A painting of a large penis on a bridge in Russia's second city St Petersburg has been dropped from the shortlist for an art prize, the organisers said.
The painting, which pointed skywards when the bridge was raised, was painted last June by opposition Russian art group Voina, or War, to...
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Children of Germany take heart — it may soon be perfectly legal to make noise.
Germany is so desperate to encourage people to have more children that the government is proposing a bill allowing citizens under six to laugh, shout and play at any volume.
Germany is a land of many rules...
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The Department of Defense will employ hackers under a brave new scheme pioneered by a hacker gone straight, but will it work?
Since the dawn of computing there's been a cold war between those who run computer systems and those who attack them.
And never the twain shall meet...
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MOSCOW — Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday criticized a group of customs officers for a YouTube video celebrating the lavish lifestyle they say comes with their government jobs.
The mock rap video made in the Pacific port city of Vladivostok shows customs officials in...
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A clown who won a seat in Brazil's Congress by a landslide has stayed true to his former profession by accidentally messing up his first vote.
Francisco Everardo Oliveira Silva, better known by his clown name Tiririca, had pledged to back the government's austerity proposal for a new national...
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A man who ate a rat in front of Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni in 2005 is threatening to repeat what he says is a traditional form of protest used to bring change.
John Ojim Omoding, 79, told the Daily Monitor newspaper that his grandfather ate a live rat...
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CESG, the Information Assurance (IA) arm of GCHQ, has given the green light to Windows 7 and is encouraging government departments to upgrade to the operating...
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U.S. Government Seizes BitTorrent Search Engine Domain and More
Written by Link Removed on November 26, 2010 Following on the heels of this week’s domain seizure of a...
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Is it just me, or does anyone else find it amazing that during the mad cow epidemic our government could track a single cow, born in Canada almost three years ago, right to the stall where she slept...
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The "Bin Laden Hunter" was arrested in the mountainous regions of Pakistan with a 40 inch sword, a pistol, and night vision goggles. He was deported by Pakistani authorities. His goal: to hunt and capture Osama Bin Laden. Like Bin Laden, he is also on dialysis.
Is he insane?
Faulkner says...
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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) --State Sen. Ernie Chambers says his lawsuit against God might seem funny but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a serious point.
Chambers asked Douglas County District Judge Marlon Polk on Tuesday to let his lawsuit proceed. Chambers said he wants...
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Dose our government use Vista? That would explain a lot. I can see why they thought there were WMD's in Iraq from a misunderstood pop up during an Age of Empires network game.