Contents of the fire was?

AsiaOne - May 6, 2012

The verb was is wrong, since the head noun contents is plural and requires the plural verb were.

A similar mistake was made in the story below:

AsiaOne - 3 May 2012

The correct verb is were:

Images [of what seems to be a smiling ghost] were spotted on a bus in Singapore.

The prepositional phrase of what seems to be a smiling female ghost is enclosed in square brackets to make the head noun images obvious to see.