While most of the industrialized nations of the world deal with such mundane matters as economics, health care, justice, education and global warming to name a few, Japan is preoccupied with more pressing concerns.
Japan’s Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba is considering how his Self-Defense Forces could respond to an attack by space aliens while adhering to [...]

Scientists in South Korea have managed to clone cats that glow red when exposed to ultraviolet light. For what purpose?
… research aimed at developing treatments for human genetic diseases, say officials.
The process is quite fascinating actually.
According to the Korea Times, the scientists added red fluorescence protein (RFP) genes to the skin cells of the mother [...]

This is just too creepy. Reports are circulating that a chicken from the village of Stepnoi in eastern Kazakhstan laid an egg with the word “Allah” clearly etched in the shell. This was supposedly confirmed by the local mosque. But that’s not the creepy part. A cinnamon roll ordered from a coffee shop in [...]

An unusual request has raised some red flags.
CALGARY - Local fertilizer suppliers are on guard after reports of a suspicious bid to buy a large amount of potentially explosive ammonium nitrate from a Calgary company. Mounties and U.S. authorities are investigating the report after a local company raised a red flag over a request to [...]

When one thinks of tourist attractions, images that come to mind include Disneyland, Niagra Falls, the Grand Canyon, the Great Pyramids etc. What about a terrorist hideout? Officials in Afghanistan have unveiled a strange but ambitious plan to transform OBL’s former Tora Bora hideout in to a tourist destination.
The Afghan authorities plan to invigorate the [...]

Every now and then we come across a story so disturbing it leaves us utterly speechless. Such is the case with this story.
PLANO, Texas (AP) — With a calm, dispassionate voice and a hymn playing in the background, Dena Schlosser confessed to the unthinkable, telling a 911 operator she’d cut off the arms of her [...]

Do you have an interest in all things ghostly? If so, you might want to check out the Abandoned Hospital website. Located somewhere in Oklahoma, this facility is currently the longest running active paranormal research site in the world. The site has many exciting interactive features such as several live webcams 24/7 as well [...]

Has the American Presbyterian Church gone mad? They “treasure the precious words of Hizbullah”? I’m mortified at this one. The Command Post, citing a story from the Jerusalem Post…
The Foreign Ministry Thursday canceled a scheduled meeting with a delegation from the American Presbyterian Church because the group met Hizbullah officials in Beirut and even had [...]

Spiderman lives!
PARIS - Dressed in a Spider-Man suit and using no ropes or other equipment, a French urban climber scaled the 47-story headquarters of oil giant Total on Tuesday, his second Parisian climb in less than a month.Alain Robert, 42, who has long called himself “Spiderman,” climbed the 614-foot building, located in the La Defense [...]

Talk about interactive television.

An Oregon man discovered earlier this month that his year-old Toshiba Corporation flat-screen TV was emitting an international distress signal picked up by a satellite, leading a search and rescue operation to his apartment in Corvallis, Oregon, 70 miles south of Portland.The signal from Chris van Rossmann’s TV was routed by satellite [...]