It sounds like the start of a bad joke about Australians, but Airbourne lead vocalist and guitarist Joel O’Keeffe likes to open beer with his head. “I’m sure there are more intelligent ways of opening a beer, but if you’ve got your hands full of guitar, the next available option is your head.” In homage to this, two German fans created a video on YouTube titled 100 Ways to Open a Beer, devoted to their favourite Australian band and O’Keeffe couldn’t be prouder.
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Are ‘Hidden’ Airline Charges Dirty Tricks or Customer Choice?
Extra charges tacked onto advertised commercial airline flights are costing consumers billions of dollars each year. Baggage fees on American Airlines alone added up to more than 3 billion dollars last year and reservation change fees totaled more than 2.3 billion. But, what about the non-so-avoidable charges such as booking fees (or credit/debit cards fees and […]
Inside Syria’s Slaughter: A Journalist Reports from Deraa, the ‘Ghetto of Death’
This post is in partnership with Worldcrunch, a new global-news site that translates stories of note in foreign languages into English. The article below was originally published in Le Monde
Damaging Tornadoes Hit Joplin, Missouri, and Minneapolis
First, Terry Bigley watched the tornado overtake his television screen as it ripped through eastern Kansas toward Joplin, Mo., where he lived on the east side in an apartment with his wife. “They had a big picture of it,” he says of the local news station
The Five Faces of Barack Obama
If Barack Obama had not chosen a life in politics, he might have made a fine psychotherapist.
Air Boss: Major General Maggie Woodward
Darting around a windowless command center in southwestern Germany, Maggie Woodward flashed orders to pilots and skippers from the Great Plains to the Dolomites. She scrambled U.S.
Radiation: Fallout in Utah
The little town of St.
Top Iranian military officials killed in suicide attack
A man wearing an explosives-laden belt blew himself up during a conference between Shia and Sunni groups in southwestern Iran on Sunday, killing or wounding at least 60 people, local media said.
Category 4 hurricane bearing down on Baja California
Hurricane Jimena — a powerful Category 4 storm with winds of 145 mph (230 kph) — moved across the Pacific Monday toward the southern portion of Baja California, forecasters said. As of early Monday, Jimena was about 395 miles (635 kilometers) south-southeast of Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, according to the National Hurricane Center
Bus fire kills 24 in southwestern China
A commuter bus caught fire during the Friday morning rush hour in the southwestern Chinese city of Chengdu, killing at least 24 people, state-run media reported.