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A KFC advert that shows people singing with their mouths full has prompted more than 1,000 angry parents to voice their disgust, making it the UK’s most complained about TV commercial. So far 1,040 people have complained about the commercial, which shows a group of emergency call centre workers singing down the phone while eating their lunches.

Many parents were concerned that the advert encouraged bad manners but the fast food chain refused to drop the campaign, saying it was “meant to be funny”.

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Since at least the 19th century, people have periodically claimed to see giant snowflakes falling from the sky — big ones the size of saucers and plates or even larger, their edges turned up, their heaviness making them descend faster than small flakes.

Now, theorists, weather historians and field observers are concluding that most of the reports are true and that unusually large snowflakes two to six inches wide and perhaps wider fall regularly around the globe, surprisingly big and fluffy, if seldom witnessed or celebrated. Guinness World Records lists the largest snowflakes as having fallen during a storm in January 1887 at Fort Keogh, in Montana. A rancher nearby, the book says, called them “larger than milk pans” and measured one at 15 inches wide.

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The Hill of Crosses is a site of pilgrimage near the city of Å iauliai, in northern Lithuania. The first crosses were placed on the former hill fort in the 14th century. Over the centuries, not only crosses, but giant crucifixes, carvings of Lithuanian patriots, statues of the Virgin Mary and thousands of tiny effigies and rosaries have been brought here by Catholic pilgrims.

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ATHENS (Reuters) – A Greek tavern owner who tried to break up a fight between customers watching a Greece-Turkey soccer match had both ears bitten off, police said on Wednesday.

Owner Dimitris Tsibibakis intervened as scuffles erupted after a group of Bulgarians shouted slogans supporting Turkey when they scored their third goal in the European championship qualifier and locals told them to stop.

“I tried to split them up and ended up on the floor with one of the Bulgarians biting one ear and another one chewing the other ear off,” Tsibibakis told state television on Wednesday from hospital.

“I need to have plastic surgery. Doctors told me they cannot just stitch them back on,” Tsibibakis said. “At least I still have the pieces that were bitten off.”

Police said they arrested three of the Bulgarians and were looking for a fourth. Greece lost the match against their archrivals 4-1.

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