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Here's the article, their link to the data tables and the .xls downloads if you're into that kind of thing. London, capital of the world A new study has found that the British capital outstrips 60 global rivals as an economic and cultural powerhouse By Simon Calder Published: 22 December...

...that's right.... (Here's the story. It's not exactly new but I must have missed the memo the first time around.) ....ASS OCTOBER 8--An Alabama minister who died in June of "accidental mechanical asphyxia" was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving...

Again, why people find what celebrities say as relevant and newsworthy, I'll never know. Most of them suffer from verbal diarrhea and brain farts. None the less, I simply report them kids, I do not endorse the use of any celebrity 'word'. By staff writers December 24, 2007 10:36am US...

2007/2008 Human Development Index rankings #1 Iceland #2 Norway #3 Australia #4 Canada #5 Ireland #6 Sweden #7 Switzerland #8 Japan #9 Netherlands #10 France Rest of list and more data here: http://hdr.undp.org/en/statistics/

Jumps to the other side: http://www.evelknievel.com/ http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/11/30/obit.knievel/index.html

This won't be pretty. LONDON (Reuters) - The personal details of half of all Britons have been mislaid by the government, Chancellor Alistair Darling said on Tuesday, in another major blow to an administration reeling from the Northern Rock banking debacle. The Conservatives accused...

Judges do have common sense after all. When do we get some too? CLAYTON -- A judge sentenced to 60 years in prison this morning a teenager who had pleaded guilty of kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting a neighbor in Spanish Lake on Nov. 11, 2005, when he was 13 and she was 6. St...

Ahhhhhh......:lol: When the U.S. Navy deploys a battle fleet on exercises, it takes the security of its aircraft carriers very seriously indeed. At least a dozen warships provide a physical guard while the technical wizardry of the world's only military superpower offers an invisible shield...

Have a gander at this guy: I'm half man.. HALF TREE EXCLUSIVE Deep in wilds of Indonesia sits Dede, a man whose body is a mass of gnarled root-like growths By Andrew Gregory 04/11/2007 http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/sunday/2007/11/04/i-m-half-man-half-tree-98487-20058521/

Here we go again. A Russian oil tanker has split in half during a severe storm near the Black Sea, spilling around 1,300 tonnes of fuel oil. A Russian official said it was a "very serious environmental disaster", which would take years to solve...

Not to worry, everything will be alright. President Pervez Musharraf has said he hopes new parliamentary elections can be held in Pakistan by 9 January. He tasked the Election Commission with preparing for the vote for national and regional assemblies, and said it was up to them to...

I'm not convinced this is appropriate but... Family members of five fallen soldiers arrived at Kandahar Air Field aboard a C-130 Hercules transport plane on Saturday to tour the Canadian base in southern Afghanistan and mark Remembrance Day...