The apparently not-so-august London School of Economics has admitted awarding a doctorate to one of Moammar Gadhafi’s son after he offered $2.2 million to the school, even though he apparently plagiarized much of his dissertation. Gadhafi’s son Saif al-Islam has been accused of using a ghost writer to pen…
Continue reading …Bristol Palin is writing a memoir after all, and besides some dope on her famous mom, the tome will include a bit of dish on Dancing With the Stars and two-time Bristol heartbreaker Levin Johnstone. It looked for a time like Bristol’s memoir, announced briefly then yanked from mention on…
Continue reading …Pakistan’s minister for religious minorities was gunned down today in the country’s capital, AP reports. Shahbaz Bhatti, himself a member of the country’s Christian minority, had been threatened by Islamic militants in the past for calling for reforms of the country’s strict blasphemy laws, which impose the death penalty for…
Continue reading …European women will no longer be getting cheaper car insurance because of their sex’s safer driving habits. A European Union court has made it illegal for insurance companies to base premiums on gender-based risk assessment, CNN reports. Millions of women drivers, who previously enjoyed car insurance up to 50% cheaper…
Continue reading …An 11-year-old Thai girl called “wolf child” by some of her cruel classmates has been named the world’s hairiest girl in the Guinness Book of World Records (makes you wonder if there could possibly be a hairier boy out there)—and she’s delighted about it. A spot in the book…
Continue reading …Police are ripping apart a restaurant in Los Angeles County looking for the body of the owner’s missing wife. David Viens, who runs the Thyme Contemporary Cafe, has been arrested on suspicion of his wife’s murder, the Los Angeles Times reports. Viens expanded the cafe and added new floors and…
Continue reading …California police have removed Charlie Sheen’s twin sons from his Los Angeles mansion, the increasingly erratic actor has revealed. “This is not the America I grew up in,” he told NBC News last night. The boys, Bob and Max, who turn 2 this month, were returned to their mother, Brooke…
Continue reading …Mike Huckabee hasn’t joined the birthers but he seems a bit mixed up about President Obama’s life. The possible GOP presidential contender told a radio host earlier this week that Obama, “having grown up in Kenya,” might view the British as imperialists. Huckabee later said Obama had lived in Kenya…
Continue reading …Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a budget plan Tuesday that balances the Wisconsin’s budget by cutting more than $1 billion in state aid to schools and local governments. The Republican said the state is broke and the cuts are necessary to deal with a projected $3.6 billion deficit over the…
Continue reading …Watson, the IBM computer that took on and beat two of Jeopardy ‘s greatest players last month, lost a round of the game show yesterday to a surprising opponent: a US congressman. Rush Holt, a New Jersey Democrat, won $8,600 to the machine’s $6,200 in the first round…
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