House divided in Cambodia

THE AUSTRALIAN

October 06, 2008

A CAMBODIAN couple have circumvented the country's corrupt and expensive court system in a divorce case by literally dividing their house in half.

The Koh Santepheap newspaper last week featured a front-page photograph of a precariously perched half of the stilted former home of Meuon Rima and his ex-wife Nhang, both 40, which Mr Rima sawed down the middle.

Mr Rima, who sought a divorce because his wife refused to nurse him during an illness, was last seen driving away from the village with his half of the home.

Having a ball

BELGRADE: A Serbian chef is publishing recipes for a tender meat in The Testicle Cookbook: Cooking With Balls.

The book includes Ljubomir Erovic's favourite dishes: testicle pizza, battered testicles and barbecued testicles and giblets.

The e-book, available for download from the internet, comes with video guides to cooking the testicles of stallions, ostriches, bulls, pigs and turkeys.

"Wash testicles thoroughly for 30-45 minutes," begins the recipe for testicles pie. "Once softened, mince them in a mincer." A "very sharp knife" is needed for traditional style testicles, which get boiled, cut up and deep fried in hot oil. Testicles are rich in testosterone and are believed to be a powerful aphrodisiac in countries such as Serbia and China. "The best for aphrodisiac properties are sheep and stallion testicles", said Erovic, 45.

On a milkshake

ALMATY, Kazakhstan: A court in Kazakhstan has dropped drunken-driving charges against a man who admits he had 1.5litres of fermented mare's milk.

Fermented mare's milk, or kumys, is not listed as an alcoholic beverage in Kazakhstan, although it can contain up to 4 per cent alcohol.

The popular drink is believed to have health-boosting properties The man, identified only as R. Iskendirov, told a court he had drunk kumys for medicinal purposes before getting behind the wheel in June.