U.S. News
Camilla Williams, the first black opera singer in leading roles in US, died at 92
Opera singer Camilla Williams, the first black woman to appear in a leading role with a major US opera company, has died in Indiana...
Dalisha Adams arrested after abandoned her two daughters aged 3 and 5 on the street with only a few extra dipers
Dalisha Adams, a young mother from Brooklyn, has been arrested after she abandoned her two daughters aged just 3 and 5 on the street...
US controversy over Gilead’s plans to market Truvada as a HIV prevention pill
A large debate has sparked among public health advocates in US after the pharmaceutical company Gilead has applied to the FDA to market its...
Florida: huge pythons and other large snakes are wiping out the mammal population
An increasing population of huge pythons, many of them pets that were turned loose by their owners when they got too big, appears to...
White House denies claims Michelle Obama closed off Agent Provocateur to spend $50,000 on lingerie
The White House issued an angry denial following claims that First Lady Michelle Obama indulged in a $50,000 shopping spree at Agent Provocateur's boutique...
The story of Jason Elia, who claimed his girlfriend dumped him for having cancer, but the girl says he made it all up
Jason Elia, a young man from Nashville, claimed his girlfriend dumped him for having cancer and then still insisted he hand over Superbowl tickets...
Scotty Bowers, former rent boy, reveals threesome with Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson and other A-list Hollywood stars
Scotty Bowers, a former Marine turned rent boy for some of Hollywood's biggest names in the 1940s, claims to have had threesomes with the...
Snowboarder Alecsander Barton killed after triggering fatal avalanche in Utah Backcountry
Snowboarder Alecsander Barton from Michigan has been killed after triggering an avalanche in Utah Backcountry which officials had warned the public against using after...
2012 Breckenridge International Snow Sculpture Championships came to the end this morning
2012 International Snow Sculpture Competition, which is held in Breckenridge, Colorado, each year, came to a close this morning. Fifteen teams of five sculptors each...
First welcome-home parade of Iraq War Vets held in St. Louis
Crowds of nearly 100,000 in St. Louis honored Iraq war veterans in the first big welcome-home parade since the last troops were withdrawn from...
Occupy Oakland: around 300 protesters arrested after clashes with police
Police arrested around 300 Occupy protesters in Oakland after trying to enter the City Hall and a convention centre. Police fired tear gas and smoke grenades...
Hulking freighter carrying space rocket parts rammed steel bridge in Kentucky
Astonishing pictures of a hulking freighter wearing mangled pieces of a steel bridge on its bow after a collision in southwestern Kentucky Thursday night...
Argus One, the “Flying Sperm” spy plane from Pentagon
Argus One is the Pentagon's newest unmanned spy plane, which cheeky observers are already calling it the “Flying Sperm”. The Argus One has the capacity...
The world’s largest cut emerald is set to go up for auction at $1.15 million
Teodora, the world's largest cut emerald, which is the size of a watermelon, is set to go up for auction and is expected to...
Megaupload seized by FBI: Joint complaint of those affected by the closure of Megaupload service
The FBI has caused incalculable damage, far in excess of the losses claimed by the content lobbies, in a fruitless attempt to prevent access...
Jamie Oliver forced McDonald’s to remove ammonium hydroxide from its burger
McDonald's have altered its burger’s ingredients after chef Jamie Oliver forced them to remove a processed food type that he labelled “pink slime”. Chef Jamie...
Morgellons disease: no infectious cause was found
There is no scientific evidence that Morgellons disease is an infectious illness, a study published this week in the journal PLoS One has shown. The...
Bag of cocaine found at the UN headquarters in New York
New York Police announced that a bag containing 16 kg (35.5lb) of cocaine was found at the United Nations headquarters in the city last...
One World Trade Center towers the skyscrapers with 90 storeys and 20 more to be completed
New pictures of The One World Trade Center show its frame stands at 90 storeys high, with 20 more yet to be completed. The One...
FBI plans an app to combine information from Twitter, Facebook and Google Maps
Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to develop an early-warning system based on material "scraped" from social networks. FBI says the application should provide information...
LA adult filmmakers slapped by condom law
Actors in adult movies in Los Angeles will be required to use condoms while filming, under a new law signed by the city mayor. The...
Jay Leno sued over Golden Temple of Amritsar jibe
Jay Leno has been sued for what it calls "racist" comments on the Sikh shrine, the Golden Temple of Amritsar. Indian-American Randeep Dhillon says Jay...
Somalia: hostages Jessica Buchanan and Poul Thisted freed in US Navy Seals raid
Two foreign aid workers, American Jessica Buchanan and Danish Poul Thisted, kidnapped in Somalia three months ago, have been freed in a rare US...
LA Police shot dead man in hail of bullets in the parking lot of Carl’s Jr. restaurant
LAPD gunned down a man who was preparing to swing a metal pipe at them in the parking lot of a Carl's Jr. fast...
Cold smoked salmon product destroyed after Listeria had been detected
Mill Stream Corp. of Hancock, Maine, has destroyed its cold smoked salmon products after Listeria monocytogenes had been found in the manufacturing facility and...
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