Coca-Cola is hoping to expand its operations in China with a $2.5 billion bid for a major Chinese juice maker. Four out of five Chinese female gymnasts had this juice in their sippy cups at the Olympics.
Vice President Dick Cheney is on a weeklong trip to the former Soviet republics of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine. Talk about a tough trip. The leaders of those countries all told Cheney they’d prefer to wait and talk with John McCain’s Russia expert, Sarah Palin.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is visiting Libya this week, making her the first secretary of state to visit Libya since John Foster Dulles in 1953. She may wish she hadn’t brought that fact up because the Libyans are already saying they’ve gone from Dulles to dullest.
R&B singer Usher is planning a “One Night Stand” concert tour that will be for women only. He plans to sing every song twice … once for the women in the seats and once for the ones waiting in line to use the ladies rooms.
In Los Angeles, a man accused of ramming a car into the Playboy Mansion's gates twice in a week pleaded not guilty to felony vandalism charges. Hugh Hefner wasn’t home either time and his girlfriends say that’s the most ramming that’s gone on at the Playboy Mansion in years.
Residents of Hoschton, Gerogia, claim they have broken the world record for scarecrows by setting up 4,800 of them in their town. This also breaks the record for the town with the most tributes to Joan Rivers.
A 60-year-old man in Gateshead, England, says he was able to fight off a samurai sword-wielding attacker by striking him in the head with his walking stick. He’s already been contacted by NBC to recreate the incident on “Saturday Night Live.”
In response to complaints by animal rights groups, the British Ministry of Defense is looking for alternatives to the bear skins used in the famous hats worn by the royal guards. Why don’t they ask Donald Trump where he gets his?
Organizers of the annual stiletto heel race in Sydney, Australia, said 265 contestants in heels of at least 3 inches ran in the 100-meter race, and the winner was a national champion in the under-20s 400-meter hurdles. Well, they think she was the winner. The judges couldn’t watch because they were afraid the high-heeled runner would think she was hurdling and poke their eyes out.
A scientist from Imperial College London says he's discovered that some of the microscopic meteorites making up "cosmic dust" originate from an ancient asteroid belt between Jupiter and Mars. This may put to rest the previous theory that cosmic dust originated from under a giant bed orbiting Neptune.
Scientists at Stanford say they have created robotic helicopters that can teach themselves to fly by “watching” other helicopters. Unfortunately, after a few hours of watching, the helicopters all end up hovering over the same traffic jam.
According to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, researchers have found that children burn more than four times as many calories a minute playing an active video game than playing a seated game. And they burn eight times as many calories if you take the game controller, throw it out the window and make them bring it back.
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