A Swiss politician has called for the nation to take advantage of the Greek crisis to establish a Swiss empire overseas by taking an island in return for the money Athens owes. The unusual suggestion was made by Pierre Rusconi, a member of parliament
A hotel in Hull has apologised to a Romanian graduate after staff turned her away because they thought she was a prostitute. Alecsandra Puflea had already booked online, but reception staff at the Holiday Inn Express refused her a room
Police are working to identify a Florida man who apparently knocked himself out for a few seconds by head-butting a bus out of anger over a $2 fare.
The couple featured in a viral video of a North Carolina lifeguard stopping two people from swimming in homemade shark cages said the objects were a joke.
Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper’s ballot initiative, Six Californias, which would require California to split into six separate states, will not be on the 2016 ballot.
A Pride event in Scotland has banned drag queens because they might offend trans-gender people. Organisers of the show, established to celebrate diversity and tolerance, say the presence of drag queens could make the trans-gendered feel “uncomfortable.” Drag performances have
A Russian billionaire has offered $100 million to fund researchers at UC Berkeley’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Research Center to find extraterrestrial life.
A village in Kazakhstan is being evacuated as scientists grapple with the cause of a mysterious sleeping sickness.
While Russian and European leaders play global games of cat and mouse, ordinary people suffer, and are reduced to smuggling basic foodstuffs like European cheese into Russia. A Russian man was confounded by Russian border guards as he attempted to
Nicknamed the “corpse flower,” the gigantic, stinky Titan Aram has just bloomed at Berkeley’s UC Botanical Garden and is expected to draw massive crowds during its day or two blooming period.
An Oregon resident who transitioned to a woman more than three decades ago continued collecting Social Security disability checks under her male identity, fraudulently raking in $250,000.
On Sunday, a 30-year-old Modesto man was arrested for the murders of two women and three children in their home. Heather Graves of the Modesto Police Department told local ABC News affiliate ABC10 that police had arrived at the home
Surfer Mick Fanning fights off a shark attack live on TV during the 2015 J-Bay Open.
On Saturday, some tree-huggers protesting the removal of eucalyptus trees in the East Bay Hills decided that their hugs needed more intimacy, and stripped naked to hug eucalyptus trees on the University of California Berkeley campus for a photography shoot.
The political scientist Wallace Sayre is quoted as saying that “academic politics are so vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” A bitter online fight that erupted this week between scholar Cornel West and Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates offers the latest illustration.
The Slovenian band Laibach—an industrial rock outfit who have repeatedly been accused of fascist sympathies in their decades-long history—have received permission from the oppressive regime of Kim Jong-Un to perform in Pyongyang. They will be the first foreign band of their kind to grace such a stage in North Korea.
Shoshana Roberts filed her lawsuit in Manhattan on Monday. The lawsuit says her performance and likeness were used for “advertising or trade without her prior written consent” and she’s looking for at least $500,000.
An Exxon gas station in Midlothian, TX captured video of attempted robber 19-year-old Dylan Bearden being taken down by an off-duty firefighter and Marine. The firefighter, Daniel Gaskey, was first pushed aside by Bearden and, after sizing him up, he brought down
UKIP MEP Gerard Batten has blasted the National Police Aviation Service (NPAS) for going celebrity spotting while on duty. The NPAS London branch usually has an effective social media presence, but appears to have been wrong footed by posting voyeuristic photographs
A woman and her boyfriend, previously accused by police of concocting a kidnapping hoax, have been vindicated as the FBI has determined the kidnapping to be very much real, with a suspect apprehended.
On July 9, a five-year-old boy accompanying his mother to a Starbucks women’s restroom found a hidden cell phone under the sink with its camera pointed toward the toilet.
A “fit” young woman has been caught on camera causing her car to collide with another vehicle as she was concentrating on her own pleasure – rather than the road. In what could be the ultimate woman-driver story, it is reported her
An independent bike registry is aiming to “make bike theft a little less convenient” in Berkeley. Bike Index, started by former bike mechanic Seth Herr in Chicago, allows users to register their bike’s serial numbers free of charge into an open source database to help anyone track whether the wheels they wish to purchase online are stolen goods–and reunite cyclists with their stolen bikes.
Veteran hard-left Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn lost his temper on television last night after being questioned on his links with terror groups Hezbollah and Hamas, attempting to shout down his interviewer in the process. The questions were asked by Channel 4 newsman Krishnan
Last year a Salon article titled, “In praise of the ‘beta males,’” made the rounds and we all rolled our eyes. The author wrote:
