Neighbors rushed to the house of a 34-year-old Kurdish woman after learning that her husband — a police officer — was one of three killed in an ambush Sunday near Kirkuk.
Steve Irwin, the hugely popular Australian television personality and environmentalist known as the "Crocodile Hunter," was killed Monday by a stingray during a diving expedition. He was 44.
Gaza's transformation into a battlefield is a tale of lost opportunity and ill-fated visions.
Females cannot bear on the sexual temptation most probably due to the physiological factor. However, the major causes for the sexual instincts come from their materialistic and spiritual needs.
The parents of a 13-year-old girl whose feet were severed on a Louisville theme park ride said her recovery remains slow three months later.
You wouldn't know it from the British media, but last week a highly respected survey organisation reported that up to 1.2 million Iraqis have died violently because of the conflict, making the 2006 Lancet research that reported 650,000 dead look conservative by comparison.
It is amazing that Mark Morford still manages to find some hope buried in the rubble and ashes of Bush's War -- hope that this blinkered, screaming, swirling cataclysm of reactionary horror which has engulfed us for the last decade is merely the desperate agonies of a dying world …
Here's the Op-Ed the soldiers wrote.More truthful, more realistic than anything the ridiculous Bush shills supposedly running the show have presented toward the spineless Congress. Petraeus is no hero.
This date will never again be an easy one for me--in spite of the fact it is my favorite cousin's birthday.
"Thirteen tons of chocolate melted and flowed across the German Autobahn on Thursday night after the truck carrying it caught fire. Apparently, the truck suddenly caught on fire as it was cruising through the night near Ludwigsfelde just south of Berlin.
A man who was locked out of his house and apparently broke a window to get in severed an artery on the glass and bled to death, police said.
On August 31, 2005, when the first corpses began floating down the Lower 7th Ward's byways and George W.
U.S. marathoner Jenny Crain was struck by a car while on a training run and is in critical condition. As a result of this tragic accident, Crain remains in the ICU in a Milwaukee hospital.
Three rescue workers killed... an unfortunate situation worsens
A 15- to 20-pound rock that killed the Rocky Mountain regional director of the National Outdoor Leadership School as he was climbing near Lander last weekend was thrown by a 23-year-old Wyoming man, a prosecutor said Tuesday. ... Newell declined to identify the rock thrower.
This question - Can overuse of a word cheapen its meaning and impact? -– is one I've thought about on numerous occasions over the years but mainly it comes only in response to a few key words.
It took a collapsing bridge in Minnesota to alert people across the country to the fact that many other bridges in many other places have been allowed to deteriorate without adequate maintenance.
They're ubiquitous at almost every disaster zone, assisting the wounded and consoling grieving families, from Ground Zero to Indonesia to New Orleans and now Minneapolis.
A baby boy positively identified by DNA testing decades after he died when the Titanic sank has now been named as someone else. The boy was first said to be a Finnish boy aged 13 months, but experts now say he was a 19-month-old English child.
The resolution, sponsored by Great Britain and France, would authorize sending around 19,500 military personnel and 6,500 civilian police to the region. More than 200,000 people have died in the past four years during fighting between rebels and militia forces in Darfur, and mil …
Forest fires have destroyed an area up to 250 square kilometers of vegetation in the Canary Islands, Spain in the busiest touristic season of the year, leading to the evacuation of over 10.000 people in this region.
UN's Security Counsil authorized today, the 31st July 2007 the sending of up to 26.000 soldiers and police officers to Darfur in order to protect civiliians and hold back violence in Western Sudan.
You know the world is a scary place when you can't feel safe behind a locked door inside your own home.
Note: The following actually happened – sometime in 2005. I've indulged in a little literary license. But not much. Other than that, I'm unable to mention the name of the organization for which I worked.
A former champion boxer shot for asking three men to stop smoking is to have his life support machine switched off. James Oyebola, 47, has been left brain head after being shot in the head in a London nightclub.
Thousands of flood victims were trapped in their homes and running out of fresh water and food. Emergency services battled to help them in scenes that could have come from a third world disaster.
An Alabama woman died after she fell 15 feet from an apartment balcony, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
Recently, when discussing the Iraq war, assuming that one of the reasons for the invasion was liberation of the Iraqi people, the following question was posed: Why Iraq? What makes Iraq so special? Why not Sudan? Why not Iran? Why not North Korea or a plethora of other countr …