May 19 2008
Bollywood superstar and Kolkata Knight Riders owner Shah Rukh Khan tonight expressed disappointment at the ICC Anti Corruption Unit barring him from going to the team dug out and dressing room in the remaining matches.
May 16 2008
Scientists hate God. Or find God very disturbing. In fact, modern science has found no evidence of God, and so it’s stupid to think God exists. The above statements are often presented as conventional wisdom, but are they true?
May 16 2008
Governments have changed. War erupted and ended. Neighbors had children, and then grandchildren. But Hedviga Golik never left her tiny apartment in Croatia’s capital — until her mummified body was carried out this week, 35 years after she died.
May 16 2008
Think twice before you sign up for an online service using a fake name or e-mail address. You could be committing a federal crime. Federal prosecutors turned to a novel interpretation of computer hacking law to indict a Missouri mother on charges...
May 16 2008
Sigurdur Hjartarson is missing a human penis. But he’s not worried: four men have promised to donate theirs to him when they die. Hjartarson is founder and owner of the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which offers visitors from around the world a...
May 16 2008
The United Nations sees renewed momentum for a global ban on cluster bombs as more than 100 nations — but not the world’s top users and stockpilers — gather in Dublin to finalize an anti-cluster munitions treaty. A top U.N. official...
May 16 2008
US President George W. Bush pressed Saudi Arabia to raise oil output on Friday, but the world’s biggest crude exporter said global supply is balanced with demand. The OPEC kingpin revealed it had hiked production by 300,000 barrels per day this...
May 16 2008
Myanmar said Friday more than 133,000 people were dead or missing in the cyclone disaster, nearly doubling the official toll two weeks after the storm left the country’s rice-growing south in ruins. The announcement came as Myanmar’s...
May 16 2008
Comedian and talk show host Ellen DeGeneres plans to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after a California court ruling allowing gay marriage. “I am announcing I am getting married,” DeGeneres, 50, told the audience...
May 14 2008
The United Nations is investigating allegations that its peacekeepers in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo committed sexual abuses, which aid workers said involved paying children for sex. The spokesman for the U.N. Mission in Congo (MONUC), Kemal...