GALVESTON: Bolivar Heartbreak, "We Are Going to Drown" - Last Call

AT LEAST 23 people are identified as "missing" from the Bolivar Peninsula, many presumed drowned, as tragic tales emerge of abandoned cars and lifts that never arrived.  In all, over 200 remain...

British women face jail after drunken rampage on jumbo jet

British travellers overseas are continuing to make their country proud, with two girls getting so drunk on a flight from Greece to Manchester that they tried to open the plane door during flight. They had to be wrestled to the ground and handcuffed. The incident is just a...

Nato build-up gives tribesmen the jitters in Pakistan

There is widespread panic undergoing in the borders areas of Pakistan after heavy deployment of NATO forces. Now local tribesmen are terrified for military actions against them.  "After deployment along the...

Tips To Help Your Dog Stay Calm and Stay Home This Fireworks Season

"Animal shelters around the country will be preparing their kennels over the next couple of days to receive the usual number of "fireworks dogs" who escape their homes/yards after becoming frightened of Fourth of July fireworks displays. Susan Sharpe, APDT, CPDT, owner of...

Collosal Catfish Bites Berlin Bathers

" By Josh Ward A number of German bathers in Berlin's Schlachtensee lake have been bitten by what is believed to be a giant catfish. Many are now apprehensive about escaping the summer heat with a dip.After...

Burrell to testify by videolink at Princess Diana Inquest

"Paul Burrell is so terrified of returning to the Diana Inquest that he has asked to give his evidence by video link from the United States. The disgraced former royal servant fears he will be humiliated again by...

Female Genital Mutilation - A Practice In 21st Century Britian

"The girl is 15 years old but looks much younger. Her face has the fine-boned elegance typical of her native Somalia, but her accent belongs to the streets of East London. She is plainly terrified. That much is clear from the way she avoids eye contact and constantly fidgets...

Real Reasons Early iPhone Users Are Mad About Price-Cut

"They are terrified that in a little while the iPhone will be as ubiquitous and worthless (for social points) as the last coolest-thing-ever status-symbol, the Razr."

Why You Must Not Buy A Home

"Fear stampeded a lot of people into buying a home during the recent real estate boom. Now we're seeing the even more fearsome fallout. People who were terrified about being priced out of the real estate market are now horrified by their ever-rising mortgage payments. People...

Ron Paul: Total Victory, Yet Censorship Continues

Following last week's Republican Presidential debate in California, I posted results of MSNBC's online polling, which, while not scientific, allowed just one vote per IP address and had thousands of respondents. The polling showed a clear winner of the debate--Texas...

Naomi Lay's Sex Tape To Be Released Soon

"One of The Apprentice 3's more likely winners, Naomi Lay, is reportedly terrified that a sex video she made with a boyfriend is about to be made public. The News of the World reports that the explicit 40-minute video was made three years and her ex-boyfriend assured her that...

Hundreds of Iraqis Apply to Be Saddam Hussein's Hangman

"AMMAN, Jordan — Hundreds of Iraqis have offered to act as hangman in the execution of Saddam Hussein, according to senior officials in the Baghdad Government. Some requests have been e-mailed to the office of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi Prime Minister, from around the...

How Iran's Revolution Created 'Muslim Lite'

"About five days before the start of Ramadan, in anticipation of a long month of abstinence, my upstairs neighbor's kid threw a house party. Car after car unloaded young men with spiky, gelled hair, and young women in tight jeans and spiky heels. The sound system, I believe,...

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