The 9 Greatest Third Bananas in History

Anybody can make a list of the great sidekicks. The Sundance Kid, Scottie Pippen, bar-backs, Miss Elizabeth, and Fozzie Bear fly off the top of my head on a moment's notice. But how many of us pay tribute to key figures on the next rung of the totem pole? The time has come for us to give these third wheels the Willy Loman treatment and declare...

Final Fantasy III Released for the iPhone; iPad version coming in April 2011

Any time a console or handheld game receives a port onto the iPhone or iPad, I get a little more excited every day as that means another fantastic game has made the jump to iOS to be enjoyed by a whole new audience. Today is another one of those days as Square-Enix has announced that Final Fantasy III has just been made available for the...

Clock is Ticking for Justin Bieber

In 2008, Scooter Braun came across some YouTube videos of a young boy singing and, based on what he saw, became his manager. That boy ended up in a bidding war between Usher and Justin Timberlake, with Usher winning out. And just like that, Justin Bieber was launched in the world of pop music.Bieber's EP My World was released in November...

5 Countries the U.S. Should Invade Next

Ah, Libya. We always knew we'd get around to military action in your deserts too. See, we can't, so to speak, "invade" you the way we'd normally do because we've got all of our troops over in Iraq. No, Afghanistan. Wait, is it Egypt? Well, we've got 'em committed somewhere in the world, and we've got their backups helping out in Haiti and...

New worry raised by High radiation levels at Japanese plant

Reuters – A man cleans his bicycle at an areadestroyed by the tsunami in Kamaishi town,Iwate Prefecture in northern …TOKYO (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has been found at a second reactor at a crippled nuclear power station in Japan, the plant's operator said, as fears of contamination escalated two weeks after a huge earthquake and...

Syria protest spreads troops

Pro-Assad demonstrators in Syria. Brief clashes in Damascus were reported between anti-regime demonstrators and loyalists. Photograph: Hussein Malla/APDemonstrations in the Syrian capital, Damascus, and elsewhere were met with force as security forces struggled to contain unrest that had begun in the southern city of Deraa a week ago.Thousands...

International journalists in Libya Targeted By Gaddafi's forces

New York Times journalists Stephen Farrell, Tyler Hicks, Lynsey Addario and Anthony Shadid with Levent Sahinkaya, centre, the Turkish embassy representive to Libya who helped secure their freedom. Photograph: Anatolian Agency/EPAJournalists from across the world have been targeted by Muammar Gaddafi's security forces while reporting a war...