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Men rob Internet cafe at gunpoint, forget to log out of Facebook Two men robbed an Internet cafe at gunpoint and proceeded to make a clean getaway on a motorcycle recently. One of them got caught anyway though — because he forgot to log out of his Facebook account ... which he'd...

Ain't the size of your sign that counts. The way Patty Akrouche tells the story, her Mother’s Day gift arrived a day early Saturday when her young son mounted a quiet counter-protest to the pickets of the Westboro Baptist Church. Nine-year-old Josef Miles and his mother were walking...

But they did capture a giant so all is not lost. Keep up the good work. The highway in Atlanta that opened up the emergency lane to traffic today? Yeah, that went well. "Just one more lane for people to drive stupid in." "It increased the commute by 25 minutes." Bonus: Giant arrested...

Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK each year creates greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 100,000 tonnes of CO2. The...

Canadian stimulus money goes to companies, people implicated in Quebec scandals MONTREAL—Some of the public money set aside for Canada’s economic recovery has ended up in the hands of companies and individuals accused of taking part in an elaborate collusion scheme in Quebec. An...

When sermons of Obama’s Chicago pastor, Jeremiah Wright, surfaced during the Iowa primaries, it threatened to derail Obama’s campaign. ABC aired one where Wright screamed, “Goddamn America!” Edward Klein interviewed Wright, who told him Obama’s team tried to buy his silence. ‘Man, the media...

By Warren Beatty Will Obama learn from Sweden? Will he learn from Canada? Or will he cling to the European socialist economic model that is currently failing? Sweden Anders Borg, Sweden's finance minister, reduced Sweden's...

George Lucas' rich neighbors don't want him building a movie studio in their backyard. His response is the best thing he's done in years. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, for four decades Lucas has owned a large swath of land in Marin County in the North San Francisco Bay and...

after BBC airs repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter is set to be paid thousands of pounds in royalties after the BBC aired a repeat of him performing on Top of the Pops in 1977. Viewers were left outraged by TV chiefs' decision to rerun the BBC2...

A group of defectors from Iran has cautioned that Iranian authorities believe the West has been lulled into a false sense of security by a fatwa — a pronouncement of Muslim law — by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has said that a “nuclear bomb is a sin in Islam.” It is...

Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar “to-do list” for creating jobs. “Each of the ideas on this list will help create jobs and build a stronger...

Christopher Doyon, a.k.a. Commander X, sits atop a hillside in an undisclosed location in Canada, watching a reporter and photographer make their way along a narrow path to join him, away from the prying eyes of law enforcement. It’s been a few weeks of encrypted emails back and forth...

OTTAWA — Canada’s embattled defence minister took to the airwaves Sunday to make his case that he did not mislead Canadians about the cost of the military mission to Libya. Defence Minister Peter MacKay said opposition parties and the media have tried to warp his words in recent days over...

At the turn of the 19th century it played host to the famed Klondike Gold Rush that drew thousands to the rugged wilderness in search of riches, but now the Yukon entertains a newer, more modern kind of mining rush. For the past two years, mineral exploration here has been through the...

Mayor Rob Ford says he didn’t campaign for office on a promise to scrap the 5-cent plastic bag fee but he now wants to get rid of it. Ford said on his Sunday radio talk show that the tax, introduced in June 2009, by then-mayor David Miller, has served its purpose. “This bag tax has been...

Alrighty then. A Seattle man fell 160 feet down a crevasse while back-country skiing near Whistler Resort in British Columbia on Friday, and amazingly came away with no injuries. Nikolai Popov, who described his experience on a hiking website, said he was headed for Mount Pattison with a...

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A suspected rhino poacher has been shot dead in the Kruger National Park, while two others have been arrested for killing a mother and her calf. South Africa is grappling with a surge of rhinos being killed for their horns, which are worth more than their weight in gold due to rising demand...

The first official British European Space Agency astronaut Tim Peake is being trained for a mission to land on an asteroid, it can be revealed. It is a space mission straight from the Hollywood film Armageddon. A team of astronauts are being trained to land on an asteroid to explore...

Judge orders the trial for Officer Manuel Ramos, charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter, and Cpl. Jay Cicinelli, accused of involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force. Following an emotionally charged hearing, an Orange County judge ruled that two...