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Sex being AWESOME helps sell condoms in SouthEast Asia

202 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 21:18:24 by Slashered | 28 comments

With more Southeast Asians flouting cultural prudishness by speaking openly about sex, condom companies in Indonsia and Thailand, such as Thai Nippon Rubber hope to raise revenues here in 2010. But that's proving to be a challenge due to deeply engrained social and cultural views that associate condoms with extramarital sex, prostitution and sin.

Help sought in identifying people in serial killer's photos

303 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 04:42:08 by 0ldB0y | 18 comments

Hoping to solve numerous cold cases, authorities on Thursday released hundreds of photos of unidentified women and children found in a storage unit that belonged to a serial killer who appeared on 'The Dating Game."

Hugo Chavez Sends Army to Change All Lights in Venezuela

274 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 22:13:28 by statik99 | 132 comments

It might sound like the start of a bad joke, but how many Venezuelan soldiers does it take to change a light bulb? When the country is in the midst of its worst electricity crisis for 50 years, the answer is lots. In fact, an entire army's worth.

Stopping Afghanistan's Fertilizer Bomb Factories

205 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 22:01:37 by Shiner76 | 28 comments

In a bloggers roundtable today, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, lobbied Afghan President Hamid Karzai to impose a ban on ammonium nitrate fertilizer, one of the common ingredients for homemade explosives, which are a weapon of choice and much harder to detect than other explosives

Woman tries to scam Wendy's, Puts Severed Finger in Food

289 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 00:23:11 by CourageWulf | 59 comments

It was a grand caper -- at least in Anna Ayala's mind. Brian Rossiter had lost his ring finger in a job accident. So Ayala decided to buy it for 100 bucks. Then she cooked it in a batch of chili at her Las Vegas home and kept it in the freezer for storage...

'Apartheid' call system filters out poor clients

249 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 16:03:48 by Luzo33 | 24 comments

A new banking phone system will identify those with low credit approvals and put them through to a call centre in India.

Mom says daughter held in Ireland in terror plot - Yahoo!

204 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 13:53:59 by Luzo33 | 28 comments

Jamie Paulin-Ramirez was a straight-A nursing student when she abruptly left Colorado last fall with her 6-year-old son and turned up in Ireland, where her parents say she was arrested this week in an alleged plot to assassinate a Swedish cartoonist.

Lehman Brothers Bosses Manipulated Balance Sheets !

400 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 19:08:19 by FI5HERMAN | 41 comments

The accountancy giant failed challenge book-keeping 'gimmicks' the American investment bank was using to stay afloat, according to an official report. $700billion collapse of Lehman Brothers which triggered world recession.....................

The Cleveland UFO: What on Earth?

447 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 20:13:19 by quickdigger | 122 comments

For more than a week, a mysterious pulsating light has been appearing each night over Lake Erie east of downtown Cleveland. The unidentified flying object, which shows up at approximately 7:30 pm and zips around in the darkness for about two hours before disappearing, has been captured on film from various angles.

Venezuela Murder Rate Has Quadrupled Under Hugo Chavez

426 votes | submitted 2010-03-13 02:06:45 by Janinco | 118 comments

One person is murdered every two hours in Venezuela. Chavez blames the high crime rates on wealth inequality created under former leaders, but that doesn't explain why the murder rate has exploded during his decade-plus in power.

China warns Google as Internet row deal seen soon

220 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 15:24:13 by eworkswebdesign | 52 comments

China warned Google, the world's largest search engine, against flouting the country's laws on Friday, as expectations grow for a resolution to a public battle over censorship and cyber-security.||The chief executive of Google,...

Ground Zero Workers Reach $657 Million Settlement

324 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 02:19:44 by 0ldB0y | 48 comments

A settlement of up to $657.5 million has been reached in the cases of thousands of rescue and cleanup workers at ground zero who sued the city over damage to their health. They said the settlement would compensate about 10,000 plaintiffs according to the severity of their illnesses and the level of their exposure to contaminants at the WTC site.

New Mass Graves of Nazi Victims Found in Austria

341 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 21:31:48 by BalancingAct | 59 comments

Two mass graves containing scores of people murdered by the Nazis during the Second World War have been found underneath an army football pitch in Austria, government officials said on Friday.

BA strike: Cabin crew announce March strike dates | Mail Onl

192 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 17:36:01 by Luzo33 | 7 comments

Unite said its members will walk out for three days from March 20 and for four days from March 27 following the collapse of talks.

Sweden Parliament Labels Mass Killing of Armenians Genocide

443 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 20:42:25 by ArbiInc | 48 comments

Sweden's parliament approved a resolution recognizing the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey as genocide.

Morocco expels Christian evangelists

391 votes | submitted 2010-03-12 16:03:44 by Slashered | 242 comments

Morocco expelled Christian missionaries who ran an orphanage for abandoned Moroccan children signaling the government s tough new stance on foreign Christian evangelists

'Underwear Bomber' Could Not Have Blown Up Plane

404 votes | submitted 2010-03-11 16:39:53 by amprather | 143 comments

An experiment that detonated a bomb similar to the so-called "underwear bomber's" shows that the plane would have withstood the impact.

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