How We See The World

03/06/2006 Reuters Updated: New Zealand rugby fans have produced a bidding frenzy for the chance to own the handbag that reduced a burly All Blacks player to tears. In one of the more bizarre off-field sporting incidents, former New Zealand captain Tana Umaga tangled with Hurricanes club team mate Chris Masoe in a nightclub after losing the prestigious Super 14 tournament final last Saturday. Masoe, who has played two tests for New Zealand, tripped over a man's feet in the Jolly Poacher bar in Christchurch early last Sunday and then hit the unidentified man in retaliation. Umaga, one of New Zealand's greatest players who played 74 tests for the All Blacks, …

Celebrity spoon-bender Uri Geller has discovered a house he bought on eBay, formerly owned by Elvis Presley, has been sold to someone else. The vendors have now sold the property, which Presley lived in before he moved to Graceland, to a foundation set up by music producer Mike Curb. Geller made a winning bid for the Tennessee house of $905,100 (£481,000) on eBay in May. "We are absolutely, mind-blown angry. Of course we're going to sue," he said. It is not known how much Curb paid to the sellers, a married couple, for the four-bedroom home which Presley bought in 1956 with royalties from Heartbreak Hotel. The rules of auction website eBay may make it di…

Who'd swap places with today's overexamined, insecure, drug-tested, antidepressant-popping schoolchildren? “SO, I BET you can’t wait to finish your GCSEs,” I said to a friend’s daughter this week in that special, patronising voice that adults reserve for children and small pets. “Just think — the whole summer off! You don’t know how lucky you are.” The instant that the words had left my mouth, of course, I realised that not only were they horribly fogeyish, they were dishonest. Because schoolchildren today are not lucky. I wouldn’t be one of them for all the iPods in Curry’s. The friend’s teenage daughter was quick to remind me why. Far from having a carefree s…

TWO A-level exam papers due to be sat next week have been obtained by the Daily Mirror. Students are believed to be buying the stolen questions then selling them on. Subjects affected include A-level maths, economics, business studies, biology and chemistry set by exam boards AQA and Ed-Excel. Both companies were last night investigating the alleged scam alongside officers from Scotland Yard after we passed on AQA business studies papers for units 2 and 3, to be sat on Monday. No one has any idea how many students have had access to the questions, which are believed to have been circulating in schools across London including Mill Hill County School since Wedne…

A school has changed the names of its primary one classes after complaints that they left some children feeling inferior, BBC Scotland has learned. Bonnyrigg Primary School had called its classes 1a and 1b but some parents of children in 1b said it left the youngsters feeling second best. The classes will now be known as 1ar and 1ap, incorporating teachers' surnames in the new titles. One Midlothian parent dubbed the move "political correctness gone mad". The man said he was surprised when he read about the change in a school newsletter. He told the BBC Scotland news website: "This shows how far political correctness has gone in Scotland. "I thought …

Coming down to breakfast in your nightie shows you really feel at home. Unfortunately, it can also show a little more flesh than others might feel comfortable seeing. Which is why students of St Hilda's college at Oxford University have been ordered to dress properly for breakfast. Some were arriving for their morning cup of tea wearing the naughtiest of nightgowns. Or pyjamas that left little to the imagination. They claimed that with no men in the all-female halls of residence, there was no need for decorum. But the kitchen staff - particularly the handful of men among them - hardly knew where to look. Revealing nightwear best left to the boudoir…

ROME (AP) -- Don't expect Fabio Capello to stay with Juventus if the club is relegated from Serie A as a result of Italy's match-fixing scandal. Juventus, the Turin club which won its second straight Italian title last month, is making contingency plans for a new coach in case it is demoted from Serie A, a leading Italian sports daily reported Friday. Capello and Juve executive Carlo Sant'Albano emerged looking grim from four hours of talks in Turin on Thursday and made no comments to reporters. La Gazzetta dello Sport reported that Capello, who has another year on his contract, was refusing to stay with Juventus if the team is demoted to Serie B. The paper said Capel…

Parts of New Orleans had been sinking much faster than previously thought before Hurricane Katrina hit last August, new research suggests. Subsidence may explain why some levees were easily breached by floodwaters, the study in the Nature journal says. It argues some very low-lying areas of the US city should not be rebuilt, describing them as "death traps". US engineers say the city is prepared for the start of the hurricane season, which "officially" begins on Thursday. However, some storm experts think the work of rebuilding the levees is incomplete. US meteorologists say there could be up to five major storms during 2006, but the season will not be a…

A US state is to enlist web users in its fight against illegal immigration by offering live surveillance footage of the Mexican border on the internet. The plan will allow web users worldwide to watch Texas' border with Mexico and phone the authorities if they spot any apparently illegal crossings. Texas Governor Rick Perry said the cameras would focus on "hot-spots and common routes" used to enter the US. US lawmakers have been debating a divisive new illegal immigration bill. The Senate has approved a law that grants millions of illegal immigrants US citizenship and calls for the creation of a guest-worker programme, while beefing up border security. B…

Concern is growing for a man who has not been seen since Middlesbrough's defeat in the Uefa Cup final. Gary Cowan, 44, from Hartlepool, disappeared more than three weeks ago after watching the match at a friend's house in the town. Police have followed up possible leads in Sheffield and Denmark but said they had come to nothing. They were carrying out another search of his house on Saturday to try to find out where he might have gone. Dogs left A Cleveland Police spokeswoman said: "It's a mystery and one that is disturbing both us and his friends." It is not thought Mr Cowan returned home after watching the match at a house in Chatham Gardens, Hartle…

