It would seem that missing US soldier Wassef Ali Hassoun did not literally lose his head….but may have lost his head over a woman. A Lebanese-born US Marine is alive and free after having been thought to have been decapitated by his captors in Iraq, the hostage’s brother said on Tuesday. Wassef Ali Hassoun’s brother [...]
This could just about be the world’s worst job (via Bloghead). Terror suspect Abu Hamza has been given new hooks on the NHS – and a £30,000-a-year nurse to wipe his backside in jail. The Muslim extremist, who has no hands, was fitted with special £5,000 replacement hooks because it was feared his original metal [...]
This man runs the very real risk of having his hand chopped off. A Saudi man posing as a municipal worker used a bulldozer in an inept attempt to rob a bank’s automatic teller machine but fled when the police arrived, a local daily reported on Tuesday. The English-language Arab News said residents of the [...]
It’s Gephardt! No, it’s Edwards! This is either another Kerry flip-flop, or definitely the last time I take notice of a tabloid newspaper. Update: The NY Post have handled their monumental error in mature fashion – by deleting the original story and replacing it with the correct one, without reference to their mistake. But that [...]
Reuters have admitted to a blunder in a caption to this photo: Here is the original caption: An Israeli settler in the West Bank, a militant trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement and a Palestinian pursued by police in a Jerusalem car chase were killed on July 4, 2004. Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group [...]
Who said models aren’t industrious? Lawyers for an Israeli model have filed a request with tax authorities asking them to make the cost of plastic surgery tax deductible, Yediot Aharonot newspaper has reported. The model’s lawyers claim their client’s career is dependent on her maintaining her good looks, arguing that a precedent had been set [...]
