Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Couples celebrate 50th anniversary YORKSHIRE, N.Y., Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A New York woman celebrating her 50th wedding anniversary is the last of nine siblings who've all reached the same milestone, her family said. Advertisement All eight siblings of Carol Buncy, 73, are still alive, most are in good health and only one has suffered the loss of a spouse, The Buffalo News reported Sunday. "I think it's something that we all, you know, made it," Buncy said before the celebration in Yorkshire. The siblings and their spouses all live within 20 miles of each other close to where they were raised in West Valley. "We're very close," said Buncy, who believes that closeness is part of the reason for their successful marriages and shared longevity. "It's really one for the record books," said sister Rita Czerwinski, 76, who married her husband Casey, 79, in 1957. Advertisement "Kind of unbelievable," Rita's twin sister Ruth Puff said. Rita and Ruth were married on the same day in 1957 in a double ceremony. The siblings have enjoyed a combined 487 years of matrimony. "Oh my gosh. I never thought of it that way. I'll be darned," said eldest sister Doris Phillips, 81, when she heard the figure. "What do I think about it?" she said. "It's just life. Life and love." Teacher banned from classroom for life LONDON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The General Teaching Council has decided one teacher in southeastern England is so incompetent he must be banned from the profession for life. The council has suspended 13 teachers' licenses for varying periods in the past decade. Nisar Ahmed is the first to get a life sentence, the Daily Mail reported. Ahmed, 46, said he is appealing the decision. "They have made a scapegoat out of me," he told the newspaper. "I'm deeply unhappy about it and don't deserve to be the first to be struck off for life." Ahmed has been a teacher for 13 years, most recently at John O'Gaunt Community Technology College in Hungerford, Berkshire, a school for students ages 11 to 18. Advertisement The council said the school tried to give Ahmed support to help him improve his classroom management and his disorganized habits. They said he sometimes left his students' work in his car or at home. "We could not be satisfied that you have an appropriate level of insight into your shortcomings," said Rosalind Burford, head of the disciplinary committee. 11 jump, panicked by 'devil' sighting LA VERRIERE, France, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Eleven people jumped out of a second-floor window Saturday after apparently thinking they had seen the devil, French authorities said. Police told Sky News the incident took place in the early hours in La Verriere, west of Paris. Some of the injured were children, including a 4-month-old baby, who was in a serious condition in a Paris hospital. "Thirteen people were in an apartment on the second floor when, at around 3 a.m., one of the occupants heard his child crying," Odile Faivre, deputy prosecutor in Versailles, told Sky News. "The man in question, of African origin, who was completely naked, got up to feed his child, at which point the other occupants took him for the devil. "He was seriously wounded in the hand after being stabbed with a knife before he was thrown out of the apartment, via the door." Advertisement He then tried to force his way back into the room. "That's when the other occupants tried to escape by jumping out of the window, panicked by a fear of the devil," said Faivre. Detectives are trying to find out if the group jumped voluntarily or were forced. Monster-waved tug to return to Loch Ness INVERNESS, Scotland, Oct. 23 (UPI) -- The buyer of an icebreaking tugboat hopes to return it to duty on Scotland's Loch Ness, where its wake was responsible for many monster sightings. Dan Clark, a former lockkeeper on the Caledonian Canal and now a cruise-boat operator in Fort Augustus, says the Scot II can help keep the Fort William-Inverness Canal, which includes Loch Ness, open all winter, The Scotsman reported. He says the boat, which produces a long wash, will also draw tourists with more frequent reports of the Loch Ness monster. "Scot II, with its icebreaker bow, was the cause of many monster sightings, as it caused wonderfully sinuous waves which people mistook for the monster, sometimes more than 20 minutes after the vessel had disappeared from view," loch-ness.org reports. Clark says his father, James, a former captain of the Scot II, will help with restoration. Advertisement The boat, built in 1931, was retired from icebreaking 60 years later. It put in some time as a floating restaurant and ended up on Bute as a hulk.
