

The beads are ready to be tossed, the
costumed crowds are in the mood to party and tourism officials
are smiling. It can only mean one thing: It’s Mardi Gras time in
New Orleans.


Journalist Anthony Shadid’s sudden
death has many wondering how an apparently healthy 43-year-old
man could be struck dead by an asthma attack.


New evidence has emerged to support
the disputed theory that Adolf Hitler had a secret son in 1918
after an affair with a teenage French mistress, a French
newsmagazine reports.


Josh Powell had hundreds of images of
disturbing cartoon sex and graphic depictions of incest on his
home computer, something Utah authorities investigating his
wife's disappearance kept private for more than two years.

Kim Jong Nam, the wayward eldest son
of former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, has been kicked out of
his luxury lodgings in the gambling mecca of Macau after failing
to pay $15,000 in arrears, according to a report Friday by the
Russian news website Arguments and Facts.

Three people have come forward with
new information that suggests serial killer John Wayne Gacy had
an accomplice in at least one of his grisly rape and torture
murders, two Chicago lawyers say.

