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They were a secret airborne force who worked undercover during World War II. Those who were discovered were shot — or eaten by falcons.
With oil having briefly touched the once unfathomable price of $100 a barrel, consumers can expect the cost of filling their gas tanks, heating their homes — in fact, the price of most everything — to also keep rising.
Chris Lofton scored 18 of his season-high 24 points in the first half and No. 11 Tennessee rebounded from its first loss with a 93-59 victory over North Carolina A&T; on Tuesday night.
Feel sleepy after a big Thanksgiving meal? Contrary to popular thinking, it's not the turkey's fault.
Consumers chafe at having only two choices — phone line and cable — for high-speed Internet service. For businesses, there are often even fewer options — the offerings of the phone company — due to the limitations of cable.
A government suit against the Salvation Army has the House and Senate at loggerheads over whether to nullify a law that prohibits employers from firing people who don't speak English on the job.
Sam Young proved too much for North Carolina A&T; to handle outside or inside and No. 22 Pittsburgh romped to its second victory in as many days, winning 88-61 Saturday.
For 13 years, Helen Suzman was the sole opposition lawmaker in South Africa's parliament, raising her voice time after time against the introduction of racist legislation.
A 49-year-old woman held onto a water container to stay afloat for 19 hours until she was rescued from choppy ocean waters a mile off Maui, she said.
An Israeli woman and an Italian man survived on a life raft for eight days in the Arabian Sea after their yacht sank in a storm, the Indian coast guard said Tuesday.
Nobody is quite sure how two potbellied pigs wound up in an upscale Grand Rapids-area neighborhood.
In 1951, 7-year-old Louise Cassano couldn't imagine a better life than the one here, where she rode her bicycle past rows of cookie-cutter houses, kids held backyard campouts in makeshift tents and nobody locked their front doors.
The Pentagon is asking National Guard troops and their families to make sacrifices like never before in Iraq and other hot spots, the Army's chief of staff told a conference bringing together citizen-soldiers from across the country.
A 60-year-old woman became a mother, twice over, when she delivered a pair of boys Tuesday. Frieda Birnbaum gave birth to "Baby A" at 12:44 p.m. and "Baby B" a minute later by Caesarean section at Hackensack University Medical Center, hospital spokeswoman Nancy Radwin said. The twins each weighed 4 pounds, 11 ounces, she said.
She had raised her daughter for six years following the divorce, handled the shuttling to soccer practice and cheerleading, made sure schoolwork was done. Hardly a day went by when the two weren't together. Then Lt. Eva Crouch was mobilized with the Kentucky National Guard, and Sara went to stay with Dad.
A look at the first quarter finances of leading presidential candidates.
Elsie McLean thought she might have lost her ball on the par-3, 100-yard fourth hole at Bidwell Park. Instead, the 102-year-old Chico woman became the oldest golfer ever to make a hole-in-one on a regulation course.
Into his 90s, decimated by the loss of his beloved wife, and alone at night with the memories of a rough and sad childhood spent battling an alcoholic father and vicious anti-Semitism, Harry Bernstein decided to write.
If you've worked for long, you've probably had a boss or co-worker who was a complete, flaming jerk.
Day and night, a mechanical roar shakes Nigeria's main city and exhaust hangs in the leaden equatorial skies. But it's not evidence of heavy industry or a mechanized army division advancing on Lagos. With corruption and mismanagement leaving Africa's oil giant chronically short of electricity, businesses and walled residential compounds run diesel generators that clatter around the clock, spewing dirty fumes skyward.
Austria's new coalition government says 16-year-olds — who can already vote in some local races — should also be allowed to cast ballots in national elections.
A Bangkok municipal office has launched a new program to increase productivity: Lights go out just past noon and civil servants are invited to take an afternoon nap.
No shirt, no service? What about no clothes at all? A couple that began squabbling in a motel room Friday morning carried their dispute over to an adjacent Waffle House restaurant in the nude, police said.
U.S. officials had low expectations for the current U.N. meetings, marked by anti-American insults heaped on President Bush, and have scant accomplishments to show so far.
