Sophie Moon and her black lacey painties... yummy.

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A class of gifted students in Chicago has lost its battle to express the students' status through custom-made T-shirts.

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With at least eight slayings in the city in the first week of the new year, officials are considering a curfew to help stem the violence, the police superintendent said Saturday. "It's something we're just sort of talking about, to see if that will make a difference," police Superintendent Warren Riley said.

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House Democrats campaigned on a promise to implement the recommendations of the September 11 commission, but now say they will not enact all of them.
The recommendation to place all intelligence agencies under the Defense Department "is not on the table," said Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat

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Spain's bishops are alarmed by ambitious plans to recreate the city of Cordoba - once the heart of the ancient Islamic kingdom of al-Andalus - as a pilgrimage site for Muslims throughout Europe.

Plans include the construction of a half-size replica of Cordoba's eighth century great mosque, according to the head of Cordoba's Muslim Association. Funds for the project are being sought from the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, and Muslim organisations in Morocco and Egypt.Other big mosques are reportedly planned for Medina Azahara near Cordoba, Seville and Granada.

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A former Duke lacrosse player has filed a civil suit against DukeUniversity and a professor, charging that the teacher unfairly gave him a failing grade after an escort service dancer said she was raped at a lacrosse team party.

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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday declared Hamas' militia in the Gaza Strip illegal, and the Islamic movement responded by defiantly announcing plans to double the size of the paramilitary unit.

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A retired MarinCounty podiatrist whose drug arrest made headlines a decade ago when he argued that the marijuana on his property was actually medicine was arraigned today on charges of sexually molesting a 7-year-old boy.

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AN AMERICAN university is trying to "cure" gay sheep of their homosexuality.

After hormone treatment, some of the gay sheep began showing interest in ewes, The Sunday Times in Britain reported.

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Earlier this week, Peyton Manning was asked the inevitable question about his legacy as he leads the Colts into the playoffs for the sixth time, the previous five trips having produced three victories and no championships. "I'm caught up in the Chiefs right now with the short week," the Colts' QB said. "That's kind of what I'm into is trying to get prepared for this week and trying to get a win against the Chiefs. That's really all I'm thinking about at this point."

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A top French judge ruled that an extreme-right group cannot serve pork soup to the needy, saying the charitable handouts aim to discriminate against Muslims and Jews who don't eat pork because of their faith.

Judge Christian Vigouroux of the Council of State, the country's highest administrative body, said late Friday that such giveaways by the far-right group Solidarity of the French threaten public order.

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Iranian reformist parliamentarians on Saturday blamed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government for failing to prevent United Nations sanctions.

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The Bush administration is imposing economic sanctions on Chinese, Russian and North Korean companies for selling missiles and weapons goods to Iran and Syria, administration officials said. The sanctions were imposed earlier this week on three Chinese state-run companies, three Russian firms and a North Korean mining company under a 2000 arms proliferation law that was renamed Iran and Syria Nonproliferation Act in 2005.

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During summit with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Egyptian president hints that if Iran attains nukes, Egypt will have to also in order to defend itself. Up until now Egypt has claimed its nuclear program was for energy purposes only

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Libya has said it will build a statue of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, executed in Baghdad on Saturday.

It would show him standing on the gallows with a Libyan resistance leader who fought Italian occupation, executed in 1931, Libya's Jana news agency said.

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In the months leading up the 2006 mid-term elections, Republicans were repeatedly hammered by ethics scandals, so much so that the Democrats promised that, if elected, they would be the corruption-free party. As you may recall, the Democrats had a few ethics problems of their own, albeit problems which never received quite the same media attention. The misdeeds of one of those Democratic rapscallions stood out as newsworthy, however, primarily because of the comically stereotypical situation in which the congressman found himself:

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Mitt Romney is the most recent entrant for the 2008 presidential nomination. Polls this early are mostly driven by name recognition.

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Another day, another couple of bottom dwellers using craigslist to run a brothel...

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A giant wild hog boasted to be bigger than the near-mythical "Hogzilla" caught in southern Georgia a few years ago has been killed in a suburban Atlanta neighborhood.

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Women seem to judge potential mates by how masculine their features are, new research shows. Men with square jaws and well-defined brow ridges are seen as good short-term partners, while those with more feminine traits such as a rounder face and fuller lips are perceived as better long-term mates.

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Hunter proved to be 100% on the money in his predictions about the war in Iraq.  He may have been stoned half his life, but he was a bright guy.

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