Woman kills husband as he forgets her birthday

A woman in Russia stabbed her husband to death as he forgot her birthday and returned home from work empty-handed, it was reported here. Lyalya Tupikova, 45, said that her husband Khalpik didn't remember her birthday. When he returned home from office in Astrahan in southern Russia, she expected a bunch of flowers and a present. But, Khalpik got nothing for her. She had cooked a candlelight dinner, said the Daily Mail. "It was all too much for her and suddenly during the meal she seized a kitchen knife and stabbed him just above the heart," a police spokesman was quoted as saying. Khalpik, 50, collapsed and died soon afterwards.