The Economist: Entrepreneur Milo Minderbinder, who made his money as a war profiteer during World War II, offered to bail out Greece to prevent them from defaulting on their debt. During the war, Minderbinder was the mess officer at an American air...
PALM BEACH, Florida - The man who makes his living being the nation's number one undercover sleuth has himself now been caught with his pants down under the covers so to speak.
Chris Hansen, who stars in the reality show To Catch A Predator was ca...
HOLLYWOOD HILLS - Paris Hilton, the nation's number one socialite who has become very famous for actually doing nothing has just made a startling announcement.
Paris "I'm Hot" Hilton revealed to Bedroom Pillow Talk's Gazebo Serengeti that she want...
Yesterday I said goodbye to the last class I will teach
Yes I've retired but stuck it out - put the bit between my teeth.
I started out in England in 1973
Three years of teachers' college there
Was more than enough for me.
My teaching job I did enjoy
Each little girl, each little boy
Some keen to learn,some keen to play.
I enjoyed each and every day.
And then I moved to Canada
Wher...
Local Man, and Seasonal Hayfever Sufferer, Seaton Carew Today Nearly Became the victim of a potentially day-changing health scare.
Carew, 41 and currently on holiday in Egypt, woke in his hotel bed to the sounds of fake lawn mowers cutting the fak...
A French couple who work in a French zoo (it's logical I suppose), have decided to adopt a gorilla which they have bought up from within the zoo compound.
Now, after adoption, the gorilla named Digit works in the daytime entertaining the crowds an...
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, better known as Prince William and Kate, have begun their first ever official tour as a royal couple. The destination is Canadia, which has seen a slide in the popularity of the Royal Family lately.
Two years ago...
China is well known for producing cheap knock-off replicas of high quality prestigious products. Its jPhone is like an iPhone that works even less well. Its Coca-Cora is like the drink you know but with traces of toxic chemicals that give it a unique...
The earliest New World humans not only may have hunted enormous beasts such as mammoths and mastodons, but they may also have been hunted by ice age Sabre-Toothed Tigers in return, according to researchers at the Smyths Institution and the San Antoni...
There has been some heated debate among the proletariat masses regarding just who would be striking against government cuts, as part of the country wide industrial inaction.
The Spoof writers, who, it is fair to say, enjoy a good mass-debate over...
London - Updated personal profile pics released ahead of his revamped BSkyB bid show Rupert Murdoch looking increasingly like the Total Recall mutant Kuato.
The octogenarian media marauder's shrinking face has become eerily reminiscent of the 1990...
London - Fans of her Priscilla Presley wedding pics hairdo that frightened off American X-F*ctor are having none of it, of course.
But today's official launch of a revamped blondish Cheryl Cole is nothing more than a £500 hairpiece stunt.
"Look...
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Dear Editor,
I know people talk all the time about how dull us elderly folk are, and about how we're forever harping on about the good old days, but I make no excuses for calling for the reintroduction of rationing. It never did us any harm, during or after the war, and you didn't see fat kids lolloping about back then. I genuinely believe that youngsters today would be far healthier...
Brian Camden of Salford has found a loop hole in succession law that could see the end of the Windsor dynasty. The upshot of this is that despite waiting for decades, Charles will never attain the throne.
"I've been studying succession law," said...
Rival politicians, keen on derailing the Obama-train are reporting that when Obama was in high school, he stole pistols from military bases, and used the pistols in commission of a robbery.
He would apparently rob wads of cash from the banks, wear...
A pair of black silk knickers belonging to Lady Margaret Thatcher fetched £25,000 at a charity auction organised by Sir Geoffrey Archer this week.
Mrs Thatcher first wore the 'lucky' knickers on the night the Belgrano was sunk in 1982 and had the...
Police were called to a recording of popular BBC programme The Antiques Roadshow this morning when a scuffle broke out over a couple's claim they were being conned.
Ken and Liz Bonkers went to the recording, at Kew Palace, hoping to get a valuatio...
'We tried so many times to penetrate the compound. I sent three but they all died trying, said a tearful Mr Lowton.'
But that was during peace-during a civil war it had to be easier. At my first and only office party. I drew the short straw and went disguised as a cat and after several adventures which I may describe later, I wandered into the compound of the Guddayfis which is somewhere aroun...
Unfancied South Yorkshire club, Barnsley, have shocked their doubting fans by storming to the top of the Championship weeks before the race for the title has really got going.
The Oakwell club were favourites for relegation at the end of last seas...
Andy Murray eased past Spain's Feliciano Lopez to reach his third successive Wimbledon Men's semi-final, and set up another meeting with Rafael Nadal, who was said to be shitting himself at the prospect.
British number one Murray dominated from th...
Everybody's doin' it. Getting married, that is. Gays, straights, whatever. No matter. Marriage is suddenly the "in" thing.
The rush to the altar is nowhere more prevalent than in NYC, the largest city in the state of NY. Marriage resources a...
LOS ANGELES - The final four singers on The Voice came down to the final two; Dia Frampton and Javier Colon [pronounced PER-FUME]. The Las Vegas oddsmakers had pegged Javier to take the top prize and the Tucson oddsmakers had pegged Dia to win it all...
HAWAIIAN GARDENS, California - Justin Theroux was in Hawaiian Gardens when he was confronted by a reporter and asked about his relationship with Jennifer Aniston.
Theroux informed the reporter identified as Vodka Vermicelli of iRumors that he was...
North Korea can be blamed for the current global financial crisis after classified documents released by the IMF clearly show that a certain Mr Damani Maru aka Mr Kim Jong Il, sent millions of emails around the world begging for money.
A bored Mr...
LOS ANGELES - Shia LaBeouf starred with Megan Fox in the first and second Transformer movies And he admits that he and foxy Fox had quite a passionate relationship throughout the entire filming of the movie.
LaBeouf was reminded by Tittle Tattle T...
Albany NY: Governor Andrew Cuomo called the New York (NY) State Legislature back into a special October 2011 session to deal with the alarming increase in the rate of same sex divorce. In June 2011 during the final hours of the session same sex marri...