The owner
Ma Guangdi was preparing to advertise for a new tenant for the apartment
in Dongguan, China, and was in the process of cleaning up when he
discovered the cash. When the bed and mattress in the main bedroom were moved,
four large packages tightly wrapped in tape were revealed. Opening one of the
packages, Mr Ma discovered bundles of notes in various denominations, from 5 to
50 yuan. He decided to notify police, who seized the cash on suspicion it was
gained by illegal means.
Some
of the million dollars found under a bed in a vacant apartment in China.
Picture: news.qq.com Source:
The
US also appears on the verge of improving its financial situation with a deal
to avoid a default and reopen the government agreed to by Senate leaders. The
move came after billionaire Warren Buffett said it would be idiocy to allow the
US to default on its bills.
Some
of the million dollars found under a bed in a vacant apartment in China.
Picture: news.qq.com
In
other news, six Australians are feared to be among 49 people killed in a plane
crash in Laos, a prisoner has confessed to a murder before his bungled
execution by lethal injection in Florida, a judge stepped down after saying
"some girls enjoy rape", Papua New Guinea has been shaken by a
powerful earthquake, and China has proposed banning HIV-infected people from
public baths.
Also,
divers have recovered a massive chunk of a meteor that crashed into a Russian
lake, a new test offers hope of spotting lung cancer in its early stages, a
professors says Wikipedia needs a major edit to recognise the work of female
scientists, the failure of a $32 million ocean fishery to catch a single fish
has industry and environmental leaders very worried, JPMorgan has agreed to pay
a $US100 million fine over the London Whale debacle, and man has caught fire while
trying to light a cross for a Halloween prank.
People
look at what scientists believe to be a chunk of the Chelyabinsk meteor,
recovered from Chebarkul Lake near Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometres east of
Moscow, Russia. Source: AP
A
salute by an injured soldier who was believed to be unconscious is "making
grown men weep" around the world, while a postman has taken it upon
himself to try to deliver a village from hardship by driving kids to school,
building toilets and buying groceries for the elderly.
Corporal
Josh Hargis and "the salute seen around the world." Source:
Supplied
British
health professionals are being told to not blame obese people for being fat, a
new discovery suggests the Poms were dining on frogs legs well before they made
fun of the French for doing the same, a US mum has been accused of abandoning
her baby as she stole candy, and scientists say they've shown Oreo cookies are
as addicted as cocaine - at least for rats.
Oreo
biscuits have been shown in a neuroscience experiment to be as addictive (to
rats) as cocaine and morphine. Source:
In
celebrity news, even the police in Gangnam are now dressing like Psy,
Australian Adelaide Kane is ready to begin her reign as Mary, Queen of Scots on
US TV, and the actor who played Shooter McGavin in Happy Gilmore has
been busted for drink driving. In Catch-up Confidential,
Kate
Winslet has had a gutfull of people having a go at her parenting skills.
South
Korean tourist police officers queue up for their inauguration ceremony near
the Gwanghwamun, the main gate of the 14th-century Gyeongbok Palace and also
one of South Korea's well known landmarks, in Seoul, South Korea. Source:
AP
In sport, Australia has lost an
"unloseable" match against India by failing to protect a target of
360, Ian Botham has predicted England will continue to dominate the
Ashes, Pakistan has South Africa on the ropes in their Test, Pep
Guardiola has told Bayern Munich's players they've got to follow his lead or
take a hike, and the Brooklyn Nets mascot's dodgy dunking has stolen the
spotlight at a preseason game.
Culled from Pakurumo
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