Here’s one woman who plays by the rules - or at least labour rules.

Yesterday, the driver of a Greyhound charter bus pulled over on a highway in Texas, parked in front of a convenience store and got out saying she couldn’t drive anymore because she had tapped her allowed hours on the road. Okay, fair enough. But her bus was loaded with ex-prisoners (some of whom were wearing tracking devices on their ankles) and she just left them there. She walked away promptly as the clock struck 4PM. Cinderella should have been so punctual, then she wouldn’t have lost that glass slipper!

Anyhow, police were called and they kept an eye on the ex-jailbirds who were destined for a bus depot in Houston. Another bus finally showed up about 3 hours later. Greyhound says it’s investigating. A veteran police officer says he’s never seen anything like it in thirty years.

Napoleon’s been dead for nearly two centuries and people are still trying to figure out what killed the guy. Geez! Most of us can only hope for a quick autopsy and that we’re remembered on a family tree for a couple of generations.

So, the latest on Napoleon is: (drum roll please..) it was NOT arsenic poisoning. Good. Now we can all rest easy.

So, how did the experts determine this? Italian researchers put capsules of the long ago emperor’s hair into the core of a small nuclear reactor at a lab in Padua (I think it all sounds more dangerous than it actually is). They compared it to hair from the emperor’s two wives and one son and determined they all had the same high level of arsenic in them. It’s enough to be considered toxic today, but it wasn’t what killed Napoleon. So, they’re back at square one; the mystery continues.