Dalai Lama once beat first Premier of China in ping pong!
Washington: Dalai Lama has said that as a child he once beat the post powerful Chinese leaders of the 20th century: Zhou Enlai, the premier of China from 1949 to 1976, in a game of ping pong.
In the movie ‘Caddyshack’ – directed and co-written by the late Harold Ramis – the character Carl Spackler, played by Bill Murray, reminisces about caddying in Tibet for the Dalai Lama.
The line apparently stuck with President Barack Obama, who in his statement on Monday’s passing of Ramis, made what is almost certainly the first official reference to ‘Caddyshack.’
At the very end of an interview with the Dalai Lama last week, ABC News asked the question if he played golf.
The Dalai Lama answered that he could play an excellent game of ping pong, and in fact had once, as a child, defeated one of the post powerful Chinese leaders of the 20th century: Zhou Enlai, the premier of China from 1949 to 1976. (ANI)
US man kills self while demonstrating gun safety
Washington: An inebriated man in the US accidentally shot himself to death while teaching his girlfriend about gun safety.
The 36-year-old man, from Independence Township in Michigan, was showing his girlfriend how to use his three handguns and demonstrating how safe they were when they were unloaded. So he placed a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. After doing this twice, he demonstrated the third handgun, but the gun fired a bullet.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The girlfriend told officials the victim had been drinking most of the day, ‘The Oakland Press’ reported. “(The situation) is pretty unique, as I have never heard of anyone testing out the safety of a gun by pointing at their head and pulling the trigger,” Oakland County Undersheriff Michael McCabe said. Three children, ages 7, 10 and 12, were present at the time of the shooting, earlier this week, but they did not witness it. The children are not the biological kids of the victim. (PTI)
Hong Kong lawmaker apologises over model photos
Hong Kong: An embarrassed Hong Kong lawmaker has apologised after he was photographed looking at scantily-dressed pictures of models on his tablet computer during a budget speech at the Chinese city’s parliament.
Pro-democracy politician Albert Ho was snapped flipping through multiple photos of bikini-clad ladies while finance minister John Tsang delivered a one-and-a-half-hour long budget speech yesterday.
“It just so happened that at that time, I casually saw the photos,” said Ho, who failed in a bid to become the semi-autonomous city’s leader in 2012.
“I have learnt a lesson, I should not commit such a mistake again,” he told reporters yesterday, adding that he had apologised for the incident. Photographs published in local media showed Ho in the legislative chamber holding up the screen cover of his iPad tablet, apparently in an attempt to conceal what he was doing, while swiping through the photos. The South China Morning Post reported that the lawmaker, who was for a time the chairman of the city’s largest pro-democracy party, browsed through the photos for 10 minutes.
Ho is not the first lawmaker to be left red-faced after being distracted during parliamentary business. In 2011 an Indonesia lawmaker from a conservative Islamic party resigned after he was photographed looking at pornography on his tablet computer in parliament. In 2003, Hong Kong’s then education minister Arthur Li was spotted playing a video game in parliament while last year lawmaker Eddie Ng was seen checking stock market updates on his phone during a question-and-answer session with the chief executive. (AFP)
14-year-old UK boy ‘rapes mum’
London: A 14-year-old UK boy has become the youngest person to be arrested on charges of raping his own mother.
The crime reportedly took place in the boy’s family home in Blackpool, where the accused lived with his two brothers, the Daily Star reported.
A judge has remanded the 14-year-old in custody at Blackpool Magistrates Court and his case has been adjudged a “grave crime”, which will be heard at Preston Crown Court at a future date. (ANI)
360 million stolen credentials up for sale in black market: Report
Washington: Around 360 million stolen credentials are reportedly available for sale in the black market, a security firm has revealed.
Security firm Hold Security revealed that the stolen account credentials could also be from several yet-to-be- reported security breaches.
Chief Information Security Officer at the firm, Alex Holden said that over a period of just three weeks his company was able to identify 360 million different account credentials that were available for sale on Web-based black market services, Cnet reports.
According to the report, the credentials include user names, which are often e-mail addresses, and passwords that in “most cases” are in unencrypted text.
Holden said that the e-mail addresses in the credentials are from all major services, including Gmail and Yahoo, and almost all Fortune 500 companies and nonprofit organizations. Recently, US retailer Target Corp. experienced a mega security breach in which data of about 110 million customers was compromised. (Agencies)