• TGI Fridays accused of selling fake liquor

  A yearlong investigation by state officials revealed that twenty-nine New Jersey bars and restaurants, including 13 TGI Fridays, have been substituting cheap alcohol for premium ...

• Ky. man defends rabbits with AK-47

  Police say Wold saw a neighbor shooting rabbits with an air gun from his back porch. Wold went inside, police say, and came back out with an AK-47 loaded with 19 ...

• Researchers Solve The Mystery Of The White Tiger

  Bengal tigers come in two distinctive colors: the bright, vibrant orange and black stripes, or pure white with black stripes. The white variety is only seen in zoos these days, but a new study ...

• This Strange Looking Funnel May Be The Future Of Wind Power

  This means that the device can produce much more power with just the slight breezes closer to the ground--600% more power than a conventional wind device, the company ...

• The Intelligence Squared Debate Masha Gessen Has Some Really Strange Ideas About The 1990s

  , and the recently fired head of Radio Liberty. It might come as a surprise, but while I enjoy a good verbal tussle as much as they next man, and while the Brits are exceedingly good at this sort of polemical showdown, I ultimately think that these sorts of debates are unhelpful because they always end up covering only a small slice of the relevant issues. Answering a question like "has ...

• Video Schieffer on AP subpoenas Outrageous overreach

  CBS News chief Washington correspondent and host of "Face the Nation" Bob Schieffer discusses President Obama's response to the media in the wake the Associated Press scandal, as well as the the president's recent counter-terrorism ...

• ‘Poor reading culture not peculiar to Nigeria’

  Those who feel that poor reading culture is peculiar to Nigerians may have to think again. A Nigerian author based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Femi Onasanya, says in the western world, those who read after leaving school or the university constitute about 20 per cent of the ...

• A true warrior loving father

  The British soldier beheaded in broad daylight was the 25-year-old father of an adorable little boy and a star in his battalion’s corps of drums - who survived the war in Afghanistan only to be slain by extremists at home.Lee "Riggers" Rigby - described as "cheeky and humorous" and a "loving father" to 2-year-old Jack - joined the army in 2006 and was ...

• Comments reflect Hashimotos true nature

  A person cannot escape their true nature. Someone of low character, even if they rub shoulders with the political elite, cannot become a politician in the truest sense. Toru Hashimoto, head of Japan Restoration Party and mayor of Osaka, is a prime ...

• “You know a lot of people say that if you dig long enough and hard enough you will get to China and that may be true. But what they don’t tell you is that if you dig long enough and hard enough in a conversation you get to a friend.”

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• Cruel twist for murdered soldier

  MURDERED soldier Lee Rigby's girlfriend was flying back to the UK from serving in the Afghanistan warzone, after the 25-year-old was hacked to death on the streets of ...

• Obama in heated exchanges with Code Pink anti-war protester

  1 of 2. Protester Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the Code Pink activist group, interrupts U.S. President Barack Obama as he speaks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, May 23, ...

• Weird Al is at Mystic Lake in August

  Parody master Weird Al Yankovic will return to the Twin Cities on Aug. 3 to headline Mystic Lake Casino. Tickets are $39 and $31 and will go on sale at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 25, through Ticketmaster. Shows going on sale Friday, May 24, through Etix (unless otherwise noted) include: -- New York indie rockers Vampire Weekend; 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5; Orpheum Theatre; $35; on sale at 10 a.m. through ...

• Braves rookie catcher takes long strange road to major league glory

  Atlanta Braves pinch hitter Evan Gattis (24) celebrates after putting his team ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers with a two-run home run in the eighth inning of a game on Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Atlanta. (John ...

• Mana candidate true man of the people

  New Mana candidate for Ikaroa-Rawhiti, Te Hamua Nikora, says he is a different breed of politician who can engage young Maori with political issues and be a true man of the people. "I'm different in that I've never been a politician but I've been politically thinking my whole life. I'm different in that I dress the same, I walk the same and I talk the same as the people on the coalface," he said ...

• Fugitive in LA attempted-murder case held in Colo.

  LOS ANGELES -; A man who has been wanted in Los Angeles on attempted-murder charges for 13 years has been taken into custody in Colorado after being arrested for urinating in ...

