Australian heroin dad almost beats his little toddler to death

A FATHER “off his face” on drugs repeatedly bashed his toddler son’s head against a wooden bunk bed after the infant broke a model car, a court has heard.
Carmyne Destratis, aged two, suffered serious bruising to his head after Ugo Giovanni Destratis, 44, pinned him down, grabbed his head and banged it against the bed [...]

Deadly Indian Homebrew: Bootleg liquor death toll climbs to 122

AT LEAST 122 people are now known to have died in India’s western Gujarat state after consuming toxic home-brewed alcohol, a police official said today.
Fifteen new deaths were reported overnight raising the toll from 107.
“We have 227 people admitted in hospital at present. But the numbers of new cases coming in are fewer than before,” [...]

Medical Breakthrough Easter Island drug will add years to life

SCIENTISTS say they have discovered a wonder drug that could help people live up to ten years longer.
Rapamycin is a bacterial product found in soil samples on remote Easter Island in the South Pacific.
It works by inhibiting a protein called TOR that plays a key role in cell growth.
Rapamycin is widely used to stop transplant [...]

Cop charged with trying to exorcise boy’s demons

A POLICEMAN has been stood down after being charged with trying to perform an exorcism on a teenager at a church youth camp in South Australia.
Senior Constable Roger Sketchley, 28, has been charged with two other adults over an alleged incident at a camp run by the Lutheran Church in the Barossa Valley in April.
Sen-Const [...]

Two year old world’s youngest smoker

A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy from the city of Tianjin in China is the world’s youngest smoker.
Well, at least the youngest to admit it.
Except he didn’t admit it, his dad did, after proudly teaching Tong Liangliang how to spark up between tantrums and milky vomits.
Liangliang’s dad said his son was born with a hernia, and being too [...]