1. Dog Eat Hog World - a gammon and chicken sorbet topped with a biscuit bone and served in a cone.
2. Canine Cookie Crunch - dog biscuits and ice cream topped with a biscuit bone and served in a cone.
But where do the dogs keep their money to buy the treats? With no pockets, the dogs may need to carry purses.
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Now a House investigative committee has charged New York Congressman Charles Rangel with multiple ethics violations.
The photo above shows traders wearing 3-D glasses as they watch RealD 3-D screens on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is shown treating British Prime Minister David Cameron to a high-class hot dog lunch outside Penn Station in New York.
This Time Magazine photo is titled, "Shear Royalty."
Democrats for the first time are acknowledging that Republicans could retake the Senate this November if everything falls into place for the GOP, less than two years after Democrats held a daunting 60-seat majority.
A change of party control in the Senate, where only a third of the members are running and Republicans must capture 10 seats, seemed out of the question.
That's no longer the case. The emergence of competitive Republican candidates in Wisconsin, Washington and California—Democratic-leaning states where polls now show tight races—bring the number of seats that Republicans could seize from the Democrats to 11.
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An actor wearing a potato costume stands in the doorway of a house during the Potato Festival in Mitzpe Gvulot, Israel last spring.
An overflow crowd packed a City Council meeting in Bell, a mostly Hispanic city of 38,000 about 10 miles (16 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles, to call for the resignation of Mayor Oscar Hernandez and other city officials. Residents left standing outside the chamber banged on the doors and shouted “fuera,” or “get out” in Spanish.
It was the first council meeting since the Los Angeles Times reported July 15 that Chief Administrative Officer Robert Rizzo earns $787,637 -- with annual 12 percent raises -- and that Bell pays its police chief $457,000, more than Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck makes in a city of 3.8 million people.
Bell council members earn almost $100,000 for part-time work.
The flight originated at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. It landed safely at Denver International Airport around 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, and was met by medical crews.
FAA spokesman Ian Gregor in Los Angeles says 26 passengers and four crew members were injured. He says one person was critically hurt, but released no further details.
Denver Health Medical Center spokeswoman Dee Martinez says 21 people have been transported to five area hospitals. Most of them have moderate injuries to the head, neck or back.
The donkey only just survived his ordeal after landing in water near Golubitskaya in the Krasnodar region of Russia, reports The Daily Telegraph.
One report said the donkey took to the skies as part of an advertising campaign launched by a group of entrepreneurs to attract locals to their private beach.
Another report said it was part of a parasailing firm's advertising stunt.
Regional police have now opened an investigation.
Spokeswoman Larisa Tuchkova said: "The donkey screamed and children cried. No one had the brains to call police."
The event raises thousands for SCAN, or Stop Child Abuse and Neglect. Stronger than usual currents that day swept 17,000 plastic ducks past the finish line. Since then, all but 1,500 have been caught.
They're 25 cents a piece and we reuse them. We've been doing the duck race, it's our largest fundraiser, we've been doing it for 22 years," explained Jennifer Boen, SCAN communications manager. "Even though we still have 15-hundred out there it represents almost 400 dollars."
The ducks have been spotted as far east as Ohio, and have likely split up, floating down the Saint Joseph, the Saint Mary's and the Maumee.
Germany's autobahns are renowned for average speeds well in excess of 80 miles an hour. But the average dropped near zero Sunday as tens of thousands of people sat at a 37-mile table for a cultural celebration titled, appropriately enough, "Still Life."
Cars were strictly verboten.
A festival spokesman said an estimated three million people turned out amid fine weather, one million of them with their bicycles, to celebrate on the highway between Dortmund and Bochum, in western Germany.
Tens of thousands sat at the table, which was made up of 20,000 individual tables.
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The battle lines were drawn in the run-up to this year’s Farnborough Airshow as the world’s dominant plane makers prepare for the next stage of competition in the aerospace industry.
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner is shown above. The Airbus A350XWB is shown below.
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Under pressure, the Democrats are cracking.
On both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, there is a realization that Nancy Pelosi's hold on the speakership is in true jeopardy; that losing control of the Senate is not out of the question; and that time, once the Democrats' best friend, is now their mortal enemy.Since January, when Scott Brown won Ted Kennedy's Massachusetts Senate seat, the President's party has tried to downplay in public what its pollsters have been saying in private: that Obama's alienation of independents and white voters, along with the enthusiasm gap between the right and the left, means that Republicans are on a trajectory to pick up massive numbers of House and Senate seats, perhaps even to regain control of Congress.
More of this bleak report on the Democrats chances to maintain control after the November mid-terms can be found here.
During the past year there is another type of comment spam coming on the scene. The comment itself will often contain a compliment to the blog post. However, it will also contain a link to a commercial website.
Ryanair's vertical seating will cost £4 (about $6).Budget airline Ryanair has said it will introduce ‘standing-room only’ areas on its flights.
The low cost carrier has announced proposals to install new ‘vertical seats’ (pictured) on a range of short haul flights within the next two years.
New federal regulations issued this week stipulate that the electronic health records--that all Americans are supposed to have by 2014 under the terms of the stimulus law that President Barack Obama signed last year--must record not only the traditional measures of height and weight, but also the Body Mass Index: a measure of obesity.
The obesity-rating regulation states that every American's electronic health record must: “Calculate body mass index. Automatically calculate and display body mass index (BMI) based on a patient’s height and weight.”
The law also requires that these electronic health records be available--with appropriate security measures--on a national exchange.
We wonder what U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin (pictured), who is fat, thinks of this obesity rating?
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The Obama administration is bracing for the first in a series of Washington Post articles said to focus in unprecedented detail on the government's spending on intelligence contractors.
The intelligence community is warning that the article could blow the cover of contract companies doing top-secret work for the government. At the same time, a senior administration official acknowledged that the kind of wasteful spending expected to be spotlighted in the series is "troubling" and something the administration is trying to address.
Will others in the media jump to the defense of the Obama administration in an effort to play down the upcoming exposé?
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A woman leaves with her dogs after voting in a travel trailer turned polling station in Cornwall, England last spring.
Health care workers toss pamphlets over the Chilean Congress in protest of massive layoffs hitting the health care industry.
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