Presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be making a visit to Britain in July as part of what is being called an ambitious foreign tour that will also take him to Iraq, Afghanistan, France and Germany."Only skeleton...
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Australia's top treasury official is taking five weeks leave to go into the Australian bush and look after endangered wombats.I think this is sweet, but then I am one of those people that just loves anything to do...
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" In a Daily Telegraph scoop today the bank warns that the S&P 500 will fall by more than 300 points to around 1050 by September. This Wall Street crash will reverberate through Europe, Asia and the emerging markets, and amount to ‘one of the worst bear markets over...
" ACTOR Rupert Everett has apologised for calling British soldiers "wimps" and suggesting they joined the army to torture prisoners.The 49-year-old yesterday issued a lengthy statement apologising "without reserve" to the "many in this country, and hundreds and thousands of...
If you cant do the time - Now you dont have to!"The Government has drawn up plans to release hundreds of criminals from jail early.About 550 non-violent and non-sexual offenders will be automatically freed halfway...
"It’s about time boobs started pulling their weight in the fight against “global” warming. It comes with a detachable solar panel which can produce enough energy to power an iPod or mobile phone, reports the...
The British equivalent of trading standards, The Office Of Fair Trade is investigating allegations of price fixing "About 100 leading household brands, including PG Tips, Coca-Cola and Aquafresh, are at the centre of...
""They didn't pay me enough to go to Colombia. I wrote the book in San Francisco. I got the information from a chick I was dating -- an intern at the Colombian consulate," the newspaper quoted Kohnstamm as saying."
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"ATHENS, Greece, April 7 (UPI) -- An easyJet flight traveling from Greece to Britain was required to turn around because of a "technical problem," airline officials said.Flight EZY 2002 left for Luton, England, Sunday about 11 p.m. with 119 passengers and landed back in...
Boating and swimming are certainly not the Hells Angels Forte when planning out a hit on a Rolling Stone."Hells Angels planned to kill Jagger: documentary
Updated Sun. Mar. 2 2008 9:10 AM ET
The Associated...
In today's Telegraph UK, Judith Woods says let me count the 29 ways to celebrate leap year day with her Leap Year Day Extravaganza. Since it is February 29 why not do something out of the ordinary she suggests.
Number 1 on her list is 'Cancel your Facebook' account, after...
"A lonely Japanese man has been arrested for allegedly calling directory assistance thousands of times because he liked to be scolded by female operators, police and reports said Wednesday.
Takahiro Fujinuma -- who is 37, single and unemployed -- reportedly would whisper...
I'm sure it seemed like a good idea at the time, but hacking into the tram system and derailing the trains is probably not the smartest move."A Polish teenager allegedly turned the tram system in the city of Lodz...