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[ Johannesburg, 16 October 2007 ] - The National Defence Force is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday. SA National Defence Force spokesman brigadier general...

Bear making fake attacks towards a cool-as-ice berrypicking man in Sweden. Looks like a grizzly to me: I think I might have shat myself. :lol:

Do you believe? This goof does: http://www.wlwt.com/news/14355090/detail.html

Two Calgary students are in hospital with life-threatening injuries after their school bus crashed on a busy freeway in the city's southwest at the height of the Thursday-morning rush. An eight-year-old girl was found unconscious wedged between two seats. Rescuers said she suffered major...

Karlin's thread on mugs made in China reminded me of this story from the other day. MONTREAL -- Although it likes to boast about being ultra-Canadian, the Royal Canadian Mint has the cases for its collector's coin sets made in China. In fact, workers have to tear off the "Made in...

Yesiree Bob. Not only that, Congress gets a whopping 11%. Outstanding. And, George and his handlers tried to scare us again today by saying a nuclear Iran means WWIII. "The national telephone survey of 991 likely voters, conducted October 10 through October 14, found barely one-quarter...

This is a sure sign that society needs a swift kick in the head. :roll: Unless of course it's that rap/hip-hop garbage. :lol: A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees listen to radios at work. The action against the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier who said his Christian beliefs compelled him to love his enemies, not kill them, has been granted conscientious objector status and honorably discharged, a civil liberties group said on Tuesday...

It's not my fault. Nobody is responsible anymore. Sounds about right. Try eating less food and getting active. Individuals can no longer be held responsible for obesity and government must act to stop Britain "sleepwalking" into a crisis, a report has concluded. The largest ever UK...

If everyone else is doing it, the Brits can too. So there. :argue: :-P The UK is looking to claim sovereignty over a large area of the remote seabed off Antarctica. The claim for an area around British Antarctica is one of a number being prepared by the Foreign Office, a spokeswoman...

Intelligence is relative buddy. They designed and built the pyramids for one. Fury at DNA pioneer's theory: Africans are less intelligent than Westerners Celebrated scientist attacked for race comments: "All our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same...

Oh it's true alright. Seems class presidency is in the bag. Victory shall be his. :lol: Ipsos-Reid results: Steve 63% (Great or Good) Jack 57% Stephane 36% Gilles 15% Among other things, the poll said there appears to be no single deal-breaker issue that a majority of Canadians think...

How do you accidentally fire an anti-missle missle? :roll: DUBAI (Reuters) - A Patriot missile hit a farm in Qatar after being accidentally fired from a base used by U.S. forces in the Gulf Arab state, Al Jazeera television said on Tuesday. The Qatar-based television said the missile...

One of Britain's most senior police officers is to call for all drugs – including heroin and cocaine – to be legalised and urges the Government to declare an end to the "failed" war on illegal narcotics. Richard Brunstrom, the Chief Constable of North Wales, advocates an end to UK drug policy...

It's just a matter of time now you scumbag. A suspected pedophile who is the subject of a worldwide Interpol manhunt is a 32-year-old Canadian, Thai police said Tuesday. News agencies have identified him as Christopher Paul Neil...

Here we go. A MELBOURNE gay couple have travelled to the US to buy "designer twin boys" through a surrogate mother at a cost of up to $133,000. Brian Sheldon and Matthew Shaffer are one of several gay Victorian couples taking advantage of California's liberal IVF laws. The couple ordered...

Borrowed from another board. While i seriously doubt gray matter hemisphere dominance can be tested this easily, since in this case much depends on what part of the pic you focus first and in what stage you take a look at it, i still found this gif animation quite cool. It's not a loop because...

God bless them. And filmed it too. That's right. Asked her son "Hey buddy, are you stoned?". :roll: http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/1011072pot1.html

Ya gotta give it to this broad. She's tougher than most guys. But when she stirs things up, there's no half measures. Here's a link to the transcript from "The Big Idea" episode in the spotlight: She's explaining to Donny Deutsch (a Jew) how the Christians (like her) "just want Jews to be...

A breath of fresh reason here: Al Gore’s award-winning climate change documentary was littered with nine inconvenient untruths, a judge ruled yesterday. An Inconvenient Truth won plaudits from the environmental lobby and an Oscar from the film industry but was found wanting when it was...