Soldiers Stormed Mexican Drug Gang Training Camp »
A clash between soldiers and gang members in Mexico has left 25 dead, according to reports. The soldiers had stormed a training camp set up by suspected drug gang members near Mexico’s border town of...
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Burger King Sold To 3G Capital For $4 Billion »
Burger King said Thursday that it has agreed to be acquired by investment firm 3G Capital in a deal valued at $4 billion. New York-based 3G Capital will buy the fast food chain for $24...
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Gulf Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana Coast »
An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday, west of the site of the April blast that caused the massive oil spill. A commercial helicopter company reported the blast around 9:30...
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Hurricane Threatens US East Coast »
Tens of thousands of people have been ordered to evacuate islands off the eastern coast of the United States, as Hurricane Earl closes in on a large swath of the Atlantic region. Authorities issued mandatory...
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US Launches Middle East Peace Talks »
The US president has called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders not to let the chance for peace slip away as he opened a US-sponsored summit to re-launch direct talks. Barack Obama promised to put the...
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Golfer Sparks 12 Acre Fire With Shot In The Rough »
A golfer managed to set fire to a course when he accidentally struck a rock with his iron, sending sparks into the Californian rough. His hacking in the rough caused a spark that lit the...
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New York Art Dealer Loses $1.3 Million Painting On Night Out »
A New York art courier entrusted with helping to sell a $1.3 Million painting is being sued after it vanished while he was on a night out. James Carl Haggerty is now being sued by...
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Man Survives After 400ft Jump By Landing On Car »
A man who jumped more than 400ft after leaping off a New York apartment block survived after crashing feet first into a parked car. Thomas Magill, 22, is said to be in a stable condition...
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Mentally Ill Man Sells His Florida Home For $10 »
Relatives of a mentally ill West Boca Raton man are upset. They say their cousin, who suffers from a paranoia disorder, was taken advantage of. They claim he handed over the deed of his house...
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Chile Mine Rescue Drilling Begins »
Preliminary drilling works have begun to carve a tunnel through solid rock to free 33 workers trapped some 700 metres below the surface in a Chilean mine. A giant 31-ton drill bored about 15 metres...
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Owners Of Chilean Mine Beg For Forgiveness »
The owners of the mine where 33 Chilean men are trapped have begged for forgiveness. Appearing before a parliamentary committee to answer questions, Alejandro Bohn, of the San Esteban mining group said: “The pain caused...
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The Box Cutter Gets 433 Years In Prison »
A transient, who was nicknamed “The Box Cutter,” was sentenced to more than 400 years in prison for a knifing rampage against several California women. Charles Juan Proctor was convicted this month of 22 charges...
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Pakistan Military Officers Cancel CentCom Meeting After Humiliation At US Airport »
A Pakistani military delegation became the latest victim of the paranoia permeating US airports on Monday night, when US security officials detained a brigadier at Washington’s Dulles airport on a complaint by a passenger who...
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Death Row Inmate Kills Himself After Judge Spares Him From Execution »
A judge spared a convicted murderer from death row, but the inmate decided to end his life anyway. George Smithey, a 70-year-old convict at San Quentin, hanged himself with a noose made of bed sheets...
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Obama Declares ‘Combat Mission In Iraq Has Ended’ »
President Obama declared that “the American combat mission in Iraq has ended” in his prime-time address Tuesday. “Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their...
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Bin Laden Aide Gets Life For Attacking Prison Guard Louis Pepe »
A former Osama bin Laden aide who stabbed a federal prison guard in the eye was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison after telling the court he’s not a terrorist and hearing his victim tell...
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California Doctor Dies Stuck In Chimney, VIDEO »
A doctor involved in an “on-again, off-again” relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend’s Bakersfield, Calif., home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three...
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Texas Man Slits Throat After Judge Says ’40 Years’ »
A suburban Dallas man used a thin blade from a safety razor to slit his throat in an apparent suicide attempt Tuesday in the courtroom where a judge had just sentenced him to 40 years...
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Qantas Flight Returns To SF With Engine On Fire »
Federal investigators are at San Francisco International Airport trying to figure out what caused a blown engine that lead to an emergency landing at SFO Tuesday morning. Hundreds of passengers were on their way to...
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Peter McFarland Tased By Deputies In His Home, VIDEO »
A Marin County man has filed suit against the Marin County Sheriff’s Department for an incident in which he says law enforcement officers went too far. Peter McFarland was Tased inside his own home as...
