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Recalled toys 2013 : The blue metal handle on the trunk can be sharp, presenting a laceration hazard to the user

Recalled toys 2013 : The blue metal handle on the trunk can be sharp, presenting a laceration hazard to the user

Toys R Us is recalling about 12,650 Journey Girl travel trunks. The blue metal handle on the trunk can be sharp, presenting a laceration hazard to the user. This recall involves the Journey Girl travel trunks used to carry 18-inch-tall toy dolls. The 21-inch tall curved top trunks are purple with a blue pattern and a blue metal handle. The ... Read More »

Victoria Falls plunge : Tourist survives 15m gorge fall in Zambia

Victoria Falls plunge : Tourist survives 15m gorge fall in Zambia

A CHINESE tourist who fell into a gorge at Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls while taking pictures has escaped with only bruises, a tourism official said. The tourist named as Wang Shun Xue plunged into the shallow section of the gorge and survived with “only minor injuries,” John Zulu, manager of the National Heritage Conservation Commission in Livingstone, told AFP. Read More »

Morrissey : Singer slams Barack Obama over Thanksgiving

Morrissey obama

What Americans call Thanksgiving, Morrissey not-so-sweetly refers to as “Thankskilling.” The “Meat is Murder” singer is out there stumping for those poor defenseless turkeys, and this time around his fury is directly aimed at President Obama and the annual White House turkey pardon, which this year is taking on a Hunger Games theme. Read More »

Amelle Berrabah opens up about 2010 arrest (VIDEO)

Amelle Berrabah arrest

She was shamed when police officers arrested her for driving under the influence of alcohol, but despite remaining adamant that she wasn’t drunk, Amelle Berrabah concedes that she had to accept the inevitable consequences. The former Sugababe referred to her 2010 arrest during an appearance on Thursday’s Daybreak, when she featured on an early morning segment about the potential risks ... Read More »

Katy Perry : Singer is already officially the hottest woman of 2013

Katy Perry : Singer is already officially the hottest woman of 2013

Even though we have barely finished the first month of 2013, Men’s Health magazine has already named the “Hottest Woman of 2013”. That woman is candy-coated pop sensation Katy Perry. The “California Girl” tops the magazine’s list which includes four other ladies that have managed to maintain their hotness into the new year. The list looks pretty good to me, ... Read More »

Fisher-Price Newborn Rock`N Play Sleeper recalled : 600 reports of mold risk

Fisher-Price Newborn Rock`N Play Sleeper recalled : 600 reports of mold risk

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging consumers to inspect Fisher-Price Newborn Rock ‘n Play Sleepers after receiving hundreds of reports of mold being found on the units after being used. CPSC has issued a voluntary recall for about 800,000 sleepers, which have been sold at national retailers and online since September 2009, retailing between $50 and $85. The sleeper ... Read More »

How to get rid of junk mail for good

How to get rid of junk mail for good

If your mailbox is bursting at the seams with holiday mailers and coupon books, there’s a new way to get rid of that junk for good. Catalog Choice just launched a new online service that acts as a middleman between spamming retailers and your snail mailbox, the New York Times’ Ann Carrns reports. Through its Mail Stop Envelope initiative, the ... Read More »

New wild cat species found in Brazil (PHOTO – VIDEO)

New wild cat species found in Brazil

According to researchers there is a new wild cat that was discovered in South America. Scientists compared the DNA from the two populations of Tigrina in Brazil and reported they do not interbreed. Both populations are evolutionarily distinct as well. Results showed that the two populations have contrast interactions related to Geoffroy’s cat and pampas cat. In the wild there ... Read More »

Game of Thrones : Actor Jack Gleeson may quit acting

Game of Thrones : Actor Jack Gleeson may quit acting

Season four of Game of Thrones doesn’t air for months (Spring 2014 is the only release information we’ve gotten so far), but the Internet gods have seen fit to smile upon us fans in this our time of hiatus by gifting us with new interviews with Jack Gleeson and George R.R. Martin. Turns out the former plans to quit acting ... Read More »