Jet forced to land after drunk passenger tried to open door

A plane full of British tourists including children had to make an unscheduled stop in Bermuda last night after a drunken passenger tried to open the door when the aircraft was 50,000ft over the Atlantic.

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Deadly new knife with exploding tip freezes victims' organs

Senior police officers have been warned to look out for a new knife which can inject a ball of compressed gas into its victim that instantly freezes internal organs.

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4 Repeat Offenders Disappoint at E3 (Except Spore): Hands-on

We finally got our hands on some of the most anticipated titles that have showed up from E3 to E3—Killzone 2, Spore, LittleBigPlanet and Too Human—to give them a hard look as they finally, probably make their way to stores.

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Want to laugh at Nintendo more? Nintendo wants you to buy!

Quote: "6:49 As for multiplayer, they hope you'll purchase more WiiMotionPlus units, but there are pass-the-remote games, like Bowling in Wii Sports, so multiple WiiMotionPlus accesories aren't always needed."

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Rendering a rock under various game engines

Nice perspective on the capabilities of various game engine.

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IGN: E3 2008: Miyamoto on Wii's Lacking Storage Space

Is there a solution coming?

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Fils-Aime: We Haven’t Ignored Core Gamers

Speaking to G4 following Nintendo’s E3 press conference on Tuesday, the president of the firm’s US arm rejected the notion that core gamers would not be satisfied with the company’s newly announced titles.

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Sony CEO blames piracy for low software sales

Jack Tretton spoke with us at a blogger's roundtable earlier today. When questioned about why software sales are so sluggish in comparison to the stellar hardware sales, Tretton noted that there were three big reasons: 1 - The multimedia features of the PSP may encourage users to play less games, watch more movies and listen to music. 2 - Gamers do

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Rock Band 2 Is Only as Great as Its Instruments

New RockBand 2 Instruments!

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E3 2008: GH: World Tour Compatible with Rock Band Instrument

In a perfect world, one set of ridiculously cumbersome plastic instruments would work with every music-rhythm game ever made. The insane amount of confusion last year over guitar compatibility in Rock Band and Guitar Hero III proved we're far from it, but at least we're getting closer.

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StarPex Full-Size Wooden Guitar For the PS2 and PS3

Playing Guitar Hero or Rock Band might make the average Joe feel more like a rock star—but the fact that you are playing on a tiny plastic guitar kind of ruins the fantasy. That's where the StarPex comes in. You'll never afford it! Live in the now! She will be mine...Oh, yes! She will be mine.

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Analyst pushes PS3 over Xbox 360

Todd Greenwald, an analyst at Signal Hill Capital Group in Baltimore was quoted as saying, “For the first time since the console launched, I really think there’s more reason to buy a PS3 than the 360.” He’s got good reason.

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The 5 Most Embarrasing Moments Of Nintendo’s E3 Conference

It’s easy to just forget this year’s Nintendo conference, pretend it never happened, or ignore it entirely. That won’t change the fact that by and large, it was a miserable trainwreck of failure and easily the company’s worst in history. What went wrong? Oh, about a thousand things, really, but nobody has time to relive it. So here's the run down.

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Seven years on, no answer from White House on anthrax attack

At Monday's White House briefing, I asked if President Bush was satisfied with the progress of the investigation into the 2001 attacks. Press Secretary Dana Perino told me that she didn't even "know if he has had an update on it."

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Luke, I am Your Father: 8 Memorable Movie Misquotes

Years of repetition have turned them into easily recognizable, but inaccurate, misquotes. And none are more often mistaken than these 8 classics.

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Police: 'Greatest Dad' Shirt Worn to Sex Meeting

33-year-old Michigan man is accused of wearing a "World's Greatest Dad" shirt to a meeting for sex with what he thought was a 14-year-old girl.

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McDonald's sued over drive-through policy

OMAHA, Neb. - A hearing-impaired woman has filed a federal lawsuit against a local McDonald's, saying workers there refused to let her order food at the drive-thru window.

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HGH Shipment Receipts to Roger Clemens

Convicted steroid distributor Kirk Radomski handed over shipping receipts to federal investigators for a package of human growth hormone that he claims he sent to Roger Clemens' home in Texas in 2002 or 2003.

