"Although there are female lamas, - or living Buddhas - men are predominant and it is rare for reincarnated lamas not to share the sex of their predecessors. However, at the start of a 10-day visit to...
Jonathan Ross last night joked that he is worth more than 1,000 BBC Journalists. Ross' comments at the British Comedy Awards, were in response to criticism of his ?6M year contract with the Beeb....
The Rap Artist who called herself the' Lyrical Terrorist' has been given a 9 month suspended sentence. She is obviously very foolish for glorifying Jihad, but I think this sentence is about right....
"An Italian company that is sending virtual prayer cards to the mobile phones of the faithful was accused of blasphemy yesterday by the Roman Catholic Church. But the Italian bishops' conference last...
"US intelligence report that says Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme four years ago. The National Intelligence Estimate assessment, which represents the considered judgment of all 16 US spy...
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"The vicarage of a woman priest who has been subjected to a hate campaign has been attacked by an arsonist. Police said the letters were of a "threatening" nature and "expressed anger at Rev Hobson...
Bin Laden has issued yet another tape, his fifth this year, a rallying call for Al-Qeda and their apologists. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml =/news/2007/11/30/wladen130.xml After six...
In the last couple of years, the football Association have paid Sven a ?3M payoff to go away and now McClaren's ?2.5M payoff. That's ?5.5M for no product. In light of that, is the ?4M that Jose...
The NatWest Three, who were alleged to have netted themselves ?1M each (and two of them considerably more) in fraud deals linked to the Enron collapse in the US will go to prison for 3 years. They...
"A businessman accused of drugging his assistant during dinner and then raping her in a Manhattan hotel has admitted assault. David Nicholson, from London, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault,...
It is obvious that the Answerbank cannot afford to employ the best or enough geeks to make the site work. My solution is to replace the current bunch of slackers with harder working and cheaper Polish...
"Police chiefs will spend ?15,000 creating "ethnically diverse" mascots after an officer criticised a model for being too male and white. The uniformed mascot, known as PCSO Steve, was created by the...
"Almost 2,000 obese people were awarded incapacity benefit over the past 12 months, while billions more was handed out for complaints ranging from acne to leprosy. A total of ?7.4 billion in...
Researchers say less exercise, more calories and the side-effects of the contraceptive pill have combined to increase the average size of women's clothes from 12 in the 1950s to 16 today. Marks and...