Is Prince Philip a god? Simply divine: Villagers treasure their portraits of the Prince High in a mist-shrouded mountain village, an ancient tribe patiently awaits the return of its divine leader. He is no mere mortal like themselves, dressed as they are in and straw sheaths to protect their modesty — rather, they believe he is the human face of an ancestral spirit who left their island many moons ago to look for a bride. Their legend tells how this spiritual ancestor ended up in England — and eventually married a queen. Which explains why the Duke of Edinburgh, who is well aware of his role as a god in the eyes of the Yaohnanen tribe, has establish…

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Whatever happened to the superheroes of old? Batwoman has been reinvented as a 'lipstick Lesbian' With Batwoman reinvented as a lesbian (see picture, right), Spider-Man beset by personal problems and the X-Men hailed as a parable of scientific oppression of minorities, the old-fashioned comic superhero seems to have been vanquished. When Superman first appeared in the 1930s, he was for many a symbol of patriotism and pure-spirited heroism in an increasingly fragile world. As the cataclysm of World War II approached children could take solace in the simple notion of a Man of Steel who was capable of stopping any enemy. Today, we are in the grip of …

Grandparents allegedly ordered hit on own kin Police say Florida couple tried to hire hit man to kill 4, including 3 grandkids The Associated Press Updated: 9:20 a.m. ET June 2, 2006 TAVARES, Fla. - A couple tried to hire a hit man to kill their three grandchildren and daughter-in-law to stop them from testifying against their son in his rape trial, authorities said. The couple, ages 60 and 59, were charged with four counts each of criminal conspiracy to commit murder. They were being held without bond. Police said they initially offered $100 to an undercover sheriff's deputy to kill their son's wife, their 10-year-old granddaughter, two step-grandchildren,…

Farmer mauled by 47-stone pig Geraint Roberts with more passive pigs before he was attacked. A farmer was recovering in hospital today after he was mauled by a 47-stone pig. Geraint Roberts, 49, was trying to move the Landrace boar into its pen in Brynsiencyn, north Wales, when it went berserk. It pinned Mr Roberts against a tractor and bit him on the back of both legs, his back and left arm. One of the bites nearly severed an artery. The attack only stopped when Mr Roberts' wife, Nerys, turned a hose on to the pig. Her husband was rushed to Gwynedd Hospital, in Bangor, where he required seven hours of surgery to clean and stitch the wounds. He …

if you could choose only one, what would it be? mine is: 1. Gone with the Wind :)

Mwhaahahah....anyone of here has been seing the Jerry Hall reality called "Kept"?? hahahhah it's so fucking funny...

saw it tonight, great movie. very freaky.

Did anybody see it? I saw it today and thought it was pretty sweet. It wasn't as cheesey as I suspected. Tom Cruise does a good job at acting crazy, but I'm not too suprised.

I have a song that clearly reads 3:46 on my iTunes library and iPod.... but it only plays 18 seconds of it.. and it moves on to the next track. Why?? :cry:

**Contains a disturbing image** Latest Neo-Con Lie: Iraq Safer Than Washington DC Old and distorted figures used to sell wonderful war Neo-Con publication claims that were parroted by the New York Sun, Rush Limbaugh and others purporting Iraq to be safer than Washington DC have been thoroughly debunked as having used old and distorted figures. On Monday under the headline, 'Iraq Less Violent than Washington, D.C.', Newsmax reported; "Despite media coverage purporting to show that escalating violence in Iraq has the country spiraling out of control, civilian death statistics complied by Rep. Steve King, R-IA, indicate that Iraq actually has a lower civi…

You Tube | June 1st 2006 Sweet Misery - A Poisoned World - Aspartame Cancer, Parts 1,2 and 3 I've stayed well clear of Aspartame for a while now, just because it doesn't really effect my eating habits at all so I thought I might as well eradicate it from my diet. I know a few friends who have a drink with the poison in almost everyday.... (I have had the odd Coke though but only a couple)

North Yorks countryside tops Kent Countryside in the Yorkshire Dales was described as "breathtaking" The phenomenon of "chavs" has seen Kent lose its Garden of England crown to be replaced by North Yorkshire as the most beautiful county in England. A survey asked for counties to be ranked according to their countryside, villages and wildlife. North Yorkshire, Devon, Derbyshire and Gloucs pushed Kent into fifth place. The least favourite county was Middlesex, while Notts, Beds, Lincs and Essex also came out badly in the poll by the UKTV Style Gardens channel. Favourite counties North Yorkshire, 31.3% Devon, 21.7% Derbyshire, 10% Gloucestershire, 8…

Homeless for nine months, Anya Peters slept each night in a car A homeless woman, writing a blog about her experiences of living in a car, has now signed a book deal with a major publisher and is nominated for a media award. A few weeks ago, Anya Peters was homeless and living in a car, hanging around the places where she could wash and eat and keep herself looking respectable. Her contact with the outside world was through an online diary. But this blog, published under the name of Wandering Scribe, was picked up by readers around the world and has provided a remarkable way out of her homelessness. She has written her own escape story. The story of her homelessn…

Holy diversity! Look what's happened to Batwoman Batwoman is making her comic book comeback - as a lesbian who has had an affair with a policewoman. Batman's old flame, previously known for her girlish crush on the Caped Crusader, was last seen being killed by assassins almost 30 years ago. But not only is she to come back from the grave. This time around, the woman behind the mask, Kathy Kane, will be a buxom socialite romantically linked to ex-police detective Renee Montoya. The arrival of the lesbian character, in a new weekly title called 52, is part of a drive by the American comic book industry to broaden its appeal by introducing more characters …