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A BIT LATE
In May 2010, the Iowa Court of Appeals ordered the family of Orville Richardson, 81, who died in February 2009, to exhume his body so that his head could be cut off and frozen. Richardson had signed a contract with Alcor Life Extension Foundation of Scottsdale, Arizona, to have his head placed in cryogenic suspension, but his siblings had buried him instead. After 14 months, his head would be a tad degraded, one presumes. [AP] 14 May 2010.

PHANTOM 'ROOS
Over the last seven years, 30 people commuting to work in the Mayam mountain district of Osaki, a community of 441 households about 350km north of Tokyo, Japan, have reported seeing "kangeroo-like animals", including three reports between December 2009 and March 2010, when the mountainous area was often covered in snow.