WASHINGTON -- The Senate voted Tuesday to keep a controversial provision to let the military detain terrorism suspects on U.S. soil and hold them indefinitely without trial -- prompting White House officials to reissue a veto threat. The measure, part of the massive National Defense Authorization A...

Almost half the German city of Koblenz is under evacuation orders as experts prepare to defuse a two-ton ‘Blockbuster’ RAF bomb in the Rhine. The 10ft bomb, one of the biggest in the wartime arsenal of Bomber Command, was discovered after 65 years when the river level dropped during the driest Nove...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday pardoned an Afghan woman serving a 12-year prison sentence for having sex out of wedlock after she was raped by a relative. Karzai's office said in a statement that the woman and her attacker have agreed to marry. That would reverse an...

Mikey wrote:A phrase which I never wanted to hear my father-in-law utter at a family celebration, yet which turned out strangely OK: "Mike, come up here - I want to show you my .30-06."

The first question on my mind would be "Show me from which end?"

...damn.

I don't know how things are where you're from, but here that reads as 8 feet, 14 inches...damn impressive man.

Tanuki spirits sound like quite the partying bunch... What gets me is...why Mario? If they wanted to go after a video game (insane as it is), why not something like WoW, which is both in the same weight class and actually involves real virtual animal cruelty. I must have done a bazzillion fetch ques...