Dog Saves Owner After Slip on Ice

Minnesota - An Edina woman said her chocolate lab came to her aid after she slipped and fell on the ice. Kate Boyer, Buck’s owner, certainly believes in pets having a sense something is wrong with their loved ones. She walked up her driveway and slipped on the ice, fell and hit the back of her head. “He was lying on me, on my chest and licking my face.” At the time, the temperature was 11 degrees...More

Japan News:Ice Shaving Shampoo

Japan - With Japan sweltering through the hottest summer on record, Hitoshi Saito’s ice scraping machine has been going almost non-stop. But instead of topping off the bowls of ice shavings with strawberry or lemon-lime syrup for a tasty treat, Saito squirts in some shampoo and then dumps the concoction onto the heads of his customers. For the past six years the Hair Station Saito barber shop in Yokohama has been helping customers beat the heat with snow cones for the noggin....More

Sea Ice Traps 50 Ships

Sweden - More than 1,000 people are trapped on two passenger ferries and two cargo ships stuck in ice in the Baltic Sea off Sweden’s east coast. The vessels are among about 50 ships stuck firm in the thick ice in the Baltic around Sweden, the Stockholm archipelago and the Finnish island of Aland.
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Chunk of ice crashes through roof of Colorado home

BRUSH, Colo. (AP) -- A basketball-sized chunk of ice crashed through the roof of a family's Colorado home after apparently falling from an airplane passing overhead. Danelle Hagan and her 9-year-old daughter were at home in Brush on Saturday when they heard the kitchen ceiling come crashing down. They were not injured---...More