• Star Wars Lego Model Is Worlds Largest

  The unveiling of a massive Lego model in Times Square has brought new meaning to the saying that everything is bigger in New York City. The model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter - the largest Lego model ever built - was given its public debut on Thursday. Made out of a whopping 5.3 million Lego pieces, the craft weighs in at nearly 46,000lbs and is 43 feet (13.1 metres) long. Its wingspan ...

• Hubble telescope gives new view of iconic cosmic object

  NASA says the Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a new twist on the Ring Nebula, a cosmic object so iconic it's a popular illustration for astronomy books. Hubble has revealed the true shape of the nebula, the glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, sun-like star, the space agency reported Thursday. The nebula's apparent ring shape is a result of perspective but the Hubble images ...

• ODD NEWS Crane accident cuts power to one-third of Vietnam

  Having read the news item "Jordan’s ambassador to Macedonia presents credentials" (The Jordan Times, May 23, 2013), I would like to stress that no such country is a member of the United ...

• Psy Imposter Crashes Cannes VIP Parties

  A man pretending to be South Korean pop star Psy has blagged his way into some of the biggest parties at the Cannes film festival, it has emerged. The imposter bears a resemblance to the Gangnam Style singer and had been spotted at VIP events at the world famous festival. He partied with stars, picked up freebies, danced on a French TV show, and even signed a deal to take part in a Monaco ...

• Rebecca St. James Looking for Wide Release of Her Film A Strange Brand of Happy

  Christian singer-songwriter and actress Rebecca St. James will be in "A Strange Brand of Happy," a movie slated for limited release this fall, but St. James is hoping to change ...

• Mike Wyatt Determination humor help overcome diagnosis

  When it comes to testicular cancer, commercial real estate broker Mike Wyatt has been there, done that, got the T-shirt. Wyatt, an executive vice president in the Dallas office of Cushman & Wakefield of Texas, was diagnosed in 1994, at age 31. When you hear the C word, it strikes terror all the way through to your bone marrow, Wyatt said. Eighteen years ago, the world was a different place. ...

• Sergio Garcia Tiger Woods fried chicken racism row takes fresh twist after coloured athletes comment

  The racism row involving Sergio Garcia and Tiger Woods took a fresh twist today following comments from European Tour chief executive George ...

• Hamburgers for life reward to man who helped Ohio kidnap victims

  CLEVELAND (Reuters) - The man made famous for putting down his Big Mac to help free three women held captive for about a decade in a Cleveland house will never have to buy a hamburger in his hometown ...

• Freedom to give away Teo girlfriend bobblehead Thursday

  will present the boxed bobblehead to the first 1,000 fans through the gates. The box will be empty. "This will be the best kind of bobblehead a fan could get," Freedom General Manager Josh Anderson ...

• Authorities Bar put dye in rubbing alcohol served it as scotch

  That's one of the details released Thursday about an investigation dubbed "Operation Swill." Twenty-nine bars and restaurants in the state are accused of putting cheap booze in premium brand liquor bottles and selling it to patrons who thought they were buying the good stuff. Officials would not say which bar used the rubbing alcohol. But they say no health issues were ...

• Strange Dark Matter Interactions Could Create Galactic Disks and Dark Light

  A small percentage of the dark matter in our universe might be able to interact with itself through an as-of-yet unknown dark force, forming dark atoms and possibly even emitting dark light. Lest you think theoretical physicists have gone completely off the deep end, this form of dark matter, called double-disk dark matter, has some specific cosmological consequences that astronomers could ...

• Norway crime novelist talks his way to live interview record

  OSLO (Reuters) - Defying the stereotype of the tight-lipped Scandinavian, popular Norwegian crime writer Hans Olav Lahlum set the world record for the longest interview on Thursday after spending more than 30 non-stop hours chatting in an online ...

• The True Cost Of Gasoline Memorial Day Driving By The Numbers

  35 million Americans are preparing to travel 50 miles or more this weekend, with nearly 90 percent of travelers filling up their tanks with expensive gasoline or diesel fuel to drive to their destination, the Center for American Progress released ...

• Humour helps says Sir Don

  A sense of humour is the key to ending civil war, negotiating military coups and being a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, says Sir Don McKinnon, who took top honours at the 2013 World Class New Zealand Awards last night. The former Deputy Prime Minister, Commonwealth Secretary-General and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister was among nine of the country's most inspirational figures recognised at a gala ...

