The Ukrainian Parliament has scrapped a set of wide-ranging laws meant to quell public protests. On Tuesday, less than two weeks after the parliament’s undemocratic passage of anti-protest legislation, it was voted down by 361 to 2. The parliament, known as Verkhovna Rada, held an emergency debate in an effort to resolve the stand-off with opposition. Read More »
While watching USC football practice on Thursday, the Times’ Gary Klein gave me a heads-up. As he notes in today’s paper, a prank involving a stuntman falling from a platform and another running across the field on fire happened to provide what Trojans Coach Pete Carroll called “just a little Halloween spirit” during practice. Read More »
Did you know Johnny Depp owns a fart machine? We did not — though apparently he’s had it for at least a decade, and Penelope Cruz assumed everyone knew about it. She discovered it while working with Depp on ‘Blow’ in 2001. Read More »
Jewel had Brad Paisley fake-arrested as a prank. The joke was “the best I’ve ever been had,” claims the country star – devised by his current tour mate. After wrapping up the last concert date with her and Chuck Wicks in San Antonio, Paisley flew home to Nashville on his private plane Sunday. There, reports the news page of Great ... Read More »
Nothing engenders nostalgia like food, so BuzzFeed has rounded up a list of 35 much-loved food products that have gone the way of the dinosaur. The list includes: crispy M&Ms, French Toast Crunch, Oreo O’s, Surge that was a green-colored soft drink, sour Altoids, Butterfinger BB’s once endorsed by Bart Simpson!, P.B. Crisps, Sprite Remix, Clearly Canadian, 3D Doritos, Fruitopia, lime ... Read More »
New Zealand man James Grant didn’t panic when attacked by a shark while fishing on Saturday. Instead, he fought off the mammal, stitched his own wounds onshore and went for a pint before attending hospital. Grant, a 24-year old junior doctor, was spearfishing with friends on Saturday on the South Island when he was attacked by what appeared to be ... Read More »
A team of Israeli scientists have recently discovered in the Qesem Cave, near present-day Rosh Ha’ayin, the earliest evidence – dating to around 300,000 years ago – of unequivocal repeated fire building over a continuous period. The team is headed by Profs. Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai of Tel Aviv University. Dr. Ruth Shahack-Gross of the Kimmel Center for Archeological ... Read More »
Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing and openly gay NBA player Jason Collins have been invited to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address, the White House said on Monday. A statement named Collins and Boston survivors Carlos Arredondo and Jeff Bauman among the first round of invitees to watch Tuesday’s address in First Lady Michelle Obama’s box. Read More »
“USA Today” has released a list of ‘The Top 25 Super Bowl Ads of the Past 24 Years’. They took the BEST commercial from each year and then ranked them. Each year’s top ad was determined by their “Ad Meter” system…a “real-time consumer ranking of Super Bowl commercials.” There’s one entry from each year, except for 2011 when there was ... Read More »
Controversy has erupted around 18-year-old South African runner Caster Semenya. She must undergo gender testing to prove she is a woman after rumors swirled following her amazing performance at the World Championships in Berlin. Read More »
Royal Caribbean International is cutting a 10-night voyage short after an outbreak of stomach illness sickened hundreds of passengers. On Sunday night, the Miami-based cruise line said the Explorer of the Seas would return to New Jersey on Wednesday, two days early, to allow for another round of cleaning. More than 600 passengers and crew aboard the ship, which departed ... Read More »
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