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Their names are Ty Ziegel and Renee Kline.

The president of the United States bowing before the president of Mexico:

Reuters photo.

It could have been worse. He could have bowed while mumbling apologies for Arizona’s immigration law.

How to get motorists to slow down:

Someone was selling this on a Toronto classifieds Web site today as a coat and hat hanger.

Trying to survive under Robert Mugabe: When an elephant dies of old age in a Zimbabwe national park, hundreds of starving villagers fight and stab each other for its meat:

Photographer David Chancellor said: ‘Just after dawn a villager spotted the carcass as he passed on a bicycle.

‘It was in the middle of nowhere, but within 15 minutes hundreds of people had arrived from all directions.

‘The women formed a ring around the elephant and the men stood inside, fighting and stabbing each other to get to the meat.’

He added: ‘The meat was taken back to homes. Some was eaten immediately but most was dried on washing lines and stored to eat later.

‘There were celebrations in the surrounding villages for the next two nights.’

Look at the photo. This is what Zimbabweans should do with Mugabe.

From here.

Just following NBC’s example in celebrating Black History Month. More: The NBC cafeteria’s white supremacist chef speaks.

From here.

Field of Dreams in Italian: If you won’t come, we’ll take it apart:

Haiti six days after the quake: looters in knife fights with other looters, piles of bodies being dumped into mass graves, doctors amputating legs with hacksaws, and looters stealing bags from other looters killed by police. And a man renting cell-phone chargers by the hour:

Must be a first:

The blurred spot in the photo is the head of a man who is being stoned to death for adultery in Somalia as villagers are forced to watch. A wonderful Islamic custom whose beauty we are too inveterate in our cultural imperialism to appreciate, I am sure.

A photographer caught them one by one in the U.N. building and pulled into his makeshift studio.

Obama refused, but he’s still there in an older photo (he’s actually right next to Kenya’s odious Prime Minister Raila Odinga who says he is Obama’s first cousin).

When you click on a photo, you can listen to the photographer saying a few words about his model. Do click on Mugabe (the black face in the rightmost column) and listen to the audio. Ahmadinejad and Qaddafi, too. Very interesting.

(Via David Tsikaluri.)

Because people can die if there is an evacuation and a guy like this is blocking the aisle:

If you think a dog chasing its tail is silly, look at this:

Haddadi has already received a warm welcome from a Clippers announcer: “You’re sure it’s not Borat’s older brother?”

From here.

Her 19-year-old husband is facing six years in prison for having sex with a minor. Judging by her photo, though, he may be telling the truth when he says he thought she was 15.

The story read like a sensation until it became clear that these people were Gypsies. From what I know about Eastern European Gypsies, it’s nothing out of the ordinary for them. The girl’s grandmother says that much:

‘It’s normal for our girls to have babies young. It’s our tradition. But I didn’t want it for my Kordeza – I felt she was too young.’

 The girl obviously had a different opinion, as it appears from the report that she pursued the man deliberately.

When the headline fits the photo.

Source.

And I bet he is the cutest Mensa member, too:

While other two-year-olds are discovering the joy of playgrounds, Oscar Wrigley would rather be learning about wildlife or the history of Ancient Rome.

He has recently taken to conducting classical music as he listens in the back of the car and identifies the different instruments.

So his parents were not surprised when, at the ripe old age of two years, five months and 11 days, he became the youngest boy in Britain to be accepted by Mensa.

With an IQ of at least 160, he has the same score as the likes of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.

‘Oscar was recently telling my wife about the reproductive cycle of penguins,’ said his father Joe, 29, an IT specialist from Reading in Berkshire.