The man who spent four years in prison in the 1980s for assault was invited by Prince Charles

The closest most Canadians will get to the Queen is taking a picture over people's shoulders a few deep behind a barrier, but that wasn't the case for one sex offender in England.

Harbinder Singh Rana got to ride alongside the Queen and other members of the royal family on the Royal Barge during Sunday's River Pageant, which was part of the Diamond Jubilee celebrations.

According to the Herald Sun, Rana was jailed in the 1980s for attacking women while he posed as a doctor. He performed internal examinations and administered injections. Rana served four years in prison and has been conducting charity work within the Sikh community since his release. He was invited by Prince Charles to ride on the ship after it is believed the two met through a charitable organization.

The Herald Sun reports palace sources saying the prince didn't know of Rana's shameful past and if he did know, wouldn't have

The company has hired translators to fix the problem

Most of us have probably owned a Borje, an Expedit or a Vika, but how about a Redalen.

It's a town in Norway and a bed being sold by Swedish furniture chain Ikea. But it's also a word that resembles getting to third base in Thailand.

As the Wall Street Journal reports, the company is having trouble getting their hard-to-pronounce item names to work around the world.

In addition to the Redalen bed, they are selling the Jattebra plant pot, which sounds in part like a crude sex term.

Ikea's solution is now to hire translators so the terms stop being misinterpreted.

"The Swedish...words are important because they bring a unique character to the brand," said Natthita Opaspipat, who spent nearly four years preparing for Ikea's Bangkok launch, to the Journal.

This is a growing problem for many companies. In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" so they changed it to "biying", similar to an expression

Fernado Lugo's lawyer announced he fathered a now 10-year-old boy while still a man of the cloth

Ray Lewis, Shawn Kemp and Evander Holyfield have another member of the group of men who have fathered many children with many different women.

But Fernando Lugo isn't an athlete, he's the president of Paraguay and used to be a Catholic bishop.

World Church reports Lugo's lawyer announced the president is the father of a now 10-year-old boy. In 2009, he also publicly confessed to having a son with another woman and there are still two paternity cases pending from another two women. All the cases are from the time when he was working as a priest.

One of the women waiting for a decision told World Church Lugo has another three sons, all with different women.

The boy Lugo has just confessed to fathering is named Angel and has his step-father's last name, but Lugo's lawyer said he's working to give Angel the last name of Lugo.

"The kid knew that his dad wasn't going to reject him. He can't deny

A manhunt is underway for the Golden Dawn member who escaped a locked room and ran away

A spokesman for a Greek far-right party has caused quite an uproar after throwing a glass of water at one leftist politician and then hitting another one in the face three times. And he did it all on live on television during a morning show.

Ilias Kasidiaris of the Golden Dawn party was locked in a room at the TV studio, but he broke down the door and escaped.

ITV News is reporting an arrest warrant has been issued and a manhunt is on for Kasidiaris.

Kasidiaris, who is a member of parliament, took offense to a comment made by radical left Syriza party member Rena Dorou about a pending court case against him. He jumped out of his chair and threw water at her for saying there was a "crisis of

The devices emit a shrill noise only teens can hear and may soon be in schools

Vancouver area schools have a problem with vandalism, but luckily they have a solution. It's a controversial device called the Mosquito and it emits a shrill noise only teenagers can hear. The goal is to prevent some of the $500,000 a year of vandalism on schools.

According to Postmedia News the Vancouver School Board is fast-tracking plans to reintroduce the device to prevent further attacks.

The Mosquito, designed in the U.K., works with our gradual degradation of our hearing to pierce teens ears with a sound that is described as "nails on a chalkboard." It can often only be heard by people between the ages of 13 and 25.

They are working to reintroduce the device because after a number had already been installed without board approval, they had to be turned off after complaints from neighbours and the B.C. Civil Liberties Association.

Now the Vancouver school district has drafted regulations for schools

Al McGlashan found the deceased mysterious creature and while filming it a shark swam up looking for a meal

Rare footage of a blue shark chowing down on a giant squid carcass off the coast of Australia is going viral.

The Daily Telegraph fishing columnist Al McGlashan found the remains of the squid about 50 km off Jervis Bay. The squid had recently died because it was still ruby red in colour. The carcass was about three metres long without most if its tentacles which had been bitten off. While filming the carcass, a 2.5-metre long blue shark appeared and began its feast.

"It must have died not that long before we found it because it didn't smell at all and its colours were still strong," said McGlashan in a News.com.au article. "Most giant squid remains are smelly and rotten and just off-white by the time someone finds them."

Australian Museum squid specialist Mandy Reid told the outlet the animals can be as large as 13 metres and this one either just came to the end of its life or

Zombies may be a thing of horror movies, but recently there has been a lot of evidence of their existence.

First, there was the naked man in Miami who was eating another man's face. Then, a college student in Maryland confessed to police that he killed a man and ate his heart and part of his brain. Finally, a man in New Jersey stabbed himself dozens of times and threw bits of his intestines at police. People said he was walking like a zombie.

Those events all happening close together was enough to get people talking and terms like "zombie apocalypse" were trending most days last week.

While these cases are not humorous, it's hard not to think about the fact the zombies are coming. Maybe that roadside construction sign in Texas that read "Caution! Zombies! Ahead!!!" was on to something?

All that talk has spurred some funny tweets.

Before you marry someone, ask yourself, "will they be a good killing partner during the zombie apocalypse?"

— Entertainer™ (@ItsFunnyLife) June 3, 2012

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Barackdubs is back with Obama's rendition of the Carly Rae Jepsen song

We all know U.S. President Barack Obama can sing after his brief rendition of an Al Green song at the Apollo Theater in January, but now he unknowingly has performed a version of a song by a Canadian artist.

In a clever mashup posted to YouTube by barackdubs, the president sings "Call Me Maybe" by Carly Rae Jepsen:

With the words of the song being "I just met you..." it may be more suited to the 2008 campaign, but it's funny regardless.

In the past, barackdubs has shown the president singing "Sexy and I Know It", "Born This Way" and "Drink to That".

Even if Obama didn't really sing the Jepsen song, he has sung in the past and is far from the first politician or political hopeful to do so. He sang the brief bit of the Al Green song shortly after a video of Herman Cain singing "Imagine There's No Pizza" started making the rounds online. Bill Clinton rocked out on the saxophone, Jack Layton busted out the axe on his