As Bart Simpson skips into his 18th season of TV mischief, fans will be glad to know that creator Matt Groening sees no end in sight for the wayward lad or "The Simpsons."
The 2008 PGA Tour season wastes no time teeing off, beginning Thursday in Hawaii at the Mercedes-Benz Championship - but without golf's two biggest stars. Vijay Singh is the defending champion of this event, only open to winners on Tour from the previous season.
The Green Bay Packers got an early Christmas gift last week when the current NFC top-seeded Dallas Cowboys were upset at home by the Philadelphia Eagles.
HAVANA: Ailing Cuban leader Fidel Castro said in a letter read on television that he would not cling to office or obstruct the rise of a new generation of leaders.
Day 4 will be the deciding day for second test India Vs Pakistan, where Pakistan coming back strong after two mighty century by Misbah and Akmal might not only able to save followon and also can put this test to draw.
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The British Beer and Pub Association (BBPA), which represents the brewing and pub industry, revealed that 14m fewer pints daily are being sold in pubs today - a slump of 49% since the peak in 1979.
Who do you think won the CNN News Las Vegas Democratic Debate at the University of Nevada? Joe Biden 7.6%Dennis Kucinich 7.3%Barack Obama 58%Chris Dodd 1.1%John Edwards 6.3%Bill Richardson 4.9%Hillary Clinton 15% You voted: Barack Obama clinton got ""BUSTED""
Some parents and students are complaining their school district is going too far after a middle school in Mascoutah, Illinois has banned hugging. At least one student is being punished, and others are being warned.
Noah Baumbach follows up his comeback film (The Squid and the Whale) with another excellent movie about articulate dysfunctional families on the East Coast who actually read books and take movies seriously. Jack Black delivers a cellulite-and-all arthouse performance.
You see this guy? He thinks he's special. He is holding his fancy mobile phone device in his hand. He is carrying on a conversation with "John" and planning strategy for a meeting.
Two disabled men from Bournemouth, England were seized from a pub at gunpoint by police under the terrorism act, taken to the local police station and questioned for 45 minutes after one of them opened his mail and the other looked at a police officer.
The problem as I see it is that the wealthy so control the political process with the House of representatives entrance fee on average being $661,363 in 2006 and the Senates entrance fee on average being $3,340,175 no wonder politicians turn to the wealthy lobbyist.
According to the Rochester Democrat & Chronical today: The 17-year-old hacker and Rochester Institute of Technology freshman who managed to unlock the iPhone so that it can be used with cellular networks other than AT&T; will be trading his reworked gadget for a new car.
Protesters are accusing police of using undercover agents to provoke violent confrontations at the North American leaders' summit in Montebello, Que.
Most Americans who receive any form of local or long distance phone service can expect a several page bill, even for the most limited and simplistic of packages, featuring arcane sounding terms like "Federal Subscriber Line Charge" and "EAC Rate Svc." Complex and confounding sta …
Some bloggers have discovered the ultimate loophole. AT&T; covers $250 of the cost of your cellphone if you sign a two-year contract -- basically subsidizing the cost of the phone. But you're also allowed to transfer your two-year contract to the iPhone without any penalty.
Don't ask me why but President Bush's routine colonoscopy yesterday got me thinking about people I have known that have had cancer. One neighbour I had went to the Doctor straight away and was subjected to the most invasive of treatments.
(InfoWorld) - AT&T; Inc. has backed away from earlier complaints about proposed open-access rules on parts of the 700MHz spectrum to be auctioned by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission by early next year.
Dr Haneef's Lawyers are tonight considering not posting the $10,000 bail which was granted today . As part of Haneef's bail conditions by a Brisbane Magistrate.
Bud Selig of Major League Baseball must have had too many hot dogs at AT&T; Park during the course of his long and lonely life.
Here is a great example of dangerously misunderstood principles regarding evolution.
Look for part time work at home jobs?You are a student doing your best to get a degree at university or college, or you are a mom at home raising your children, and you need some money… The last thing you want to do is get a job that requires lots of time and will affect y …
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