Wednesday - December 10, 2008 - China is Less Socialized in Retirement and Medical Plans than the West, Day Without a Gay, Saving a Cat's Face, More

Most incompetent criminal of the week: bare feet prints on the toilet seat did him in

Wife's desire for a late night sausage turns into a $4.2 million Lottery win in New Zealand

Woman finds $97,000 in Cracker Barrel restroom and returns it to owner, a woman who had sold everything to move to Florida

Illinois governor scandal could dog Obama

Overloaded bus filled with Hindu pilgrims explodes, catches fire, slides down highway on its side killing 63

$73 an hour for US Auto workers: how it adds up

Today, Wednesday, December 10, 2008 is "Day without a Gay"

Troubled Miami shrink indicted on rackateering charges in relation to running a prostitution ring

Report says military lives were loss needlessly in our rush into Iraq without proper preparation

Edgar, a 4-year-old long-haired female cat, is seen with stitches running the length of her face while resting with an Elizabethan collar around her neck following surgery at the Angell Animal Medical Center, in Boston, Dec. 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Boston vets sew cats face back on after it was sliced off on car's fanbelt

Twenty-four year old singer of a raging rock band dies hours after he wraps mic cord around his neck while howling on stage

Woresening US Economy chases many Mexican immigrants back home

Cancer to be top killer in the world by 2010

Global network supports Somali pirates

Foot tapping Senator Craig loses latest appeal in airport sting case

Rangel's problems dog the Democrats as reporters are asking him when he'll resign over ethics violations

Hunger is real for almost 1 Billion inhabitants of Planet Earth

Alan Taylor's Big Picture Blog gives us 25 beautiful, brightly colored photographs from the Asian Beach Games

US Taxpayers: We might be all owning stakes in the Big 3 Car Companies here soon

Good news for book lovers: Columbia's Gabriel García Márquez 'working on a new novel'

End of an American family shopping mall dynasty

Japanese youth will now be instructed in "moral" education

UK will end cigarette displays in stores, but will leave vending machines alone for now

Students in Asian countries continue to outscore US 4th and 8th graders in Science

US led forces kill 7 Afghans in friendly fire mistake

Brazilian Police hunt for possible serial killer of gays

Irony: China trying to construct a social safety net like the United States, Great Britain, or other Western countries with socialized retirement and medical planning

Holidays should be cut to one so that alcoholics won't feel so melancholic and resentful?

Shedding Feudalism, a Channel Island Fights Over Its Future

Malaysia releases 5 terrorist suspects, one of whom supplied lodging to 9-11 terrorists

Spain rolling up its welcome mat to immigrants as unemployment spikes ever upward

Mexico fights corruption in public domain: some forty government agents are being investigated for presumed ties to drug cartels

Layoffs: 3rd largest miner on the planet, Rio Tinto, cutting 14,000 jobs

Protesters take to famed Brazilian beaches to spotlight 9,000 people they say have gone missing in the past 2 years

Union leaders in Greece refuse to call off general striker for today

UK witdrawal in Iraq begins this coming March