Groucho Marx
“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.” (The essential Groucho)
Albert Einstein
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
Zombie Alert: Man Throws His Own Intestines At Police
On Saturday, a grisly attack left a Miami, Florida man in critical condition after 75% of his face was gnawed off by a naked man who was shot dead by…
China detains hundreds in Lhasa after self-immolations
Hundreds of people have been detained in Lhasa after two men set themselves on fire in the Tibetan regional capital on Sunday in protest against Chinese rule, a US-based broadcaster…
Euro collapse could halve luxury London home prices
(Reuters) – Prices of the best central London homes could halve if the euro zone breaks up, as the safe-haven appeal of sterling disappears and weaker European currenciesgive rise to…
Sky joins in Pirate Bay blocking
Sky has become the latest major broadband provider to block access to the Pirate Bay, one of the largest filesharing websites, which is accused of copyright infringement on a massive…
UN report: UK cuts to have a ‘catastrophic’ effect on child poverty
The Government’s spending cuts will have a “catastrophic” effect on British children, a UN agency has warned, endangering their future health, education and employment. Click HERE to view graphic…
Greek suicide epidemic continues: Debt-strapped pensioner PUBLICLY hangs himself
A 61-year-old Greek pensioner has hung himself from a tree in a public park after succumbing to the pressure of crushing debt. A note in his pocket indicates he is…
Was Flame super-virus created in the US? Cyber weapon threatening to cripple entire nations has hallmarks of the NSA
Cyber experts: Spyware too sophisticated to have come from anywhere else. The Flame computer virus which is threatening to bring countries to a standstill is too sophisticated to have been…
Tibet continues to burn: Mother of three torches self to death
DHARAMSHALA, May 30: A mother of three young children has torched herself to death in an apparent protest against China’s continued occupation of Tibet, today. Rikyo, 33, set herself on…
British aid worker kidnapped in Sudan freed after 86 days
A British aid worker kidnapped nearly three months ago in Sudan’s Darfur region has been freed. “After 86 days in captivity in the South Darfur region of Sudan, British aid…
Iceland Property Bubble Grows With Currency Controls
Iceland’s crisis-management policies are creating the island’s next property bubble less than four years after its banking meltdown threw the economy into its worst recession. Prices for new homes touched…
Dead on arrival? Dutch Parliament kills ACTA before EU vote
Lawmakers in Holland have voted to strike down the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), slammed by many as a free speech and information access choker. Dutch MPs have also ruled…
Facebook shares plumb new depths, valuation questioned
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Incshares slid below $29 to a new low on Tuesday as nervous investors fled the company’s shares, concerned about the social network’s long-term business prospects…
IMF chief Christine Lagarde pays NO TAX on her £300,000 salary
Questioned about Greek crisis head of IMF said country can help itself collectively ‘by paying all their tax’ Suggests that IMF’s money would be better spent on African children than…
Adoption from Africa: Concern over dramatic rise
The number of children from Africa being adopted by foreign nationals from other continents has risen dramatically, a report has said. In the past eight years, international adoptions increased by…
Tensions Rise as Tiananmen Anniversary and Tibetan Holiday Approach
As the summer heat builds in Beijing, so too, traditionally, does the tension leading up to June 4, the anniversary of the night in 1989 when democracy protests at Tiananmen…
Flame virus: who is behind the world’s most complicated espionage software?
Flame, a newly-discovered computer virus built for espionage has been named as the most complicated piece of malicious software ever created, and speculation as to who is behind it is…
Peru declares state of emergency after two killed in mining protests
Protesters say the Tinaya copper mine owned by Xstrata plc is contaminating local water supplies and sickening animals. Peru‘s government has declared a 30-day state of emergency in a highland…
‘Vatileaks’ scandal widens
Paolo Gabriele says he will co-operate over confidential documents allegedly found at his home. One of the Vatican‘s biggest scandals in decades has widened, with the pope’s butler agreeing to…
Egypt Election Candidate Shafiq’s HQ Attacked
Protesters have set fire to the headquarters of Egyptian presidential run-off candidate Ahmed Shafiq – an ex-prime minister under the ousted regime of Hosni Mubarak. “We were inside when they…
E-Batmen to the rescue: Craigslist, Reddit onboard Internet Defense League
Inspired by fruitful virtual protests against the SOPA and PIPA online piracy bills, Internet activists have united their forces and formed an organization to protect the web from “bad laws…
Two Tibetans set themselves on fire in Lhasa
Two men engulfed themselves in towering flames outside a temple that is a popular tourist site in Lhasa, marking the first time a recent wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese…
UFO sighting by RAF pilot dubbed ‘Saucer Sam’ in 1952 left government’s chief scientist ‘convinced’ we are not alone
A UFO sighting was deemed so credible it convinced a government minister who investigated it. The sighting by an RAF fighter pilot on a training mission over West Germany in…
Bradley Manning defence team says US military is withholding key evidence
Military’s delay in searching through files and handing them over is denying Manning a fair trial, defence attorney argues. Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the biggest leak…
Google knew camera car software could capture online data
Google knew that software installed in its camera cars could capture and store the online data of millions of people, including emails, text messages and images, when it sent them…
Breaking: Unconfirmed reports of self-immolation protest in Lhasa
