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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Ikea is being criticized for deleting images of women from the Saudi version of its furniture catalog, a move the company says it regrets. Comparing the Swedish and Saudi versions of the catalog, free newspaper Metro on Monday showed that women had been airbrushed out of...

France’s Socialist Government Announces Abortions Will Now Be 100% Free… via Zip (AFP) — France on Monday unveiled a package of reforms designed to increase access to abortion, including 100 percent reimbursement of medical costs by the state social security system. At present French...

a) Studied by others as how to treat scumbags b) Tossed in the 'who cares' department or according to the Globe and Mail c) A source of national embarrassment anyway, from our friends at sda: small dead animals: Next Time, Shoot to Kill Next Time, Shoot to Kill Oh, I don't know, maybe...

The body of Albert Chretien, who disappeared on a road trip to Las Vegas with his wife last spring, has finally been found, CBC News has confirmed. A pair of hunters came across Chretien's body on Saturday in a wooded area in Northern Elko County, Nevada officials said. His identity was...

Editor’s Note: This story contains a graphic photo from Univision’s Fast and Furious report. On Sunday night, the Spanish-language Univision News aired a “bombshell” hour-long report on their investigation into Operation Fast and Furious, revealing brand new evidence of international...

Of Columbia University ROTC Office While A Student… from Weasel Zippers: No wonder he is sympathetic to the New Black Panthers. Via Daily Caller: As a freshman at Columbia University in 1970, future Attorney General Eric Holder participated in a five-day occupation of an abandoned Naval...

Cell phone video: Man injured after robbery suspect opens fire - YouTube Hotel doorman shot after robbery; witnesses tackle gunman A suspected jewelry-store robber, wearing a white rubber mask and carrying a tray of platinum-colored rings, shot and wounded a hotel doorman Friday morning but...

PORTLAND, Maine (WHDH) -- A home video shows how quickly passers-by worked to get 84-year old Ursula Nixon to safety as her car sunk into the Portland harbor. Police said they have no idea what was behind the crash, but witnesses said it took just seconds for Nixon's car to run a stop...

NAPAVINE, Wash. – A 14-year-old Portland girl was driving under the influence when she crashed a minivan on Interstate 5 near Napavine early Sunday morning, police said. A 16-year-old girl and 51-year-old Stephan Hardy of Portland were also in the van when it crashed just after 3:30 a.m...

When I listened to Mark Steyn's After America, I thought the breakup of the US was one of his crazier predictions. An example claim is that, given our current trajectories, why would Texas want to hang around to help absorb the fiscal collapse of Illinois and California? "Right, Mark," I...

Their mods asleep or wut? Most of our sniffers come from there and India. Ain't no secret man. Chinese hackers break in to White House military office network in charge of the president’s nuclear football Hackers linked to China’s government broke into one of the U.S. government’s most...

Just two months after an engine cracked and failed during test aboard a Boeing 787, federal plane inspectors have found a second engine problem on a different Dreamliner, the National Transportation Safety Board announced. The NTSB identified the problem as a cracked fan midshaft on a...

Certainly star metal anyway. A Buddhist statue brought to Germany from Tibet by a Nazi-backed expedition has been confirmed as having an extraterrestrial origin. Known as the ‘iron man’, the 24-centimetre-high sculpture may represent the god Vaiśravaṇa and was likely created from a piece...

Four-hundred pounds of marijuana wash ashore, authorities quickly recover all three-hundred-seventy-five pounds (w/pic of what three-hundred pounds of pot looks like) via Fark, man. JUPITER, Fla. - Authorities are investigating after about 400 pounds of marijuana valued at...

Sounds like an excellent idea. Farrakhan Defends Integration of Scientology’s Dianetics Into Nation of Islam Theology: ‘A Tool That I Can Use to Help Our People’ Last week, the Minister Louis Farrakhan held his “#AskFarrakhan Townhall,” a live streamed event during which the...

What's with these morons anyway? Shots were allegedly fired on Saturday night outside the taping of the BET Hip Hop Awards in Atlanta following a shoving match that broke out backstage between rappers Young Jeezy and Rick Ross. According to TMZ sources, the two performers exchanged heated...

via sda “We get almost no return for our education investment" small dead animals: ?We get almost no return for our education investment" Yesterday the annual summary of SAT—formerly Scholastic Aptitude Test—scores came out, and the news was once again disheartening. Indeed, average...

not to issue lay-off notices in October via sda We Can't Have any Bad News First comment at Protein Wisdom's take on gov't bribery.So, the government is going to provide the funds to pay the fines they impose on the contractors for non-compliance with regulations written...

Outstanding. MONTREAL - Quebec's human rights commission fined the province's public security ministry $10,000 for not reasonably accommodating a morbidly obese detainee who weighed 430 pounds. The human rights commission also ordered the security ministry to renovate two of its...

Guantanamo prisoner Omar Khadr, the Toronto-born detainee whose decade-long case has bitterly divided Canadians, is on his way home to serve the remainder of his sentence. The Toronto Star has learned that the 26-year-old prisoner was flown off the U.S. Naval base on Cuba’s southeast...