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Friday July 3rd

Apple says hot weather to blame for their new 3Gs phones overheating but users claim that is not the case.

Technology sites and Apple forums have been indundated with comments about the new model overheating and becoming discoloured since it was launched on June 19. Some iPhone users have complained that the device has become too hot to hold to the ear during long calls while others have noticed that the white 32GB model has turned pink after overheating.

Argentine ants have taken over the world. We’re doomed.

A single mega-colony of ants has colonised much of the world, scientists have discovered. Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another. The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination. What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.

Some really weird sight restoration surgery allows blind man to see his wife of four years for the first time.

Blind Martin Jones has seen his wife for the first time after surgeons restored his sight using one of his teeth. Martin, 42, was blinded when a tub of molten aluminum exploded in his face while he was working in a scrapyard 12 years ago. He married care worker Gill, 50, eight years later so he has never seen her – until surgeons performed the incredible op.

Man who has been selling stolen meat at neighborhood bars for years finally busted.

Spokane Police say they have busted a man, allegedly the mastermind behind a meat theft ring. Police say Christopher Webber sold stolen, uncooked meat that had been unrefrigerated for hours to people in bars, and was caught on surveillance video several times. According to detectives, over the past three years Webber went to local grocery stores, and loaded up with various kinds of meat.

Dumb crooks of the day award goes to this group.

A woman who agreed to be sexually and physically assaulted to help her lawsuit against a former employer pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal conspiracy charge. Lindsey D. Crawford, 23, of Kansas City, admitted in U.S. District Court that she conspired to commit wire fraud with two other people by staging an attack last November at her home in Waldo. (SNIP) According to the documents, both women were duct-taped, and Reabe struck them on the head with a metal tool and a beer bottle. Several items were used to sexually assault Crawford, according to court documents.

Sicko mom placed ad on craigslist steering horny men to a nine year old girl who got into a tiff with her daughter.

It was a “horrific” plot. A Long Island woman allegedly tried to get revenge on a 9-year-old girl who ar gued with her daughter by giving a throng of sex- seeking men the child’s home phone number through a Craigslist ad. Margery Tannenbaum, 40, alreadly accused of harassment in the sick scheme, was slapped with even more serious charges at her arraign ment yesterday — and the young victim’s mother spoke out for the first time.

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