A dog in Australia is recovering from emergency surgery to remove 1,000 magnets it had swallowed. The owner is afraid the dog might run away now that she can’t stick it on the refrigerator door.
Weather forecasters downgraded the Pacific Ocean storm Kevin from a tropical storm to a tropical depression. It was also renamed Hurricane Kevin Bacon since every storm on the planet on Monday was within six degrees of it.
A total of 549 musicians got together in Guadalajara, the birthplace of mariachi, to set a record for the world’s biggest mariachi band. The sound was so loud, hundreds of people fled from nearby Mexican restaurants for fear they would have to tip them.
The White House says former Vice President Dick Cheney is wrong about the Obama administration's policies for interrogating terrorists. The Obama administration uses the most effective policy allowed by the Constitution … threatening to send terrorists on a hunting trip with Cheney.
President Obama played a round of golf this week at the Army Navy Country Club, which is about a mile south of the Pentagon. This is a difficult course for president because the caddies are military personnel and it’s tough to putt when you’re constantly saluting.
September 2 marks the 40th anniversary of the birth of the Internet when two computers at UCLA were connected. It was a military application, which explains why the first Internet message was a picture of topless women in camouflage bikinis.
The NFL has decided to allow players to use social media networks like Twitter and Facebook, but not during games. The only exception is Brett Farve, who is under orders to tweet all of the other teams if he suddenly feels like retiring.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threw his sheepskin cap after a heated meeting with U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke. This is a serious insult in Afghanistan, second only to throwing an actual sheep.
Jenna Bush Hager, one of the twin daughters of former President George W. Bush, has been hired as a contributing correspondent for the “Today” show. The position has nothing to do with politics, the economy or world affairs, so she’ll be able to get advice from her father.
A German TV station has admitted faking a video which showed Michael Jackson still alive and getting out of a coroner's van. Michael Jackson’s doctor saw the video and is now suing the station for ruining a pair of pants and the chair he was sitting in.
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