Thursday - February 5, 2009 - Cold, Cold, Cold, Living On $15 A Week in Urban China, Is Disney Pimping Teenage Sex? 44KKK Is Not A New Klan Branch,

News Corp. loses $6.4 billion in 2Q; huge write-down of assets blamed

A beautiful, wimpy, galaxy

Parking tickets in Grand Forks, ND lead to computer virus after scammed motorists click on website to find photos of their supposed violations

Federal Agents Investigate Whether Arkansas Doctor Was Target of Car Bomb

250 Million yearas ago, toxic gases from Earth's biggest Super-Volcano (in Russia) caused world's worst extinction

Is Disney pimping teenage sex to increase revenues and recast the American family?

"Swatting" phone pranks land about a dozen teenagers in jail for 2 to 13 years after endangering lives of innocent homeowners

Ontario provincial police say they rescued two children and arrested 31 people in what they're calling the largest child pornography investigation in the province's history

Two decade old kidnapping of two children from Tennessee solved . . . adult children will meet their parents for the first time in 20 years

Czechs criticised over castration of sex offenders

Thousands of Italian drivers are expected to seek compensation after it was revealed that a system to catch them jumping red lights was rigged

Bad Cop, No Doughnut!

Police block events ahead of 20th Tiananmen anniversary

Humor: military truisms from a Motley Fool poster

The European Central Bank (ECB) keeps interest rates unchanged at 2%

A University of Georgia study released Thursday says online rent vs. buy calculators that lure apartment dwellers into buying homes with promises of big savings may underestimate hidden expenses and set up low-income families for foreclosure





100,000 mostly young Chinese white collar workers join a club where they spend only $15 per week to live on

Fired exec: 'Starbucks saved my life'

Milwaukee teen faces 300 years for tricking his male high school classmates into blackmailed sex by using Facebook

Fortune: Can Apple save Hollywood?
Apple web hits show growing interest while Dell web hits show fading interest

Layoffs: Estee Lauder cuts 2,000 jobs as profits drop

Early whales gave birth on land

What's killing the Coral Reefs?

Ontario's ombudsman says he'll call for retailers, staff and their families to be banned from buying lottery tickets if what he calls "insider fraud" doesn't drop drastically within six months

Black box recording of calm hero pilot Scully . . . "We may end up in the Hudson"

Why?

Recession has taken a big bite out of Green Energy

A big winner at Sundance, "Push" is labeled one of the darkest and most depressing films today

Senators are modifying stimulus bill which they hope will quickly spur spending and create jobs

Jobless claims highest in 26 years

What's the best cup of coffee in America (and it only costs$6 per pound)? Consumer Reports says . . .

Maureen Dowd: "Well That Certainly Didn't Take Long"

Alan Taylor's "Big Picture Blog" looks at England's Tough Guy Challenge held on Feb. 1, 2009

Would be pimp only faces 21 to 25 months in jail for trying to force a 13 year old girl into the sex trade

The kind and considerate gesture of President Obama to include "non-believers" in his Inaugural Address

NTSB: Bird remains found in Hudson plane's engines

93 year old WWII vet who froze to death at home leaves estate to hospital

Afghanistan says foreign fighters coming from Iraq

Grandmother talks about Octuplet's mother

Coming Freeze Likely To Be Worse Than Before; Farmers Worried