French president appoints mainly moderate Socialists, gender-balanced cabinetPARIS (AFP) ― French President Francois Hollande unveiled a government of mainly moderate Socialists and longtime allies Wednesday as his new prime minister vowed to work quickly to put the country back on its feet.He also met his promise to appoint an equal number of men and women in his cabinet, a first for France, although most of the senior posts went to men.Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Hollande’s new gover

A YouTube user uploaded a video of him building tens of thousands domino pieces on May 11, drawing more than 440,000 hits in a little more than a week.The man, under the YouTube username of FlippyCat, stacked 60 big dominoes which contained 990 dominoes each and another 600 to spell out numbers on the floor. All told, 60,000 dominoes were used.The building process took him approximately 65 and a half hours to build over eight days. It took 12 seconds for all the dominoes to fall down when pushed

A Wisconsin man said he will picket a restaurant every Sunday until its all-you-can-eat fish fry lives up to its name. (YouTube)Bill Wisth, who stands at 6-foot-6 and weighs 350 pounds, said he went to the all-you-can-eat fish fry Friday at Chuck's Place in Thiensville and was angered when the restaurant cut him off after he downed a dozen pieces of fish, WTMJ-TV, Milwaukee, reported Tuesday."It's

A man witnessed walking down the street naked in Einfield, north London in May 3, 2012.A man wearing only boots and socks walking down the street has been caught on footage and is drawing a mixture of shocked and amused reactions on the Internet.The mystery man, estimated to be around 176 meters tall and in his forties, strolls down the street in the video clip seemingly without a care in the worl

A 46-year-old man was arrested after police said he stabbed another man in the chest at a New York City library because the man was watching porn on a computer. (MCT)Police sources said Ralph Neptune, who is homeless, was with his wife at the Brooklyn Heights branch of the Brooklyn Public Library when he saw porn on the 52-year-old victim‘s screen about 7:20 p.m. Tuesday, the New York Daily News r

MEXICO CITY (AP) ― Author Carlos Fuentes, who played a dominant role in Latin America’s novel-writing boom by delving into the failed ideals of the Mexican revolution, died Tuesday in a Mexico City hospital. He was 83. Fuentes died at the Angeles del Pedregal hospital where he was taken after his personal doctor, Arturo Ballesteros, found him in shock in his Mexico City home. Ballesteros told reporters outside the hospital that the writer had a sudden internal hemorrhage that caused him to lose

SARAJEVO (AP) ― She remembers Ratko Mladic looking straight into her eyes and promising to spare the other children. A soldier had just killed a 3-year-old who was crying too loud. She remembers, too, the arrogant swagger as he barked murderous orders to his troops that showed his promise to be a lie.For Munira Subasic, these are the two sides of the Bosnian Serb general who goes on trial Wednesday on genocide charges: the sly deceiver and the ranting bully.Now Subasic wants to see the man who c