North Korea’s organises World Cup support; Darth Vader “mad not bad”; and a cat’s obsession
• North Korea has certainly adopted an efficient approach to supporting its soccer team in the World Cup with news this week that the team’s ’supporters’ - all uniformly dressed in red and led in their supporting by a conductor - had been handpicked to attend the event and even included a group of Chinese people specially recruited to cheer on their neighbours (and at the same time allow the North Korean Government to make sure there’s no defectors). Still at least they’ve had something to cheer about with the team only losing one goal to two when playing powerhouse Brazil in their World Cup opener.
• It probably won’t come as a surprise to most people that Darth Vader had a borderline personality disorder. French psychiatrist Eric Bui and a team from Toulouse University Hospital reportedly made the finding after a study of the Star Wars villain. “Turning to the dark side and changing his name could be a sign of identity disturbance,” he concluded, adding that he believed psychotherapy could have helped him. But then think how the Star Wars story would have suffered.
• Calvin Klein’s Obsession for Men has reportedly found a new use as a means of attracting jaguars in the Guatemalan jungle. Biologists have employed the cologne to bring the big cats up to their cameras so they can study them and say the scent has proved surprisingly successful in bringing them in. The Wildlife Conservation Society say they intend expanding use of the cologne in other programs it’s conducting in South America.