Forum: The News Room

Basically, for reasons of my own health, and sanity, I'm looking to stop reading Jim Romensko's Obscure Store & Reading Room. But I don't want to give up my daily dose of WTF news stories. Does anyone have such a site that focuses only on the...

A new public information film has been shown in South Africa to stop people drinking and driving over the festive season. According to them, if you drink and drive you get to go to jail and meet lots of nice men who will never let you go and are...

Y'all remember this one, right? A black lady called Dr. Laura, upset by what she took as a racist undertone to comments made by her white husband's white friends. We may never know if the men were being racist or just ignorant of the lady's...

For those who don't watch football and perhaps haven't seen this footage...too much snow collected on the fabric roof of the metrodome, and down it comes. No one was hurt or anything, but I couldn't help but imagine this happening while there was a...

That's Lake Vostok, Antarctica, which is buried beneath several thousand metres of ice and is effectively cut off from the world as its own unique ecosystem. The water at the base is expected to be kept above freezing by geothermal heat and its...

There seems to just be soemthing wrong about this. A team from China has introduced human genes into cows to produce milk with the same properties as human milk. The idea being that it could produce an alternative to breast milk or formula for...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch_Earthquake,_2011 65 confirmed dead so far, likely to rise. The whole city's fucked. Speechless.

Based off the teachings that a couple are married for a while after the death of one of the pair, Egypt is looking to logically extend the law in a really gross way. As they are married, a husband can have sex with his dead wife for up to six...

and another country has reacted to popular outcry. Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian president has resigned today following his appearance yesterday saying he would stay until September. I believe the army will be keeping order for the meanwhile until...

Did some Googling, Puerto Rico would get 5 House seats, therefore 7 EV What about Guam and USVI?

This is the latest prediction of leading scientist Raymond Kurzweil, that within the next two decades you will be able to back and store all your thoughts and memories electronically. All your thoughts, dreams, experiences, everything that makes...

A key chairman in the Trump probe. As if this sitch wasn't crazy enough!

The EU has decided that the current countries around the Arctic Circle who are supposed to steward the area and keep it a natural habitat are failing in their role as custodians. This may have something to do with the deep water oil drilling that...

Both the USA and now Japan have started warning their citizens of terror threats when visiting Europe. Apparently the threat level has been raised from 'general' to 'heightened'. It looks like Al-Qaida have decided to pick on Europe as an easier...

See! If you throw a zucchini at an attacking bear, it will run off!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-sci-ancient-mayan-calendar-20120511,0,2590417.story Another calendar nearby comprises 17 baktuns, or 400-year periods, encompassing an additional 4,000 years beyond the 21st century. So what...

One brave soul went extreme ironing on Britain's busiest motorway. Ok, the fact the road has been shut down, due to a fire under a bridge that meant a large portion of it was closed, might have helped. :D More here

Story here. WASHINGTON — Federal drug regulators on Friday approved a new form of emergency contraceptive pill that prevents pregnancies if taken as many as five days after unprotected intercourse. The pill, called ella, will be available by...

Facebook has rolled out its latest innovation to take over the world and changed everyone's email address to be @facebook.com They didn't tell anyone, they just rolled it out as a feature for everyone. The idea is that it provides a little bit of...

CERN laboratory has a quandary. It appears that in one of their experiments that they had found particles travelling faster than the speed of light. According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, this is impossible. A stream of neutrinos...

Some say "Frankenfish", others call it a sollution Genetic engineering introduces desirable traits of one living being into another, using recombinant DNA , or rDNA technology. In the case of AquAdvantage® Salmon, scientists have injected the...

An article was published in the issue of Current Biology that came out today, which is about research into the behavior of chimps. Science News posted a story about it. Deep in a Ugandan forest, Betsy Wetsy has gone wild. A new study finds...

This is a bit on an article in Cosmopolitan from 1967. "It's just like planning a dinner," explains Dr. Grace Hopper, now a staff scientist in systems programming for Univac. (She helped develop the first electronic digital computer, the Eniac,...

Female infants in China who have been fed formula have been growing breasts. The story. According to the official Chinese Daily newspaper, medical tests performed on the babies found levels of estrogens circulating in their bloodstreams that...

This is utterly silly and pointless, but Foursquare is a mobile app that lets people "check in" at places and compete for virtual badges for hotspots. And now it has made it to space. Far above the bars and coffee shops where Foursquare users...

Since last year our foreign minister has been Guido Westerwelle, chairman of the libertarian-ish FDP. He is also gay. So far his partner has accompanied him on his official trips. Now has decided that he doesn't really want to be so in-your-face...

