Opinion: The weirdest ad campaign ever

The weirdest campaign ad of this season — maybe any season — debuted on the Internet this past week. The ad has been nicknamed, “Demon Sheep,” and can be viewed here.

A bomb scanner sold to dozens of countries around the world has been shown to be useless at detecting explosives, the Thai government said, raising the possibility that thousands of lives have been lost to bomb attacks because of ineffective screenings.

A British backpacker has been rescued after spending nearly two weeks missing in the mountains of eastern Australia, authorities said Wednesday.

There’s a lot of head-scratching at the CIA over an article in Vanity Fair magazine that dubs Erik Prince, the founder of the notorious private military contractor Blackwater, a “tycoon, contractor, soldier, spy.”

It hasn’t been a good year for the black and gold.

China will ramp up the monitoring of high-level public officials’ family members to keep them from hiding profits from corruption, state media reported Thursday.

Former Japanese Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, who resigned from his post after appearing intoxicated at a news conference earlier this year, was found dead in his home Sunday, police said.

Gurdeep Kaur’s wrinkled face was wet with tears, as she recounted what she saw a quarter century ago: the killings of 21 of family members.

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If thoroughbred race horses are the oil of Kentucky, then Lexington is OPEC and the Keeneland Auction is its commodity exchange.

Investors will brace for a spate of economic reports this week with their fingers crossed that there is more good news than bad since that will set the tone for the remaining seven weeks of the year.

The Obama Administration is expected to slash the estimated cost of the Troubled Asset Relief Program by $200 billion, effectively paving the way for what could be a massive federal jobs program.

Greece is not looking for a bailout by the rest of Europe as it struggles to bring down sky-high budget deficits and public debt after years of profligate spending, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said Monday.

American International Group Inc., majority owned by the U.S. government after a massive bailout, is close to a $35.5 billion deal to sell its Asian life insurance operations to Britain’s Prudential PLC, according to an online report.

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