The Lighter Side

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To the lighter side we go, with some stories to take your mind off the craziness of the week.

Firstly we go to Japan, where many couples have decided to get married…in outer space.

First Advantage is offering the space marriages in a tie-up with US-based Rocket Plane, which will conduct the flights from a private airport in Oklahoma.

However this somewhat unusual wedding does not come cheap, with each happy couple prepared to spend €1.46 million for the ceremony in a small space vessel, which will shoot up 100km into the sky.

Taro Katsura, a spokesman for Japanese firm First Advantage stated that the company expects the majority of their clients to be from China or Arab Gulf nations and that they had no plans to offer this to customer from the U.S.

Staying with weddings and guests at an Israeli wedding hall can now insert a credit card into a machine at its entrance, tap in a sum and leave a gift for the bride and groom.

At traditional Israeli wedding ceremonies, guests do not bring boxed, but will leave cheques or cash into a safe placed at the wedding reception’s hall door.

However the Gan Oranim hall in Tel Aviv, couples pay 500 shekels to rent the device, which resembles an automated teller machine, with the funds transferred into the couple’s bank account the very next day.

And finally we go to Amsterdam where a domestic cat has completed an unusual adoption.
Amsterdam’s Artis zoo newest member, a newborn red panda, was rejected by its mother on the 30th June and since then has been nursed by the cat, along with her own four kittens.

Red Pandas are said to grow to a slightly larger size then a domestic and are nowhere near the size of a black and white cat.

“They are skilful climbers that, when not foraging on the ground, spend most of their time in the trees curled up with their long, bushy tails wrapped around their heads,” the World Wildlife Fund conservation charity said on its website.

Friday, July 11th, 2008 and is filed under Thoughts & Questions, Views on News.