South Africa’s crime problem has taken a new twist.

A gang of baboons is being blamed for a series of break-ins. The chacma baboons, which live wild in the Cape peninsula, have been raiding people’s homes for food and causing thousands of pounds in damage.

The deputy commander of Iran’s air force said Wednesday that plans have been drawn up to bomb Israel if the Jewish state attacks Iran, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

Witnesses told of a fiery ball falling from the sky and smashing into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border at the weekend. Officials have said it was a meteorite.

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Different means but the same political destination.

Hillary Clinton has been blasted for months by her Democratic Presidential rivals because, until Monday, she hadn’t delivered her formal campaign promises for “universal” health care. But John Edwards and Barack Obama were unfair. She beat them to the punch by at least 13 years.

Only 29 percent of Americans gave Bush a positive grade for his job performance, below his worst Zogby poll mark of 30 percent in March. A paltry 11 percent rated Congress positively, beating the previous low of 14 percent in July.

Likes: Noam Chomsky, Michael Scheuer, Jews, Jesus, Mary
Dislikes: the Holocaust, Bush, corporations, global warming

According to a transcript, bin Laden tells Americans they should convert to Islam if they want the war in Iraq to end

The president cites shaky facts as he makes a case for keeping high levels of troops in Iraq.

France took the first steps Monday to set up a European sanctions regime against the Islamic government in Tehran, after warning that Iran’s failure to renounce nuclear weapons could lead to war.

Look who won Petraeus week.