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It turns out that a popular Fox News host may owe his career to the very socialist policies that he is paid to condemn (not that this should be any kind of news flash).
Fox's Glenn Beck took the stage at CPAC Saturday where he railed against socialism and progressivism. On Monday, Jon Stewart "uncovered" the truth: Beck educated himself at public libraries paid for with socialist taxes.
It turns out that a popular Fox News host may owe his career to the very socialist policies that he is paid to condemn (not that this should be any kind of news flash).
Fox's Glenn Beck took the stage at CPAC Saturday where he railed against socialism and progressivism. On Monday, Jon Stewart "uncovered" the truth: Beck educated himself at public libraries paid for with socialist taxes.
A man in Argentina proved himself to be something of a hero today when he jumped from his motorbike to push a stalled van off the train tracks just seconds before the train came zooming past.
RAF air defence radars spotted a 'UFO' over Lincolnshire skies - only to find it was a county church.
Airmen at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk mistook the unidentified blip in Lincolnshire airspace for an alien visitor, according to newly revealed reports from the Ministry of Defence and National Archives.
But the report was then forced to conclude the county had not had a close encounter, after the radar imagery was identified as St Botolph's church spire in Boston.
The report read: "The church spire is known in aviation circles as the 'Boston Stump' and appears occasionally on some radars in certain radar propagation conditions."
Airmen at RAF Neatishead in Norfolk mistook the unidentified blip in Lincolnshire airspace for an alien visitor, according to newly revealed reports from the Ministry of Defence and National Archives.
But the report was then forced to conclude the county had not had a close encounter, after the radar imagery was identified as St Botolph's church spire in Boston.
The report read: "The church spire is known in aviation circles as the 'Boston Stump' and appears occasionally on some radars in certain radar propagation conditions."
Theater posters proclaiming "We await you, merry gnome" were taken down from a Russian town shortly before a visit by the country's diminutive President Dmitry Medvedev, a local website reported on Friday.
The advertisements were for a children's theater show, but were removed from a street that the president's convoy was due to use on his visit to Omsk on February 12, the nr2.ru website reports, citing local sources.
Russian media say Medvedev is 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) tall.
The advertisements were for a children's theater show, but were removed from a street that the president's convoy was due to use on his visit to Omsk on February 12, the nr2.ru website reports, citing local sources.
Russian media say Medvedev is 1.62 m (5 ft 4 in) tall.
It was clearly the wrong room for a suspected graffiti vandal to target.
Sheriff's officials say 22-year-old Joshua Vasquez was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to deface a glass door leading into a City of Commerce meeting room where over 100 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and police officers were attending a training class.
Sheriff's Captain Mike Parker says the officers could see the young man through the glass door, but he could not see them. Parker says Vasquez began to open the door to etch the inside when he suddenly saw dozens of officers running toward him.
Parker says Vasquez turned and fled with at least 40 officers in pursuit.
Sheriff's officials say 22-year-old Joshua Vasquez was arrested Friday after he allegedly tried to deface a glass door leading into a City of Commerce meeting room where over 100 Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and police officers were attending a training class.
Sheriff's Captain Mike Parker says the officers could see the young man through the glass door, but he could not see them. Parker says Vasquez began to open the door to etch the inside when he suddenly saw dozens of officers running toward him.
Parker says Vasquez turned and fled with at least 40 officers in pursuit.
© SWNSAgainst the odds: Farmer David Russell with wife Helen and a photograph of new granddaughter Edie.
And after two weeks in a coma David Russell finally opened his eyes - after his wife told him he had just become a grandfather.
Doctors had previously warned Helen Russell that the prognosis for her 60-year-old husband was not good.
But on hearing the news of the latest addition to the family, the farmer is making a full recovery.
Mr Russell was left fighting for his life after he fell 12ft onto concrete while replacing guttering on a barn roof.
A thief in the German town of Hamelin robbed an amusement arcade by threatening the attendant with a cup of coffee, authorities said on Tuesday.
"He wasn't going to pour coffee over her, he was going to hit her with the cup," a spokesman for local police said.
Brandishing the steaming cup he had just ordered, the thief forced the 26-year-old to open the till and fled with cash.
Police would not say how much money he had taken from the attendant, who had been alone in the arcade.
"He wasn't going to pour coffee over her, he was going to hit her with the cup," a spokesman for local police said.
Brandishing the steaming cup he had just ordered, the thief forced the 26-year-old to open the till and fled with cash.
Police would not say how much money he had taken from the attendant, who had been alone in the arcade.
