Just take a second to drink that headline in ... In terms of political sex scandals, Berlusconi makes the Bill Clinton affair look like a game of Monopoly. In court papers it was claimed that Italy's premier, Silvio "Got It Like That" Berlusconi, paid to have sex with women dressed as nurses and police women. And that his aid, former showgirl turned dental hygienist turned regional ...

It's hard to fathom sometimes the kind of things people believed in the olden days -- that the earth was the center of the solar system, that the world was flat, that hysteria was caused by woman's womb coming loose and moving around in her body, etc. The fact is, the past is embarrassing. Just look at a picture of your hair from 2002. The Internet is no different. What looks minimalist, cool ...

For Spanish TV journalist Lidia Camon, it was all going so well. She delivered her report from a snowy park without becoming the target of snowballs -- no mean feat. But then she got on a sled and didn't notice her microphone cable was wrapped around her leg ... so she pulled the cameraman down the hill with her. Not so good. Fortunately, no one was hurt, though the camera took a bit of a ...

A Turkish man was forced to try and out-run a truck after its driver sped out when a traffic light turned green without seeing the beleaguered pedestrian beneath his windscreen. Bekir Ozcan, 53, was crossing at a junction in the eastern Turkish city of Adiyaman. He was too close to the front of the Total tanker and when the lights changed the driver couldn't see him. Ozcan must have decided ...

Today is most people's first day back at work after the Christmas break, and if you're anything like us, you'll be sporting a bit of festive pudge. That honed physique we spent so much of the year working on at the gym has been reduced to a bloated, wheezing ball of cholesterol and clogged arteries. Was it worth it? Well, yes, of course it was. But, now many of us are thinking about getting ...

Argentinian Antarctic cruise ship the Clelia II and its 160 passengers were left at the mercy of what we're calling "massive angry waves of doom" (they might be more accurately described as "rough seas") on Tuesday after its engine conked out. Things got scary when a 30-foot wave washed over the deck and took out windows on the bridge in 55-mph winds. The ship was sailing from the Antarctic ...

Why is Santa so jolly all the time? Sherry? Senility? Or is it something else? John Toomey the 68-year-old Santa who had been working the holidays at the San Fransisco Macy's since 1991 (until he was fired), might have the answer. "When I ask the older people who sit on my lap if they have been good, and they say, 'Yes,' I say, 'Gee, that's too bad'," he explained. "Then, if they ask why ...

Christmas trees these days just aren't what they used to be. Whether its the flimsy plastic of fake trees or the undernourished limbs of the modern pine, it seems like more and more, Christmas trees can't even maintain their structural integrity under the lightest of loads. Even just a few baubles and some tinsel is seemingly enough to fell these festive abominations. To support our ...

Arsonists aren't, generally speaking, the brightest people -- you've got to be eight shades of dim to think burning anything down is a good idea. But one aspiring arsonist in the U.K. takes the prize for being the dumbest ever. Amir Ali was caught on film trying to firebomb the Imperial Pub in Broadfield, Crawley, U.K. He and an accomplice are seen in footage from the scene smashing the windows ...

Seeing ducklings follow their mother is without doubt one of the most heart-meltingly tender moments in nature. A moment that leaves even the manliest of men blurting out involuntary "awwws." That's why you might find the following video a tad stressful. In it, a lovely line of 10 tiny ducklings unwittingly walk out into a strong gust of wind, which sends them flying. Even the mother duck takes ...