The News of the World newspaper maybe no more, but the domain lives on, as these things tend to in Cyberspace.
Now the domain is up for sale.
"We don't need it," said James Murdoch of News International. "It's a kind of albatross now. We want r...
Going-out-of-business sales began Friday at Borders stores from coast to coast. In all, 399 stores are lighting the fuse on a fire sale expected to be as quick and painless as possible for the majestic old book retailer.
HIlco Merchant Resources...
Cambridge, England-- Famed physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking is launching a new career as a singer. The wheel-chair bound genius sings 10 songs on a new CD, with his eerie electronic voice. The background music is from a Moog synthesizer, giving the so...
Every day of the week is to be renamed Monday 1, Monday 2, and so on up to Monday 7 following preliminary findings by a team of expert alcoholic scientists carrying out a government backed study into the rise of alcohol related problems in British so...
London - Her favorite bar stool is draped in back silk tonight with the legend 'Amy Winehouse 1983-2011' in gilt (sic) letters confirming the tragedy.
At her favorite NW1 watering hole this evening the atmosphere is grim as news of her death rocks...
UPDATE: The 2011 fantasy football season will go on as scheduled, thanks to an agreement reached between players, owners and fantasy owners.
Fantasy Owners crashed the negotiations In Washington Sunday.
"It was the first serious and productiv...
Unconfirmed reports are filtering through that 27 year old diva, Amy Winehouse has been found dead in her North London flat. The Back To Black singer had a history of drug and alcohol problems.
Amy had a fantastic future ahead of her, but she lived the punk dream and blew it.
It was a tragic end for a potentially brilliant artiste; Rehab, and Valerie, becoming R&B classics, but drugs and...
Ascot - Another racing disaster struck today following the abject failure of talked-up royal nag Carlton House in the Epsom Derby seven weeks ago.
Punters at Ascot racecourse were left reeling as King George second favorite Rewilding, ridden by Fr...
A massive glob of water 140 trillion times the volume of the earth's oceans was recently discovered 12 billion light years away surrounding a quasar in deep space.
The revelation proves water is prevalent throughout the universe, even in its most...
(LSM) - Fresh on the heels of Mayim Bialik's (Big Bang Theory star) admission that she is actually a scientist, Cosmologist Stephen Hawking has admitted that he is actually a method actor who has spent the last 60+ years been preparing for the role i...
The Executive Branch of the US Government filed a petition with the Judicial Branch yesterday, requesting a divorce from the Legislative Branch.
Obama cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for wanting a legal split from Congress.
The...
A 32 year old Norwegian man has been arrested following a bomb blast in Oslo, and a spree killing episode on the holiday island of Utoya which has left at least 92 people dead.
Norwegians are understandably shocked and horrified by the events which took place in their country, a nation renowned for its tolerance and high standards.
Early reports indicate that the man who planted the bomb and...
A possible contender for the 2011 Ignoble prize is the study by Phil Dupp and Terry Soranje in which they have discovered that fat people are better at finding hidden food than thin people.
"It's a linear scale," said Soranje. "The fatter you get,...
There is currently an intense debate in the Behavioural and Cognitive Science field over the reliability of memory.
On one side of the debate are those who believe that everything we see, do, touch, smell or hear goes into memory somewhere although not all of it can be retrieved. On the other side are those that think that memory is malleable, approximated and unreliable.
"I seem to recall r...
It is morning. Escalating terrace of blank cloud. I put on the CD.
How many times have I done this?
How many times have my thoughts, in my head, run as a backdrop to the music that I listen to?
Is my life a Godard film, soundtracked by the sounds I have heard since I started listening to music, me, in the grim 70's?
If I could hold myself up, and look at my own thoughts, would I thin...
To raise the debt ceiling or not to raise the debt ceiling that is the question. To be or not to be an economy killer that is the question. Woody Allen said that politicians are one step below child molesters. Perhaps the time has come for a constitutional amendment requiring our politicians to wear the logos of their endorsers and contributors on their suits and helmets like Indy Car drivers so w...
Eric Cantor took the podium at a press conference yesterday to announce The Tea Party Plus Pissant Pledge (PPP). Cantor originally denied being a Pissant* but with the universal acclaim of the Tea Party caucus for his new status, he is now embracing...
Prime Minister, David "Do Nothing Dave" Cameron, and Deputy PM Nick "Does My Bum Look Big In These Trousers?" Clegg appear all set to authorise the export of some mediocre British weather to the Americans.
In recent days, temperatures in the USA h...
Isle of Wight council members voted in favour of leasing the island and turning it into a millionaires playground. With just one vote against, from Mrs Scongle, of the Nell Gwyn tea rooms, the plans have been drawn up and will be actioned without del...
Some say we all have a dash of narcissistic trait, but shrinks do not classify us as psychopaths; we have fallen short of the standard threshold of personality disorder!
Anyway, the signs and symptoms of legit narcissism are too many: seductive, critical of others, cruel, envious, no sense of humor, hypersensitive to criticism, religious, authoritarian, amoral, contemptuous, feel entitled, gra...
MANHATTAN - After having an exhaustive on-again, off-again May-December relationship with Sean Penn, Scarlett Johansson has finally dumped the 50-year-old for good.
ScarJo told Vodka Vermicelli of iRumors that she just got fed up with the way that...
Public records reveal two big pharmaceutical companies have been the largest contributor to playground safety projects in the world over a 30-year period, donating more than $900 million to the cause.
The U.S. Government and State Governments com...
Thomas S. Ricketts announced today the franchise of the Chicago Cubs are considering a league-switch which would radically affect Major League Baseball's current alignments.
Ricketts is in negotiations with Major League Soccer to merge the Cubs f...
Reports are coming out of Phuket that Queens Park Rangers have offered a trial to Thailand striker Supaporn Massage.
Supaporn, who has partnered new signing Robbie Fowler at Muang Thong United, has been told that she has an opportunity to play in...