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Courtney Love may have helped solve the missing Malaysian plane mystery, having posted an image and geographical co-ordinates on her Facebook page. Flight number MH370 has been missing since 8 March 2014, with searches for the aircraft having proven fruitless in the days since. The search was recently expanded, but ten days later, there are still no clues as to the fate of the plane or its 239 passengers. However, Courtney Love may have solved the mystery, posting a photo on Facebook, which she seems to believe shows the location of the missing plane - sadly after crashing in the...

Republican candidate Blake Farenthold, who is running for Texas’s 27th district House seat, came under scrutiny this week when images surfaced of him out for a night on the town with women in attire leaving little to the imagination. In the pictures, which were reportedly taken last year and published online by thecrushgirls.com, Farenthold is dressed in pajamas featuring a yellow ducky design. We The People News called attention to the images on Thursday with a note confirming their authenticity. CrushGirls marketing director Tony Martinez tells Talking Points Memo that the pictures were not photoshopped.

New Discovery: 5 Photoshopped images of Obama done by the same user calling her-himself Ducky - one of these 5 images is the Certificate of Live Birth! by DefendUSx April 29, 2009 01:34 Thanks to Rhonda Parsons who has a BA in graphics and her finding some images across the Internet from Obama's high school days in Hawaii. I was looking for evidence of image forgery, and to my surprise saw the name 'Ducky' appeared in each image reviewed. I remember seeing 'Ducky' on Obama's Certificate of Live Birth image from his Fight the Smears website way back in August....

Rubber ducks ending ocean voyage Updated 12 July 2003, 13.28 Thousands of rubber ducks are expected to wash up on the American coast - after more than 10 years at sea. The ducks fell overboard from a container ship off the Alaskan coast during a storm in 1992. Then the ducks - along with lots of other plastic frogs and turtles - set off on a long journey through three oceans. Iceland to Hawaii It's thought they were trapped by slow moving ice for several years - it took them until 2000 to reach Iceland. Fact File What else...

BOSTON - Being thrown from a container ship, drifting for more than a decade, bobbing through three oceans — it's enough to turn a rubber duckie white.   A floating flock of the bathtub toys — along with beavers, turtles and frogs — is believed to be washing ashore somewhere along the New England coast, bleached and battered from a trans-Arctic journey. Oceanographers say the trip has taught them valuable lessons about the ocean's currents. The toys have been adrift since 29,000 of them fell from a storm-tossed container ship en route from China to Seattle more than 11 years...

Argentinian inventors have created a strap-on rubber duck which they claim will combat tiredness. The Duckmaster fastens around the user's neck and starts quacking if the owner's head slumps forward. The Patomaster group is selling the Duckmasters online for £7 (about $11) on their website. Their publicity says: "This is a derisory price for a product that can change your life." The Duckmaster is being marketed as "an ultra-efficient anatomical wake-up device" which "means being sleepy won't get you into trouble." The website contains testimonials from satisfied users including a student who uses the Duckmaster to stay awake in lectures...