Famous December birthdays, 'Tis the season for celebration, and these celebrities will celebrate with another candle in their cakes. A game show host, a crime investigator and a television producer are among those with birthdays this month.

Museum puts humans on display, Human Zoos: Quai Branly Museum Puts Humans On Display. It's a queasy experience, viewing chained tribal dancers do a white man's bidding, or African women stripped and photographed to feed European curiosity.

Australian boy, 14, jailed in Bali - A Bali court sentenced a 14-year-old Australian boy to two months in jail on Friday for possessing a few grams of marijuana, a lighter sentence than sought by prosecutors after Canberra asked for leniency.
The teenager is likely to be released in early December, a prosecutor said, having already served time since his detention in October. australian boy jail bali drug charges,

Giant LEGO Christmas tree - Largest Lego Christmas Tree Erected At London St Pancras, A giant Lego Christmas tree has been erected at London's St Pancras station, the tallest tree ever built with the toy bricks, according to the manufacturer.
The angular bricks make perfect building blocks for the spiky evergreen, which two took two months to build and is made from 600,000 bricks. giant lego christmas tree,

November 2011 celebrity quotes, The nation was shocked by a college football scandal and uplifted by a congresswoman's survival story. The Republican presidential debates kept coming, while President Barack Obama's health care law reached a major milestone. As always, Hollywood saw its share of gossip — from an Oscars shakeup to a teen pop star's paternity suit. Read through to discover the most quotable quotes of November.

Nam myoho renge kyo chant Tina Turner, I'm off shortly for a week's vacation in the warm waters of Puerto Rico with my boyfriend. Let me leave you with this remarkable short snippet said to be Tina Turner chanting the prayer of Nishiren Buddhism.

Sams club the brick bible, LEGO Bible too racy, 'Brick' breaker: Lego bible too racy for Sam's Club. For more than 10 years, Brendan Smith has been telling the story of the Bible in a very unusual way: with Legos.

Through his hit Web site and three popular books, Smith has spread the gospel of "The Brick Testament." But now, because of what it says are concerns about "mature content," Sam's Club, one of the nation's largest retailers, has banned in-store sales of the fourth book in the series, "The Brick Bible."


On his Web site, Smith's Brick Testament contains a series of interpretations of sexually suggestive passages of the Bible, but in the latest book version, those sections were removed.
"I have just been informed that Sam's Club is pulling 'The Brick Bible' from the shelves of all of their retail locations nationwide due to the complaints of a handful of people that it is vulgar and violent," Smith wrote on his Facebook page on Monday. "This despite the book containing only straightforward illustrations of Bible stories using direct quotes from scripture."

2011 November Product Recalls, Consumers were warned about contaminated pine nuts, unapproved dietary supplements and fragile vases in November. Find out what other products were removed from shelves in the past month.

Rice-a-roni rice pilaf milk recall  California and Arizona, Rice-A-Roni has initiated a voluntary recall on a small quantity of specific family-size boxes of Rice-A-Roni Rice Pilaf flavor due to an undeclared milk allergen. This product was originally distributed to stores located in California and Arizona. People who are allergic to milk run the risk of a serious or life-threatening allergic reaction if they consume this product.The affected product is limited to 10.8 ounce family-size boxes of Rice-A-Roni Rice Pilaf flavor with the UPC Bar Code ending in 43004 and Best Before Date of JUL 30 12 B stamped on the bottom of the box. Consumers with a milk allergy who have this product in their possession should return it to the retailer where it was purchased for a full refund.

GI Joe crew member dies, Mike Huber was reportedly working on a high-powered lift when an accident occurred on the New Orleans set.

Mike Huber, a locally hired crew member working on the set of Paramount’s G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation, died Nov. 22 while working on the production in New Orleans.

Thanksgiving prayers and blessings. Many people across the country are giving thanks on this Thanksgiving. (thanksgiving Day prayer before meal) But giving thanks isn't limited to Turkey Day. See how religious followers across the globe express their gratitude through prayers and blessings.

Pippa Middleton's bridesmaid dress for sale, Pippa Middleton $3,000 dress From its delicately capped sleeves to the elegantly draped cowl neck, to the tiny silk buttons running up the back, Debenhams' replica of the Alexander McQueen bridesmaid gown worn by Pippa Middleton to her sister Kate's wedding to Prince William earlier this year is not a bad copy at all.

 DA forgets to charge murder suspect, A Texas man accused of shooting his 17-year-old friend in the head walked out of jail Monday because prosecutors forgot to file proper paperwork after his arrest.

Richard Mendoza Jr., 26, is accused of killing Christopher Daigle in 2002 near Missouri City, Texas, while the pair were on a hunting trip.

Woman smuggle drugs bible into prison, Deputies in South Carolina say a woman used two hollowed-out Bibles to try to smuggle weapons, drugs and a cell phone to a prison inmate.

Sheriff Barry Faile said Monday authorities began investigating 28-year-old Shareca Latoya Jones earlier this month after a package mailed to Lieber Correctional Institution was returned to a post office in Lancaster. Inside the package were two Bibles containing razor knives, a cell phone, ecstasy pills and more than 28 grams of cocaine.

High-tech contact lenses closer to reality, Cyborgs of the future beware: Humans are working on computerized contact lenses with display technology.
"Some day maybe we'll have full-fledged streaming in your contact lenses," said Babak Amir Parviz, an associate professor of electrical engineering at the University of Washington who co-authored a paper describing the computerized new contact lens in the latest issue of the Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering. contact lenses read emails text, Electronic contact lens displays pixels on the eyes,

Ghost reportedly gropes grandma, 'It's like an octopus groping me': Grandmother, 73, claims she's being plagued by a GHOST

 'I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands. I kicked frantically and it went away'

A grandmother claims she is being haunted by a poltergeist who continually gropes her as she tries to sleep.

Its like an octopus is groping me, struggles to sleep because of groping ghost, Grandmother Doris, a former nursing home assistant, says her struggles to fight off the groping ghost are affecting her sleep and ‘giving me the jitters’.
‘It’s like an octopus,’ she told This Is Kent of the spirit. ‘It started four months ago. I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands.

(Funtuna) - Ohio dog movie babe. At the Foote Glass Company in Medina, you'll find the most unique customer service anywhere.
A friendly welcome by owner Anita Foote is followed by a friendly bark from border collie Jake. Once you enter the business there is one thing and one thing only Jake has on his mind.

6 degrees of separation reduced, Do you hear that? That's the sound of Kevin Bacon fans around the world groaning at Facebook's new claim that there are no longer six-degrees of separation between us. Our connections have been reduced to 4.74.