Riyadh - "At last, a Sharia-compliant phone App that tells me when the coast is clear!" is how one twenty-something young Saudi male put it today as the government announced its latest electronic tagging system for wives.
The new device alerts Sa...
ATLANTA, Georgia (ABSNN) - The ever smiling Mike Rowe, host of the Discovery Channel's long-running "Dirty Jobs" announced the show would not continue after this year. However, Rowe is not out of a job at the Discovery Channel; he will host a new sh...
London - US networks have just picked up a fast-breaking British story about a fierce counter-intelligence op underway in London after risqué pics of a naked Prince William and a six foot eight squaddie 'doing what comes naturally' were leaked to the...
I well remember a holiday that I spent with my family in Cornwall when I was a boy. Oh, those glorious summer days when the whole of my body was covered in soft downy hair and I knew that I would grow up to be rich, or famous, or both.
About half-way through the holiday, Sally and myself went for a walk along the cliff tops. After an hour we stopped and sat on the grass, and gazed across the se...
Planetary astronomers are treading carefully after being labeled as planetists for using the term Dwarf Planet. The Technical Words Institute of Technology and Science, or T.W.I.T.S. for short, are protesting the derogatory nature of this astronomica...
Former Manchester City, Blackburn and Wales manager Mark Hughes has been shown the door by Queens Park Rangers after a terrible start to the season.
The Loftus Road club are currently doing a good impression of a veruca in as much as they're roote...
Many children in poor families are not eating proper meals because most of the food is eaten by their over-weight parents.
These parents are now being ordered to skip meals and take up skipping instead so that their starving kids will have a bit m...
President Mohamed Morsi, fresh from mediating a truce between Hamas and Israel, dismissed protests in Cairo and other Egyptian cities about his decision to give himself Godlike powers. Morsi has dismissed the opposition, sacked all army leaders and j...
Another opportunity for happiness missed because I am so stupid and clueless
With the possible exception of Karl Rove, I must be the stupidest, most clueless man in the United States. Belay that, mates, I am the stupidest, most clueless man on the Planet Earth!
Yesterday, being Thanksgiving, I had the day off from work, and after feasting on more calories than the average Sudanese child con...
The news that at least three people have been waiting for has arrived! Tests have shown that a full moon does not make the insane any more insane than they already are. This is great news for most of the readers of Back and to the Lefts news stories...
It started as just another day in the Queen's Jubilee year: a visit to Bristol. Her Majesty and the ubiquitous Phil began their tour at the Bailey caravan factory, marking its own 65th anniversary.
What they were unaware of was that Her Maj had a...
King Kong Suh is up to his old tricks again.
On Thanksgiving live national television, the Detroit Lions' defensive tackle put his foot squarely into the scrotum of Houston Texan QB Matt Schaub.
The act was more offensive than defensive, but N...
James 'Bonecrusher' Smith- Completely against the spirit and the laws of the game to crush opponents bones. Immediate disqualifications.
'Iron' Mike Tyson.- Self explanatory, he is made of Iron and therefore disqualified to compete in the human...
UK Foreign Secretary William Hague, he of the croaky voice and bumbling appearance, has told The Spoof that he has a second job. By day he masquerades as a politician, but at night his alter-ego is known as Baldness Boy.
"I wanted to keep this sid...
SILVER CITY, New Mexico (ABSNN) - Oddly enough, given the large number of guns and ammunition stores found in a gun shop, very few people have ever been shot in one, unless, of course, "they had it coming." Such was the case in this tiny New Mexico...
Although fans of Pink Floyd may be very "uncomfortably numb" with the news, One Direction and Little Mix, X-factor winners who have been noted for their extraordinary lack of any real talent, will be getting together to not play any instruments and n...
On the old TV series, Tom Corbett: Space Cadet, the main character used to say, "Aw, go blow your Jets."
Well, Mark Sanchez blew his Jets on Thanksgiving.
With fans wearing assorted turkey costumes at the game, we found the biggest turkey was...
Recapping Thursday's Football action
Texans 34, Lions 31: Lions coach Jim Schwartz is blindsided by an obscure rule that states throwing a challenge flag on Thanksgiving will result in the other team automatically being awarded a touchdown.
Redskins 38, Cowboys 31: Tony Romo insists in post-game interview that another Kenny Chesney set at the start of the third quarter would have been enough...
Hollywood, CA - Richard Gere, iconic star of mega blockbuster hits such as "Pretty Woman", "An Officer and a Gentleman" and a bunch of other crap that I think my mom probably still owns on VHS, finally found out about the decades-old urban legend tha...
NEW YORK CITY - Nicole Polizzi, better known as Snooki, is reportedly quite upset with Christina Aguilera of The Voice.
Polizzi, who just three months ago gave birth to a baby boy who she named Lorenzo Dominion Fettuccine LaValle, talked with Faji...
We here at The Spoof are dedicated to bringing you the most important World Events. Therefore we arranged for our top reporter on International Affairs to send dispatches from the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Unfortunately he was beheaded this morning...
Well, actually, make that plural: SECRETS. There's definitely more than one.
NASA is being tightlipped, only saying that the rover Curiosity has discovered something exciting that warrants further investigation. Supposedly more info is forth...
California officials are planning to reopen Alcatraz as a correctional facility by May, 2013. The shocking and sudden decision comes after the state officials announced California couldn't meet the U.S. Supreme Court ruling to remove tens of thousand...