A Bentley Continental GT, driven by four-times World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen, smashed the world ice speed record last week, reaching an average speed of 199.86mph (321.65km/h) on frozen sea off the coast of Finland. picked by Studio 3 years ago

A Continental jet veers off the runway on takeoff, slams into ravine, catches fire... but thankfully, no deaths. picked by tigertony 11 months ago

Circumstances unknown; jet expected to land in Newark at noon ET. The safety of the flight is said not to be at risk.

*Developing story*
UpdateThe plane landed safely picked by cb__ 6 months ago

Kvetching passenger writes to customer service. Hand-drawn diagrams included. picked by glik 2 years ago

Continental Airline co-pilot lands plane in McAllen. Madden has it right. Buy a big, luxurious bus and drive everywhere. picked by tomphoolry 3 years ago

Continental Airlines diverted a Twin-Cities-bound plane to Rochester due to a storm, and then locked the entire planeload of passengers in the plane overnight for nine hours. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Further proof mankind wasn't meant to fly. picked by meggysue 7 months ago

Earlier this morning, a commuter aircraft apparently just dropped out of the sky over Buffalo, New York killing 50. It was only miles from the airport.

Among the dead is a 9-11 widow, who was going to celebrate a memorial of her husband's would-be 58th birthday. picked by TheAnt314 10 months ago

While British divers invented underwaterhockey to spend the winter months their continental nemesis - Germany - found diving at winter temperatures equally unpleasant resulting in the invention of underwater rugby. Simply exercising to maintain your physical fitness for only a few months of actual diving a year gets boring eventually, a problem solved creatively by inventing an underwater ball gam... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Twenty-year-old Ashley Parra was driving on Continental Avenue when she was killed after an 18-wheeler fell onto her car as it dove off the Woodall Rogers Freeway ramp that leads to Interstate 35. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

a non existent article in a non-existent learned journal was dangled as bait. The article reported to scientifically proved that "concerns about manmade global warming are unfounded." Rush and several Blogs ate it up, despite obviously gibberish math and such reference works as "Miocene, Pliocene and Plasticine fossil records for eukaryotic mass on the West African continent... read full post picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A French prosecutor has asked judges to bring manslaughter charges against US airline Continental over the crash of an Air France Concorde in 2000. picked by topofall 2 years ago

At the currently named Vince Lombardi or Molly Pitcher rest areas? Or would you rather visit the toilet at the Continental Airlines Service Area? Get yourPhar snack at the Pfizer Pharmceutical Service Area? Proposal to sell naming rights to NJ's rest areas under consideration. picked by suebe 2 years ago

It represented a face-saving compromise between some leaders who wanted to set up a continental African government immediately, and others who favoured a more gradual, step-by-step approach. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

German components group Continental developed the electronics and French battery system manufacturer Johnson Controls-Saft had engineered the lithium-ion cell, he said in Stuttgart, Germany. picked by KingEdwardo 2 years ago

A 2.8ft rabbit who munches his way through £60 worth of food every week is bouncing his way into the record books.

Benny the Flemish Giant is vying for the title of world's longest rabbit, currently held at 2.6ft (81.5cm), by Amy, a Continental Giant who died in May. picked by AutumnLotus 5 months ago

Members from Westboro baptist church attempt to protest a memorial service for a Continental Flight 3407 crash victim. They are surrounded by counterdemonstrators wearing white plastic angel wings, blocking their signs from view.
Small video of the incident is worth a view, it is quite impressive how they just surrounded them and got them to leave without even confronting them. picked by theclansman 9 months ago

A "plastic soup" of waste floating in the Pacific Ocean is growing at an alarming rate and now covers an area twice the size of the continental United States, scientists have said. The vast expanse of debris – in effect the world's largest rubbish dump – is held in place by swirling underwater currents. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

What would it take to jam a planet's tectonics? It seems that a huge rise in atmospheric temperatures would do the trick, causing continents to grind to a halt, mountains to stop growing and earthquakes to cease. On Earth, the motion of magma in the mantle pushes continental plates around on the surface, but if the magma became too hot and runny it would lose the grip needed to do this. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for urinating on a 66-year-old woman during a Continental Airlines flight last month from Los Angeles to Honolulu. picked by muppet 8 months ago