Noumenal News

PEOPLE screamed and cars came to a halt when dozens of mysterious lights hovered above Archway this week.
The “squadron” of flying orange objects left passers-by staring in disbelief at around 5.30pm last Thursday. Police received four calls within minutes.
Designer James Zafar, of Palace Road, Crouch End, watched the phenomena from Bredgar Road.
He said: “I parked […]

A Chinese man faces prison for renouncing Islam after finding out he was brought up by the wrong family.

Chinese Malaysian Zulhaidi Omar was given to a Malay Muslim family at birth in a hospital mix-up.

Twenty-one-years after the mix up his biological parents found him working in a supermarket a couple of miles from their home.
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Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi SS, made a secret wartime
mission to an abbey in Spain in search of what he believed was the
Aryan Holy Grail, a new book claims.

Himmler visited the famous Montserrat Abbey near Barcelona where he
thought he would find the Grail which Jesus Christ was said to have
used to […]

Since human misery can’t be measured with an X-ray or blood test,
the only true gauge of pain lies inside a person’s own mind. One
approach to pain management, experts say, is to transform the brain
from a simple messenger for pain into its master.
A generation ago, the American public largely viewed mental methods
of pain control with the […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya’s
national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of
mankind’s oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the most complete
skeleton of a prehistoric human ever found.

But his first public display later this year is at the heart of
a growing storm - one pitting […]

Taipei,
Taiwan (AHN) - In the strangest ever union, a pig and her better half
“tied the knot” in a special ceremony with well-wishers showering their
blessings on the couple at a small town in northeastern Taiwan.
The
“bridegroom,” - a 40 pound boar, and his “bride,” just a few pounds
lighter entered their marital bliss in a lavish ceremony […]

EULESS (AP) - The Dallas suburb of Euless has been sued by a priest
that practices Santeria — a religion that mixes Roman Catholicism with
African beliefs and demands blood sacrifices.
The priest,
45-year-old Jose Merced, alleges that city officials denied him a
permit to perform ceremonies that include slaughtering chickens and
goats inside his home, even though people […]

SYDNEY: Human skin harbours startling variety of bacteria, including 15 species new to science, according to U.S. researchers.
“The skin is home to a virtual zoo of bacteria,” said Martin J.
Blaser of the New York University Medical Centre, whose team published
their findings this week in the U.S. journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
His team […]

CAMPAIGNERS are calling for a change in the law to make it a criminal offence to demonise a child, it is reported.
The move comes after police told the BBC that they were unable to
charge an African pastor who accused children of witchcraft in this
country.
Pastor Dieudonne Tukala was arrested on suspicion of inciting child
cruelty last January […]

More than 30 years ago, when NASA’s two Viking landers looked for signs
of life on Mars, the results were ambiguous. Although no strong
evidence has since emerged for life on Mars, the planet now seems
considerably more hospitable than it once did – especially since the
announcement last December that liquid water had flowed on its surface
within the […]