• 84-year-old NM woman indicted for drug trafficking

  http://bit.ly/10pHzTh ) that Lillie Smith was recently indicted by a Bernalillo County grand jury for trafficking, conspiracy to commit trafficking, tampering with evidence and ...

• Fresh twist in Garcia saga

  The racism row surrounding Sergio Garcia took another twist this afternoon when European Tour chief executive George O'Grady used the phrase "coloured athletes" when discussing the decision not to sanction the Spaniard.Garcia issued an unreserved apology following a comment about world number one Tiger Woods at the Tour's annual dinner on Tuesday night which could be ...

• Durbin strange bedfellows eye wealthy farmers subsidies

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration said Monday it wants to see more cuts to agriculture subsidies in a massive farm bill moving ...

• 3 council members abstain from vote on abstaining

  YPSILANTI, Mich. (AP) -- Three City Council members in Michigan have abstained from voting on a measure that would have prevented them from abstaining on future ...

• Daft Punk Eyeball Dance John Edward Doyle Has A Weird Wonderful Talent

  Everyone has a special talent. John Edward Doyle's is giving us all Daft Punk-scored nightmares. Via Blame It On The ...

• Dad Makes Video of a Ridiculous Conversation with His Kid But with a Twist

  Hey, dads out there: do you ever feel like your kid is getting in the middle of your conversations with your spouse? So much so, that it may as well just be another man in the house instead of your sweet, adorable child? Here’s what you’re about to see: ';Actual conversations with my 2 year old daughter, as re-enacted by me and another full grown man.'; Creator Matthew ...

• Race Intelligence and Genetics For Curious Dummies

  Last week there was some debate acros the blogosphere about Race and IQ (again) much of springing from thecontroversyof Jason Richwine's ...

• Missing women hero gets burgers for life

  The man who famously put down his Big Mac to help rescue three women held captive for a decade in an Ohio house will never have to pay for another burger in his ...

• Teen finds worm in McMuffin

  "I looked down at my food and saw something that looked like a vein of fat and so I pulled on it and just kept coming and coming out and then it snapped into my finger and then there was half of a worm," he told Phoenix TV station ...

• Spectacular tech firsts up for auction

  A treasure trove of rarities, oddities and tech "firsts" has been brought together -- including an experimental 17th century mechanical calculator, a 108-year-old telephone and an incredibly rare, headline-grabbing Apple 1 computer -- to be sold at auction Friday in Cologne, ...

• Man builds pirate ship sells it on Craigslist

  With its skull-and-cross-bones flag flapping in the wind, and swashbuckling captain at the helm, this is perhaps the last boat you'd expect to find on America's most famous inland waterway. But the 12-meter Gypsy Rose II is just one of six pirate ships built by 54-year-old Captain Tim Woodson and setting sail on the iconic river. Now the buccaneering boat has been sold to the History ...

• Prosecutor in Berlusconi sex trial receives mail with bullets

  Silvio Berlusconi 's sex trial has received a series of anonymous letters of threats, including one with two bullets, Milan's chief prosecutor said ...

• US man held after pocket-dialing 911 while plotting murder

  Scott Simon mistakenly pocket-dialed 911 as he planned a killing earlier in May 2013, enabling an emergency dispatch system to record his conversation and link him to the ...

• Ad break Peugeots Wacky Races Heineken adds some Irish humour

  For the second week running, we have a very silly film directed by ace US director Baker Smith. In last week's Ad Break, he presided over a sordid scene in a winery so it's a relief to see that his latest film is altogether more wholesome: the Aflac duck's recovery after an injury is improved by the peace of mind provided by the insurance company that gave it its nameand a ...

• Surgeons remove tigers basketball-sized 4-pound hairball

  CLEARWATER, Fla. – It's not unusual for a cat to get a hairball, but a 400-pound tiger needed help from veterinary surgeons in Florida when he couldn't hack up a basketball-size hairball by himself. The 17-year-old tiger named Ty underwent the procedure Wednesday at a veterinary center in the Tampa Bay area community of Clearwater. Doctors said in a statement that they safely ...

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