'US special squad killed Benazir' - Seymour Hersh

Former prime minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto was assassinated on the orders of the special death squad formed by former US vice-president Dick Cheney, which had already killed the Lebanese Prime Minister Rafique Al Hariri and the army chief of that country.

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Palmyra Men Arrested for Stealing and Eating Calf

Police say two unemployed, hungry men stole a calf from a barn in upstate New York, shot it with an arrow and slit its throat before eating it at a campsite.

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First human to cross solar system boundary soon (maybe)

There are those who believe that somewhere in the vast blackness of space, about nine billion miles from the Sun, the first human is about to cross the boundary of our Solar System into interstellar space.

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Mexico flu: Your experiences

I work as a resident doctor in one of the biggest hospitals in Mexico City and sadly, the situation is far from "under control".

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Drowning in plastic: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is twice the size of France

There are now 46,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometre of the world's oceans, killing a million seabirds and 100,000 marine mammals each year. Worse still, there seems to be nothing we can do to clean it up. So how do we turn the tide?

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AP photogs' No. 1 love? Bronson Arroyo's giant leg kick

Look, I love Bronson Arroyo's windup as much as every other guy who has ever pulled something while trying to imitate it after a beer in the backyard or four.

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The high costs of running YouTube and other user generated content sites

YouTube and its fellow user-contributed sites really did change the world. Too bad nobody could find a way to pay for it.

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Time Warner Cable Drops New Internet Price Plan in NY

Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) announced Thursday that Time Warner Cable will shelve plans for a tiered pricing system for Internet use

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Yes, it's time for the Indians to panic

Did Cleveland really blow its season on a mid-April Monday in Kansas City?

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Pilgrims tracing the last steps of Jesus have been going the WRONG way for 2,000 years

For the best part of 2,000 years, pilgrims have flocked to Jerusalem to retrace Jesus's final steps.

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Keith livid about Rolling Stone story by Hawke

The country star lit into the actor for an article Hawke wrote in the new issue of Rolling Stone about Kris Kristofferson. In it, Hawke refers to a blowup Kristofferson had with an unnamed country star back in 2003 that sounds a lot like Toby Keith.

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Darth Vader "beware the small print" RotJ - "no profits"

"I get these occasional letters from Lucasfilm saying that we regret to inform you that as Return of the Jedi has never gone into profit, we've got nothing to send you. Now here we're talking about one of the biggest releases of all time."

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I've Got a Secret 3/5 1950's "I saw Lincoln get shot."

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A.P. Moving to Halt Use of Articles on Web Sites

The Associated Press said on Monday that it will demand that Web sites obtain permission to use the work of The A.P. or its member newspapers, and share revenue with the news organizations, and that it will take legal action those that do not.

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Internet Reboot Today at 11.59UTC

How will your company handle the reboot downtime? Is the reboot necessary? Do you think it should have been done sooner? Let us know your opinions, but please be careful when you send them.

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99 Seinfeld References

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Ann Bauer on autism, violence

"...to break the silence about autism's darker side. We cannot solve this problem by hiding it, the way handicapped children themselves used to be tucked away in cellars. In order to help the young men who endure this rage, someone has to be willing to tell the truth"

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Time for Honesty About the Great Derek Jeter

The unpleasant fact that everyone is going to have to start facing up to very soon is that it is Derek Jeter, and not Alex Rodriguez, who could be the albatross hanging around the Yankees' neck

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Space Eulogies: Shuttle-Riding Bat Dies The Most Glorious Death Imaginable

Bereft of his ability to fly and with nowhere to go, a courageous bat climbed aboard our Discovery with stars in his weak little eyes. The launch commenced, and Spacebat trembled as his frail mammalian body was gently pushed skyward.

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Top 200 Baseball Prospect List

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Buffaloians in wake of T.O.'s signing

"It's a town where there's not much to do, but there's huge fandemonium out there. The spirits of those people are very affected by what goes on in that stadium."

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Sneak Peak Inside Citi Field

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The case for Nationalization

The misguided policy response from Washington has focused almost exclusively on squandering public money and burdening our children with indebtedness in order to defend the bondholders of mismanaged financial institutions (blame Paulson and Geithner – I've got a lot of respect  …

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Gervais + Elmo = Hilarity on 'Sesame Street'

"Its called 'acting' Mr. Gervais!!!"

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Colonel Sanders discovered at the bottom of river

The Colonel's upper body, minus the hands, was discovered on Tuesday evening by divers checking for unexploded bombs as part of riverside pedestrian walkway improvement works. The figure's legs and right hand were discovered Wednesday morning.

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