The official witnesses to Saddam Hussein’s impending execution gathered Friday in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone in final preparation for his hanging, as state television broadcast footage of his regime’s atrocities.
With U.S. forces on high alert for a surge in violence, the Iraqi government readied all the necessary documents, including a “red card” — an execution […]

Patent 6,793,180 granted in September 2004, for a “lighter-than-air foldable airship,” might make it possible in the future to take flight in your own personal blimp.
Dissatisfied with existing designs, a small Amherst, Mass., company called Skyacht Aircraft is working on building a better hot-air balloon.
Actually, Skyacht is touting its project as a “personal blimp” — […]

A woman and her son love Only Fools and Horses so much they have changed their names to Del Boy and Rodney Trotter.
Dawn Tutton, 47, changed her name by deed poll because she loves Del Boy’s catchphrases. Son David Fuller, 21, alerted his name to Rodney because he says he looks and acts like him.
Del […]

The woman is in critical condition in a hospital after being crushed by a dolphin that leaped on to her boat, the New Zealand Herald said. The 27-year-old woman had been watching from the bow of the small boat cruising among the marine mammals off the North Island’s Coromandel Peninsula when the bottlenose dolphin landed […]

An Indian chess player has been banned for 10 years for cheating after he was caught using his mobile phone’s wireless device to win games, chess officials said on Wednesday.
The player, Umakant Sharma, had logged rating points at a rapid pace in the last 18 months and also qualified for the national championship, arousing the […]

Sylvester Stallone is back in the ring at age 60 and against all odds comes with him Rocky Balboa, the sixth installment in his Rocky series, which has gotten warm reviews calling the new Rocky a knockout.
Was it hard getting in shape for this one? Were those bones creaking a little?
Stallone: Without a doubt. This […]

A 21-year-old German woman who did not feel like going to work at a fast food restaurant sent her parents a text message saying she had been kidnapped.
Police in the Bavarian town of Straubing said on Wednesday they had launched a massive search throughout the region for the woman who disappeared on December 23rd, but […]

Killer whale Shamu almost drowned a trainer. We always wondered how such huge animals at the zoo could possibly be coerced into obedience. See how SeaWorld responded.

This optical illusion relies on a principle called “Chromatic Adaptation”.

An object may be viewed under various conditions. For example, it may be illuminated by the sunlight, the light of a fire, or a harsh electric light. In all of these situations, the visual system indicates that the object has the same color: an apple always […]

JK Rowling on her website has given a Christmas Present to all her fans and fans of Harry Potter worldwide. Harry Potter book 7, the next and maybe final book in the series, is called “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”.
To get to the name you have to jump through several hoops on the writer’s […]