Cows and vehicles remained on a piece of land surrounded by floodwaters in the village of Jeram Perdas, Malaysia. Hundreds of villagers were temporarily evacuated from the area due to flooding at the start of the annual monsoon season.
Alexei Dymovsky sits in full uniform and stares at the camera with tired eyes. “Maybe you don’t know about us, about simple cops, who live and work and love their work. I’m ready to tell you everything. I’m not scared of my own death,” Dymovsky says in a YouTube message addressed to Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
A prominent Columbia architecture professor punched a female university employee in the face at a Harlem bar during a heated argument about race relations, cops said yesterday.
Former executives said it was unclear if the payoffs of about $1 million were made, but the goal was to hush criticism and buy support after 17 civilians were killed in 2007.
Police arrested a United Airlines pilot on suspicion of being drunk as he was about to help fly a passenger plane from London\'s Heathrow Airport, an officer and the airline said Tuesday.
In Canada last week news broke that players on two teams - the Calgary Flames and the Toronto Maple Leafs - jumped to the front of the line to be vaccinated against swine flu. The news came as lineups reserved for high-risk groups stretched around city blocks. Ahead of pregnant women, children below the age of 6, and people with chronic illnesses.
Scientists have found that acidic ozone water can deactivate H1N1 viruses very effectively, offering a promising disinfectant for the millions of people trying to avoid the disease.
The family of an 8-year-old boy who fatally shot himself at a gun show in western Massachusetts say the Uzi submachine gun jammed twice before he lost control of the weapon and fired into his head. The family of Christopher Bizilj (bah-SEEL\') of Ashford, Conn., says in a civil lawsuit filed Friday that a 15-year-old instructor who cleared the gun
John Allen Muhammad, the mastermind of the sniper attacks that terrorized the nation\'s capital region for three weeks in October 2002, was executed Tuesday.
In Japan, being thin is the law! People there are fighting fat to comply with a government-imposed waistline standard, as well as to ward off dreaded \"metabolic syndrome\" -- a combination of health risks including stomach flab, high blood pressure and high cholesterol that can lead to cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Brittni Carlini, a 20-year-old college student from Albuquerque, New Mexico, was excited about a snowboarding trip she had planned for last weekend. So she went to the home of her friend Ryan Vigil to retrieve a snowboard. That\'s when she disappeared...\\r
New York State police officials have confirmed that the Stissing Mountain High School in Pine Plains has been locked down due to some sort of hostage situation, CBS station WCBS-TV in New York reported. Pine Plains is about 90 miles north of New York City.
The Army psychiatrist accused of killing 12 soldiers and a civilian at the Fort Hood Army post exchanged between 10 and 20 e-mails with a radical cleric in Yemen who calls for jihadism against the United States, senior government officials said...
A multi-agency government task force was unable to establish a conclusive link between Chinese-made drywall and adverse health symptoms in home owners or corrosive effects on components of their homes. The Chinese drywall contained elemental sulfur as well as higher concentrations of strontium, but not enough to pose a radiological health risk.
A few hours\' drive from the capital of one of the Islamic world\'s most conservative countries, one can find a respite from the heat and society\'s strict rules — just ask the women in bikinis.