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Battling Salmonella Squeezes Egg Farmers »
A strict quality assurance program has virtually wiped out salmonella in California henhouses, but it makes locally produced eggs more expensive. Amid a rolling landscape of browning chaparral and battered trailers, Alan and Ryan Armstrong’s...
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Los Angeles County Hides Death Of 60 Children »
About 60 child deaths tied in confidential court filings to abuse or neglect by Los Angeles County child protective services workers are under review because they were not disclosed publicly in potential violation of state...
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Nation’s First Medical Marijuana Television Commercial »
Sacramento’s FOX affiliate KTXL “FOX40″ is known for delivering many firsts to the Sacramento area. The station was first with a satellite news truck, first on social media websites Twitter and Facebook, and first with...
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ACLU, CCR Sue Obama To Block ‘Targeted Killings’ »
Two civil liberties groups sued the federal government on Monday to try to block its targeted killing overseas of a U.S.-born cleric believed to have inspired recent attacks in the United States. The American Civil...
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Nyjah Huston Wins $150,000 Skateboarding »
Nyjah Huston pocketed the biggest payday in skateboarding, $150,000, Saturday in Glendale, Arizona the inaugural Street League skateboarding contest, The DC Pro, at the Jobing.com arena. He edged out new sensation, Shane O’Neal, and Torey...
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Mexico Says Drug Lord ‘The Barbie’ Captured »
Federal police on Monday captured a Texas-born alleged drug kingpin who faces trafficking charges in the U.S. and has been blamed for a vicious turf war that has included bodies hung from bridges and shootouts...
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Suspect In Killing Of Utah Sheriff’s Deputy Captured »
The suspect in the shooting death of a Utah sheriff’s deputy was captured early Monday near the Utah-Arizona border after a resident reported an armed prowler, authorities said. Law officers arrested Scott Curley, 23, shortly...
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Native Women ‘Disappear’ In Canada »
As human rights activists around the world marked the International Day of the Disappeared by focusing on Peru, Iraq, Nepal and Mexico, Leslie Spillett sat in her office in Winnipeg, contemplating the fate of more...
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Goat Attack Victim Dies From Injuries »
Officials say an 88-year-old Colbert, Georgia man died a week after a goat attacked him outside his home. Madison County Coroner Michelle Cleveland said Monday that Vestal Davis died Saturday at Athens Regional Medical Center....
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Convicted Anti-Freeze Killer Lynn Turner Dies in Prison »
Lynn Turner, who was convicted in 2007 of killing her husband and boyfriend with antifreeze, has died in prison. Officials said Turner, 42, died in Metro State Prison in Atlanta, Georgia on Monday. A release...
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Apple Tops The IBM Security List With The Most Vulnerabilities »
In an IBM security report Apple, for the second year in a row, topped the list of vendors with the most reported security vulnerabilities, and Linux took the top spot for the operating system with...
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Cuba’s Fidel Castro Gives New Details Of Illness »
Fidel Castro has given new details of just how sick he was when he was forced to give up power four years ago, saying in a rare interview that he was weak, dangerously thin and...
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Mexico Fires Over 3,000 Federal Police Since May »
About 3,200 Mexican federal police have been fired since May for failing to do their work or being linked to corruption, Federal Police Commissioner Facundo Rosas said Monday. Of those, 465 have been charged with...
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Mexican Drug Gangs Kill Mayor In Tamaulipas »
Drug traffickers accused of killing a mayor in Tamaulipas, the second such incident in the state in two weeks. Suspected drug traffickers have killed the mayor of a small town in northern Mexico, in a...
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At Least 42 Killed In Bus Accident In Ecuador »
At least 42 people were killed and 12 received serious injuries in a bus accident in central Ecuador, the TeleSUR TV channel reported on Monday citing the local Red Cross branch (CRE). Six children are...
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Hoonah Police Shooting: 2 Officers Fatally Shot In Alaska Village »
A standoff was under way Sunday in a tiny southeast Alaska village after a man fatally shot two of the village’s four full-time police officers the night before, then barricaded himself in his home, local...
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Canada Aids Cruise Ship Stuck In The Arctic Ocean »
The Canadian coast guard began ferrying passengers on Sunday from a cruise ship that ran aground an unmapped rock. Officials aboard the Clipper Adventurer reported their troubles on Friday. The crew failed to dislodge the...
August 29 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »
‘Modern Family’ Scores Upset Win With Best Comedy Emmy »
“Modern Family” won the Emmy for outstanding comedy series at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards on Sunday. The show beat out the heavily favored “Glee” for top comedy honors, and wound up winning six Emmys...
