Kazakhstan Threatens to Sue Ali G Comic | Sacha Baron Cohen : People.com
"Chronically undiplomatic comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is under attack by the Foreign Ministry of Kazakhstan – for Cohen's buffoonish Kazakh character Borat
Cohen, whose gallery of scathingly funny characters also includes the fearless yet doltish Ali G (who, like Borat, can be seen on HBO's Da Ali G Show), has enraged officials of the central Asian state for portraying them as drunks who participate in such sports as cow-punching – and they are threatening to sue Cohen, reports Reuters.
'We do not rule out that Mr. Cohen is serving someone's political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way,' Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing. 'We reserve the right to any legal action to prevent new pranks of the kind.'
The Cambridge-educated Cohen, 34, apparently enraged Kazakhs when he hosted the annual MTV Europe Music Awards show in Lisbon earlier this month. Borat's entrance was made in an Air Kazakh propeller plane controlled by a one-eyed pilot clutching a vodka bottle.
Other typical Borat routines include showing pornographic photos of his 'sister' to complete strangers and talking up wine in his native country as having been made from fermented horse urine.
There has been no comment from Cohen's camp on the matter."


Ants Reportedly Eat Woman's Eye in India
NEW DELHI (AP) - A woman died in a Calcutta hospital after ants ate one of her eyes as she was recovering from a cornea operation, media reports said Tuesday.
Gauri Chakraborty, 55, had complained of terrible pain after the operation at a state-run hospital, but a nurse told her it was normal and left her unattended, her son Soumen told the Press Trust of India news agency.
He said that when her bandage was removed the next day they found big black ants nibbling at her eye, PTI reported.
"She died a ghastly death. We don't even know the reason of her death," Amitabha Kar, Chakraborty's son-in-law told PTI.
Local Health Minister Surjya Kanta Mishra demanded a report of the incident from the hospital authorities. In response, hospital superintendent Sukumar Das said a five-member inquiry committee has been set up, PTI reported.

CBC Montreal - Man trapped in garbage truck shouts himself to safety
A man has been freed after being trapped in a garbage truck for more than an hour. The 45-year-old was in a disposal bin on Monday morning when a city garbage truck came along and emptied the bin into its hold, police spokesperson Olivier Lapointe said.
City workers were driving along when they heard shouting coming from the truck. They pulled over to the side of the road and called police.
Crushed
Michel Duval, who was driving the garbage truck, heard yelling from the hold of his truck as he was about to drop another dumpster load.
Duval says he had probably dumped a couple of loads on top of the man before realizing he was inside.
Duval compacts each load before adding another.
Firefighters eventually pried open the garbage portion of the truck and, after pulling out piles of trash, managed to dig the man out of the truck, Lapointe said.
Fire Chief Gilles Ducharme says the man is lucky he survived the crushing of the garbage.
"We had pieces of wood, steel bars, so he was lucky that none of those passed through his body," Ducharme says.
The man was likely sleeping in a dumpster that got emptied into the truck, Ducharme figures.
The man was put on a stretcher and placed in an ambulance at about 7:30 a.m. at the corner of Cote-des-Neiges and Kent.
He was wearing bright red socks, and dark pants. He was moving his hands as he lay on the stretcher.
Urgences Santé officials say the man's leg was broken in two places, and it is believed he also has a broken pelvis. He also suffered internal bleeding because of the pressure from being compacted in the truck.

Bird Nearly Ruins Dominoes Record Attempt
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A sparrow knocked over 23,000 dominoes in the Netherlands, nearly ruining a world record attempt before it was shot to death Monday, the state news agency reported.
The unfortunate bird flew through an open window at an exposition center in the northern city of Leeuwarden where employees of television company Endemol NV have worked for weeks setting up more than 4 million dominoes in an attempt to break the official Guinness World Record for falling dominoes on Friday night.
Only a system of 750 built-in gaps in the chain prevented the bird from knocking most or all of the dominoes over ahead of schedule, "Domino Day" organizers were quoted as saying by the NOS news agency.
The bird was shot by an exterminator with an air rifle while cowering in a corner.