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The escaped Bronx Zoo cobra that became an internet star after spoof posts from it appeared on Link Removed has been found 'alive and well'. The deadly 24-inch Egyptian serpent went missing from the world-famous zoo's Reptile House last Saturday, sparking a frantic search and rescue...

A property surveyor inadvertently copied his ex into his conversation with a male friend – after he had referred to her as a ‘******* ****’. Now the exchange, which took place last Wednesday, has been passed to office inboxes across the country. The surveyor meant to send his...

A missing cobra in New York City has been 'tweeting' about its adventures via a spoof microblogging account that's racked up nearly 100,000 followers. The 20-inch snake escaped from the Reptile House at Bronx Zoo, run by the non-profit Wildlife Conservation Society, at the weekend...

A house that looks remarkably like Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler has been discovered in Swansea by a sharp-eyed Link Removed user. Charli Dickenson posted a Twitpic of the property, saying: 'I've found Hitler reincarnated.' She certainly has a point. It has a sloped roof that looks like...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – It may be weeks before the escaped cobra from New York's Bronx Zoo is found, but the highly poisonous snake has seized the pop-culture moment with a fake Twitter account of her sightseeing adventures around Manhattan. The Twitter account BronxZoosCobra, purportedly posted...

Amid the devastation in tsunami-hit Japan, video footage has emerged capturing the forlorn sight of a spaniel attempting to draw rescuers' attention to its injured canine companion in the country's Ibaraki Prefecture. Canine blog Life With Dogs uploaded the footage to YouTube after...

YouTube users are loving internet moggy Maru, a Japanese cat whose latest web antics see him trying out various hairstyles via a nifty box-based contraption. In a video tagged simply 'Maru + a hole of the box = funny', the male Scottish Fold is seen sauntering towards the aforementioned...

Lily Allen has told fans not to watch her new Riches to Rags documentary, because she is 'embarrassed' and feels like 'a completely different person'. Yesterday it was reported Lily discussed her recent miscarriage in the show, documenting the opening of her vintage clothing store Lucy In...

SEATTLE -- A tongue-in-cheek way of documenting his ordeal on Interstate 5 got a bigger response than Michael Micheletti ever expected. "Everybody is going to run into trouble at some point," said Micheletti, a designer from Shoreline. "And I guess my experience was good people were there to...

1. Check emails. 2. Surf the Internet. 3. Listen to online radios. 4. Listen to online podcasts. 5. Watch movies. 6. Watch online videos at Youtube. 7. View online photo album at Flickr. 8. Read digital newspaper. 9. Read digital magazine. 10. Play games. 11. Login to Twitter /...

It was a weekend of Twitter and Android malware and worm removal, but squirming in between it all was Charlie Sheen, trying his hand at live video streaming with mixed results. Beyond that weirdness, even more frivolity with animals taking center stage, where those Angry Birds started...

The real-time Internet is crowding out the future and the past. Here's what to do about it. Search the Internet for a time machine and you may end up with an empty wallet and painful injuries, if the movie Napoleon Dynamite is accurate. I don't recommend buying a time machine on eBay. But...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

Find out the deets on MIX this year by tuning in to the Countdown show with Link Removed and Link Removed each week. The inaugural show gives an overview of the conference this year, but let’s fast forward to the good stuff: how do you get your hands on that complimentary ticket? Well, MIX is...

China's Baidu is going social Baidu, China’s “Google” so to speak, has announced the development and expansion for more social networking services to keep its strong momentum and dominance in the Chinese Internet landscape. Link Removed According to Chinese blog Techweb, Baidu CEO...

Link Removed due to 404 Error A strict diet may help the Leipzig Zoo's opossum Heidi to lose the crossed eyes that have made her an international attraction. The overweight white-haired opossum has been on a steady diet of lettuce, carrots and lean chicken to cut down on her fat -- which...

Elite Gamers Set Marathon Record by Playing Video Game for 50 Hours He just set a whole slew of world records for playing video games and knows just where he's going to put the official certificate from Guinness World Records. "I'll put it right next to my master's degree," Dino said...

Australian Teens Rescued After Using Sex Doll as Raft A couple in Australia was rescued after attempting to float down a river near Melbourne on an inflatable sex doll. The man and woman, both 19 years old, were drifting down the Yarra River in Victoria -- a state recently afflicted by...

Facebook is sitting pretty, what with that $450 million Goldman infusion you may have heard a little about, but rival social networkers MySpace have not been so lucky. The News Corp. site will, in fact, lay off half of its 1,100-person staff later this month, according to a source familiar with...

I'm already sick of hearing about it. It is has just consumed 80%+ of the lunchtime news.