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We're seeing red over the hoax that triggered an Amber Alert. We're livid over the resources wasted in a frantic search after a Glendale girl phoned 911 to say her sister had been abducted. We're furious that the 12-year-old "victim" was actually drinking booze and smoking pot at a pal's house.
In one unlikely riff on "The Matrix," Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates stars as the enigmatic rebel Morpheus fighting to liberate humankind from evil computer consultants from IBM.
Malaysian surgeons treating a man for an eye infection said they were surprised to find part of a chopstick embedded in his face — the result of an assault five years ago.
John Hirsch went toe-to-claw with a black bear — and won. Hirsch had only a 3 1/2-inch knife blade when he came across the bear in his backyard in Williams Lake, about 190 miles northeast of Vancouver.
A honeymoon on ice might seem a little frigid. Alaskan resort owner Bernie Karl figures his Aurora Ice Hotel, a 30-foot-high Gothic palace near Fairbanks, will be a hot tourist destination.
