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Video: UFO filmed hovering over Russian protesters
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:19 AM PST
The Sideshow - UPDATE: Several helpful Sideshow readers have written in with various explanations of the object. As we noted in the post, it's mostly likely a monitoring device used by journalists. One reader speculated the object is a modified, do-it-yourself "ArduCopter," while another sent in this photo. ***** Some 25,000 pro-democracy protesters in Moscow's Bolotnaya Square had [...] Full Story | Top |
New billboard depicts Virgin Mary holding a pregnancy test
Wed,14 Dec 2011 07:06 AM PST
The Sideshow - A controversial new billboard shows the Virgin Mary holding a pregnancy test with a "positive" reading. The billboard, called "Mary is in the pink," was purchased by the St. Matthews-in-the-City Church in Auckland, New Zealand. The church says the billboard featuring the revered religious figure aimed to "avoid the sentimental [and] trite" and "spark thought [...] Full Story | Top |
Armed gang steals millions from Dubai royal family
Wed,14 Dec 2011 06:33 AM PST
The Sideshow - Members of an armed gang are on trial after they've been charged with stealing millions from the Dubai royal family. The £2million heist ($3,099,000) was the royal family's "holiday spending money" set aside for its visit to London on June 24. Royal aide Abdullah Shakeri, who testified from behind a protective screen, said he thought [...] Full Story | Top |
Alexander Graham Bell recordings played from 1880s
Wed,14 Dec 2011 05:58 AM PST
AP -  Alexander Graham Bell foresaw many things, including that people could someday talk over a telephone. Yet the inventor certainly never could have anticipated that his audio-recording experiments in a Washington, D.C., lab could be recovered 130 years later and played for a gathering of scientists, curators and journalists.
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When Gingrich met Yasser Arafat
Wed,14 Dec 2011 07:09 AM PST
The Envoy - GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich stirred up plenty of controversy last week when he called Palestinians an "invented people" in an interview from the campaign trail. "I think we have an invented Palestinian people who are in fact Arabs and historically part of the Arab community and they had the chance to go many places,' [...] Full Story | Top |
New Stratolaunch plane will take people into Earth's orbit
Tue,13 Dec 2011 12:30 PM PST
The Sideshow - Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is teaming up with aerospace pioneer Burt Rutan to build a giant machine that is part airplane and part spaceship. The new vehicle will be able to transport people and cargo into Earth's orbit and is scheduled to be commercially available by 2016. Unlike traditional rockets, the Stratolaunch will not require [...] Full Story | Top |
How Ron Paul could win nomination
Wed,14 Dec 2011 02:58 AM PST
The Signal - Ron Paul has a 7.5 percent likelihood of winning the Republican nomination, based on data from prediction markets. That puts him in 3rd place, behind Mitt Romney at 47.7 percent and Newt Gingrich at 33.7 percent, but ahead of Jon Huntsman at 5.4 percent. Real Clear Politics has Paul at 9.3 percentage points in its [...] Full Story | Top |
Thousands of birds make crash landing in Utah
Wed,14 Dec 2011 01:16 PM PST
AP -  Thousands of migratory birds died on impact after apparently mistaking a Wal-Mart parking lot and other areas of southern Utah for bodies of water and plummeting to the ground in what one wildlife expert called the worst downing she's ever seen.
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Six Waltons Have More Wealth Than the Bottom 30 % of Americans
Wed,14 Dec 2011 10:28 AM PST
Forbes - Different people will take this different ways, but Jeffrey Goldberg tells us that six members of the Walton family (the original owners of WalMart) have more wealth than the bottom 30 % of Americans. Here's where he says it: In 2007, according to the labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, the [...] Full Story | Top |
Giant plumes of methane bubbling to surface of Arctic Ocean
Wed,14 Dec 2011 08:38 AM PST
The Sideshow - Russian scientists have discovered hundreds of plumes of methane gas, some 1,000 meters in diameter, bubbling to the surface of the Arctic Ocean. Scientists are concerned that as the Arctic Shelf recedes, the unprecedented levels of gas released could greatly accelerate global climate change. Igor Semiletov of the Russian Academy of Sciences tells the UK's [...] Full Story | Top |
Non-porn players rush to grab .xxx websites
Tue,13 Dec 2011 09:37 PM PST
AFP -  Colleges, museums and well known groups have rushed to grab online addresses in the ".xxx" domain to prevent porn purveyors from using their names in the Internet's new red light district.
