‘Cheap’ painting is worth 7 million baht A painting purchased from a thrift store for $4 was auctioned for $191,000 when it turned out to be a long-lost work by N.C. Wyeth. The picture, titled Ramona, was painted in 1939 and it shows an orphaned young woman fighting with her foster mother. A woman said she bought the painting from her local Savers thrift store for $4 and it spent some time on her wall before going into a closet. She discovered the painting’s true identity after she posted a photo of it on Facebook. The woman decided to have the

“Passengers upset over smelly dog” A couple is suing an airline over a dog which they say broke wind the whole time they were on a flight. Gill and Warren Press are looking for a refund after their 13-hour flight was disrupted by a farting pooch while en route from Paris to Singapore. The irate couple say they were booked next to a passenger and her dog, which did not stop farting when 30,000 ft in the air. They say the flight was unbearable. After several weeks of complaining, Gill claims they received a travel voucher from Singapore Airlines worth

“Giant onion weighs in at 9 kg” Gareth Griffin noticed there was something strange about an onion he was growing — it was very, very big. So he took it to the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show — and now it is being considered for being the largest onion in the world. Griffin, from Guernsey, UK, says his onion weighed 19.77 pounds, or about 9 kilograms, more than the previous world record of 18.68 pounds. The onion is on display at the show, alongside other giant vegetables that include a cabbage, cucumber and carrot. Show organizers said the onion must now be

“Twins dress the same for nearly 70 years” Rosey Coles and Kathy Heffernan are 69-year-old twin sisters who have spent their entire lifetime dressing the same. The sisters, from Hampshire, England, said they often get stopped on the street for a photo.  “They say they don’t often see twins our age together,” Heffernan said. The two have the same glasses, hairstyle, pajamas — and even now live in identical homes next to each other.  The pair said they plan on wearing the same clothing items for the rest of their lives, even when traveling.  Although it’s sometimes difficult for others to

“Man watches 777 movies in a year” A Pennsylvania man earned a Guinness World Record by going to the movies 777 times in a one-year period. Zach Swope, 32, started with a screening of Minions: Rise of Gru in July 2022 and completed his record attempt with a showing of Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny one year later. Swope broke the record of 715, set by French cinephile Vincent Krohn in 2018. The movie fan said he would see up to three movies after work on weekdays and during the weekend. Swope said the movie he saw the

“Woman receives 100-year-old postcard” Brittany Keech received an unusual postcard in her mailbox this week. It was more than a hundred years old, postmarked October 29, 1920. “I was shocked,” said Keech. The postcard was addressed to Mrs. Roy McQueen and written by her cousin Flossie Burgess. “Dear cousins,” the letter starts. “We are quite well but mother has awful lame knees. It is awful cold here.” The post office says sometimes letters and postcards get stuck in machinery or under floorboards. “We’ve all seen mail get delayed for weeks, but 100 years, that’s a piece of history,” said Keech.

“Taxi driver returns 18-million-baht violin” A taxi driver returned a 200-year-old violin worth 18 million baht to its owner who left it in a cab on Wednesday night. Chinese violinist Xue Wei asked for help from Bangkok’s Thong Lor police station after realising that he left the violin in the taxi. He had brought his violin for a musical performance at a restaurant in Sukhumvit Soi 26 on Wednesday. On his way back from the restaurant at about 10 pm, he took a taxi, but he forgot to bring the violin with him when arriving at his home in Sukhumvit

“No naked pics, please” A family farm in the UK has decided to deter visitors from stripping off in their sunflower fields. Sam’s Sunflowers now has new signs which read: “No Public Nudity.” The owners say people like to strip off and take naked pictures among the sunflowers.  They then post the pics to Instagram. Farm owner Sam Wilson said there were four naked photoshoots over a period of a week recently – three of which were on the same day. So, he decided to put up stern signs around the farm. The signs have worked.  “We have had a

“Pilot returns doll” A pilot came to the rescue of a doll accidentally left behind at a Tokyo airport by a 9-year-old Texas girl. Rudy and Celeste Dominguez discovered after returning to the United States from their trip to Indonesia that their daughter, Valentina, was missing her doll, Beatrice.  The doll was last seen on a plane in Tokyo, where the family had a stopover on their flight. The parents posted about the lost doll on Facebook, and the post came to the attention of a pilot, James Danen, who contacted Tokyo airport and was able to locate Beatrice.  Danen

“Harrison Ford gets a snake named after him” Scientists have named a snake after Indiana Jones actor Harrison Ford. The new species, named Tachymenoides harrisonfordi, was discovered in the Andes mountains in Peru. It’s a slender snake measuring 40 centimetres long when fully grown. It is pale yellowish-brown and feeds on lizards and frogs. Researchers said they named the new species after Ford in recognition of his decades-long environmental work. Ford said he was “humbled” by the honor.  It is the third animal species to be named after Ford. Earlier, an ant and a spider were named after him. The slender