Vatican’s chief exorcist says Devil is in Vatican. Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron.
The French railway operator, SNCF, has mistakenly put a dramatic statement on its website saying more than 100 people had died in a train explosion. The false announcement, of an explosion in Macon in the Burgundy region, was part of a training exercise.
Man used his penis to assault female police officer. 5 more penis-related attacks.
Naked man escapes Swiss brothel fire.
The super-sized 43st mother who is determined to become the world’s fattest woman.
Six women in New Jersey are recovering after they received buttocks-enhancement injections containing silicone used to caulk bathtubs.
Recent polls put belief in angels in the UK at around the 40 per cent mark; in the US it is more like 70 per cent.
2500 of the world’s stock of 5000 languages are expected to die by the end of the century.
“Your Mind and Your Money” series aims to help people understand the psychological and emotional biases that influence their investment decisions.
Excerpts from the Lehman Report.
Men and women invest differently, a growing body of research has found. And in at least one important respect, women may be better at it.
Scientists have determined that the female memory is more powerful than the male, and that it is likely to improve with age, while men’s deteriorates.
Men think about sex almost 5,000 times a year – but only get down to doing it 104 times, a new study has found.
The cocaine conundrum. Effective treatment remains elusive.
Hydrogels are the only materials that have the potential to be used as a replacement material for functional tissues like cartilage, sinews or muscles. However…
The further back in time we go, the more and more fragmented the Earth’s geological record becomes.
Interview with Andrey Ternovskiy, 17 year old founder of Chatroulette.
If a stranger came up to you on the street, would you give him your name, Social Security number and e-mail address?How privacy vanishes online.
General knowledge, from capital cities to key dates, has long been a marker of an educated mind. But what happens when facts can be Googled?
These new tablets may be slimmer and lighter, but just like the last generation, once you peel away the hype, you’re left with a nonfunctioning hunk of metal and plastic at the bottom of the pool.
As this invigorating new work shows, however, nothing could be further from the truth: The War that Killed Achilles gives us an Iliad that is in essence a powerful piece of anti-war literature, savage in its condemnation of the folly and cost of war, and brutal in its depiction of the human consequences.
Tribune Company CEO Randy Michaels has banned 119 “newsspeak” words and phrases from ever crossing the lips of anchors and reporters at WGN-AM. There’s a list here, but if you’d like them in a sentence, how about this.
How women artists fought back in the ’70s.
Lucian Freud: the year I sat for the master. He has painted the grand and the famous - from the Queen to Kate Moss. So what is it like posing for the great man?
As she prepares for her retrospective at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Kate Moss opens up about her 20-plus-year career at the top of the fashion world.
Reality TV’s new crisis.
A journalist’s adventures in the world of taxidermy, where she observes the art of incising, skinning, sculpturing and reassembling.
How Kenny Rogers and Frank Sinatra could help stroke patients.
If you follow those 10 steps, you can ensure that your first anal sex experience is pleasurable rather than painful.
Coming from a fatherless home, I could never imagine a day when I could sympathize with a deadbeat dad and yet here I am, a father myself, and it has become abundantly clear why men walk out on their families.
When you hit 30 you can either go the way of the rural indie artist guy or you can shave your head, switch t-shirts to polos, and be the old city hardcore guy.
Kubrick’s The Shinning clock.
Jetpack, $86,000
This is getting so confusing.
Release the Bionic Mickey Rourke…
every day the same again | March 17th, 2010
