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36 couples, who have begun a competition this week to live for seven days in cable cars dangling above Singapore. However, by the second day 10 had dropped out, several after vomiting, which is banned in the "Survive the Sky" contest, and one when a 31-year-old was hit by diarrhoea. The winner will receive USЈ30,000. A Chinese acrobat, who plans to spend 27 days on a tightrope in order to make it into the Guinness Book of Records. Aisikaier is performing unicycle and balancing tricks to kill time while on the wire, stretched across a dam in Sichuan province. Dutch customs officers, who found an interesting ingredient when they checked a Moldovan truck containing barrels of tomato paste -- cocaine. Four of the 944 barrels of tomato paste contained some 100 kilos of cocaine with a street value of $5.4 million. BAD WEEK FOR: A woman in Ohio, USA, who found an unexpected ingredient in her salad at a local burger restaurant. She tried to chew it, thinking it was a bean, before spitting it out. It turned out to be the tip of a thumb tip from a worker who had cut himself preparing the salad the night before. A Dutchman, who has been fined for not using a basket in a supermarket. The man carried two pieces of meat to the checkout without a basket. Instead of going back to get a basket the man simply left the money and departed. Later that evening Police arrived at his house and arrested him. He has now been fined Ј100 for ignoring the compulsory basket rule. An unnamed driver in Montpellier, France, who was convicted of trying to run over a man he mistook for Osama Bin Laden. “It wasn’t Bin Laden”, said the driver’s lawyer. “If it was he would have won $5m.”. A frustrated Afghan soldier, who has been released without charge after being caught having sex with a donkey. The soldier said that he had no choice as he did not have enough money to get married. In many parts of Afghanistan men must pay at least US$3,000 to the parents of their prospective bride, making marriage difficult for many in a country where the average annual income is only a few hundred dollars. A German train passenger on his way to buy a car in the Netherlands, who accidentally dumped 11,000 euros ($13,530) down the train toilet. "While using the toilet, his 11,000 euros fell out of his clothes and disappeared down the toilet landing on the railway track," a police spokesman said. The man, 38, alerted railway police and the next train stopped so that the ticket collector could retrieve the cash. He found only 4,000 euros. "Several passengers helped the conductor when the train stopped, but they 'forgot' to return the money, and some had probably blown away," the spokesman said. Two Mexican peasant farmers, cousins aged 70 and 85, who had argued for years over water rights and finally faced off in an old-fashioned pistol duel. Both men died in the duel. STATISTICS OF THE WEEK: a) 12% of Coca Cola consumed in the USA is drunk at breakfast. b) Britain imports more Champagne than any other country in the world (34.5 million bottles a year) c) The British spend Ј5.4bn a year on toiletries - Ј3.4bn more than they spend on medicine. So, that is the news for this week. Here are the answers to the homework I sent you last time: Part One: 1. I don’t think they ever found out how the man escaped. 2. The children went round the school and picked up all the rubbish. 3. This milk smells horrible; I think it has gone off. 4. I rang the tourist information office, but I couldn’t get through. It’s engaged all the time. 5. The relationship was difficult at first, but I think she gets on with him quite well now. 6. If she’s still ill tomorrow, we’ll have to put off the trip to France until later in the month. 7. I agreed to look after my sister’s cat when she goes to France. 8. We can carry/get on with this exercise while the others are in the library. 9. Our English teacher Paul said we should get through the textbook by the end of the course. 10. I’m afraid this photocopier has run out of paper, but you can use the one in my office. Part Two: 1. It will take her a long time to get over her illness. 2. The plane took off an hour late/for Paris/from Heathrow. 3. Ivan had to look it up in a dictionary. 4. I don’t really get on with my boss/my parents/ the neighbours/my teacher, etc. 5. Ivan came in and took off her coat/her jacket/her gloves, etc. 6. I’ve decided to give up smoking/chocolate, etc. 7. Who is going to look after the cat/the children, etc 8. Ivan went to the garage to pick up the car. 9. I’m afraid we’ve run out of paper, coffee, bread, etc 10. My rent is going up by ten pounds/next week, etc Part Three: PICK UP
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