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have a look at this stuff! http://www.noorart.com/razanne.shtml my favorite one is 'praying razanne' (-: can anyone imagine what children are to do with her? play praying? how entertaining...

This is an excerpt and a translation: More than 20.000 people - predominantly turkish - did protest against islamistic violence in a great demonstration on sunday in cologne.

This time, the blood spills in "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas," which looks, feels and sounds a lot like its predecessors. That means you pull off drive-bys and other hard-core criminal goals, while killing cops, prostitutes and hundreds of innocent victims on the side. Some people complain that the game could desensitize children to murderous images. But it's rated M for Mature. Kids aren't supposed to have access to it, even though we know that many will. [...] There's sex in "San Andreas," as there was in "Grand Theft Auto III." For a small amount of money, you can pick...

The multiverse theory has spawned another - that our universe is a simulation, writes Paul Davies. If you've ever thought life was actually a dream, take comfort. Some pretty distinguished scientists may agree with you. Philosophers have long questioned whether there is in fact a real world out there, or whether "reality" is just a figment of our imagination. Then along came the quantum physicists, who unveiled an Alice-in-Wonderland realm of atomic uncertainty, where particles can be waves and solid objects dissolve away into ghostly patterns of quantum energy. Now cosmologists have got in on the act, suggesting that what...

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog confirmed in a confidential report on Thursday that South Korea enriched a tiny amount of uranium in 2000 to a level close to what would be useable in an atomic weapon.

Secure yourselves a piece of world history: The left leg of the world-well-known Saddam Hussein statue. It was Wednesday 9th April 2003 when everybody, who strove for peace and justice, got the pictures, the world was waiting for since the begin of war. Bagdad, the last center of the Iraqi military, was conquered by American and English Soldiers.

Some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are trying to understand and appreciate the effect our recent election will have on you, the citizens of the rest of the world. As our so-called leaders redouble their efforts to screw you over, please remember that some of us -- hopefully most of us -- are truly, truly sorry. And we'll say we're sorry, even on the behalf of the ones who aren't.

I am sickened. I want the cavalry to come in and take these pretenders away. Or better, I want the extras in this bad film to burn down the stage. But, this is no B-movie. George W. Bush is back in office and that means for the next four years I cannot go home. For good and for bad, I will remain an ex-patriot in Germany. My reasoning is simple: If there is enough support for someone like Bush to get re-elected, I simply do not belong in America. I don't even fit into my notoriously flip-floppy home state of...