Category: World News
Arabic Speling Bee Canceled for Education Concerns
Modernization efforts in post-Mubarak Egypt were dealt yet another blow this week, with announcement that the first ever Arabic spelling contest will not take place. Leaders of the fledgling coalition seeking to transition Egypt from military rule to a secular…
Caution: Saudi Women Behind the Wheel
Saudi women are hitting the streets, revving their engines and trying to drive home a very serious point. It’s all part of a push for social reform by defying the desert kingdom’s longstanding ban on female drivers. “We are not…
Al-Qaeda Choice for Bin Laden Replacement Rocks
Al-Qaeda made a major announcement this week, promoting Ayman al-Zawahiri to fill its Chief Terrorist Officer post, a role that has been vacant since the death of its long-time leader, Osama bin Laden. Al-Zawahiri’s greatest challenge will be convincing critics…
Royal Fixation Escalates to Royal Obsession
23 million insomniac Americans watched the royal wedding of Prince William and commoner Kate Middleton. Seriously! Rousted out of bed at a ridiculous a.m. hour to witness the event, pale compared to, say, Donald Trump getting skewered by a Brahma…
Bin Laden’s Home Video “Bloopers” Found
Among the hoard of video footage found in Osama Bin Laden’s hideout were a number of out-takes and blooper tapes, it was revealed today. These tapes are a mixture of mistakes by Bin Laden himself while talking directly to camera…
Wills and Kate® (Patent Pending)
LONDON (AP) — GlossyNews.com – Wills and Kate®, a royal pair if ever there was one, is the official copyrighted name of the British Royal Family’s new world tour idea. Set to run through 2011, the tour will begin in…
Campaigning underway in Al Qaeda leadership race
ISLAMABAD – [Glossy News] – The recent demise of Osama Bin Laden has left a vacuum at the heart of Al Qaeda, the world’s foremost terrorist organization. There is no shortage of ambitious would-be Public Enemy Number One’s to fill…
Usama bin Laden, a Touching Eulogy
VARIOUSLY AROUND D.C. — GlossyNews.com Trump is really pissed — he felt that only 8 years of ‘Mission Accomplished’ was not long enough to have any impact. He said, “America needs a real someone to hate. I thought I had…
Osama Bin Laden Slips In Shower, Dies
Islamabad, I think it was last week – GlossyNews.com – After two decades of military operations spanning four continents, at a cost billions of dollars and thousands of U.S. and coalition lives, Al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden died suddenly…
Gaddafi Ceasefire Gesture: “My Guerillas Have Put Down Their Arms”
Tripoli Zoo, Tuesday: In a secret satellite conference last Tuesday, Libyan dictator Muhammar Gaddafi reportedly told NATO he had disarmed all of his Guerrillas and he “no longer wanted bloodlessness.” “No word of a lie. What I say is true….