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...
"Rights-free zones: illegal and unjust
Mukul Sharma
The Guantanamo model signifies the abandoning of basic principles of human rights. It de-legitimises us.
“O Father, this is a prison of injustice.
Its iniquity makes the mountains weep.
I have committed no crime and am...
Well, he may have broken strike rules (though one person breaking the rules might be a bit better than Letterman, whose entire team made a deal with the network that doesn't involve the writers guild) but Leno nailed the late night slot, beating out Letterman's audience by...
"BERLIN (Reuters) - From a Greek nunnery turned into a marijuana farm by two men posing as gardeners to a South African man with a gunshot wound told by a doctor to "walk the pain off," the world was full of weird...
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Odd, but interesting?"Paul Karason puts a whole new spin on "feeling blue.” For more than a decade, the 57-year-old has been living with a blue face.Fourteen years ago, Karason developed a bad case of...
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"Former US Senator and Special Envoy to Northern Ireland George Mitchell has outed some of the biggest names in baseball in his long awaited report on steroid usage in Major League Baseball.
His far-reaching...
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"Knut, the world-famous polar bear, turned one today and polished off a giant fish cake at a birthday party in Berlin Zoo that was broadcast live on German television.
Hundreds of children gathered at the zoo with birthday cards for the bear, who became a tourist magnet after...
The assignment was to make a video. And Ontario College of Art and Design student Thorarinn Jonsson had a great idea. He made a video showing a woman walking through the Royal Ontario Museum just as a...
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Abeer Mishkhas, abeermishkhas@arabnews.com
Last Sunday, along with the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia celebrated a day dedicated to Eliminating Violence Against Women. Newspapers carried articles and editorials on the importance of the day and TV naturally gave the day a...
Sometinmes you just can't this stuff up."NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. - A judge who jailed 46 people who were in his courtroom when a cellphone call interrupted proceedings was removed from the bench Tuesday by a state...
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Sadly, there is something new to report nearly everyday on this story. This blog appeared on www.mexicoreporter.com."A year on but still no explanation….
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José Antonio García Apac, editor of the regional weekly Ecos de la Cuenca, based in...
Jeremy Schwarzt, the correspondent for Cox Newspapers here in Mexico City, left this on his blog last night. His comments are an example of the levels of corruption present in Mexico's penal system."Inmates turned into sex workers: Another day in a Mexican prison
By Jeremy...
So have they been taking a page out of microsoft's book, or what? I haven't heard much one way or another about the new Mac OS, but this certainly isn't promising. As someone who doesn't do much confidential work on their mac this isn't a big deal, but for companies this...
"DETROIT -- Officials from the Detroit Branch NAACP monitoring voting this morning say the process is "messy" because of the new photo identification requirement.
Melvin "Butch" Hollowell, general counsel to the Detroit NAACP, said there was one report of a voter being turned...
OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorPerverted Justice, also made famous in NBC's Dateline with Chris Hanson took on Canada, resulting in a arrest and conviction of a Winnipeg Pedophile.Perverted Justice,...
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