Afghan police have seized biggest ever drug cache of 237 tonnes along with three men. The drug was believed to be belonging to Taleban who were intending to exchange for purchaisng lethan weapons. Estimated to account for 90% of world's opium, Afghanistan...
Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vyingfor a different record: the human who has lost the most weight."Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting...
Man Files Suit After Losing 100 Pounds in Jail, Not getting enough FoodThis guy might want to be spending time in the jails law library finding out how to defend himself on his murder charge rather than how to get...
This story could very well have gone either way, so it's heartening to learn that Mr. Uribe is on the road to better health."The world's fattest man, according to the Guinness Book of Records, proudly announced...
This makes so much sense. If schools and parents start obsessing about kids' weights,it's likely the kid will begin to obsess about it too - and that isn't healthy under any circumstances. And what can...
"A woman has given birth to Indonesia's heaviest ever baby, a boy weighing 6.9 kilogrammes (15.2 pounds), hospital staff said Wednesday.
The baby was born at a private maternity clinic on the outskirts of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, a nurse on duty there told AFP.
"He was...
"LONDON (Reuters) - The fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs found together in a "nursery" at a site in China show these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought,...
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Off the coast of Tanzania, fisherman have landed a coelacanth, just the latest in a string of ever-more-frequent encounters with these holdouts of oceans past."Fishermen in Zanzibar have caught a coelacanth, an...
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"A wrecking ball has smashed more than a dozen cars after it broke loose from a crane cable and raced downhill.
The 1,500lb (680kg) demolition device bounced into vehicles and injured three people before coming to rest in the boot of a car in the US.
The wrecking ball,...
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July 6, 2007
How Scooter Skated
by Patrick J. Buchanan
Why did Bush do it?
Why did he suddenly barge into the legal process and erase the entire 30-month sentence of Scooter Libby?
For, from his own statement, Bush found the act deeply distasteful.
In that statement, Bush...
The Bush adminstration is laughing at you. - The Angryindian----------------------------------------------------"WASHINGTON - President Bush on Tuesday refused to rule out an eventual pardon for former White...
"The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit today rejected Lewis Libby's request to remain free on bail while pursuing his appeals for the serious convictions of perjury and obstruction of justice. As a result, Mr. Libby will be required to turn himself over to...
... No, it wasn't found alive, which may be a good thing: T-Rexes were intimidating enough before they could fly! In rural China, paleontologists (dino-archaeologists) have discovered a massive and probably predatory...
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"The U.S. Army has ordered soldiers to stop posting to blogs or sending personal e-mail messages, without first clearing the content with a superior officer, Wired News has learned. The directive, issued April 19, is the sharpest restriction on troops' online activities since...