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The poster is part of a new advertising campaign which is hitting London to highlight the physical effects of binge drinking.

Apart from a stinking hangover, it warns women they will also be more prone to wrinkles, bad skin, hair loss and weight gain if they knock back too much booze.

Phew!

Poland’s national football coach apologised after a tabloid newspaper ran a gruesome depiction of him holding the severed heads of Germany’s national trainer and team captain and demanded he slaughter them at the forthcoming Euro 2008 championships.

The photomontage in Super Express of Poland’s Dutch coach, Leo Beenhakker, clutching the bloodied heads of Michael Ballack and Joachim Löw provoked outrage in Germany and threatened to overshadow the match between the two group B teams on Sunday.

The picture ran alongside the caption: “Leo, Give us their heads,” arguing that Poland, which has never beaten Germany, had waited too long for a victory over its neighbour.

This couldn’t happen this side of the pond, could it? Could it?

Elaine Fulps is thrilled about the prize she won at a baseball game in Dallas, Texas, but hopes she won’t have any need for it in the near future.

Fulps, 60, won a $10,000 funeral at the Grand Prairie AirHogs minor league game on Tuesday.

The prize will not expire until after Fulps does, said Ron Alexander, the sales manager at Oak Grove memorial gardens, which sponsored the event along with the baseball team and Irving’s Chapel of Roses funeral home.

Fulps said she would choose a coffin and plot as soon as she recovered from her latest surgery.

Finalists competed in a pallbearer’s race, a mummy wrap and a eulogy delivery.

When Angel Arce Torres, 78, was knocked down by a car travelling down the wrong side of a road in Connecticut, motorists ignored and even swerved around his prostrate body.

A streetlight surveillance video shows nine cars driving past Mr Torres, who is now paralysed in hospital. One rider on a scooter even circled him for a closer look before deciding to drive on.

Mr Torres, a retired forklift operator, was trying to cross the street in Hartford after buying some milk when he was hit by a Honda, closely trailed by a Toyota, which were both driving on the wrong side of the road…

Mr Torres was discovered minutes later by a police officer responding to an unrelated call, although four people called 911 soon after the accident.

Hey, at least no one went through his pockets.

In a letter posted online by National Review this week, the Senator’s adviser, Douglas Holtz-Eakin, said Mr. McCain believed that the Constitution gave Mr. Bush the power to authorize the National Security Agency to monitor Americans’ international phone calls and e-mail without warrants, despite a 1978 federal statute that required court oversight of surveillance.

Mr. McCain believes that “neither the administration nor the telecoms need apologize for actions that most people, except for the A.C.L.U. and trial lawyers, understand were constitutional and appropriate in the wake of the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001…”

Although a spokesman for Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, denied that the senator’s views on surveillance and executive power had shifted, legal specialists said the letter contrasted with statements Mr. McCain previously made about the limits of presidential power.

In an interview…with The Boston Globe six months ago, Mr. McCain strongly suggested that if he became the next commander in chief, he would consider himself obligated to obey a statute restricting what he did in national security matters.

David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive power issues, said that while the language used by Mr. McCain in his answers six months ago was imprecise, the recent statement by Mr. Holtz-Eakin “seems to contradict precisely what he said earlier.”

Gotta keep the faith with the War-on-Terror-voters.

Those who still have problems sorting out McCain and Bush should take this test. All the way through the McCain vs. The Carrot round.

Alison DeLauzon thought the snapshots and home videos of her infant son were gone for good when she lost her digital camera while on vacation in Florida.

Then a funny thing happened: her camera “phoned home.”

Equipped with a special memory card with wireless Internet capability, DeLauzon’s camera had not only automatically sent her holiday pictures to her computer, but had even uploaded photos of the miscreants who swiped her equipment bag after she accidentally left it behind at a restaurant.

“I opened up the Eye-Fi manager on the computer and, lo and behold, there are the guys that stole our cameras,” said DeLauzon, a native of New York’s Long Island suburb. “Not only is it the guy who stole our camera … but the guy took a picture of (his accomplice) holding our other camera.”

DeLauzon received the Eye-Fi, a 2-gigabyte SD memory card that fits into millions of digital cameras, as a holiday gift to go with her camera.

The article notes other means of achieving the same thing. A useful procedure to consider if you’re taking your digital goodies traveling.