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President Joe Biden returned from a seven-day holiday beach break in St Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, on Tuesday sporting a bright red sun-kissed face and neck as a personal legacy of the trip. The sun exposure comes just nine months after the octogenarian had surgery to remove a cancerous skin lesion from his chest. As Breitbart News reported, Biden’s lesion was basal cell carcinoma, a common skin cancer that does not tend to spread.

The Bill Clinton who met privately with California's superdelegates at last weekend's state convention was a far cry from the congenial former president who afterward publicly urged fellow Democrats to "chill out" over the race between his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Barack Obama. In fact, before his speech Clinton had one of his famous meltdowns Sunday, blasting away at former presidential contender Bill Richardson for having endorsed Obama, the media and the entire nomination process. "It was one of the worst political meetings I have ever attended," one superdelegate said. According to those at the meeting, Clinton - who...

<p>FORMER PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON ON NOT CAPTURING BIN LADEN: 'At least I tried. That's the difference between me and some, including all the right wingers. They ridicule me for trying. They had eight months to try, they did not try. I tried. So I tried and failed'...</p>

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A red-faced man wearing a mini-skirt was rescued by police on Sunday after he became wedged head-first in a clothing donation bin in an act of Christmas charity gone wrong. Police said a startled member of the public had alerted them after seeing what they first thought was a woman trapped in the charity clothing bin late on Christmas Day. Two patrol officers were unable to dislodge the man and a rescue squad was called. The unidentified 35-year-old man was eventually freed early on Sunday and told police he was donating clothes when he became stuck. "I...

Democratic presidential hopeful Howard Dean was able to step away Thursday from his intensive campaigning in New Hampshire long enough to deliver the Top Ten List on "The Late Show With David Letterman." The former front-runner has been scrambling to make up for a third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and has taken some heat (from Letterman, among others) for his rousing concession speech Monday night following the Iowa caucuses. The Top Ten topic: "Ways I, Howard Dean, Can Turn Things Around." No. 10, switch to decaf. No. 9, unveil new slogan: "Vote for Dean and get $1 off your...

Anna Kournikova's Australian Open campaign ended in humbling fashion at the hands of fifth-seeded Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne in the second round in Melbourne.The Russian produced an abject performance as she went down 6-0 6-1 in just 48 minutes, with one serve bouncing before it reached the net.Kournikova hurried away from the scene of her heaviest Grand Slam defeat, but returned later to face the press and tried to look on the defeat with good humour."We were both on the court...I think it was a match," she said. "I really had no weapons against her today. I tried to find a way...but it...

Israel has called off high-level talks with Palestinians aimed at implementing a plan for an Israeli withdrawal from Palestinian areas of the West Bank and Gaza. The meeting between Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and Palestinian Interior Minster Abdel Razak Yehiyeh was cancelled following fresh violence in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli Defence Ministry said. Hours before the two were due to meet, Israel deployed land, sea and air forces to foil what it said was a Palestinian attempt to smuggle arms into Gaza by sea, while the army said a Palestinian mortar hit a Jewish home in southern Gaza....