Tempest over a Timbit

The Tim Hortons cashier who gave a Timbit to a fussy child and was fired for it, has been rehired today.Seemed like a silly idea to fire someone over that anyway."Nicole Lilliman, 27, said she was fired Wednesday...

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

There are many Cinco de Mayo festivities happening today.  Parades, street fairs, live music, good food, and drinking are just a few of the ways people will be celebrating.  Today is a day of...

OH Sh*t!: 50 Cent Gets His Chain Snatched In Angola Africa

"" Some dude snatches 50 Cent's chain while he was performin live in Luanda Angola Africa! Then jets like a bitch! LOL

Even Warren Buffett gets it wrong in Q1 « Peter J. Cooper’s Weblog

His Berkshire Hathaway reported a 64 per cent slump in Q1 profits to $181 million or $607 per share compared with $1,682 a year earlier. Remarkably for all his public warnings about the dangers of derivatives, the Sage of Omaha has run into problems with credit default swaps.

Seagulls force kids' playtime to be cancelled

"A seagull, waiting to strikeHungry seagulls have forced playtime to be cancelled in Croatian schools after they started grabbing pupils' packed lunches. The protected species have resorted to scavenging owing to an explosion in their numbers. 'It is too dangerous for...

Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for Not Filing Tax Returns

Wesley Snipes is going to jail."A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the actor Wesley Snipes to three years in prison for willfully failing to file tax returns. Mr. Snipes, who was convicted in February,...

Kids to learn about boob jobs

I think you always remember your favourite book when you were a kid - mine was 'The Paper Bag Princess' and I loved it. But now it seems times have changed and new books for kids are starting to come onto the...

Poor children’s art gets London show

More than 20 lacquer paintings by street children in Ho Chi Minh City are on display at an exhibition in London. The exhibition is organised by the Christina Noble Foundation from March 27 to April 3."Exhibition...

BBC News Website Gets Access in China

"Beijing (ABC Live): The accessibility of BBC news web site is now become easier after china has lifted unclaimed ban on BBC news website."

High River puts New Orleans on Alert

"by Sheila Grissett and Mark Schleifstein, The Times-Picayune, Thursday March 20, 2008, 9:06 PM Recent heavy rains in the Midwest, combined with the last melting winter snows, will swell the Mississippi River to an expected crest at 16.5 feet in New Orleans by April 9, high...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

Polls show that Obama's electability is tanking

These polls were conducted before Obama's speech yesterday about racism which could be a game changer, nevertheless they do reflect the effect of the Wright speech. "A new set of polls by SurveyUSA shows that...

Hair of the dog: The animal lovers who turned their dead pets' coats into woo...

"Their beloved dogs may have gone to the great kennel in the sky, but for Beth and Brian Willis they will always be close. Because the couple have had his and hers jumpers knitted out of the hair moulted by...

Night of the Living Fed

"Night of the Living Fed Paul Krugman is writing about The Face-Slap Theory."The scariest thing I’ve read recently is a speech given last week by Tim Geithner, the president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Geithner came as close as a Fed official can to...

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