When you're getting on in years it's easy to forget things - like paying your taxes - easily done." John McCain and his wife failed to pay house taxes and owe more than $225,000 on credit cards, it has been...
"A QATARI man was sentenced to death yesterday for the brutal murder of his aunt following a fight about money.A Doha court heard that the man, in his 20s, had tried to suffocate his relative before bludgeoning her with a stone and driving a car over her battered body.The man...
"My mom, aunt, and dad all voted for RP today in my hometown, My mom and aunt both work passing out ballots, and checking them off. I just looked at the politico map and it says their town has ZERO votes for Ron. Now i know that there isn't corruption on voting in that little...
My natural instinct would have been to go for a tea towel, but whatever works."LONDON - They went from baggy knickers to the ultimate hotpants.
A fire department official in Britain says Jenny Marsey's miraculous...
"Police described yesterday how a Rottweiler killed baby Archie-Lee Hirst after tearing him from the arms of a seven-year-old girl, dragging him into his grandparents' back garden and savaging him. The baby's...
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Tariq Ali
Arranged marriages can be a messy business. Designed principally as a means of accumulating wealth, circumventing...
"This is a fine mess. First Turkey was so miffed over the now-tabled Congressional "Turkish genocide" resolutionthat its ambassador flounced back home.
Now Turkey is demanding that the U.S.take military action against Kurdish fighters on Turkey's borders: or else. From...
Opinion,Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor Another myth that the "Gangsta life" is all glamour, made inviting in Movies for impressionable youth markets complete with flashy cars, gats, bling and...
As Washington and Blackwater spin machines crank out a flood of official justifications for the massacre of innocent civilians by Blackwater "contractors" on the mean streets of Baghdad, it's important as a...
"A British couple have shacked up in a budget roadside motel for more than 20 years because they love never having to do the laundry or cooking, they said Tuesday.David Davidson, 79, and his wife, Jean, 70, first tried out a Travelodge hotel while visiting a sick aunt in 1985...
""Being 'black enough' or 'Indian enough' usually refers to your experience in Indian country or black America. In Indian country, if you are light-skinned with shades of blond hair, you can be discriminated against by your own people because you are ;different.' The irony is...
""My aunt lured me with tall promises of finding work in Kathmandu. But I ended up in a brothel in Pune," Sunita* broke into tears recalling the old wounds of the past. "I'm totally perplexed. No way for me to return anywhere," she said. "My aunt has ruined me...
"LONDON (Reuters) - A Gulf War veteran who suffered mental problems after leaving the army admitted on Monday shooting dead four members of his family at close range with a handgun fitted with a silencer.
David...
By GLENYS ROBERTS .. 23rd January 2007
John as a child with his aunt Mimi, who raised him
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Rejected by his mother, raised by a loving aunt. That's the official John Lennon story. In fact,a new book...
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A tele-evangelist with a large following across the United States is being sued by relatives over her claim that prayer cured her brother's throat cancer.
Darlene Bishop's claims appear in her book, Your Life Follows Your Words, which fails to mention that her brother, the...