Sinead begs for mercy after nits joke
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She calls herself Ireland&#39;s &quot;Princess Diana&quot; and has endured an excruciating love-hate relationship with the press. But Sinead O&#39;Connor, Ireland&#39;s misunderstood singer turned priest, has finally snapped after a joke about head lice.
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It was meant to bring a little levity to a potentially uncomfortable situation, a joke that John Bunting trotted out from time to time this fall.
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âBreaking and Enteringâ climaxes in a welter of apologies. Everyone in London, it seems, has cause for remorse and for my part I regret that I lost count of the number of times the words âIâm sorryâ were uttered on screen.
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A weeping British hostage was shown pleading for help between the bars of a makeshift cage in a video that surfaced Wednesday, a sobering reminder of the grim reality for at least 18 foreign captives still held by Iraqi militants.
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Tycho:  The first part of this strip is from an actual conversation.  I'm pretty sure he was joking, though.
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It sounds like a sick joke about global warming, with a series of horrible punch lines:
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Spamalot creator Eric Idle rewrites a song lyric poking fun at "sad" pop star Britney Spears.
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Hostage Margaret Hassan has made an emotional appeal for UK forces to withdraw from Iraq, in a video shown on al-Jazeera. She was shown pleading: &quot;Please help me, please help me.
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British hostage Kenneth Bigley was reportedly made to plead for his life tonight in the latest sick video from his ruthless abductors.
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the UK have been urged not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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Sarah Silverman still is responding to the negative reaction to her Britney Spears jokes at the MTV Video Music Awards. "The joke that everyone was upset about &#151; me calling the kids `adorable mistakes' &#151; was the most innocuous joke," the 36-year-old comedian tells Us Weekly magazine in the issue that comes out Friday. "It never occurred to me that would be deemed hurtful or over the line."
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BAGHDAD: Trembling, haggard and weeping into a tissue, Margaret Hassan yesterday begged Britain to help save her by withdrawing its troops.
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Revulsion is now starting to be aimed at the paparazzi and tabloids as the entertainment industry asks that the troubled star be given a chance to recover in private.
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âPlease help me. Please help me,â said a terrified Hassan, breaking down in tears and burying her face in a tissue. She said she might be killed like British hostage Kenneth Bigley, who was beheaded by his captors earlier this month.
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'Out of date' skit binned Comic Relief organisers have canned a Question of Sport spoof featuring Celebrity Big Brother "contestant" Jade Goody.â¦
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The Turkish man who shot Pope John Paul II in 1981 released a cryptic statement Thursday wishing the hospitalized pontiff a speedy recovery and urging him to tell the world that its end was near.
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A condemned prisoner planned to tell a joke Tuesday as part of his final statement before being executed for the abduction and killing of a couple who lived next door to him.