Dad chops son's hand off in fight over banana

Father goes Bananas.In my day we used to just get the Belt when you made Dad mad....."A Papua New Guinean father has lopped off his son's hand when a family fight erupted over a bunch of bananas.The Southern...

"Big Bang" or Black Hole?

"GENEVA - Tests have cleared the way for the start-up next month of an experiment to restage a mini-version underground of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief said on...

10 lessons from the medieval knights

"Police are putting unruly youngsters through their paces on an eight-week "knight school", to teach them some of the ways of medieval knights. The Lincolnshire scheme has been hailed a success in improving behaviour, so what kind of lessons could knights teach youngsters...

$910 for grapes? That's a bunch

In these tough times where we struggle to pay for $4 a gallon gas at the pump, It is tough to understand the lifestyles of the rich and famous."TOKYO — A new variety of premium grapes debuted in Japan today,...

Motorized suitcase saves your back

Definitely a clever idea, but i hope it is well made because my expiences with airports, the baggage receives no respect and is often tossed around from places to places. It would definitely hurt if the first...

Alleged bomb plot leader 'A few Fries Short of a Happy Meal': informant

A mole working for CSIS and the RCMP inside a would-be terrorist group called the alleged leader 'a few fries short of a Happy Meal' during the trial against a youth accused in connection with an alleged 2006 plot.While the mole says the mastermind had some crazy ideas, he...

A Flower Sellers Secrets

Great little portrait piece in first person... words of wisdom from flower seller Dennis Madden. "While you're upstairs asleep, roses can drink two inches, I'm warning you. The stall with the edge is the stall...

Nutria under the gun on the 17th Street Canal New Orleans

"Posted by Andrew Vanacore June 05, 2008 11:02PMA Jefferson Parish SWAT team has been called in to defend the 17th Street Canal.The threat? Nutria, the orange-toothed rodents that eat through marshlands and...

Manitoba hit by snow and freezing rain

Southern Manitoba is still dealing with snow and freezing rain this morning, and a winter storm warning continues to be in effect. So much for Spring!"Winnipeg could see about five centimetres of snow before...

Middle East Toilet Paper

" It is perhaps unusual to open an article on the credibility of  writers on Middle East topics with in the headline the words ’Toilet Paper’. But why not? And lets see...

Floods cut a swath of destruction across the United States

UPDATE: 9:30 EST13 people have been reported dead and 3 are missing as a result of flooding. "Residents of low-lying towns stacked sandbags or grabbed belongings and evacuated Wednesday after a foot of rain...

New Years Resolution: MuscleBound Made Easy

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYeah, we have all been there, Advertisements since the  1950's showing the typical 98 pound weakling getting sand kicked in their faces at the beach by a muscle...

Top Weird Stories of 2007

"BERLIN (Reuters) - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird...

Hillary Clinton: a good leader (for a girl)

This is a really interesting discussion of gender issues as they pertain to political leadership. Topical, relevant, and more than words."The possibility that America will elect its first woman president next...

Can We Please Stop Arresting WiFi Users Using Open Networks?

You'd think the bobbies would have something better to do..."We've had a bunch of stories over the last few years of people getting arrested for using open WiFi access and we still can't understand what crime has...

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