] BERLIN (Reuters) - Half of Germany's 83 million
] population is overweight, according to the Federal
] Statistics Office, citing results of a survey of 370,000
] people.
]
] Based on their height, age and sex, 49 percent of
] Germans' "Body Mass Index" exceeded ideal levels
] prescribed by the World Health Organisation.

They need more Light / Ultra Carb beer in their diet. =)

Yahoo! News - Half of Germans too fat

] The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today
] called for a Pentagon investigation of a photograph
] circulating on the Internet that apparently shows an
] American soldier mocking an Iraqi child.
]
] The photo sent to CAIR seems to be of an American soldier
] standing next to two Iraqi children who are giving the
] thumbs-up sign. One child holds a hand-lettered sign in
] English that reads: "Lcpl Boudreaux killed my Dad, th(en)
] he knocked up my sister!" ("Knocked up" is American slang
] for making someone pregnant out of wedlock.)
]
] See: http://www.cair-net.org/images/lcpl11.jpg

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

] While Timothy McVeigh was executed for his role in the
] bombing and Terry Nichols is in jail still facing murder
] charges in the attack, evidence introduced in their
] trials supports the Iraqi theory. An FBI report records a
] call a few hours after the bombing from Vincent
] Cannistraro, a retired CIA official who had once been
] chief of operations for the agency's counter-terrorism
] center. He told Kevin Foust, a FBI counter-terror
] investigator, that he'd been called by a top
] counter-terror adviser to the Saudi royal family.
]
] Foust reported that the Saudi told Cannistraro about
] "information that there was a 'squad' of people currently
] in the United States, very possibly Iraqis, who have been
] tasked with carrying out terrorist attacks against the
] United States. The Saudi claimed that he had seen a list
] of 'targets,' and that the first on the list was the
] federal building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma."

Interesting information about the tie from Oklahoma City bombings,
Iraq and terrorists.

WorldNetDaily: Iraq: Lynchpin of terror war

] Victoria's Secret is dropping its nationally televised
] fashion show this year, at least partly because of
] criticism following Janet Jackson's breast-baring faux
] pas at the Super Bowl.

Terrible business decision.

Victoria's Secret to drop TV fashion show

] A syringe, a spoon and a plastic bag with white powder
] were discovered, Los Angeles County coroner's spokesman
] David Campbell said.
]
] The 49-year-old actor played Eldin, a housepainter with
] artistic vision, on the Candice Bergen series. He had
] recently finished work with John Travolta on the movie
] "Be Cool," the sequel to "Get Shorty."

'Murphy Brown' actor died of overdose

] An elderly man recently diagnosed with a brain tumor
] leaped to his death from a vintage airplane he rented to
] celebrate his 88th birthday, officials said Tuesday.
]
] Joseph Harold Frost took off his safety belt at 300 to
] 400 feet, stood up in the open cockpit of the two-seat
] biplane and went over the side Monday.
]
] "I think that was Dad's idea, to go out in a flash of
] glory," said Robert Frost, who had helped his father
] arrange the chartered flight on a biplane similar to the
] ones the elder Frost flew in World War II.
]
] The man landed on an apartment patio, horrifying those
] who witnessed it.
]
] "I saw him hit the power lines, heard trees breaking. I
] really thought it wasn't real," Cynthia Lankford said.

Im not sure that is a flash of glory.

Ill senior dies in jump from birthday biplane flight

] Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has accused Osama
] bin Laden's top deputy of taunting him and vowed to press
] on with an offensive against al Qaeda, saying, "I want to
] eliminate all of them."

Do not taunt happy fun ball.

CNN.com - Musharraf: Al Qaeda is taunting me

] GAZA CITY (CNN) -- New Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi
] delivered a fiery speech at a memorial service Sunday for
] his slain predecessor, blasting Israel for its
] Palestinian policies and calling U.S. President Bush "an
] enemy of Muslims."
]
] "Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam, an enemy
] of Muslims," Rantisi said at Gaza's Islamic University,
] where thousands had gathered to remember Hamas founder
] Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who -- along with seven others --
] was killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on Monday.
]
] "America declared war against God. Sharon declared war
] against God and God declared war against America, Bush
] and Sharon," Rantisi said. "The war of God continues
] against them and I can see the victory coming up from the
] land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas."

I think Bush is an enemy of Hamas Mr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi.

CNN.com - New Hamas leader: Bush is 'enemy of Muslims'

] BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An influential Shiite cleric in
] Iraq called Israel's targeted killing of the spiritual
] leader of Hamas a "dirty crime against Islam" and the
] terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, "a miracle from
] God."

I think this guys head is screwed on backwards.

CNN.com - Iraqi cleric calls 9/11 'miracle from God' - Mar 26, 2004

] BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Boonreung Buachan, holder
] of the Guinness Book of World Records title for spending
] the most time penned up with snakes, was killed by a
] cobra that bit him during his daily show, a hospital
] doctor said on Monday.
]
] Boonreung, 34 and dubbed Snake Man, was rushed
] unconscious to Prai Bung Hospital near his home town, 350
] miles northeast of Bangkok, Dr Wipa Praituan told
] Reuters.

This weeks Darwin award winner.

World Champion 'Snake Man' Killed by Cobra