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Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson went on a camping trip. After a good meal and a bottle of wine they lay down for the night, and went to sleep. Some hours later, Holmes awoke and nudged his faithful friend awake. "Watson, look up at the sky and tell me what you see." Watson replied, "I see millions...

A guy has spent five years traveling all around the world making a documentary on Native dances. At the end of this time, he has every single native dance of every indigenous culture in the world on film. He winds up in Australia, in Alice Springs, so he pops into a pub for a well earned beer...

Two former rival parties in Pakistan announced Wednesday that they would join hands against the government of President Asif Ali Zardari in the parliament and provincial assemblies. "We have decided to cooperate first in the national parliament and the provincial assemblies and the cooperation...

Rebels marched toward Tripoli Wednesday, capturing a town southwest of the capital from Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces, a rebel fighter told CNN. Fighting also engulfed Misrata, east of Tripoli, where 14 rebels were killed and 42 others wounded, according to Mohamed Ibrahim, a rebel...

A man was driving home late one afternoon, and he was driving above the speed limit. He notices a police car with its red lights on in his rear view mirror. He thinks "I can outrun this guy," so he floors it and the race is on. The cars are racing down the highway -- 60, 70, 80, 90 miles an...

While crossing the US-Mexican border on his bicycle, the man was stopped by a guard who pointed to two sacks the man had on his shoulders. "What's in the bags?", asked the guard. "Sand," said the cyclist. "Get them off - we'll take a look," said the guard. The Cyclist did as he was told, emptied...

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court said on Wednesday he is investigating whether Libyan leader Muammar Gadhafi provided Viagra-type drugs to Libyan soldiers to promote the rape of women during the current conflict. Luis Moreno Ocampo said his office is collecting...

More than 10,000 people displaced by fighting in Sudan's Southern Kordofan were staying near a U.N. compound on Thursday, the country mission spokesman said, after nearly a week of clashes in the tense border state. Fighting between government forces and armed groups erupted in the state...

A blind man with a seeing eye dog at his side walks into a grocery store. The man walks to the middle of the store, picks up the dog by the tail, and starts swinging the dog around in circles over his head. The store manager, who has seen all this, thinks this is quite strange. So, he decides to...

Susie's husband had been slipping in and out of a coma for several months. Things looked grim, but she was by his bedside every single day. One day as he slipped back into consciousness, he motioned for her to come close to him. She pulled the chair close to the bed and leaned her ear close to...

Japan imposed a legal limit for radioactive iodine in fish, as the operator of ***ushima nuclear plant pumped toxic water into the Pacific Ocean for a second day.TOKYO: Japan imposed a legal limit on Tuesday for radioactive iodine in fish, as the operator of the stricken ***ushima nuclear plant...

Britain on Tuesday delayed interim approvals for its next generation of nuclear reactors by at least three months to "learn lessons" from the damage to the tsunami-hit ***ushima plant in Japan. Britain's Health and Safety Executive (HSE) had hoped to grant interim design acceptances for...

Libyan rebels said on Friday they had seized a key oil refinery town in some of the heaviest fighting of the rebellion that left "many dead, a claim denied by a senior government official. With claim and counter-claim shifting with the battle lines in the North African country's desert sands...

Searchers in earthquake-devastated Christchurch said Saturday they had found no bodies in the city's iconic cathedral and the death toll could be lower than initially feared. Since the 6.3 magnitude earthquake on February 22, it had been reported that as many as 22 bodies were buried in the...

A man tells a doctor, "I think my wife's going deaf. What can I do?" The doctor says, "Well, try to test her hearing. Stand some distance away from her and ask her a question. If she doesn't answer, move a little closer and ask again. Keep repeating this until she answers. That way we can see...