50 Cent sues Taco Bel
50 Cent has taken Taco Bell to court over claims the fast food chain used his name in an advertising campaign without his permission.
Healthy love for the game
A Robin Williams video, featuring an X-rated description of the tortures of playing golf, leaves most golfers in stitches, but a new study shows that his perceptions are way off the mark.
Stein on Obama's convention speech:
Summary: On Glenn Beck, Ben Stein, while discussing Sen. Barack Obama's plan to deliver his speech accepting the Democratic presidential nomination at Denver's Invesco Field, stated that he did not "like the idea of Senator Obama giving his acceptance speech in front of 75,000 wildly cheering people."
Okla. Crane Fall Kills Man Watching Construction
Church members watching the steeple being raised on their new building looked on in horror Thursday as a crane holding the structure toppled, crushing a car and killing a 79-year-old man who had been watching from inside the vehicle, firefighters said.
From Bonaparte to bin Laden: 100 years of the FBI
WASHINGTON (AFP) - In the 100 years since it was created on July 26, 1908, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation -- or FBI, as it is better known -- has grown from a few dozen detectives to a force of 30,000-plus.
Dwarf comedy stunt shocks Swedish airport staff
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Swedish airport staff were not amused when a team from a TV comedy show tried to check in a suitcase with a dwarf inside.
Arkansas Pulls Hundreds Of 'Racist' License Plates
"I couldn't imagine putting this on my car," motorist Alice Kunce said as she held up her "018-NGR" license plate.
TV ads cause carbon carnage
AUSTRALIAN television advertising is producing as much as 57 tonnes of carbon dioxide per hour, and thirty second ad breaks are among the worst offenders, according to audit figures from pitch consultants TrinityP3.
Burmese still waiting on $6m in aid
MORE than $US5.8 million ($5.94 million) in emergency aid for victims of Burma's cyclone Nargis is still to be released by donor countries, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said today.
OK! magazine's executive editor discusses their cover story on 17-year-old actress and new mom, Jamie Lynn Spears. Does the spread glamorize teen pregnancy?
When OK! Magazine announced 16-year-old Nickelodeon star Jamie Lynn Spears' pregnancy in December 2007, it was the best-selling issue since the magazine's American debut in 2005. "We knew it was a very big story, but it took us a little bit by surprise just how big the story became," says Rob Shuter, OK!'s executive editor. "The nightly news was talking about it."
Mustard request is met with the barrel of a gun
A Sandy man took offense to a motorist, who, after getting him to roll down his window, asked, "Excuse me, sir, do you have any Grey Poupon?
Paramedics on triple-0 calls used as taxi drivers
PARAMEDICS responding to emergency Triple-0 calls in Sydney's west are instead being used as de facto taxi drivers to local shops.
Northwest Airlines plane makes emergency landing at Dayton, Ohio; interrupts city's air show
DAYTON, Ohio (AP) _ A Northwest Airlines plane made an emergency landing Sunday at Dayton International Airport, interrupting the city's air show.
Fox 5 Reporter Turns Tables on Purse-Snatchers
Reporters are used to covering crime and talking to victims, but Fox 5's Tara Mergener ended up becoming a victim herself while on the job.
112-year-old Alabama man spends days at mental health residence drawing images from youth
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) _ Bent over or sitting at a table, gripping a ballpoint pen, marker or crayon, Frank Calloway spends his days turning visions from his youth into lively murals — and at 112 years old, the images of his childhood are a window to another time.
Marijuana Patches Found in Rolling Greens
OCALA — Two residents of a mobile home community — either unalarmed or unaware of the local crackdown on marijuana growing operations — were arrested Friday after authorities say they found pot plants growing on lots the residents oversee.
Passenger strips nude, tries to open an emergency exit door mid-flight
Craig Tornberg, general manager of the New England Revolution Major League Soccer team, shows a bottle of champagne, a gift from a flight attendant, as he describes the scene aboard an American Airlines flight, en route from Boston to Los Angeles, when a man emerged, naked, from a lavatory and had to be subdued by him and other team members, upon arrival at Los Angeles International Airport Friday, July 18, 2008. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
HOMEOWNERS must let council inspectors in to check for DANCING BEARS after they were handed 1,043 powers to pry.
Armies of clipboard-touting officials can demand entry to check on everything from pot plants to fridges.
Air hostess picks up chocolate bar, wins space trip
PARIS (Reuters) - A French air hostess will become one of Europe's pioneer space tourists after picking a chocolate wrapper out of the rubbish and finding a winning number in a competition to fly to the upper reaches of the earth's atmosphere.
CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on terror watch list
The post-9/11 airline watch list that is supposed to keep terrorists off of airplanes has swelled to more than 1 million names, including at least one investigative reporter who had been critical of the Transportation Security Agency, which maintains the watch list.
How much oil it'd take to buy the US
Most of us view the world through dollar glasses. It's perfectly reasonable. Dollars, after all, are the currency we use in daily life. And those lenses, until recently, were distinctly rosy.
PD: Off-duty officer falls asleep at wheel, hits 2 vehicles
An off-duty Phoenix police officer fell asleep while driving and caused a three-car collision Wednesday morning, landing her and another driver in the hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
TSA launches leak investigation
(CNN) -- Federal officers charged with keeping terrorists off planes are now searching their own ranks for staff who told CNN that few flights were protected by air marshals.
Aussie 'caught hiding heroin in undies'
AN Australian woman has been arrested at a southern Vietnam airport after customs officials allegedly found her hiding more than 73 grams of heroin in her underwear, state media said today.
