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Man With Backward Feet Ready to Step Into Record Book

Guinness World Records is packed with incredible feats. Not to mention incredible feet. Moses Lanham Jr., known as the "Backwards Feet Man" and "Mr. Elastic," has the unique ability to rotate his feet behind him. This week, the 49-year-old tax accountant and theater usher from Monroe, Mich., is heading overseas to Rome to...

Nancy Pelosi Briefly Hospitalized in Rome

ROME -- U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was briefly hospitalized in Rome early Monday after feeling unwell, but by afternoon had resumed her schedule, a spokesman said. Pelosi, a former House speaker, skipped talks in the morning with Italian officials, including the defense minister, as she was taken ill, the...

Italy's Berlusconi: I'm Too Old for So Much Sex

ROME -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi has sat down with the enemy, telling an opposition newspaper that he is too old to have had all the sexual encounters he is accused of by Italian prosecutors. The 74-year-old faces trial in Milan next month over charges he paid for sex with a Moroccan minor and used his influence to try...

Mardi Gras 2011: Fat Tuesday and Carnival Explained

Laissez les bon temps rouler! It's Mardi Gras time again. With New Orleans events already having begun, and reports of a larger-than-normal crowd ready to rock the Big Easy, Surge Desk decided it was time to get into Carnival mode. Not versed in the world of Mardi Gras? Surge Desk has you covered on the history and...

EU Ministers Call for End to Libya Bloodshed

BRUSSELS -- The European Union on Sunday denounced strongly the Libyan governments' bloody crackdown against pro-democracy protesters and urged an end to the violence in which over 170 people are reported to have died. "We condemn the repression against peaceful demonstrators and deplore the violence and the death of...

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06/04/12 People-smugglers set up in Australia, pretending to be... Source: Perth News Ratlines were a system of escape routes for Nazis and other fascists fleeing Europe at the end of World War II.
06/04/12 The Almanac For June 4 Source: The Post Chronicle - Denville NJ This is Monday, June 4, the 156th day of 2012 with 210 to follow.
06/04/12 Jumeirah adds Rome, Istanbul, and Mallorca to Its... Source: HotelChatter Jumeirah Grand Hotel Via Veneto is a 116-room hotel located on one of Rome's most exclusive streets (and incidentally, the home of the US embassy).
06/04/12 Dean of Qur'anic Studies at Islamic University of Gaza... Source: Jihad Watch Behold the glorious complexity of Islam, the most difficult religion on earth to understand and practice properly: even those who have devoted their lives to studying the Qur'an and who teach it to others somehow get the crazy idea that it has something to do with war, conquest and subjugation of non-Muslims.
06/04/12 Restaurant review: La Trattoria on ... Source: The Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney NSW - Australia When the weather turns, it's very hard to get excited by a glass of chilled white wine and kingfish carpaccio.