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Christmas miracle: missing toddler Jason Burton found sleeping on riverbank after one day
Jason Burton, a 21-month-old toddler from Spartanburg County, South Carolina, has been reunited with his family after a day of frantic searching by more...
Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, dies at 69
Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, has died at the age of 69, state-run television has announced. Kim Jong-il, who has led the communist nation...
Chilling 911 call records of Chloe Symington, 13, when two intruders enter her home
13-year-old Chloe Symington from Detroit, Michigan, was home alone when two burglars began ransacking her home, but she remembered what her father always said:...
“Whatever” voted as the most annoying word for the third year in a row
A recent poll of Marist University in New York asserts that the word “whatever” was voted as the most annoying word for the third...
Brooklyn: Delores Gillespie was burned to death by a man in the elevator
Delores Gillespie from Brooklyn, New York, was burned to death by a man who doused her with a flammable liquid and set her alight in...
Philippines: 652 died and 808 are still missing in the flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi
652 people were killed and 808 others missing in the flash floods triggered by typhoon Washi in the southern Philippines, The National Red Cross...
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, dies at 75
Václav Havel, the former Czech president and dissident playwright, who wove theater into politics to peacefully bring down communism in Czechoslovakia and become a...
Love child of Van Morrison with his late lover Gigi Lee died at 13 months
The love child of Irish rock star Van Morrison with his late American lover Gigi Lee has died aged just 13 months. Van Morrison had...
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...
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