Apparently a percentage of every Mocca Frappucino sold at Starbucks goes towards the Israeli military. Yet there are Starbucks everywhere in Beirut. Yesterday I saw a woman in a burka sipping iced coffee through a straw in one of their mall outlets. The Israeli connection seems to be common knowledge, [...]

Now you can use your frequent flier miles for a boob job. OK, it's officially called breast augmentation. Whatever the description, Finn Air will perk up your front if you have enough miles. Working in cooperation with Nordstrom Hospital in Helsinki, the airline is offering this aesthetic surgery for 3,180,000 points [...]

He was drunk. He was angry. And the ticket-taker had just thrown him off the train. So how did this young man on his way to Bremen choose to voice his displeasure? By mooning the railroad employee, of course. That's when things went wrong:

For reasons unknown, the 22-year-old [...]

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Flabby fans of The Biggest Loser can now enjoy the reality show experience without the reality show. In a partnership with NBC Universal, Utah's Fitness Ridge Resort & Spa has been rebranded as The Biggest Loser Resort at Fitness Ridge. For $2,000 per week, portly members of the public can [...]

The Way2GoGuides series of new iPhone applications has just been released in Apple's iTunes store.The apps allow users to experience one of the Tower of London's most infamous executions. Each one-of-a-kind application gives an up-close encounter with London's top visitor attractions. The include a coronation at Westminster Abbey, sheltering in St Paul's [...]

Everyone hates the Jews, but still -- one hardly thinks of Central America as a hotbed for anti-Semitism. But ousted leaders say the craziest things! Just listen to Manuel Zelaya and his cronies, who are muy enojados at being tossed outta their own country. From the Latin American Herald Tribune: [...]

Air India is an awful airline. Just awful. The planes are dirty, the staff incompetent and let's not waste time bitching about the food. I wasn't very surprised, then, by today's tale of an in-flight fistfight between Air India pilots. From the BBC:

The scuffle is said to have [...]