World's Longest Legs

Svetlana Pankratova from Russia walks into the Guinness World Records book with 132 centimetres (51.9 inch) long legs. World's Longest Legs

Walking the walk: gait infers sexual history

Sexologists (where do you go to school for that?) can now determine your sexual history just by watching you walk.  In the Journal of Sexual Medicine, researcher Stuart Brody of the University of West Scotland...

Glitter faces detention after refusing to board flight from Thailand

There's been more drama in the Gary Glitter extradition to the UK. After the chaos that resulted when Vietnamese officials allowed Glitter to be photographed like an animal on his flight to Thailand yesterday, Glitter has refused to board the connecting flight to the...

Barack who? Mixed Bag of Reactions as Obama Takes It to The Middle East

It's a feisty, contradictory mix of politics, religion, and personal views now sitting as Barack Obama's judge on his Middle East tour. As this article shows, one person may think he'll improve things by with-drawing...

UFO 2008

"UFO Pursued by Military Helicopter in Washington, USA Gilliland Ranch-UFO Click for 3648x2736 Image. 25 June 2008-WASHINGTON, USA - A military helicopter was photographed pursuing a super fast UFO in Washington...

Top Bosnian Serb war crimes fugitive arrested

OpiinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorStojan Zupljanin, on the run for a few years from the law for atrocious war crimes unimaginable in the ethnic cleansing of Muslim and Croat men, women and children. In the...

Food crisis: A daily quest for bread in Cairo

This is an important story:"Cairo - Every day at 4 a.m., Hagg Abdel Wahab walks down a narrow path past a simple coffee and tea shop to his bakery. For 40 years, this elderly man has donned a gray gallabeya robe smudged with white flour and baked thousands of...

California teen gives birth in shower, walks to hospital

" LONG BEACH, Calif. - A 17-year-old girl gave birth secretly at home, then walked four blocks to a hospital with the baby still attached by its umbilical cord."I was just a little nervous"...

Chinese Ambassador walks out on Gormley

"The Chinese Ambassador has walked out of the Green Party convention after criticism by John Gormley of China's role in Tibet.The ambassador, Liu Biwei, walked out as Mr Gormley delivered his leader's speech shortly before 9pm.Mr Gormley told delegates that human rights must...

2010 Olympics has Whistler residents concerned !

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou know it's funny, the 2010 Olympics, the Hype, the seemingly endless  amounts of  Olympic Committee money going to hire friends, family and assorted hanger ons...

UNFCCC executive secretary walks of plenary meeting

"The UNFCCC conference was initially scheduled to be closed on Friday but an agreement was reached to extend it until 10 am on Saturday. However,on Saturday morning, there was a consensus to push the closing further...

Kylie Minogue's Battle With Breast Cancer On Air In Britain

"A documentary about Kylie Minogue's battle with breast cancer has gone to air in Britain, showing dramatic footage of the pop star's collapse during a show in Manchester. Footage from the concert, filmed before her diagnosis, shows a distressed Minogue trying desperately not...

Worldwide Charity Challenges

Be somewhere different tomorrow... with Across the Divide ExpeditionsHave you ever wanted to trek the Great Wall of China, trek to Everest Base Camp, mush your own dogsled team in the Arctic or climb Kilimanjaro...

Sex A Taboo To A Muslim Girl

"There is no way that Selin Tamtekin could be described as even remotely low-life. Immaculate, groomed to perfection, she walks towards me on perfectly unscuffed heels, without a gleaming hair out of place or a single microfibre of dust on her pristine white shirt. At 33 she...

Edwards @ John Mellencamp concert gets booed

Some booed some cheered but maybe it is best for politicians to not get on stage unless they are going to play an instument or sing... This is a first hand account of what happened by Radio Iowa...."Mellencamp...

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