Quoted: Yes indeed, it's beers all round for the sharp-eyed News of the World which spotted this slight oversight. One delighted airport worker told the paper: “It’s a bit of a cock-up. We find it absolutely hilarious, but it’s a huge embarrassment for the bosses.”

Quoted: This, apparently, is the earliest animal footprint ever found. Look closely and you might see two lines of parallel dots, each about 2 millimetres in diameter. They're 570 million years old and were found in Nevada by Loren Babcock of Ohio State University. 570 million years ago, Nevada was underwater, so this little guy (or girl) was some sort of

Quoted: Sometimes the good Lord looks down and says, “You! Outta the gene pool!”, and this was one of those moments. A Wisconsin man, realizing his SUV was low on gas Saturday night, decided to “borrow” some gas from a nearby van. Darn those dark Cheeseland nights, though; he just couldn’t see how much fuel there was, so he flicked the Bic for a better look.

Quoted: Ask Jeeves for 'A Touch of Brazil'The wife of Ask.com co-founder David Warthen is facing felony charges after allegedly failing to pay taxes on more than $133,000 she earned as a high-priced interstate prostitute.…

Quoted: Yves Rossy jumped out of a plane over Calais, France today and flew his jet-propelled wing across the English Channel. After crossing the water, he released his parachute and floated safely to the ground. From the Associated Press:Backed by a gentle breeze, Rossy crossed the Channel in 13 minutes, averaging 125 miles per hour. In a final flourish,

Quoted: Italian bloggers are up in arms at a court ruling early this year that suggests almost all Italian blogs are illegal. This month, a senior Italian politician went one step further, warning that most web activity is likely to be against the law.

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Quoted: Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn't for your blow jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin -- sorry, Palin/McCain administration -- to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.

QUoted: NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is about to set off on what may be its final odyssey - a seven-mile (11.3 km) jaunt to a crater around 20 times larger than the Victoria Crater from which it extricated itself earlier this month.