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‘Daily Show’ Wins 8th Consecutive Emmy Award, VIDEO »
Jon Stewart’s “The Daily Show” has won its eighth consecutive Emmy Award for best variety, music or comedy series. Sunday’s victory kept Conan O’Brien from claiming an Emmy for his short-lived stint as “Tonight” host...
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Arizona Father Puts Infant Son In Freezer While High On Meth »
A Chandler, Arizona father has been charged with child abuse after police say he put his infant son in a freezer. According to Detective Frank Mendoza, Chance Kracke told police that he was high on...
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Japanese Billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto Sells Oahu Properties »
Japanese billionaire Genshiro Kawamoto aims to cash out roughly half his collection of million-dollar homes and land on Kahala Avenue. And the real estate tycoon is looking to make a considerable profit — about $46...
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Pearl Harbor Satellite Communications Center Passes Final Inspection »
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command Hawaii said it completed final building inspections for a $25.4 million satellite communications center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam’s Wahiawa Annex. The Army’s 53rd Signal Battalion will use the new...
August 29 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »95 Snakes Found In Burst Bag At Malaysia Airport »
A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to wildlife smuggling after his bag bursting with 95 live boa constrictors broke open on a luggage conveyer belt...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Blast Targeting Quetta Rally Kills 43, Injures Over 100 »
Forty-three people were killed and more than 100 were injured in a bomb attack targeting a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta on Friday. The bomb...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Russia Irate Over Lukashenko’s ‘Moscow Thugs’ Comments »
President Alexander Lukashenko’s remarks suggesting Russia could have been behind an attack on its own embassy in Minsk are “obscene”, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Chinese Food Contains Cancer Causing Chemicals »
Confidence in China’s food safety standards has taken another battering after it emerged that authorities in central China covered up the discovery of cancer-causing...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Toshiba Recalls 41,000 Computers Over Risk Of Burns »
Toshiba has announced the voluntary recall of about 41,000 notebook computers worldwide at risk of overheating and burning users. The recalled models are the...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Japan Imposes New Iran Sanctions Over Nuclear Program »
Japan has imposed new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear programme. The measures – which go beyond than those imposed by the UN Security...
Sep 3 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Forced Labor Of 400 Thai Workers, Largest Human-Trafficking Case In U.S. History »
Six recruiters were accused of luring 400 laborers from Thailand to the United States and forcing them to work, according to a federal indictment...
Sep 2 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Russian Proton-M Carrier Rocket Blasts Off From Baikonur »
A Russian Proton-M carrier rocket with three GLONASS satellites blasted off early on Thursday morning from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan. The rocket...
Sep 2 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Pakistan’s Wealthy Landowners Accused Of Diverting Floods To Villages »
Wealthy landowners in Pakistan have allegedly diverted waters from the country’s devastating floods away from their own properties and into villages, the country’s UN...
Sep 2 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »US Charges Pakistani Taliban Leader In CIA Killings »
US prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, for the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base...
Sep 2 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Big Eats From A 12,000-Year-Old Burial »
Nacho-fueled Super Bowl bashes and multi-course wedding banquets may hark back to a time when preagricultural people devoured wild animal meat at their comrades’...
Sep 2 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Feud Over Family Ties In Evolution »
Prominent scientists dispute kinship’s role in self-sacrifice among highly social creatures. A furor has broken out among biologists over ant specialist E.O. Wilson’s latest...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Stephen Hawking: God Was Not Needed To Create The Universe »
The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe,...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Ferrari Recalls 458 Italia Cars After Spate Of Fires »
Ferrari has recalled all its 458 Italia models following reports of the car catching fire. Five of the cars have burst into flames since...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »‘Triple Threat’ Looms Over Pakistan »
The World Food Programme has warned that flood-ravaged Pakistan faces a “triple threat” after the worst disaster in the country’s history left eight million...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Asylum Seekers Protest In Australia »
Dozens of Afghan asylum seekers have broken out of a detention centre in northern Australia and held a sit-in near a major highway to protest...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Activists Halt Arctic Oil Drilling »
Four Greenpeace activists have scaled an oil rig off the coast of Greenland, forcing a British energy company to shut down its drilling operation...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Crisis Spurs Afghan Bank ‘Takeover’ »
Afghanistan’s central bank has taken control over the country’s most powerful and politically connected private bank, Afghan bankers and officials say, as fears of...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Shigeru Kondo Calculates Pi To 5 Trillion Digits On Homemade Computer »
A Japanese man has broken the world record for calculating the value of Pi, reaching 5 trillion digits on a computer that he built...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Top Russian Spy’s Body Washes Up ‘After Swimming Accident’ »
The body of one of Russia’s top spies has washed up on the Turkish coast after he disappeared close to a sensitive Russian naval...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Rape Charges Reissued Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange »
A senior Swedish prosecutor is reopening a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – the latest twist to a case in which prosecutors...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »American Medical Workers Attacked In Congo »
An American medical agency said gunmen fired on a private plane carrying international aid workers in eastern Congo who were forced to seek refuge...
