According to an Israeli-born psychic Uri Geller, the December 2003 capture of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was not simply a matter of luck or the work of sophisticated intelligence gathering. Rather, members of a US paranormal program used psychic powers to locate the tiny hole containing the bearded and bedraggled dictator. Geller claims to have worked for the Central Intelligence Agency during the Cold War. He said on Monday that his knowledge of the psychic discovery of Saddam is gathered from a high-level source in the secret US paranormal program.

Online users are taking a stab at President George W. Bush with pranks. One elaborate antic links the search term "miserable failure" to the official White House biography of the 43rd U. S. president.

A campaign in Alabama is calling on voters to elect "more of these boobs" and less of "boobs" like Republican incumbent Bob Riley and Democratic Lt. Gov. Lucy Baxley. Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate for governor of Alabama, says the campaign slogan "started out as a joke, but it blew up into something huge. "

U. S. President George Bush will observe the 50th anniversary of the Hungarian Revolution, and will mark the day with an official proclamation. According to the White House the President says, "we celebrate the Hungarians who defied an empire to demand their liberty; we recognize the friendship between the United States and Hungary; and we reaffirm our shared desire to spread freedom to people around the world. "

A British court sentences a blind man to a three-month suspended sentence after he confessed to driving a car. Warley magistrates court also barred Omed Aziz, 31, from driving for three years.