Here's a little tale of motherly love gone awry. When a baggage handler who worked at JFK was busted for running a drug-trafficking ring, his mother flew to Africa to hire a shaman to put a voodoo curse on the prosecutor's handling the case. Kind of sweet, isn't it? But now they're both in some legal hot water that even a mystical hex can't fix. more ›

Coming To America, the original Eddie Murphy-plays-multiple-characters film, is one of our favorite movies ever—so when we saw this NY Times story about a taxi fleet owner who just happens to be an African Chief, we had to scream "Good morning, my neighbors!" out our office window immediately. “Here we are very busy — but at least I don’t have my people around me here, because I am more free,” said Isaac Osei, also known as Nana Gyensare V, a chief of the Akwamu people, who oversees the residents of five towns across the Eastern Region. more ›

Once source recently explained how Ginny Barber could not have known about her husband's indiscretions: "All of this came out of the blue for Ginny. People may say, 'How could she not know?' But she really didn't. Tiki is a guy who travels a lot." And apparently he saw it fit to take his intern with him when he did! Traci Lynn Johnson, the former NBC intern who had an affair with Tiki Barber, allegedly posted photos of her and Barber on a trip to Africa recently, which happened while Ginny remained home, pregnant. Johnson even bragged about her relationship on the networking site; one person with access to her page told the Post, "She wrote 'I went to Africa, and didn't even see a giraffe,' or something very cutesy." more ›

Edward Norton may run 15 miles twice a day, but does that mean he'll be able to keep up with the three Maasai warriors who will be running alongside him next month at the New York Marathon? more ›

You wouldn't know it from the Daily News home page, which emphasizes such breaking news as "Scantily-clad Stars Hit the Sand" and "Kate Hudson's Set A-Rod on Fire," but today's top story, splashed across the cover of the print edition, is "Hillary Clinton Rages at Student: I'm the Boss, Not Bill." The incident happened in Congo yesterday when a university student asked what her husband thought about a multibillion-dollar Chinese loan offer to Congo. Watch the Secretary of State lash out as the audience groans like they're at a taping of Maury: more ›

The Defense Department said that Captain Richard Phillips, the Alabama Maersk container ship captain who was taken hostage by pirates, had tried to escape by jumping into the water but his captors followed and retrieved him. It's believed Phillips was trying to swim to the U.S.S. Bainbridge, a naval destroyer that's been in contact with the pirates. more ›

As reports come in about Zimbabwean voters being threatened "into voting for Robert Mugabe's" party today, the NY Times' Clyde Haberman remembers when the controversial leader was welcomed at City Hall back in 2002. City Councilman Charles Barron, who hosted Mugabe, doesn't regret the invite and tells Haberman, "Does he do things that I disagree with? Yes," but then adds, "You didn’t care about black Africans when whites were killing them in Rhodesia." [Here's the Human Rights on Zimbabwe.] more ›