BERLIN – Child survivors of the Holocaust have begun receiving additional financial assistance from Germany under a landmark agreement reached last year. The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany said Wednesday the $190 million fund represents symbolic financial compensation to acknowledge the unique trauma and hardship endured by child …
Read More »Qatar says it will go forward with plans to host World Cup despite corruption investigations
DOHA, Qatar – Qatar says it will go forward with its plans for the 2022 World Cup despite a Swiss investigation into allegations of wrongdoing during the vote to award the tournament to the Gulf nation. The Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is leading Qatar’s development of World …
Read More »Austrian newspaper apologizes for printing death notice containing Nazi titles, slogans
VIENNA – A major Austrian newspaper has apologized for printing a death notice that carried the Nazi storm troop rank of the deceased. The announcement of the death of Lois Plock in the Kleine Zeitung noted that he was an “Untersturmfuehrer” — a paramilitary rank of Hitler’s special SS forces. …
Read More »The Top 20 Scariest Bloodsuckers
Halloween’s just a few days away, and the teen vampire romance Twilight will be hitting theaters soon, so we couldn’t resist sitting down with a glass of red wine and sinking our teeth into some great vampire flicks. Here’s our list of the top 20 bloodsuckers, past and present: Click …
Read More »Pop Tarts: Audrina Patridge the Target of High School Bullies
LOS ANGELES – If you thought “The Hills” was filled with too much bitching and backstabbing, it’s nothing compared to what starlet Audrina Patridge experienced growing up in the Orange County town of Placentia, Calif. “I got picked on,” Patridge told Tarts last Thursday. “Girls were always rude and catty …
Read More »Last One Turn Out the Lights: Marines Quietly Begin Leaving Bases in Iraqi Cities
WASHINGTON – When Marine Maj. Gen. John Kelly deployed to Iraq in February, the violence had fallen so low in Anbar province that he began figuring out how to start closing bases and prepare to go home. In the last 10 months the Marines in Fallujah have done what was …
Read More »Gold Diggers' New Ugly Reality
It’s entitled simply, “Desperately Seeking Sugar Daddies.” A sad snapshot of today’s times offered in this past weekend’s New York Post’s Page Six Magazine. Joshua David Stein laments the plight of young, buxom gold diggers these days, who find the digging tougher because the targets are fewer. And suddenly these …
Read More »All Hail the Instant Expert!
So I’m in a bar where I hear two chuckleheads chatting about the Olympics. One person says that this guy Phelps knew he was going to be great at seven years old. Then another adds that the swimmer has attention deficit disorder. Some other people nod, saying they had heard …
Read More »Yoda the Cat Astounds With Four Ears
They say cats have nine lives, but this one has four ears. A genetic abnormality gave Yoda, of Downers Grove, Ill., four ear flaps instead of two. Ted and Valerie Rock first spied the little guy in 2006 at neighborhood bar on the South Side of Chicago before a Bears …
Read More »Tech Q and A: I Am Serious. And Don't Call Me Shirley
Every other week or so, FOXNews.com tries to solve your most vexing technology-related problems. Send your questions to TechQuestions@foxnews.com and we’ll reply to selected ones in our next installment. I Am Serious. And Don’t Call Me Shirley Q: I live in Saint Paul, Minn. Tonight I received a phone call …
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