Waterboarding is torture

If anyone thinks waterboarding is not torture maybe they should try it?"Christopher Hitchens, a Washington-based journalist known for his support of the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terror, has subjected himself to...

Fury as Tory leader David Cameron tells poor: It's your own fault

The differences between the Labour and Conservative parties in the UK have become increasingly blurred in the last 15 years. But yesterday David Cameron, the Conservative leader who is leading the charge to bring the...

Bodybuilders battle it out to become Mr and Mrs Muscle

"There was plenty of muscle about on Venice Beach, California, as the world's top bodybuilders gathered to flex their pecs and battle it out for the title of 'Mr and Mrs Muscle Beach'.A packed crowd of onlookers...

Iran Is No Threat, Unless Bush Makes It One

" ........Comparing Iran with the 1939 Nazi Germany is ridiculous. Germany was a powerful, industrialized nation that had been defeated in World War I. It had grievances against the victors who had humiliated it. Germany's culture was such that many Germans blindly...

Bridal shop in bias case says it even lets men try on dresses

A few years ago the owner of a bridal shop got very excited and annoyed when I took some photographs of her shop window. At the time she claimed that her window display was projected by copyright ... I now wonder if that was the real reason."A BRIDAL shop which won a...

Facebook Traffic Catches Up To MySpace

"A long-awaited milestone for Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg's social networking site finally caught up to News Corp.'s (NWS) MySpace in worldwide unique visitors in April, when both sites attracted about 115 million...

At Least One Third of Americans Sleep at Work

I may or may not have slept during my midnight shift at a call center when I was just out of high school...I mean, just because I had access to super comfy chairs and only received one or two calls a night does *not* mean that I would get a full nights sleep and have my day...

OECD report on malicious software.

The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a report titled Malicious Software (malware): a Security Threat to the Internet Economy last week on the international state of Internet security. This report, developed in collaboration with...

What was it like to walk on the Moon?

"In a new television documentary, the Apollo 11 astronauts tell their amazing story. Roger Highfield reports On May 25, 1961, in a speech before Congress, John F Kennedy launched what he admitted was "the most...

Jumbo jet splits in two as it tries to take-off

"These pictures capture the moment a jumbo jet soared off a runway and split into two. The accident happened as the cargo plane tried to take off at Brussels' Zaventem airport. The plane narrowly escaped landing on a...

Have a sweet tooth? Find the answer in your genes.

Regardless of age or sex, a variation in genetics (specifically the glucose transporter type 2, GLUT2) will cause individuals to consume more sugars. The study is done by the University of Toronto and published by...

Mariah Carey will marry Cannon

So in yet another celebrity marriage that is sure to end in bliss.... um bitterness (?) reports are coming in that Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon will be getting married. I hope it works, but I can't help but be a...

Only Gandhi and Shah Rukh Khan did it in Paris!

"He will be unveiled in the presence of Albert Einstein, Charles De Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, Michael Jackson, John Paul II, Elvis Presley and Alfred Hitchcock at France's Grevin Museum in Paris, Monday, April 28,...

Wright when Obama thought it was over

Wow, a lot of thanks Obama is getting for not throwing his pastor under the bus. Now the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is about to go through a round of interviews and speeches, drudging up the controversy over his fiery...

Clinton threatens to 'obliterate' Iran

As Hillary Clinton continues to try to position herself to the right of Obama in order to lock in her support from blue collar Reagan Democrats, she's come out with some truly shocking phrasing for how she would deal...

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