Russia blames US for global financial crisis

" ST PETERSBURG - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev blamed "aggressive" United States policies on Saturday for the global financial crisis and said Moscow's growing economic muscle could be part of the...

Medvedev warns Ukraine over Nato

The newly-seated Russian President rattles the saber at Ukraine over its Nato bid, and raising fuel export prices at the same time. It's difficult to see the latter as anything but a warning shot."Mr Medvedev told...

Indiana angers Russian Communists

"Members of the Russian Communist party have called for the new Indiana Jones film to be banned in the county because they say it distorts history.Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, set during the Cold War, sees Harrison Ford's character battle Cate...

Indiana Jones and the Dignity of Communism

Communist Defense Force, unite!"Russian Communist party members condemned the new Indiana Jones' film on Friday as crude anti-Soviet propaganda that distorted history and called for it to be banned from Russian screens."Actually, this guy has a pretty good point:""What galls...

Almost 200 Football Fans Caught on Tape chasing police after UEFA Cup Final

The UEFA Cup Final, always a tense and exciting event for football fans (soccer for you yanks and some canucks), got a little hairier this year when up to 200 football fans chased officers down after the match....

Rangers fans angry after big screen in Manchester fails

Thousands of Rangers suuporters in Manchester were left feeling unimpressed with their city after a big screen set up in the city centre to watch the game on broke down and they couldn't see the rest of it.They...

Diving pelican slams into swimmer's face in Gulf off Florida

A woman is recovering after a diving pelican slammed into her face off the coast of Florida.I'm sad the bird died though."Debbie Shoemaker of Toledo, Ohio, was in the water Thursday near St. Petersburg when the...

Reports: D.C. Madam has committed suicide

"Police say they believe Deborah Palfrey, the so-called D.C. Madam, may have committed suicide at her mother's home in Tarpon Springs, Fla., according to the Associated Press and local news organizations."Tarpon Springs detectives said a body was found in a small storage shed...

IRL Knockout Qualifying – The Firestone Fast Six :: The EDJE

"No. 8 Will Power of KV Racing Technology on the course at St. Petersburg. Will posted the fastest qualifying time at 62.1355 (nearly one-half a second faster than the pole sitter Tony Kanaan) but because the mark...

IRL Churn Turns To IRL Attrition - Rahal Out :: The EDJE

"UPDATED: 7:50 PM PTGraham Rahal, second year driver for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing, diving into turn one on a "hot lap" during second day qualifying for the 2007 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Image Credit:...

Donkey quits Russian ballet

"Russia's Mariinsky ballet has said farewell to one of its longest-serving artistes, a 21-year-old female donkey named Monika. The animal is to be pensioned off after 19 years carrying the knight's overweight...

Irishman among crew captured by pirates

"Six people, including an Irish citizen, are being held on a ship captured by pirates off the coast of Somalia. Four Russian crew members, an Irish chief engineer and a British captain were aboard the Svitzer Korsakov, an ice-class tug vessel, when it was seized on Friday as...

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...

CHUCK'S FOR HUCK

"ST. PETERSBURG, Florida, November 28, 2007 1957 (UTC) IMNS & Politisite.com) --On a stormy night, in St. Petersburg, Florida, the long awaited CNN YouTube Republican debate is about to begin. The VIPs and...

Australian politician Handcuffed to pole in a Russian Strip Club

Last time I hung out with Icelandic whalers I ended up handcuffed too"A senior Australian politician was handcuffed to a pole in a Russian strip club while wearing nothing but his underpants, it has been...

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