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Show goes on after TV emcee gets sick

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- While some may say television fare could be sickening, one Swedish TV host threw up on air because of biology.

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Presenter Eva Nazemson was emceeing a late-night, phone-in game show when she was suddenly hit by an unexpected bout of nausea, The Local reported Monday. After asking a caller to solve a word puzzle, she turned her head to one side and vomited.

"It came as a bit of a shock," she said.

The caller cut short his answer as the hostess stepped away for a quick break. When she came back on camera to take his complete answer, he, unfortunately offered the wrong answer.

"OK, I just have to explain something here: I'm having period pains. Absolutely anything can happen during a live broadcast," she explained to viewers, then worked for another two hours before her shift ended.

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Unfinished house on market for $65M

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- For a mere $65 million, you could become the proud owner of one of the most expensive -- and unfinished -- houses in San Francisco.

The neoclassical villa boasts a four-story floating staircase, a glass atrium and a roof of 19th century Florentine tile. But it doesn't have interior walls, floors and ceiling, which will cost about $10 to add, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Monday.

Just down the street from the luxurious-but-incomplete home in the city's Gold Coast area is a mansion carrying a $55 million asking price. Among recent sales the newspaper tracked were a nine-bedroom, nine-bath mansion that sold for $22.5 million, a contemporary home for $15 million, and an Arts and Crafts-style home for $14 million.

Even though the mortgage market is topsy-turvy, the luxurious, high-price housing market remains unruffled, at least in San Francisco.

"What's happening in the luxury market in San Francisco, which starts at around $3 million, is bullish because of the new businesses and building at Mission Bay and the Presidio," said Joel Goodrich, a San Francisco real estate agent specializing in high-end properties.


British gardening danger-filled

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LONDON, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- Gardening tool injuries landed 87,000 British green-thumbers in the hospital last year, including 6,500 lawn mower injuries, a report indicates.

The second most dangerous gardening staple is the flower pot, causing 5,300 injuries, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents said.

The society said hedge-trimmer accidents increased by more than 50 percent in the past five years, to 3,100 a year, the Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

RoSPA said actually about 300,000 people are injured seriously enough to require hospital treatment. Of that number 110,000 were children.

Men were more likely to have garden accidents than women, and -- aside from children -- people between the ages of 30-60 are likely to be injured, the society said.

The most common accident in a garden is a fall, but the biggest threat is a cut and being hit by something.


Man travels 400 miles to surrender

CLEVELAND, Sept. 24 (UPI) -- A man who fled from Cleveland nearly a year ago bicycled 400 miles to surrender to authorities.

Officials said John McKinney, 36, who failed to register as a sex offender after serving 15 years in prison for rape, told them he was tired of being on the run for 11 months, Cleveland television station WEWS reported.

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U.S. marshals said McKinney rode his bike from Dudley, Mass., to Buffalo, N.Y., where he bought a bus ticket to return to Cleveland, where he surrendered at the Justice Center.

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