Article Archive for August 2006
This Film Is Not Yet Rated, sets out to mock the American censor system.
The identity of the Motion Picture Association of America’s ratings board is secret. The reason that the members names are …
New Zealand music fans will miss out on a free download service announced yesterday, which will change the face of the music industry.
Universal Music, the world’s largest record company, yesterday shook up the industry …
A newsreader was caught with her pants down, as a microphone broadcast her toilet break live during a speech by US President George W Bush.
The conversation between CNN’s Kyra Phillips and another woman could …
According to an expert psychologist, today you are likely to have a blazing argument. The ominous day has been created by a mixturte of factors culminating, with the end of the Summer.
Relationship experts claim …
A new feature of the search engine’s online book programme, means that users will be able to download free copies of copyright free books.
For the last two years Google has been scanning a …
The actor Glen Ford was born in 1916, in Quebec, Canada, but at the age of seven the family moved to California, where Glen was to work for Will Rogers. The handsome, self affacing, …
Australian brothels are offering clients discounts based on their gas bills. If you are wondering if you have lost the plot, you have not.
There is no connection what so ever between petrol consumption, and the …
This little boy is Nepali, Khagendra Thapa Magar, he is hoping that he is little. He claims to the most vertically challenged in the world.
Nepal’s shortest boy is waiting for word from the Guinness …
Warren Jeffs, the polygamist leader of a Mormon offshoot sect, was arrested after a routine trafficstop. His gamble that the police would not do anything, has not paid off. It looks as though the U.S. …
An Italian pair of robbers, have been dubbed “Bonnie and Clyde” by police, as they lull passers by into a false sense of security.
They have robbed at last three people by using the same …
Naguib Mahfouz, the acclaimed Egyptian Nobel prize winner has died at the age of 94.
His published works span a period of nearly 80 years, but they do not expand further than a few blocks from …
No matter how cute a Swiss cow looks, never hug them, tourists are warned.
Avoid any eye contact, and keep your distance .
Responding to numerous “reports of unpleasant meetings between hikers and cattle” along Switzerland’s …
Roy Keane had an illustrious if controversial career, as a footballer. The former Ireland Captain and the Manchester United midfielder, left his new second dicvision club, Sunderland, in no doubt what they had to expect. …
According to World Health Organisation statistics, China is the only country in the world where more women commit suicide than men.
Every year, 1.5 million women attempt to take their own lives, and a further …
“Lassie” comes home once again in a new film close to the original, dark tale of the loyal collie and her boy in wartime England, instead of the sunny California of the long-running television series.
The …
71 percent of respondents in a recent Associated Press-Ipsos poll said the country is on the wrong track.This sense of despondency is beginning to affect the nation.
On this day, a year ago, Hurricane Katrina, hit …
