This man really loves his late wife... "A widower has spent more than 10 years piecing together thousands of fragments of love letters torn up by his late wife. Ted Howard, 82, of Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, wrote more...
I’ve never heard of anyone spending this much on beer before! An Australian man has been banned from buying or even holding beer for the next 12 months. Apparently he had been spending around $1000 a...
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Gordon Brown tells Britons to 'Stop wasting food'. Tonnes of food is thrown away as it sits in kitchens going past its sell-by date as shoppers buy too much of what they don't need, lured in by two-for-one...
For years the news business has built it's solvency on the notion that people 'trust' conventional news brands. But that trust is eroding fast. According to the Pew Research Center:"The American public...
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The BBC is coming under fire again today as details are being leaked about how the company spends thousands of pounds a year (more than 2,000) on maintaining their fish tanks in just one of their London offices. I...
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Too lazy to mow your lawn? If you live in Canton, Ohio you better get on it or hire help! Homeowners who don’t bother mowing their grass can now face jail time if it’s their second...
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The British Columbia government is setting aside funds for two organizations with the aim of providing education for people on how to treat the bears that share their environment properly, so that many are not killed...
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A british artist has submerged in the sand for last 48 hours and plan to continue for more time. What a weired idea." A performance artist planning to stay buried in the sand on a Kent beach for the best part of 48 hours has said his stunt is going well. Mark McGowan...
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a surprising critique of three of America’s greatest actors."No slouch himself, Coppola directed Pacino in “The Godfather” and Pacino and De Niro in “Godfather II,” and was uncredited when directing...
This one's a nightmare story. An Australian found himself in the middle of a croc swamp surrounded by hungry crocodiles, managed to get himself up a tree and spent seven long days trying not to fall down into...
He could see red orbs twinkling in the night and knew that those were their eyes staring longingly up at him...but it sure wasn't a gaze of love! Every now and then a scuffle would break out amongst them as though they were jostling for first dibs at the choicy morsel...
"If, like most teens today, your child spends hours sending text messages from his phone and instant messages from his computer, you probably have overheard phrases like "LOL" or "BRB," without understanding what they meant.
Web lingo is a quick, fun way for kids to...
On Sept. 10, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declared war. Not on foreign terrorists, "the adversary's closer to home. It's the Pentagon bureaucracy," he said. He said money wasted by the military poses a...
"Teen Web sensation MySpace became so big so fast, News Corp. spent $580 million last year to buy it. Then Google Inc. struck a $900 million deal, primarily to advertise with it. But now Jackie Birnbaum and her...
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"Kiribati - Fishing and prostitution might be the two oldest professions. But the exploitation of both is creating new vulnerabilities for Pacific islands as the whole world increasingly comes to fish in its waters....
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