Ew. When someone brags about improved quality of life in New York, pull out this video. One of the denizens of rats who share space with the city’s thousands of daily commuters frantically scurries about a subway car as one commuter films him. Passengers watch, sometimes lifting their feet to…
Continue reading …The governor of a French prison is likely to wind up behind bars himself for having sex with a female inmate who was used as “bait” in the horrific kidnap-murder of a Jewish man . Florent Goncalves has been suspended as governor of a women’s prison west of Paris for his…
Continue reading …Martha Stewart’s lip was slip by her French bulldog Francesca when she bent down to “whisper goodbye”—and she ended up in a hospital where she criticized the “dated” wallpaper. “I must have startled her, because she bolted upright with such force that she hit me in the face like…
Continue reading …Japanese people just aren’t having enough sex, laments the head of the country’s family planning association. A full 36% of Japanese men aged 16 to 19 say they’re uninterested in or averse to sex, according to a recent survey. That’s 19% more than just two years ago, and some 59%…
Continue reading …Incumbent Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has won a landslide victory in his party’s primary, but his defeated opponent warns that instability looms in Africa’s most populous country. Jonathan—who came to power when the elected president died last year —is a Christian from Nigeria’s south. His candidacy violates an internal…
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Retired US Airways Captain Chester “Sully” Sullenberger looks back on the “Miracle on the Hudson,” two years after he successfully landed a passenger jet in the Hudson River after its engines were disabled by bird strikes. (Jan. 14)
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Israel has apologized to reporters subjected to strip searches before they were allowed into a tony cocktail party press event that they were invited to by … Israeli officials. Pregnant Palestinian al-Jazeera reporter Najwan Simri Diab stripped down to her slip for a “15-minute groping” but then left in fury when…
Continue reading …Astronomers who say the Zodiac as we know it has been off for thousands of years because of wobbles in the Earth’s axis have a new sign to add. Star sign dates as people know them are wrong, according to the astronomers, and people born between November 29 and December…
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An icy road and foggy conditions on Thursday caused a multi-car collision in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila state, in northern Mexico. (Jan. 14)
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