Elton John and his husband http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1654959/20101228/john_elton.jhtml, a Christmas baby, delivered by a surrogate. My first thought was, holy cow, how old is Elton, anyway?! Turns out he's 63, which is actually a bit...

Arctic fossils mark move to land The newly discovered species from Canada is called Tiktaalik roseae. The reconstructions sort of look like if a fish and a crocodile hooked up. The skull is flat with the eyes on top, implying that it likely lived...

If you haven't been following the Volt's short career, it's worth knowing that Fox News has made it the whipping boy of their anti-Obama rhetoric. It doesn't work, it catches fire, Obama made GM build it as a condition of the bail out, it costs...

France has now officialy voted in the ban on the wearing of the face covering veils. Barring a left-field challenge it will become law next spring. This goes further than just the original idea which was to ban them in places of public service. This...

Due to the Earhtquake and disaster at Fukishima, the number of tourists going to Japan has fallen dramatically and so the government is trying a new scheme to boost the numbers again. They will be handing out 10,000 pairs of free trips to...

Bishop Blames Jews for Child Molestation Scandal. As soon as I saw the headline, I knew I was going to compose a Dome thread for the topic. As I continued to read, I realized that I was struck dumb by what I saw and so must rely on smilies. ...

For those who haven't heard about this yet: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-20013842-504083.html?tag=latest CARTERVILLE, Ill. (CBS) It seems Tila Tequila wasn't the only performer targeted by fans at an Insane Clown Posse music festival...

Dear God, how do people in St. Louis and Atlanta deal with this? I know it gets like this every year, but now it's hear. Temps just under 100 and high humidity. I hate this crap! I recall watching the evening news some years ago during...

... and so while he's in jail, himself for B&E, the dog is euthanized. Why? Because the idiot can't be arsed to either keep his dog on a leash, or to pay the $100 fine for letting it run free and harass neighbors. I don't always approve...

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/20/las-vegas-tourist-seeks-refund-after-tragic-sex-ac/ Okay, I might be able to see the whole breach of contract aspect. But to simultaneously argue that one is both sufficiently competent to measure...

I begin with the impression that airport security has been made more onerous without significantly improved the effectiveness of the security measures. So, when I see a story like this one, it tends to confirm my impressions. "White had the...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/09/gabrielle-giffords-congress-rehab-speech_n_874355.html Most of us pretty much knew this; she wasn't coming back. It's interesting that buried in all the would-be good news about the pace of her...

Last night and through today it appears that the Libyan rebels who have been seeking to overthrow Col. Gaddafi have made gains through the capital city of Tripoli. Coming perhaps quicker than anyone expected, there were uprisings throughout the city...

Virgin's very own space ship underwent its first rocket test today which went successfully. nhJ3lJpss6o Should only be a few years before it starts full flights into space.

You probably have already heard of this case. In 2008, a gay couple, Martyn Hall and Steven Preddy from Bristol were visiting a B & B in Cornwall and were refused a double room by the owners. They were told they would have to take two single rooms....

Yes, that's right a gay couple, Jonathan Williams and James Bull, were thrown out of a pub for kissing. They claim they were thrown out for obscene behaviour, as it was apparently bothering the landlord. On the one hand, if the landlord says...

It seems that POTUS Obama is having a little trouble with his world map. At the recent Americas summit in Colombia he managed to fail by naming the Falkland Islands as the Maldives. Now he was probably going to try and name them the Malvinas,...

It's been over a year since this happened and the verdict has finally been given. Not surprisingly there has been outrage from some parts of the community and cheers from other parts. Actually, I think given the nature of what happened, there was...

A German man has pleaded guilty to the castration of his 17yr old daughters lover who was aged 57. The police were powerless to do anything about the situtation, and indeed it has nothing to do with them, so with the aid of two colleagues, he...

Gerry Anderson, creator of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlett, and many other excellent TV shows, has died aged 83. He introduced many British kids to sci-fi with puppets that had a better range of acting skills than several Hollywood actors I could...

Bush 41 gone at 94. Signed the ADA, the civil rights legislation that effected the highest % of the American people.

Scientists have been baffled by the detection of two giant gas bubbles spreading out from the centre of the Mily Way, both 50,000 Light years across. They haven't expanded as far as our solar system yet and I wonder if they ever will. ...

If you ever wondered what 135,000 people camping in a set of fields looked like. I wonder at what point, they will run out of room.

Glenn Beck says Obama has made him a better man.“Obama made me a better man.” He regrets calling the President a racist and counts himself a Black Lives Matter supporter. “There are things unique to the African-American experience that I cannot...