Heart-shaped watermelon

"A heart-shaped watermelon is being produced in Japan. And it costs around £105. Nice but pricey!!!"Check the source !!

Health Concerns Cause Total Irish Pork Recall

Up until early this year Ireland had one of the best economies in the world but now everything appears to be going wrong. "Health Concerns Cause Total Irish Pork Recall By Tom Rivers London 07 December 2008 ...

Edinburgh named as Britain's loneliest place

Edinburgh, Scotland may be world renown as one of Britain's most beautiful cities (if not the most beautiful), but a new survey has revealed that it is also the loneliest city in the UK."For centuries, princes and...

Springsteen announces a new record for January.

The twenty-fourth record from the mythical US musician Bruce Springsteen is set to be out on January 27th, with the name Working on a Dream.As the singer has stated on his official website, the new songs were...

Warning: Arsenic in our forests

We have seen it before, one environmental solution leads to another problem. A chemical used in British Columbia to try and end the pine-beetles wrath has been discontinued and now testing for arsenic (a known...

Serving Indian Officer Involved in Terrorism

"Written by www.daily.pk    Sunday, 09 November 2008 21:43 Police in India have arrested an army officer in connection with two bombings in Maharashtra state which killed at least eight people in September.The blasts happened in the mainly Muslim...

Statewide immigration raids result in 1,157 arrests

A massive coordinated series of raids in California has arrested more than 1,150 illegal immigrants. The people arrested were those that had received deportation orders and not left the country."Federal immigration agents arrested more than 1,150 people in the largest...

China detains 22 suspects over melamine mixing

" Police in the Chinese province at the centre of a scandal over tainted milk powder have detained 22 people suspected of involvement in introducing the chemical melamine into the supply chain, state media said on Tuesday. Thousands of children have been hospitalised with...

Celebrity LEGO Figurines - Brad Pitt, Amy Winehouse and the Beckhams (GALLERY)

This is so uncool!!"LEGO has made a ton of yellow-skinned pop culture icons in recent years, including Indiana Jones, Batman, Speed Racer, and SpongeBob SquarePants. To celebrate LEGO’s 30th anniversary, the Denmark toy company has produced a series of celebrity-inspired...

Inflation will follow Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bail out « Peter J. Cooper...

" Yet we should all be relieved at one level: the US has chosen to go down the path of 1970s style inflation, rather than 1930s style deflation. The alternative route of letting banks fail produced the Great Depression of the 1930s and nobody wants to make that mistake again."

EU - No Sanctions Against Russia Over Georgia

Despite being severely chastised, the Russian government is upbeat after hearing from the EU that there would be no sanctions against their country for their attack on south Ossetia. Quite coincidentally, I'm sure, the question was asked of the Russian government whether they...

FEMA refuses to help local PBS affiliate rebuild

"On the air, WYES-Channel 12 looks fine. Everywhere else, the local PBS affiliate's headquarters near City Park, devastated by 5 feet of Hurricane Katrina levee-failure floodwaters, remains a literal shell of...

DIY tractor culture in Poland

This exhibition happened earlier in the year in Berlin, but I still love the concept."In the '60s Poland it was almost impossible to acquire a tractor in Poland. Agricultural machines produced by the country were available mainly for state-owned enterprises. For private...

"Voodoo" Woman Produces Children's Fingers in Court

Pandemonium broke out in a London court today when an alleged "voodoo" practitioner charged with fraud pulled out two fingers.   It is not known whether this was a gesture to the judge     " A woman...

One in every three euro spent by Irish consumers on alcohol ends up in the Go...

I was amazed when I discovered that we in Ireland (there are only about 4 million people here in the ROI) paid €2.2bn in tax on alcoholic drinks last year. This looks like a great deal from the Government's...

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