By Rachel Hatzipanagos and Sofia Santana As a Parkland girl was hoisted up a Wisconsin theme park’s free-fall tower, the net designed to catch her lay useless on the ground, authorities said. A ride […]
Six teenagers trying to cool off in the hot, humid summer of the Deep South drowned in a swimming accident on a river in Louisiana. The youths, ages 13 to 18 and all from […]
New Zealand Prime Minister John Key vowed Wednesday that his country’s first combat death in Afghanistan would not affect its military commitment to the region. “I don’t think we should cut and run from […]
The death toll from an outbreak of cholera reached 23 in the mid-western districts of Nepal, local media reported Wednesday. Officials said it had reached epidemic proportions in Nepalganj, 300 kilometres south-west of Kathmandu, […]
Washington (dpa) – The United States was “extremely concerned” about the clash Tuesday between the Israeli and Lebanese militaries and urged both sides to exercise restraint along the border. Israeli and Lebanese troops exchanged fire […]
By Jeannine Stein Los Angeles Times The fascination with low-carb versus low-fat diet continues; the latest news comes from a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine released Monday that found that people on both […]
By Frank Michael Russell San Jose Mercury News SAN JOSE, Calif. – BlackBerry maker Research In Motion – aiming to stay ahead of manufacturers of rival devices such as Apple’s iPhone – on Tuesday unveiled […]
The Hartford Courant MANCHESTER, Conn. – Nine people are dead in a workplace shooting at a family-owned beer and wine wholesaler, police said. Sources said Omar S. Thornton, 34, was a driver for Hartford Distributors […]
By Valerie J. Nelson LOS ANGELES _ Tom Mankiewicz, a screenwriter and premier script doctor who made his reputation working on such James Bond films as “Diamonds Are Forever,” “Live and Let Die” and […]
By Margaret Talev McClatchy Newspapers WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday declared that at month’s end the U.S. will end its combat mission in Iraq “as promised and on schedule,” and he pledged to […]
By Ken Dilanian Tribune Washington Bureau WASHINGTON – Efforts to reduce civilian casualties by restricting U.S. airstrikes and other uses of force in Afghanistan are also sparing American troops from attack, according to a new […]
By William Weir The Hartford Courant HARTFORD, Conn. – When Sonic Drive-in opened its first Connecticut franchise in Wallingford last month, it came just in time to serve the fast-food chain’s newest menu item, the […]
Sydney (dpa) – It seems too good to be true: a treatment for the brain-wasting disease Alzheimer’s that doctors could be prescribing in just five years’ time. But it is a prospect that researchers at […]
By Siddhartha Kumar New Delhi (dpa) – At least 24 Hindu pilgrims were killed when a truck carrying them crashed in a mountain gorge in India’s northern state of Uttarakhand, police said Monday. The […]
By Jon Hilkevitch Chicago Tribune OSHKOSH, Wis. – An electric airliner? Imagine a hyper-efficient aircraft as large as a Boeing 737, although weighing much less. It would run quieter and cleaner than any other commercial […]
Tel Aviv (dpa) – A small model airplane flew into Israel from Lebanon two weeks ago and crashed close to the border, an Israeli Defence Force (IDF) spokesman announced Sunday night. The 50 centimetre-long plane […]
By Edmund Sanders Los Angeles Times JERUSALEM – Israel moved Sunday to deport the offspring of hundreds of migrant workers, mostly small children who were born in Israel, speak Hebrew and have never seen their […]
By Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times CAIRO, Egypt – Citing concerns that terrorists and criminals could exploit telecommunications traffic in the Arab world’s financial hub, the United Arab Emirates said Sunday that it would suspend […]
Beijing (dpa) – The death toll from a coal mine explosion in northern China rose to 17, state media reported Saturday. The explosion at the Liugou coal mine in Linfen city in the northern […]
By Peter Mayer Afragola, Italy (dpa) – Rescue workers pulled a 10-year old girl alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Italy Saturday, although three other people were killed in the incident. […]
By Hideki Hiramoto BRIG, Switzerland _ Swiss transport authorities and the operator of the Glacier Express train on which a 64-year-old woman was killed and 42 other passengers were injured in a derailment on […]
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