PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday. The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy. Read the rest of this entry »

JUAREZ, Mexico - A 990-pound bedridden man who had appealed on Mexican television for help tackling his weight problem died Tuesday of heart failure, his family said.

Emergency officials had to knock down Jose Luis Garza’s bedroom wall and load him onto the back of a friend’s pickup truck as he fought for his life. The 47-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital in northern Mexico. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m still free Are you?

(Osama Bin Laden)

BIRDS OF A FEATHER

(Henry Paulson & Ben Bernanke)

FOR SALE

(US Capitol Hill)

Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. Chief Executive Richard S. Fuld Jr., wearing tie, is heckled by protesters as he leaves Capitol Hill in Washington after testify before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Monday, Oct. 6, 2008, on the collapse of Lehman Brothers.

Richard Fuld, the disgraced head of Lehman Brothers (Other OTC:LEHMQ.PK - News), said he would wonder “until they put me in the ground” why the U.S. government did not rescue the 158-year-old Wall Street firm and claimed regulators knew the full scale of its condition far before its collapse.

I’m John McCain… And I approve this nap.

(John McCain)

Future Starbucks Location

(Washington Mutual store-front)

picture: Leif. lol caption: Franklin Krepela

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