Sep 1 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Somali Bomb Blast Kills 14 In Mogadishu »
Two violent incidents in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, have led to the deaths of at least 14 people. Eight people were killed and 14 others wounded...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Pakistan Air Strikes Kill 45 In Tirah Valley »
A Pakistani air strike targetting fighters believed to have been preparing for imminent suicide attacks has killed between 40 to 45 people in a northwestern the country. “Security...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Arrests At Anti-Kremlin Protests In Moscow »
Russian police have arrested more than 100 people, including Boris Nemtsov, a former deputy prime minister, who were taking part in anti-Kremlin protests in Moscow and...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »4 Israelis Killed In West Bank; Hamas Claims Responsibility »
Palestinian gunmen opened fire Tuesday on an Israeli car in the West Bank and killed four passengers on the eve of a new round...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Sakineh Subjected To Mock Execution »
Her son Sajad says she was told she would be hanged at dawn on Sunday and visits by her family and lawyer have been...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Bomb Attack On Russian Embassy At Minsk »
The Russian Embassy in Minsk was the target of a violent attack late on Monday night, when unknown assailants hurled fire bombs at the...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Russian Mini-Subs Find Possible Tsarist Gold In Lake Baikal »
The Russian Mir-2 mini-sub has found several shiny metal objects on the bottom of Lake Baikal that could be the legendary Tsarist gold lost...
Aug 31 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Government Pension Fund Suffers Loss Of ¥3.59 Trillion »
The Government Pension Investment Fund, which manages the reserves for the National Pension and Employees’ Pension Insurance, said Monday it incurred an investment loss...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Former Playboy Boss Misses Date With Indonesian Jail Cell »
The former editor in chief of “Playboy Indonesia” missed a deadline to begin serving a two-year jail term for indecency, vowing to fight his...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Sri Lanka Says Saudi’s Arrested Maid Torturers »
A Saudi employer and his wife, who are accused of torturing a Sri Lankan housemaid by hammering nails into her body, have been arrested...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Somali Presidential Palace Shelled »
Four African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, after al-Shabab fighters fired a mortar at the presidential palace. “A mortar...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »India Lifts Blackberry Ban Threat »
India’s government says it has withdrawn its threat to ban Blackberry services for at least two months after the smartphone’s maker agreed under pressure to give...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Two Men On United Flight From Chicago Arrested For ‘Preparation Of A Terrorist Attack’ In Amsterdam »
Two men taken off a Chicago-to-Amsterdam United Airlines flight in the Netherlands have been charged by Dutch police with “preparation of a terrorist attack,”...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »No Change In Israeli Stance On Colony Freeze »
“We have not presented any proposal to the Americans on an extension of the freeze … the government has not taken any decision on...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Graduating Members Of The Central Industrial Security Force »
Graduating members of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) celebrate during the passing out parade of some 413 Sub-Inspector trainees at the National Industrial...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Wear A Hijab With Style, VIDEO »
Dubai-based fashion designer Rabia Z. unveils this season’s top hijab looks. Follow the easy steps and before you know it, yours will be the...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Muslim States Vow $1 Billion Pakistan Aid »
Muslim countries and organisations have pledged nearly $1 Billion in cash and supplies to relief efforts for flood victims in Pakistan, the head of...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »At Least 15 Die, 25 Injured In Bus Crash In West Bengal »
At least 15 people died and 25 were injured on Sunday when a bus plunged into a ditch in the Coochbehar district of West...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Putin Slams West For Deceiving Russia »
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has accused western countries of using unfair political methods including deceit and breaking promises to obstruct the process of...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Retirement Home Fire Kills Nine In Russia’s Tver Region »
Nine people suffocated to death during fire at a retirement home in Central Russia’s Tver Region on Monday, a spokeswoman for the regional emergencies...
Aug 30 2010 / Comments Off / Read More »Ivabradine Reduces Heart Attacks By 26 Percent »
A pill costing little more than $1.50 a day could save the lives of thousands suffering from a common heart condition. British doctors are...
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