Apr 11 2008
A man who broke his girlfriend’s leg in a compensation scam designed to snare more than $200,000 has been jailed for three years. Gordon Thomson, from Plymouth, UK, snapped his girlfriend Elizabeth Hingston’s leg and then planned to sue his...
Apr 9 2008
Oh… oh my. This is a running-powered bicycle (although technically, it’s a tricycle, which gives it even less dignity). There are no pedals; instead, you run with the seat jammed up in your crotch and hop on the foot holds when you get enough...
Apr 9 2008
African governments are nervously confronting a mounting wave of often deadly social unrest caused by the soaring cost of food and fuel. Forty people died during price riots in Cameroon in February. There also have been deadly troubles in Ivory Coast...
Apr 9 2008
Zimbabwe’s impeccably dressed President Robert Mugabe can’t shop at Savile Row and Harrods anymore. The security minister’s sons were thrown out of an Australian university. The foreign bank accounts of dozens of top officials have...
Apr 8 2008
They came back from a one-day series win in Australia with proclamations of how the future was bright, the future was Indian. They forgot that nothing comes cheaper than talk, especially when it isn’t backed up by ceaseless commitment. The wake-up...
Apr 7 2008
Incumbent Filip Vujanovic on Sunday won Montenegro’s first presidential elections since it split from Serbia two years ago, according to an independent vote monitoring group. Vujanovic won 51.4 percent of the vote, pro-Serb challenger Andrija...
Apr 5 2008
For married women who can’t figure out why they always have so much housework researchers may have the answer — husbands. A new study from the University of Michigan shows that having a husband creates an extra seven hours of extra...
Mar 31 2008
A small plane crashed into a residential area south of London on Sunday, killing five people and completely destroying a house, police and rescue officials said. Fire and police officials said they had found no survivors amid the flaming wreckage....
Mar 24 2008
Barbaric, mutilation, child abuse, freaks, nutters, obsessives. The language on both sides of the debate about infant male circumcision is not always temperate. Put together new-born boys, their penises, knives and two of the world’s oldest...
Mar 18 2008
A new points-based immigration system in Britain may make it harder for developing countries to export software systems to the country, India’s trade minister said in an interview published Monday. Speaking to the Financial Times, Kamal Nath...