Smashed Kurt Cobain Guitar Fetches $100,000

A smashed up, duct taped Fender Mustang guitar belonging to Kurt Cobain of Nirvana has been sold for $100,000. " A smashed guitar from the late grunge rocker Kurt Cobain has been sold to an unidentified private...

British artist Damien Hirst works fetch record prices

Damien Hirst is today arguably the most successful artist alive in Modern Britain. He has set a record of sort with his new works for more than £65m. One of his work The Black Sheep with the Golden Horn,...

The black hole of unknowing

" As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street There’s a slim chance –...

Life terms for US rail-crash man

"Judges have handed down 11 life terms to a man who parked his car on a Los Angeles railway line and watched as a packed commuter train smashed into it. Eleven people died in the January 2005 crash, and Juan Manuel Alvarez, 29, was convicted of their murders. Judge William...

Caught on camera: The horrific moment a mother and baby were hit by a car... ...

Lucky but dumb, that for sure. The woman definitely breaking a rule by not walking on zebra cross."A baby girl was flung 10ft through the air after her mother was hit by a car as she held the child in a carrier...

Obama suddenly the cash underdog?

"Is Barack Obama the new campaign cash underdog? Obama campaign manager David Plouffe seemed to say Monday that the Illinois senator — who has raised well over $275 million and smashed just about every political fundraising record over the course of his 18-month bid for the...

The Bush administration fails to stop al-Qaida in Pakistan - By Arthur Delan...

" The New York Times leads with a big story on the growth of al-Qaida in Pakistan and the Bush administration's waffling over plans to give commandos greater latitude to operate in the country's tribal areas. The Washington Post leads locally with the surprise death of a...

Obama to Forgo Public Funds for Election Campaign

Obama announced he wouldn't be taking public funds, yet McCain is...this leaves a lot of people following the elections scratching their heads. What both gain from their respective approaches depends on what they...

Family's anguish over murdered son in South-East London

A teenager who had just bought his first lottery ticket and was off to Disneyland later this year, bled to death in his brother's arms after an apparently unprovoked assault at a baker's shop in Lee Green, south...

Huge beaver ravages Russian store

The source article implies in its headline that the beaver was seeking vodka, but there's only evidence that the beast smashed up a few bottles. No word on if it consumed anything.""The saleswoman saw a large...

30 killed in Chinese crackdown

 30 people were killed in the continued Chinese crackdown going on in Tibet. The US has only called on China  to  "exercise restraint" , but has not called for a boycott of the Olympics. Is China...

Frozen Poop Crashes through Calgary Roof

Now that NowPublic has a "Strange" category, that category seems very, very easy to fill... a holding-tank malfunctin resulted in a frigid dungbomb that smashed through a couple's roof. Nobody was injured."Chunks...

The Siege of Gaza is Broken

"The Siege is Broken The Palestinian people took their destiny in their own hands today and smashed down the wall that divided Gaza from Egypt. Hundreds of thousands of people left their prison and walked into Egypt and bought up food, fuel and everything else in sight. It...

Car Crash Kills Seven High School Basketball Players From New Brunswick

Deadly car accidents are always a tragedy, but it always seems especially sad when a team or group of people die like this."Students are returning to class Monday morning in the wake of a horrific crash that...

Benazir Bhutto assassinated in suicide attack

"RAWALPINDI, Pakistan: The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday as she campaigned to become prime minister of Pakistan for a third time. Witnesses said a man fired at Bhutto from close range, quickly followed by an explosion that the government said was...

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