It seems like something out of a Dickens novel – kids living in the sewers. How could it happen in modern day Europe? Yet it was reported that Italian police found 24 Afghan children in the sewer system under a Rome railway station. The children, range in age from 10 to 15, and were unaccompanied. [...]
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Kids in Italian Sewers
Posted in Incredible Stories, tagged aid, asylum, humanitarian, refugees on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Million Dollar Koala
Posted in Incredible Stories, tagged costing, eating, koala, million dollar, osaka on March 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
All this talk of economic crisis and cut backs doesnt seem to have effected the koalas at Osaka Zoo. Their diet of gumleaves costs the tax payers of Osaka City Japan – $ 1.4 million dollars a year! And yet the city of Osaka has the largest homeless population in Japan. How can such luxuries [...]
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