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Chinese man arrested for hiring wedding strippers
Tue,13 Dec 2011 06:13 PM PST
Reuters - BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police have arrested a man who hired two strippers to perform at his son's wedding after the performance was mobbed by villagers, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. Zhang Cheng, from Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu province, had originally wanted a band to play at the nuptials, but was then advised he could get performers whose show would have "special features," the Global Times said. "After watching the show, Zhang decided it would be appropriate for his son's wedding and requested two strippers for the event," it added. "... ... Full Story | Top |
Presidential dollar coins victims of budget crunch
Tue,13 Dec 2011 11:25 AM PST
Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sorry, President Chester Arthur. Nobody wants you. Searching for savings in a tough economy, the White House said on Tuesday that the U.S. Mint would scrap automatic production of millions of dollar coins bearing the image of deceased American presidents at a saving of $50 million a year. "As will shock you all, calls for Chester A. Arthur coins are not big," said Vice President Joe Biden, referring to the country's 21st president, who died in 1886. "I'm not commenting on his presidency, but it just is not very high." The U.S. Treasury estimates there are almost $1. ... Full Story | Top |
There Are Some Great Health Reasons Not to Go Bare Down There
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:35 AM PST
The Atlantic Wire - Hygiene may be the least vain justification for ripping hairs off of your mons pubis, but it's not doctor recommended. Since getting Brazilian bikini waxes, which remove the entire patch of pubic hair from ones vagina, is an unnatural thing to do, women cite various reasons for the painful and expensive practice, as Ashley Fetters explains in her lengthy piece on the phenomenon over at The Atlantic. ... Full Story | Top |
Another company pulls advertising from TLC's 'All-American Muslim'
Wed,14 Dec 2011 10:19 AM PST
The Cutline - On the heels of a controversial decision by Lowe's Home Improvement to pull its advertising from TLC's "All-American Muslim" following protests from a conservative group, another company has decided to do the same--though it claims it was not because of the backlash. In a letter of apology to customers, an executive at Kayak.com, the online [...] Full Story | Top |
How to Grow a Salad in Your Window
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:02 AM PST
This Could Be Big - First pass under a rumbling elevated subway and then walk up five flights of stairs, there you'll find a bounty of fresh fruits and vegetables growing in an apartment window. Chives, red leaf lettuce, sage, basil, even strawberries, all growing above each other and next to each other like Hollywood squares. We're in the Brooklyn [...] Full Story | Top |
Millions set to lose jobless benefits — "I'm very scared," one tells Yahoo News
Wed,14 Dec 2011 07:31 AM PST
The Lookout - For Dawn Deane, the difference between just keeping her head above water and falling under is the unemployment insurance check she receives each week. In June, Deane, who is 49, was laid off from her human-resources job at a Philadelphia nonprofit, where she made over $50,000 a year. Since then, jobless benefits have allowed her, [...] Full Story | Top |
As Congress battles over payroll tax cut extension, government shutdown looms
Wed,14 Dec 2011 10:03 AM PST
The Ticket - It's brinkmanship time yet again in Congress as lawmakers attempt to close out the year with votes to continue a payroll tax cut, extend long-term jobless benefits, and fund the government to avoid yet another shutdown. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle would like to pass some version of all of these measures, but [...] Full Story | Top |
Gingrich worse against Obama than Romney: Reuters/Ipsos poll
Wed,14 Dec 2011 08:06 AM PST
Reuters -  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newt Gingrich holds a 10-point lead in the fight for the Republican presidential nomination, but he would fare worse against President Barack Obama than Republican Mitt Romney, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. With the first nominating contest in Iowa less than three weeks away, Gingrich leads Romney among Republican voters nationwide by 28 percent to 18 percent, the poll found. However, the poll raises questions about whether Gingrich -- a former speaker of the U.S. ...
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Obama marking end of Iraq war
Wed,14 Dec 2011 10:55 AM PST
AP -  President Barack Obama saluted returning troops Wednesday, applauding their "extraordinary achievement" and declaring that the nearly nine-year conflict in Iraq is ending "not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home."
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Eggbert, the giant talking egg who knows your name
Tue,13 Dec 2011 09:21 AM PST
The Sideshow - Does meeting a giant, talking egg that knows your name sound like a good way to spend the holidays? If you live near New Windsor, New York, you can meet and greet "Eggbert" who has been dusted off and taken out of long-term storage. The New York Times reports that Devitt's Nursery and Supply has [...] Full Story | Top |
Mayor's Bizarre Family Christmas Photo Goes Viral
Tue,13 Dec 2011 08:52 AM PST
Trending Now - "Like" us on Facebook.com/TrendingNow and follow us on Twitter @YahooTrending! Right about now, you're probably starting to receive Christmas cards from friends and family. It's pretty safe to assume that most of them are adorned with candid shots of smiling faces, and some even have a picture of the newest addition to the family: a [...] Full Story | Top |
Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry sells for $115 million
Wed,14 Dec 2011 06:53 AM PST
AP -  Elizabeth Taylor's jewelry collection sold for a record-setting $115 million — including more than $11.8 million for a pearl necklace and more than $8.8 million for a diamond ring given to her by Richard Burton — at a Christie's auction Tuesday night of memorabilia amassed by the late actress.
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Frat accused of asking: Who do you want to rape?
Wed,14 Dec 2011 01:16 PM PST
AP - A University of Vermont fraternity has been suspended while school officials, national organization leaders and police investigate allegations that a survey was circulated among members asking them who they would like to rape. Full Story | Top |
Saddam Hussein's Dinnerware Discovered at NYC Restaurant
Wed,14 Dec 2011 10:53 AM PST
ABC News - Officials in New York have returned to Iraqi diplomats dinnerware once belonging to Saddam Hussein and the family of King Faisal II that was looted, then illegally imported to the United States and sold on eBay. Nineteen dinner and salad plates, some which contained... Full Story | Top |
Analysis: China's $300 billion fund a wake-up call to U.S.
Wed,14 Dec 2011 06:30 AM PST
Reuters -  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's plan for a new $300 billion sovereign wealth fund is as much a warning to Washington as it is a body blow to Brussels. It's the clearest sign yet of Beijing's waning faith in bonds issued by Europe and the United States. Europe's festering debt debacle, record low yields on U.S. Treasuries and a depreciating dollar all add weight to the view in China that the time is ripe to change investment tack. ...
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Gingrich aide steps down after calling Mormonism a 'cult'
Wed,14 Dec 2011 06:55 AM PST
The Ticket - Less than a week after he was hired, Newt Gingrich's political director in Iowa was forced out of the campaign Tuesday after it was reported he called Mormonism a "cult" in a political focus group last week. Craig Bergman, a longtime political activist in the state who joined the Gingrich campaign late last week, said [...] Full Story | Top |
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