As he justified sending 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan at a cost of $30 billion a year, President Barack Obama's description Tuesday of the al Qaeda "cancer" in that country left out one key fact: U.S.

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It's easy to invent an extreme sport. All you need to do is take one sport (say, bungee jumping), recklessly add another sport (motocross) and BOOM, you're the goddamn Thomas Edison of BUNGOCROSS.

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HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba began its biggest military maneuvers in five years on Thursday, saying they were needed to prepare for a possible invasion by the United States.

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Pumpkin getting gobbled up Thankgiving Eve. Will this become a Turkey Day catastrophe?

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One of the world's most famous children's toys, Barbie, has been given a makeover - wearing a burkha.

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A company called Volomedia just got the US Patent Office to grant them exclusive rights to patent podcasting. Say what? The Electronic Frontier Foundation is fighting, and is putting out a call for help for all the O.G. podcasters out there.

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LAWRENCE, Mass. -- Police in Lawrence are hoping a key piece of evidence left behind at a crime scene will lead to the arrest of an armed robber.

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A woman was caught driving Thursday evening with a half bottle of Jose Cuervo tequila by her side, sliced limes on the console — and two children as passengers, according to a report from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

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NY village gets new voting system to aid Hispanics WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. - WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A federal judge is imposing an unusual new election system on a suburban New York City village after finding the existing system was unfair to Hispanics.

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Grab your Wiimote, and stuff it inside. It's time to play with babies that can recognize excessive shaking. Yup... this is a good idea. And by good idea, I mean creepy as hell. From the original report: "Watch for the sequel: Child Protective Services and Me."

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You just have to read this!

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Malaysian legislators in the poor conservative Muslim northeastern state of Kelantan should marry single mothers to help care for their children, a state representative suggested.

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NBC San Diego found a local wine distributor who was issued a credit card with a 79.9 percent APR. The Premier card from South Dakota's First Premier Bank is responsible for the usurous, loan shark-style rate. The station's Bob Hansen writes:

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A criminal complaint says 62-year-old Dennis LeRoy Anderson told police he left the Keyboard Lounge in Proctor on his customized La-Z-Boy after drinking eight or nine beers.

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A Colorado baby is unable to get health insurance because of his weight.

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A South Carolina teen faces felony charges of throwing a deadly missile after he allegedly threw a burrito at a car.

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It sounds like the opening scene of a B movie: A giant bug lands on a truck driver transporting intercontinental ballistic missiles. The trucker swerves off the road, inadvertently kicking off Armageddon.

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Few would doubt that it has been a bad week for Silvio Berlusconi.

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Rage!...(poem)

From deep within is the rumble, Thinking off letting it out, great gamble, Molten steel coursing through every orifice, But just to act is not suffice.

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Let Me Get This Straight..Adoptions come with return policies?

I cannot shake my feeling about the recent news story of a couple giving an adopted baby back after 18 months because, "it wasn't bonding". A BABY....WTF? I have returned a car once or twice in my life because it just wasn't what I wanted...but a baby?

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Two Osceola County firefighters are recovering tonight after being burned while cooking dinner on a grill at their station, officials said.

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SHOCKING pictures have emerged of a boy who is a heavy smoker - at just four years of age. And the Jianghuai Morning Post reports that little Dong Dong, from Banqiao village in China's Anhui province, has been smoking since he was only two.

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TAMPA, FL -- A teenager accused of taking part in the murder of a Tampa man and then showing off the body to friends will be held without bond.

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The Wisconsin Tourism Federation has changed its name, after being made aware that its acronym WTF had become crude internet slang.

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The UK Border Agency has scientists "horrified" at a weird, eugenics-flavoured proposal to test asylum seekers' DNA to determine if they are truly and purely of the "race" they claim to be from.

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