Segway polo could only be described as a niche sport, invented by technology workers in Silicon Valley in the United States around 2003 - where a number of teams are still playing. The sport began when two Segway owners, Jonathan VanClute and Alex Ko, fashioned makeshift mallets from PVC piping and used them to hit a miniature beach ball in the park.
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Ariel Castro sentenced to life plus 1,000 years in prison for abduction of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight
Thursday 01 August 2013
Judge insists on consecutive sentences for hundreds of counts, including kidnapping, rape and assault
Swedish serial killer who raped and ate his victims to be freed – because he made it all up
Wednesday 31 July 2013
Murder confessions are accepted as fantasies by police after Sture Bergwall served 20 years in jail
Julian Assange seeks WikiLeaks Party Australia Senate seat from confines of Ecuadorian embassy
Thursday 25 July 2013
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will attempt to win a seat in Australian Senate elections while still confined to Ecuador’s embassy in London.
Swedish politician exposes more than intended on Instagram in ill-fated attempt to post picture of new Liverpool tattoo
Thursday 25 July 2013
Lars Ohly, 56, quickly removed the picture after posting it on Instagram but couldn't stop the avalanche of comments in social media
Hope Powell to be passed over for elite women’s role, says Sir Trevor Brooking
Sunday 21 July 2013
Hope Powell’s position as the England women’s team coach, which has come under intense scrutiny since the dreadful showing and early exit from the European Championship finals in Sweden, may not be at immediate risk.
Unicef's 'sweat machine' turns perspiration into drinkable water
Friday 19 July 2013
The machine was designed to promote a Unicef campaign raising awareness over lack of access to clean water
Well it is called noir... How French crime writers killed the competition
Wednesday 17 July 2013
As the interest in Nordic detectives and killers wanes, publishers are looking across the Channel for the next wave of crime thrillers.
Mystery of American who woke up speaking Swedish is solved - by a medieval re-enactment society
Tuesday 16 July 2013
Society for Creative Anachronism knew him as Strongbow from the group's jousting team
Hope Powell and keeper make schoolboy errors on Newsround
Sunday 14 July 2013
It was the "absolutely, why not?" that did it. Hope Powell's opening gambit when asked, on the children's TV programme Newsround, whether the England women's team could beat the men if they played them has sparked fierce debate and a host of contemptuous comments hurled in the women's coach's direction.
Swedes waste chances to beat favourites Denmark at women's European Championship
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Hosts Sweden missed two penalties as they drew 1-1 in their opening match of the women's European Championship against the tournament favourites Denmark.
Italians carry out threat refusing to race on opening day of America’s Cup
Sunday 07 July 2013
Italian America’s Cup challenger Luna Rossa has carried out its threat to pull out of Sunday’s opening race of the Louis Vuitton Cup in San Francisco.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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