Brian Gongol

Somehow, I don't think North Korea has this problem

1776-foot tower to be built with insurance money; will set new record height in gigantic "screw you" to enemies of freedom

What the heck made you do it, America? 14.7% jump in durable-goods manufacturing

Chairman Mao rolling in grave over Miss World 2003 contest

They named it for that guilty-pleasure 80's Brat Pack film

So would the $25 million reward be part of a divorce settlement?

The bricks were too well-placed

Britons now borrowing like they're Americans

Art students get goofy ideas

Promising better security, fewer crashes, and unicorns for all

Special fee to cover copyright value lost to copying

Ultra-big and ultra-small both anticipated

CFO may have unethically hired Pentagon official with conflict of interest; CEO goes down, too

Didn't want to give Wright Brothers credit for powered flight

Top station in UK apparently eclectic mix of everything

I just wanted to write "balladeer"

More rain in a day than in a normal month

First they stand with the US on Iraq; now they're messing with the EU from the inside

That's nuclear power plant...as in splitting atoms

Shooting death on the 3rd floor

Third-trimester abortion over a cleft palate

But no one knows what it was

The longer they live in Canada, the fewer kids they have; matches perfectly with economic expectations

Females pick males who look like the ones they saw when young, eat the rest

I've long said some songs can only be exorcised by repeated playing...science says I'm right

Then again, if it didn't work as well, did he really?

Universe is made of "dark energy" more than anything else; so is ABC's prime-time lineup

Humans evolved with better sound-to-speech capacities than other primates

Typical combat load up to 150 pounds today; looking for a 50-lb. solution

Neither Sears Tower nor Petronas Towers

Campaign of "new anti-Semitism" conducted by violent Muslim youth

40 million infected with HIV worldwide

Israel's quandary: How can you negotiate when your enemies won't even let their own people talk with you?

War in Iraq gave Gaddafi second thoughts; funny how sanctions didn't

Says with impressive bravado: "I'm used to such incidents – it's happened before"

Other war criminals remain at large; some want them hunted, too

Says terrorist's huffing and puffing wakes up others

Four detained in southwest London

Weapons deal was negotiated in Syria -- the same Syria that sat on the UN Security Council

Hussein reportedly now wearing that hideous beard

Might be easier for us to fight global terrorism with lots of smaller allies

Defense Department looking at new strategies, since terrorists don't act like the old Russkies