Billy Robbins, 19, who at his heaviest weighed over 700lbs, had the radical procedure in a desperate attempt to reduce his weight and save his heart from giving out.

He ballooned as a child because his mother Barbara could not stop feeding him enormous amounts of junk food.

Bloodthirsty blokes react to the economic downturn by eating squirrels.

The Bush presidency has aged everyone including Stephen Colbert.

Fail Blog www.failblog.org invites people to post images and videos of mishaps, accidents and strange situations that - completely randomly - have the word FAIL plastered across them. Users then comment on the contributions and vote for their favourites.

Sarah Palin addresses sexism, media malpractice and classism in a new conservative documentary.

President Bush is suddenly doing press as though January 20th is the day his album drops.

Terrifyingly close, lightning bolts strike the ground and are caught on camera.

A team of British Adventurers are about to begin a journey from London to Timbuktu in the world's first road legal bio-fuelled flying car.

The historic swings in oil prices last year were the result of financial speculation from Wall Street and not supply and demand. Steve Kroft investigates.

48 hours profile on 2 horific murders.

Two missing women, two investigations - do they have one common link?

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Remember the Oklahoma city bomber - Timothy McViegh?

Years later and officials have now released the police car camera video of his arrest

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The Royal Family - Racists.

Say it ain't so - but it is.

Get a load of Harry..

So - can't afford to drive the SUV because of high gas prices.

The Hummer no longer Humming - why?

Great piece on the men behind Oil ..

Part 2 Lesley Stahl takes an inside look into the world of Saudi Aramco, the world leader in crude oil production and the country's sole source of wealth and power.

New developments emerge in the twisted case of a computer scientist and the death of his Russian bride. 48 Hours correspondent Maureen Maher reports.

You can hear Rod Blagojevich's entire conversation with God on the FBI wiretap.

The New York Times drops to its knees in a back alley for 20 bucks like the rest of us.

Roland Burris shows up for work only to have he and his umbrella handlers told there will be no Senate for them.

This is funny - Jon Stewart on all the presidents and what ties they wear.

Amazing video production from Australia on the dangers of Skin Cancer.

really well produced - watch it

NOW...

Not everyone can live up to the standards that have been set by the world's most deliberative body.

Police officials in California have released the recordings of phone calls between 911 dispatchers and victims of the shocking Santa killing spree on Christmas Eve. Priya David reports.

A brawl broke out at Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wis. Surveillance video shows a group of young people fighting in the middle of a store. Three people were arrested.

This makes me cringe just thinking about it.

But an Australian woman when she lit her husbands Balls on fire

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This is really Bizarre.

A 9 year old boy - his head severed from his spine in a car accident - SURVIVES - and is walking again..

The tributes are already pouring in for George W Bush as he heads for exit of the US Presidency.

Oh yes this may well go down as the most propserous and peaceful time in US history.

At a news conference today in Iraq, grateful onlookers through shoes at George W - as is their custom of showing respect.

As he tossed the shoe - The happy Iraqi man "Abdul Yecklisis Van Soulduffer" yelled.

may you walk many happy miles in my shoes oh Great George.

Video here

The Honeymoon is over and the goves are off.

The US president elect is now being spoofed.

Rob Riggle and his uniquely physical interviewing style won't soon be forgotten.

Don Rickles gloats over beating Jon at the Emmys.

In August 2005, Renee Ohlemacher says she awoke to the screams of her mother. Both her parents had been shot and murdered inside the family's home. Following the murders, police initially focused their investigation on Renee, and even her own relatives cast a suspicious eye on her.

But several months later, the focus shifted to a mortgage broker. Could his drive to close deals and the pressures of the job lead him to commit a double murder? Or is the family right - is Renee really behind the murders?

This is one of the best animations - taking scenes from an old classic.

Watch as Sarah palin guns down this Icon of Christmas.

Romania's race for the Senate became heated during a debate between former bodybuilder turned politician Marius Marinescu and his female rival, Anca Constantinescu.

Ever been told to get a life?  As far as Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is concerned, not having a life is a great compliment.  So complimentary is it that if you don’t have one you’re qualified to join Barack Obama’s cabinet!

Before the Obama-Clinton team gets to fixing the world, they have to address his criticism of her foreign policy experience in the primaries.

From the Daily Show - Rob Riggle proves that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton had nothing but praise for each other during the primaries.

Hmm - straps, sex swings and adult chair.

They call it a hotel, but in China some are wondering if it's a brothel?

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KWTV captures an exclusive aerial view of a high speed car chase and subsequent arrest by police officials of two suspects in Oklahama City.

A patrolman with the Bronson Police Dept. in Michigan got a sudden surprise when he hit a deer who ran in front of his car.

Oh this is great - seems you can buy this thing called the Whizzinator. (See Picture).

Why? simple use it cheat drug tests.

Huge site in Russia - apperently had some clever flash animator hack onto it's home page.

Was it an inside job, whatever - it's funny.

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A 22-year-old woman sought medical care for a lesion in the plantar region of her left foot, a well-formed nipple surrounded by areola and hair.

The news of an unusual alien-like baby born in China has received an intensive coverage in the media recently.

Details of the sordid life of Germany’s fake doctor, sentenced last week to three years in jail, reveal Christian E. wanted sex in the clinic with a prostitute.

Oh Boy - Pravda again, with photo proof that someone in Russia has been F%$#ing the Dog.

I mean is this real - if it's in Pravda it has to be

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This has got to be true - cause Russias Pravda newspaper says so

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From the pages of Russias Pravda comes a strange story of a Dentist, who loved to drug his patients - then rape them

And he is a swell looking guy too

A large meteor streaked across western Canadian skies on Thursday, causing many awe-struck Alberta residents to call the police.

Foreigners who marry Americans are entitled to become permanent residents of the U.S., but in a stricter post-9/11 world, hundreds of widows are being asked to leave the country because their husbands died.

Scott Pelley investigates the boldest assault ever on a facility containing weapons-grade uranium, a still-unsolved crime that could have had calamitous consequences.

From January 2009, 50 two-seater, all-electric Mini E cars will be whizzing around the streets of Berlin.