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To pick just the 50 best, we spent weeks whittling down a massive list of our favorite pain-inflicting instruments of all time—from magic swords to laser guns to pointy balls. To make this list, however, there were a few rules: The weapon must be wieldable (that means the Death Star didn’t make the cut) and it can’t be something you can just run out and buy. So blades out, everyone—here are the greatest weapons of all time, as well as how to get your hands on a replica if one exists!

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I thought the light-saber would end up being #1, but I was wrong.

Wrapped up in their tiny blankets, the bundles of woe pictured below are surviving on the milk of human kindness.

The orphaned baby fruit bats are being raised at a rescue centre after a plague of poisonous ticks swept through their colony.

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CHICAGO, Nov. 25 (UPI) — Volunteers are bolting down the baby Jesus in the nativity scene in Chicago’s Daley Plaza, to keep it from being stolen.

In 1999, a would-be Grinch stole the life-size baby figure and stashed it in a Union Station locker, where it was later found after an anonymous tip, The Chicago Tribune reported Sunday. A 19-year-old art student was the next one to try to make off with the baby Jesus, but he was caught a few blocks away.

So this year, the figure is secured by cable wrapped around its waist and bolted to the manger floor, the newspaper said.

The holy infant representation in Daley Plaza is not the only one to be targeted for pilfering, the Tribune reported. Such incidents are increasingly common.

Last year, for example, 32 baby Jesus figures stolen from Chicagoans’ yards turned up on one woman’s front lawn.

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At first I thought this was a joke, but no . . .

Talk about an inconvenient truth. Al Gore finally won his place in the Oval Office on Monday — right next to George W. Bush. Forever linked by the closest and craziest presidential race in history, the two men were reunited by, of all things, White House tradition.

Gore was among the 2007 Nobel Prize winners who were invited in for a photo and some chatter with the president; Gore got the recognition for his work on global warming.

The two men stood next to other, sharing uncomfortable grins for photographers and reporters, who were quickly ushered in and out.

“Familiar faces,” the former vice president said of the media. Bush, still smiling, added nothing.

The two also had a 40-minute meeting in the Oval Office, part of Bush’s effort to show some outreach to his longtime rival.

Bush aides said it was private and would not comment on it.

Gore, trailed by the press as he left the White House very publicly on foot, allowed that he and Bush spent the whole time talking about global warming.

“He was very gracious in setting up the meeting and it was a very good and substantive conversation,” Gore said. “And that’s all I want to say about it.”

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