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Russia: 4 people died and 50 are missing after Kolskaya oil rig sank in the Sea of Okhotsk
At least four people are dead and about 50 are missing after a Russian oil drilling rig sank in freezing seas in the Sea...
The Barefoot Diva, Cesaria Evora, dies at 70 in her home town
Barefoot singer Cesaria Evora died Saturday in a hospital in Cape Verde, said Minister of Culture of Cape Verde, Mario Lucio Sousa. Cesaria Evora, the...
FFRF protesters are rallying against nativity display put up in front of the Henderson’s Courthouse
Protesters from across US will be rallying against a nativity display put up in front of the Henderson's Courthouse in Texas today in the...
Mississippi Mayor Greg Davis spent city money at a gay lifestyle and sex shop
Mississippi Mayor Greg Davis, a Republican of Southaven, spent over $170,000 of city money on personal expenses including purchases at a gay lifestyle and...
Tribe Mediterranean worker died after his arm became caught in a grinder at the hummus factory
Daniel Callazo, a worker at hummus manufacturer Tribe Mediterranean in Massachusetts, died Friday after his arm became caught in a grinder. Police were called in...
Rafiqul Islam, a jealous Muslim husband, chopped off his wife’s fingers as she began to study
Rafiqul Islam, a jealous husband is facing life in prison after chopping off his wife's fingers because she began studying for a degree without...
Sara McMeen murdered her three children and boyfriend in front of neighbors before she killed herself
Sara McMeen, a mother-of-three from the small farm town of Emington, Illinois, who murdered her children and her boyfriend Daniel Warren, killed herself in...
Train hopping couple, who hitched a ride across America on freight trains, buried alive under a mound of coal
Christopher Artes and Medeana Hendershot, a couple who romanticized trains and lived a modern-day adventure by riding railroad cars across the U.S., were killed...
Philippines: more than 430 people killed in flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi
More than 430 people have been killed and many more missing in recent flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines, officials say. Many...
Neti pot usage has been linked to deadly brain-eating amoeba infection
Neti pot, a sinus-flushing device used to relieve colds and allergies, has been linked to deadly brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri. Louisiana's state health department issued...
Phobos-Ground probe will plummet to Earth days after New Year
Phobos-Ground, the $170 million Russian probe, is now heading back to Earth and will crash between January 6 and January 19, but it’s not...
Life is possible on Mars. New evidence from Oregon State University research team.
Scientists from Oregon State University have collected microbes from an icy “lava tube” in mountains in Oregon - similarly hostile to the Red Planet's...
Jonathan Jewth, a 9-year-old student, died after chocking on a meatball in his school lunch
Jonathan Jewth, a 9-year-old boy from Bronx, New York, died after choking on a meatball in his school lunch as staff members were unable...
Vanessa and Kobe Bryant divorce after 10 years of marriage
Kobe Bryant’s wife has filed for divorce from LA Lakers star yesterday citing “irreconcilable differences”. Vanessa Bryant, 29 , who stuck by Kobe, 33, after...
London: dancing Tube man shoved off train by a fellow passenger
A London Tube train passenger was happily dancing and minding his own business when he was violently shoved in the back by a fellow...
Two children shot themselves at home in separate incidents in Las Vegas
Kameron Asgari, a 10-year-old boy, died, and a 13-year-old girl is in critical condition after they shot themselves at home in separate incidents in...
Utah: Officer Kevin Peck crawls beneath bus to hold hands with young mother dragged along road
Aryann Smith, a young mother from Utah, was hit by a commuter bus, which knocked her to the ground and pinning her between it...
Japan: Fukushima nuclear site has been stabilized
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced that crippled nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima power plant have finally been stabilized. The earthquake and tsunami in March...
Jyoti Amge, the world’s smallest woman, ready to launch her Bollywood movie career
Jyoti Amge, a 2 ft (61.95 cm) teenager, a celebrity in her hometown of Nagpur, India, is now set for Guinness Book Record, when...
Radioactive material seized at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo international airport
Russia's Federal Customs Service found radioactive material in the luggage of a passenger bound for Iran - at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport. Federal Customs Service...
“Kiss someone special” prank at Rosemount High School pep fest
Students at Rosemount High School in Minnesota were told to expect a kiss from a “special someone” while they were blindfolded, but when the...
Writer Christopher Hitchens dies at 62, after a long battle with cancer
Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...
One World Trade Center: the tallest building in Manhattan reached its 90th floor
When will be completed, One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of incredible poignancy for New York City. One...
Scamp, a terrier-Shih Tzu puppy hit by a car and believed dead, came back to life overnight
Scamp, an eight-month-old terrier-Shih Tzu puppy, had been hit by a car and he was apparently so badly injured that he had died on...
Flag ceremony in Baghdad brings US operations in Iraq to a formal end
The American flag has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operations in Iraq to a formal end. Leon Panetta, the...
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