Ice cream for $23 a cup, and more

Ice cream for $23 a cup

A British ice cream parlor is serving ice cream made from human breast milk. The high-end Baby Gaga ice cream, which retails for $23 a cup, is flavored with vanilla and lemon zest, and made with milk bought from nursing mothers. “What’s the harm in using my assets for a bit of extra cash?” said Victoria Hiley, 35, one of the donors. “There’s nothing more natural than fresh mother’s milk.”

The fairest model of them all

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The most sought-after model at this year’s London fashion show has been 19-year-old Andrej Pejic, a young man whose specialty is modeling women’s clothes. The Bosnian-born Pejic stands 6 feet 2 inches, with long, platinum-blonde hair and cheekbones most models would kill for. “Being cast as a woman is not something with which I feel uncomfortable,” said Pejic. It’s not surprising that designers love him, says fashion editor Hilary Alexander, since they all design clothes “for someone who is 5 foot 11, no hips, and no chest.”

Illinois man gets robbed by an online girlfriend

An Illinois man sent more than $200,000 to an online “girlfriend” over a period of two years, even though he never met her. The unnamed 48-year-old man wired the money to seven bank accounts in the U.S., England, Malaysia, and Nigeria, at the request of someone who claimed she needed the money to buy her freedom from kidnappers and would then join him. When the man finally contacted police, he was told that his girlfriend was fictitious. The news, the cops said, left him “in disbelief.”