 'Hitler's skull' is a woman's, say DNA tests
 A skull long believed to be that of Adolf Hitler actually belonged to
a woman, according to an American scientist who has taken DNA samples
from it. The skull was taken by Soviet forces in 1945 when they found
charred remains outside the Nazi dictator's bunker in Berlin. The
Russians said at the time that the findings backed claims that Hitler
had shot himself on April 30, 1945, and then been cremated along with
his wife, Eva Braun. Now, however, archaeologist and bone specialist
Nick Bellantoni says the skull really belonged to a woman aged under 40
and not Hitler - who was 56 when he died.
Neither does Mr Bellantoni believe the skull belongs to Braun,
Hitler's long-time girlfriend and last-minute wife, who is thought to
have killed herself by taking cyanide and would therefore not have had a
bullet wound - as this skull has. Some historians have believed for
years that the Nazi dictator did not die in Berlin. The dental records
were destroyed on the orders of Martin Borman in 1944. So there were no
records on top Nazi leaders with which to compare the charred findings.
Sky news
So, you think you had a tough week?
 An 80-year-old Ohio man is beaten during a home invasion and then
accidentally shot by son. Ralph Needs is recovering from a week in which
he was beaten during a home invasion and then shot while trying to learn
about guns.
Needs said he wouldn't want anyone else to experience what he's been
through. He was tied up and pistol-whipped when at least three intruders
broke into his Columbus area home on September.
Needs' nose was broken and his pickup truck, a computer and credit
cards were taken. Four days later, Needs was shot in the hand during a
self-defense lesson. A 9 mm pistol went off as one of his sons was
loading it. Groveport police said it was an accident, so there will be
no charges. No one has been arrested in the assault, but one person was
charged in connection with the stolen computer, now recovered.
AP
Massachusetts message in bottle turns up in France
 A bottle with a message written by a woman who tossed it into the sea
in 2003 off Cape Ann in Massachusetts was found 3,000 miles across the
Atlantic off the coast of France. Michel and Daniele Onesime said they
were going fishing last month from the port at St. Gilles Croix de Vie
when they found the bottle in the water.
The message was from Ann Hernandez, a lighthouse keeper on Thacher
Island off the coast of Rockport, where she had thrown bottles with
notes into the water every October on her birthday since 1991. In the
note, Hernandez identified herself and urged any finders to send a card
to her year-round home in Park Forest, Ill. The Onesimes tried to do
that, but learned Hernandez died unexpectedly last year at the age of 61
from complications from surgery.
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