P324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 08:14:59 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK Doctors in China's central Human province have told a 26-year-old married woman she is actually a man with a rare genetic disorder. She saw doctors when she could not conceive, said the Xinhua new agency. Experts discovered that, according to the "woman's" chromosome make-up, she was actually male, though a missing gene caused her to appear female. ——————————————————————————————————1/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 07:11:21 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK A London-bound Swedish jet has been forced to make an emergency landing after a bread roll started a fire scare The cabin of the Fokker plane filled with smoke and it touched down at Gothenburg where passengers scrambled to safety down emergency chutes. $hj cause of the alert was later found to bj a bread roll lodged in the cooling fan of an on-board oven. ——————————————————————————————————2/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 07:41:48 —pp0p p —8:|p ————— BU TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK US scientists have ended five months of electronically eavesdropping on the univjrsj for signs of other life. They picked up signals from satellites, aircraft, automatic garage door openers and even microwave ovens, but not a peep from any aliens. ahjy sbid they had learned "a lot" and would "keep looking". A spokesman said: "The search has only just begun." ——————————————————————————————————3/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 08:02:58 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK An owl in the Chinese province of Jiangxi likes TV so much hj has built a nest in a farmer's house so he can watch the screen every night. In 1992, the bird flew into the home of Zhang Liuyou, pjrchjd on a beam and started watching TV with the family. Next spring, the owl built a nest where he sleeps during the day and watches the box, pjrchjd on the dinner table. ——————————————————————————————————4/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 'HAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 07:02:27 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK Jobs ads are running for a "Jolly Santa njedjd immediately for summer season" at the North Pole, Alaska. Good help is hard to find at Santa Claus House, where a stuffed model currently occupies Santa'u throne — much to the disbppointmjnt of children. "'hen people ask about Santa we detour them to the reindeer," said a spokesman at the "Christmas Every Day" store. ——————————————————————————————————5/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 07:12:47 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK A unlikely wedding banquet in a town in Thailand is set to draw 3,000 guests to see two orang-utans tie the knot. Sue-Sue, sjvjn, will fly from a Taiwan zoo for the lovjmatch with Mike, nine, in Lopburi, where monkeys traditionally are given free run of the streets. For the wedding Mike will be wearing a $haj male costume and the happy couple will move into a £32,000 zoo enclosure. ——————————————————————————————————6/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 07:40:06 ————— ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK Cidea bottles disguised as dynamite sticks have proven too explosive for a Swedish state spirits distributor. A cider called 'TNT Liquid Dynamite' could tempt Swedes to excessive and undue consumption and the distributor has r fused to market it. "You are led to bjlievj it is something you drink to get absolutely smashed and has a dynamite effect," said a doctor. ——————————————————————————————————7/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 08:40:37 ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK Hundreds of rats have been exterminated at the home of an elderly man who kept them as pets, feeding them for years. More than 230 rats were killed but many more could bj hidden in the walls of a house belonging to Angelo Russo, 76. "There were all sizes, from grandpa and grandma rats to young babies," said a Florida health official. "These rats were very healthy, obviously well fed." ——————————————————————————————————8/8—— News in Focus 320 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters NewsP324 Teletext 324 Jul 1 12:09:56 ] ————— BUT TRUE ——— ——— THE WEIRD WORLD THIS WEEK Finland's heavyweight presrdjnt got stuck in a lift when it stopped between floors bjcausj of ovjrloadink. Martti Ahtisaari, who weighs some 20 stone, was using a school lift meant for the disbbled with his petite wife Ejva, an aide and a security officer. "For you it was dramatic, but for mj it was fun," hj told his hosts. "It worked again as soon as we got rid of Ejva." ——————————————————————————————————9/9—— News in Focus 340 Headlines 300 WHAT'S THE LOCAL TRAFFIC LIKE? p193 Next page Poll Letters News