crack down on online porn, ordering Internet giants such as Google to cut links with such material, state-run media said Sunday. A total of 91 sites have been shut down or blocked since Thursday as part of a month-long campaign [...]
Cartoon birthday boy dogged by rumors LONDON — As Belgian comic-book icon Tintin celebrates his 80th birthday, an age-old question has resurfaced: is the boy reporter gay? One British commentator says the signs are unmistakable. “Billions of blue blistering barnacles, isn’t it staring us in the face?” wrote The Times journalist Matthew Parris under the [...]
Actor says Scientology helped him MADRID — US actor Tom Cruise, one of Scientology’s best-known adherents, overcame the effects of his dyslexia thanks to the church’s teachings, he said in an interview published on Sunday. He told “XL Semanal,” the weekly magazine supplement of daily Spanish newspaper ABC, that at the age of seven he [...]