Britain's Queen Elizabeth is "well hung," according to Rupert Everett. The openly-gay actor made the comment after looking at a picture of the 83-year-old monarch while at the British embassy in Istanbul.

He said: "I have a feeling someone's watching me. Oh it's Her Majesty in very good shape."

After hitting KFC since 2003 with the way the fast food chain slaughters its chicken, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will include again in its target McDonalds.

The bone of contention is which method is the more humane way to slaughter chicken - using an electric jolt or gassing them? PETA maintains the gas causes less suffering to the fowl.

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station are celebrating the Thanksgiving celebration feasting on freeze-dried green beans and cornbread dressing.

Completing the commemoration is turkey, albeit in more of a deli style.

Victims of the recent California wildfires will still enjoy a Thanksgiving dinner even if their properties have razed to ground. Several groups have organized turkey meals for them including firefighters from the Los Angeles Fire Station and students from the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School.

Most of the beneficiaries of the Thanksgiving meal come from 500 razed homes from the Oakridge Mobile Home Park. Sixty of them will break bread and turkey with firefighters from the LA Fire Station, while 250 will be fed by cooking club members of the John H. Francis Polytechnic High School.

President George W. Bush will pardon his last Thanksgiving turkey at the White House on Wednesday, marking the 61st anniversary of the National Thanksgiving Turkey presentation.

Bush will pardon the turkey and an alternate in a ceremony scheduled for 10:45 am ET at the Rose Garden. This year's turkeys are from Ellsworth, Iowa and and were raised under the direction of National Turkey Federation Chairman Paul Hill.