German police protection from sex-mad wife

BERLIN, (AFP) - A desperate Turkish man living in Germany has turned to the police for protection from his insatiable wife's constant demands for sex, authorities said on Wednesday.(MCT)The man came to his local police station in southwestern Germany on Tuesdaysaying that he had been sleeping on the sofa for the past four years to escapethe clutches of his wife of 18 years and mother of their two

Jan. 31, 2011

Tough balancing act for Obama on Egypt

WASHINGTON (AP) ― President Barack Obama tried to win over Egyptians enraged by their autocratic ruler and assure an essential ally that the U.S. stood by it.His four-minute speech from the White House on Friday evening was a balancing act. He had much to lose in the chaos engulfing Egypt, where protesters are demanding that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak step down from a government violently cl

Jan. 30, 2011

‘Yellow Shirts’ return to Thai street politics

BANGKOK (AFP) ― With neatly spaced tents, massages, free vegetarian meals and a heavy dose of nationalist rhetoric, Thailand’s powerful royalist “Yellow Shirts” are back on the streets of Bangkok.More than a thousand people have camped out around the government’s compound since Tuesday, demonstrating against its handling of a border dispute with neighboring Cambodia.Despite relatively small number

Jan. 30, 2011

Myanmar prepares for first session of parliament in years

YANGON (AP) ― Myanmar is preparing to open its first session of parliament in more than two decades, a major step in the ruling military’s self-styled transition to democracy but one being carried out with little fanfare or public enthusiasm.There is muted hope that Monday’s convening of the new legislature will be a step, however small, in the right direction for a country that has seen the army

Jan. 30, 2011

What is behind unrest in Arab world?

WASHINGTON ― In the three short weeks since a poor, unlicensed Tunisian fruit-seller set himself on fire after police seized his wares, protests have ousted his country’s longtime authoritarian ruler and confronted Egypt’s octogenarian president with the greatest challenge of his 30 years in power.Thousands of Yemenis inspired by Mohamed Bouazizi’s death in Tunisia demanded an end to their ruling

Jan. 30, 2011

Looting engulfs Cairo, other Egyptian cities

CAIRO (AP) _ Cairo residents boarded up homes and set up neighborhood watches of citizens armed with guns, clubs and knives Saturday as looting and violence engulfed the capital.Egyptian anti-government protesters stand atop an Egyptian army tank during a protest in Tahrir square in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 29, 2011. (Yonhap-AP)With the police having disappeared from the streets, the army expa

Jan. 30, 2011

5-foot Monitor lizard wanders Calif. neighborhood

This image provided by Riverside County Animal Services shows Animal Services officer, Kim McWhorter, holding a 5-foot long Monitor lizard animal controls officers found wandering around a condo complex in the city of Riverside, Calif., Tuesday Jan. 25, 2011. Black-throated Monitor lizards are carnivorous and native to the grasslands of Africa (Photo: AP)RIVERSIDE, Calif. (AP) -- Animal services o

Jan. 28, 2011

Tunisia issues int’l warrant for ex-ruler

TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) ― Tunisia’s government issued an international arrest warrant Wednesday for ousted President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and six relatives, accusing him of taking money out of the North African nation illegally.Ben Ali, who fled to Saudi Arabia after being driven from power this month by violent protests, was also being charged with illegally acquiring real estate and other assets

Jan. 27, 2011

Egypt's protests enter 2nd day, ominous for regime

 CAIRO (AP) _ Thousands of Egyptians vented their rage against President Hosni Mubarak's autocratic government in a second day of protests Wednesday that defied a ban on public gatherings. Baton-wielding police responded with tear gas and beatings in a crackdown that showed zero tolerance for dissent.Egypt's largest anti-government protests in years echoed the uprising in Tunisia, threatening to d

Jan. 27, 2011

Putin vows revenge for airport bombing

Suspicion falls on Islamist separatists from Chechanya or Caucasus regionMOSCOW (AP) ― Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has vowed revenge for the suicide bombing that killed 35 people at a Moscow airport ― a familiar tough-on-terrorism stance that has underpinned his power but also led to a rising number of deadly attacks in Russia.Lax security also was blamed for Monday’s explosion in the internatio

Jan. 26, 2011

Scientists claim largest super-volcano could wipe 2/3rds of U.S.

Scientists predict that if the largest super-volcano underneath Yellowstone National park in Wyoming explodes in the near future -- for the first time in around 600,000 years -- it could wipe out two thirds of the United States.The Soufriere Hills volcano erupts in the Caribbean island of Montserrat, Saturday, January. 23, 2010. (AP)According to the Daily Mail on Tuesday, the super-volcano has bee

Jan. 26, 2011

Woman eats seven couches

  (captured from YouTube)A woman who appeared on the American program “My Strange Addiction” shocked audiences when she admitted her bizarre habit of eating sofa stuffing. Adele, 30, from Bradenton started eating bits of couch cushions at the age of 10 and since then has eaten a total of seven couches and two chairs.Adele estimates she has eaten more than 90 kg of couch cushion.According to psycho

Jan. 26, 2011

Man travels the world with his six sex dolls

(captured from The Sun)A man has spent more than $26,000 to travel across England and America with his six sex dolls. Dave Hockey, 57, has traveled with his girlfriends to Stonehenge, the Grand Canyon and Niagara Falls. Hockey, who is married and from Nova Scotia, Canada, flew “Realdoll” Bianca and “Teddy Babe Deluxe” Carey to Britain for trips to Oxford, Wiltshire and Abergavenny, Wales. Hockey,

Jan. 26, 2011

150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix

WASHINGTON (AP) ― Before there were modern weight loss diets, there was William Banting. He invented the low-carb diet of 1863.Even then Americans were trying out advice that urged fish, mutton or “any meat except pork” for breakfast, lunch and dinner ― hold the potatoes, please.It turns out our obsession with weight and how to lose it dates back at least 150 years. And while now we say “overweigh

Jan. 25, 2011

Phone keeps ringing in Ukrainian crocodile's tummy

(AP)KIEV, Ukraine (AP) _ The crocodile in ``Peter Pan'' happily went ``tick-tock'' after swallowing an alarm clock but a crocodile in Ukraine has been a little less fortunate.Gena, a 14-year-old crocodile at an aquarium in the eastern city of Dnipropetrovsk, has been refusing food and acting listless after eating a cell phone dropped by a woman as she tried to photograph him.Aquarium workers initi

Jan. 24, 2011

Slump-hit U.K. does beauty on the cheap

Protect your skin from aging with cream for babies’ bottoms A cream, intended to soothe nappy rash, has become a hit face cream for women in Britain. U.K. supermarket chain Waitrose launched the Baby Bottom Butter in 2005, designed to allay irritation of the skin on baby bottoms. Now it’s selling like hotcakes as more women experience the true value of the cream -- not only protecting babies’ bott

Jan. 24, 2011

Dubai island project sinks -- literally

The huge development project known as “The World,” a symbol of the booming property market in Dubai, is facing a disaster, Daily Mail reported. One issue for the man-made archipelago project, designed to look like a map of the planet, is that the real estate market is in the midst of a severe slowdown. Compounding the problem is that the islands have begun sinking. As The World confronts an immine

Jan. 23, 2011