Saturday, May 06, 2006

Flying veggies for Mexican Cinco de Mayo (Reuters)


Flying veggies for Mexican Cinco de Mayo (Reuters)

Mexicans from a Mexico City neighbourhood wearing period costumes re-enact the battle of Puebla, May 5, 2006. REUTERS/Henry RomeroReuters - One of the few places in Mexico still celebrating Cinco de Mayo, thanks to an enduring family tradition, did so on Friday with a tequila-fuelled fiesta of cannon firing, flying vegetables and forced haircuts.




U.K. Copter Crashes in Iraq; Iraqis Cheer (AP)

Residents and neighbours gather amid rubble following an explosion in the Shula area in northwest Baghdad, Saturday May 6 , 2006. Two rockets were fired in northwest Baghdad, one hitting a home and killing two children and wounding a woman. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)AP - A British military helicopter crashed in the southern city of Basra on Saturday, and a crowd of Iraqis cheered and threw stones at British forces who raced to the scene to seal off the area.




Hollywood wonders: "What would Jesus direct?" (Reuters)

A man pauses to look at a poster for the Mel Gibson movie 'The Passion of the Christ' at a cinema near Times Square, in New York, February 25, 2004. Long criticized by conservative Christians for profiting from violent or sexually graphic films that corrupt the young, Hollywood is starting to see there is money to be made catering to those critics. REUTERS/Seth WenigReuters - Long criticised by conservative Christians for profiting from violent or sexually graphic films that corrupt the young, Hollywood is starting to see there is money to be made catering to those critics.



posted by Don @ Saturday, May 06, 2006

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