DHARAMSHALA, May 27: Phayul is receiving unconfirmed reports of a self-immolation protest in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital city today. Although Phayul as of now cannot independently confirm the reports, but sources…
How more and more Britons are paying Indian women to become surrogate mothers
The full scale of the surrogacy industry in India being used by Britons to become parents can be revealed. There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in…
Canada protest spreads as arrest list hits 2,500 benchmark
Ontario students have pledged to take to the streets in solidarity with their protesting fellows in Montreal and other cities of Quebec. The students are defying emergency laws the authorities…
Rock music under threat as small venues go bust
It has been a weekend of Polish hip-hop and drum and bass at the Bongo Club. But even when you throw in the rock’n'roll ping pong, it won’t be enough…
How Saint Bob became (in his own words) a private equity whore
Geldof is chairman of firm seeking to make large profits for its rich clients by investing in – of all places – Africa. ‘My name is Bob. I’m a PE…
Silvio Berlusconi’s €20m pleasure chest ‘went to party girls’
Silvio Berlusconi’s accountant brought €20 million (£16m) in cash to the former premier’s luxury villa to pay girls who attended his infamous “bunga bunga” parties, a court heard yesterday. …
UK Plans Over Influx Fears Of Euro Meltdown
The Government is making contingency plans to cope with a potential increase in immigration should the euro currency collapse, the Home Secretary has revealed. There is rising concern that Greece…
Cameron aide’s cosy chats with News Corp revealed
Two of David Cameron’s most senior and trusted advisors were having back door text chats with News Corp’s chief lobbyist at the height of the Milly Dowler scandal, it emerged…
Japanese man, 22, cooks his own genitals and serves them up to paying guests at a dinner party
Mao Sugiyama cooked his own genitalia and garnished them with mushrooms and parsley. Five guests paid around £160 each for the meal. Sugiyama, 22, who is asexual, voluntarily underwent surgery…
China fuelling “increasingly desperate acts” by Tibetans says US
DHARAMSHALA, May 25: The US State Department in its ‘Annual Country Reports on Human Rights 2011’ released on Thursday said that Chinese authorities’ actions have fuelled “increasingly desperate acts” by…
Californian cops to be fired for beating homeless man to death
More than a year after they beat a disabled homeless man to death, three California police officers are expected to be fired from the force soon over their role in…
Jeremy Hunt lobbied PM in support of Murdochs’ BSkyB bid
Culture secretary wrote memo to David Cameron supporting family’s £8bn bid, despite being warned he should not intervene. Jeremy Hunt – No 10 insists the memo was ‘entirely consistent’ with…
Tokyo’s fugitive penguin finally caught
A young penguin which escaped from a Tokyo aquarium has been caught after more than two months on the loose in the Japanese capital. The Humboldt penguin scaled a wall…
Mass arrests: Over 700 Canadian protesters detained in police crackdown (VIDEO)
Over 700 students have been arrested in Canada during the latest night of rallies against tuition fee hikes and the adoption of controversial bill that is widely seen as a…
UK appointed pro-Murdoch minister to News Corp bid
(Reuters) – Prime Minister David Cameron gave the job of ruling on a multi-billion dollar takeover by News Corp to a minister he knew supported the deal, an inquiry heard…
Israeli Night of Broken Glass: Africans attacked in Tel Aviv anti-migrant demo
Thousands of Israelis, including high-profile politicians, attended an anti-African demonstration in Tel Aviv. The rally turned violent, with attacks on Africans and grocery shop windows being smashed. The gathering, which…
400 arrested in latest Montreal student rally
MONTREAL — Police arrested some 400 people in Montreal early on Thursday after demonstrators threw rocks at officers in the latest student protest to shake the city, a police spokesman…
Row of £1million houses COLLAPSE in London street
50-year-old led two sons to safety as rubble fell from their £1m townhouse Collapse is being blamed on yesterday’s heatwave Freak incident has left his family and four others homeless.…
Free banking a dangerous myth, says Bank official
Free banking is “a dangerous myth”, according to Andrew Bailey, who is due to become the chief regulator of the financial services industry. He says customers may think their account…
Lawsuits pile up over Facebook IPO
Lawsuits are piling up against Facebook, its underwriters and the Nasdaq exchange as furious investors sought to recover losses after the company’s $US16 billion IPO debacle. Facebook said it would…
We face a fight for the future of the web
One of Google’s most senior executives issued a stark warning tonight that the power of the internet to free some of the world’s most oppressed people risks being overturned…
Millions in the streets: Spain protests cuts to education
The majority of Spain’s educational institutions have closed as teachers and students take to the streets to defend their rights. The government has cut billions of euros from educational sector…
Were investors misled about how much Facebook was REALLY worth?
Senior Nasdaq official reportedly tells customers it would have pulled out of Facebook IPO if they had known extent of problems In three days of trading, Facebook’s stock value has…
Scotland Yard rocked by payments to Aniti Corruption Unit claims
Detectives from Scotland Yard’s anti-corruption unit have allegedly received payments from a firm of private investigators. Scotland Yard is investigating allegations that detectives working for its anti-corruption unit have been…
Panic at fake Chinese parts in US Air Fprce planes
More than a million fake electronic parts from China have been found in US military aircraft, posing a risk to national security, an investigation has revealed. A report by the…
Bordeaux hit by spate of binge drinking drownings
France’s wine capital Bordeaux has been struck by spate of binge drinking drownings in its river Garonne, with five young men dying in the past ten months. The southwestern French…