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Wii Sports 2 Demonstration (With Bonus Pricing Info)

Wii Sports is, pack-in or not, the single biggest game in the Wii's library. Heck, for many Wii owners, it's probably the only game in their collection. So the sequel had better be good.

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BREAKING: Official Rock Band 2 Track List Revealed

From Microsoft's E3 presser, Kotaku has the ENTIRE 84-song track list for Rock Band 2, due out in the fall.

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Final Fantasy XIII simultaneous release on Xbox 360, PS3

Microsoft has finally brought Final Fantasy to the Xbox 360, will be released same day as PS3 in North America and Europe.

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Nintendo Announces MotionPlus, New Wii Remote Add-on

The add-on attaches to the bottom of the Wii-mote and more accurately traces motions in 3-D space by better orienting the controller.

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Dad of 3 branded 'pervert' for photographing his own kids

Family man Gary Crutchley only wanted to take a picture of his children enjoying a day out. But his innocent snaps of his sons on a slide ended with him being branded on the spot as a 'pervert'. "This parental paranoia is getting completely out of hand. I was so shocked"

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Remember this war hero? He killed himself from PTSD.

The photo below captures everything that Americans wanted to believe about the Iraq war in the earliest days of the invasion in 2003. Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit was fighting its way up the Euphrates to Baghdad, cradles a wounded boy. The child is half-naked and helpless, but trusting. Private Dwyer’s face is strained but calm.

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Blurred Out: 51 Things You Can't See on Google Maps

For all of the places that Google Maps allows you to see, there are plenty of places that are off-limits. Whether it's due to government restrictions, personal-privacy lawsuits or mistakes, Google Maps has slapped a "Prohibited" sign on the following 51 places.

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World's First Bird That Lived 235 Million Years Ago

Palaeontologists have unveiled an extraordinary prehistoric 'flying' reptile which lived 235 million years ago.

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Is reading in a moving car bad for your health?

Reading in the car is not really bad for your health, although it can make you feel bad

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Stripper, 80, Still Taking Her Clothes Off

Tempest Storm is fuming. Her fingers tremble with frustration. They are aged, knotted by arthritis and speckled with purple spots under paper skin.

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Guide to Lap Dance Etiquette

Because you can't just walk into a strip joint and act the way your caveman brain is telling you. No jumping on the nearest piece of flesh -- there are rules to follow.

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God of War III Announced for PS3

Brief trailer at Sony's E3 keynote announces God of War III on the way for Playstation III.

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The Most Embarrassing Stephen Colbert Clip Ever

It should be noted, however, that upon seeing this clip you can never unsee it. There is some serious cognitive dissonance involved in watching one of the funniest people alive engage in two and a half minutes of the least funny shit, ever.

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Shit Happens…

Whatever you flush down comes back around. Our waste fertilizes our fields and is pumped back into the waterways that are our major sources of drinking water. Let’s take the journey from toilet to tap, shall we?

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Smoking is 'good for your memory and concentration'

Smoking can help boost memory and concentration, say scientists. The discovery offers hope of a nicotine pill that mimics these effects to treat Alzheimer's disease.

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Bionic Bra to Harness the Energy of Bouncing Breasts

Looking for a better way to charge her iPod on the go, Adrienne So had an idea – could she invent a bionic bra to harness the energy of her bouncing breasts?

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Asteroid Cruises Past Earth ... With a Partner!

A good-sized asteroid sailing past our planet right now turns out to be two giant rocks doing a celestial jig.Now seen as two objects orbiting each other, the pair will be closest to Earth on July 14, at about 1.4 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. That's nearly six times as far from us as the moon.

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Binary Asteroid Glides Past Earth

A rare event has given astronomers a great view of a binary asteroid system. Tonight, asteroid 2008 BT18 passed 1.4 million miles from Earth, shining like a 13th magnitude star.

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Miss Venezuela Dayana Mendoza Crowned Miss Universe 2008

Miss Venezuela was crowned Miss Universe 2008 on Monday in a contest marked by the spectacle of Miss USA falling down during the evening gown competition for the second year in a row.

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Top 5 Internet Security Addons For Mozilla Firefox

Top 5 Internet Security Addons For Mozilla Firefox

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SEGA Genesis and SNES Emulators on PS3

This method only works on ALL PS3's that are capable of playing PS2 games (20/60gb SKU's), and upto firmware 2.40.

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