Devastating: The Ethiopian government has asked the international community for emergency food aid for 6.2 million people. The request came at a meeting of donors to discuss the impact of a prolonged drought affecting parts of East Africa. The UN&#...

Oh dear: A U.S. soldier missing from his base in eastern Afghanistan since Tuesday is believed to have been captured by Taliban militants, the military said Thursday. In a statement issued from U.S. military headquarters in Kabul, officials said &q...

Where's Waldo Sophie?Peekaboo!

"I was in a bad mood. The sky was grey and it started to rain. Suddenly I saw a Mercedes. It was so old so to cheer myself up I decided to set the tyre on fire." —Alistair Penney, a Welsh arsonist stripper who may be a British spy...

Yesterday in England, Venus and Serena Williams woke up together, had breakfast together, and then went out and completely dominated the world's most prestigious tennis tournament together. In the women's final at Wimbledon, Venus beat...

Currently airing on C-SPAN2. The live stream is here if you want to watch but don't have C-SPAN2 on your cable/satellite system. (Or don't have cable/satellite at all.) As I write this, Orrin Hatch (R-1950) is talking about abortion, and my teeth...

Hosted by Rainbow Brite and Starlite.

Sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your screen name... TFIF, Shakers! Belly up to the bar, and name your poison.

[Trigger warning.] "If they were put in front of me I'd probably watch it."—Billy Arnone, Carrie Prejean's brother, on his sister's sex tapes, in an interview with Radar Online, during which, btw, he was wearing a t-shirt reading "Loose...

[Trigger warning.] In three parts... Part One: Shaker Richard Gadsen emails about this theater review in The Guardian, in which Mark Lawson wonders if he should have walked out on a play in which there was objectionable content about sexual...