Armed robbers stole four important paintings by van Gogh, Monet, Degas and Cézanne from a museum in Zurich, Switzerland. Their total worth is estimated at $163 million. Last week, two Picasso oils valued at $4.5 million were stolen from a Swiss museum in Pfaeffikon.

Why steal famous paintings? How could you possibly sell them?

Soldier’s message in a bottle surfaces – 90 years later.

Microsoft indicated that it was ready for a fight, repeating earlier statements that it might consider “all necessary steps” to ensure the deal is completed.

U.S. mortgage crisis spreads past subprime loans. People with good, or prime, credit histories are falling behind on their payments for home loans, auto loans and credit cards at a quickening pace, according to industry data and economists.

BlackBerries went out across North America Monday in what Research in Motion, the company that invented the device, called a “critical severity outage.” About 8 million BlackBerry users received, ironically, an email from the company about 3:30 p.m. alerting them that “network infrastructure is experiencing a service interruption.”

Cheap Chinese candles seem likely to spark another fierce battle between retailers and producers in the European Union.

Whites to become minority in U.S. by 2050.

Are you a member of Facebook.com? You may have a lifetime contract.

When incest is best: Study analyzing more than 200 years of data finds that couples consisting of third cousins have the highest reproductive success

Birds came into being a hundred million years ago, a new genetic study suggests.

The smell of Space.

SETI is the Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence. It’s a project by a phenomenally dedicated and brilliant group of scientists and engineers to search the sky for radio signals from other civilizations.

The ghost of Henry VIII, caught on camera.

History of the evil eye.

An eight-ton rock rested for generations at the bottom of the Ohio River, minding its own business as time and currents passed.

$100 bottle of water.

Who’s in charge of feeding and clothing Britney Spears?

Michael Jackson’s Thriller: 25 facts.

Horse-wakeboarding.

Jesus is my…

Graffiti by US Soldiers, gangs tags & graffiti writing, in Iraq.

Creepy American Airlines ad from 1968 when your Mom was hot.

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