Loading ...TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - May 25, 2008 (WPVI) — Trenton authorities say anger over a failed romance fueled a Pennsylvania teen’s decision to set fire to the city home where her ex-boyfriend lived.
No one was killed in Thursday’s blaze on Hillcrest Avenue, which left the 10 people who lived there homeless. But two of [...]
BERLIN — Authorities in southern Germany have taken custody of a 7-month-old boy after his parents posted an ad on eBay offering to sell him for one euro, or about $1.60.
Police spokesman Peter Hieber says the baby was placed in the care of youth services in the southwestern Allgaeu region.
Hieber
said on Saturday that the mother told [...]
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SECURITY cameras may be needed in ambulances to protect both patients and paramedics, the ambulance union said today, after one of its members was cleared of digital rape of a drug user.
Although found not guilty, former paramedic Simon Paul Howe must now fight through arbitration to get his job back, after the Metropolitan Ambulance Service [...]
Woman who was clinically dead for 18 hours wakes up and is none the worse for wear. Doctors still scratching their heads
Val Thomas stopped breathing at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 17, and her family called paramedics. While they waited for help to arrive, they tried to revive her while others prayed. They estimate that [...]
A 32-year-old woman from northern Sweden has been indicted on a charge of aggravated rape after forcing another woman at knifepoint to perform oral sex.
Accompanied by a male relative, the 32-year-old forced her way into the woman’s apartment in Haparanda in January this year.
The pair stole 1,000 kronor ($165) from the victim before forcing her [...]
TSU — A doctor accused of illegally possessing guns has been slapped with a new charge of manufacturing bullets without permission, law enforcers said.
Mie Prefectural Police have sent to the Tsu District Public Prosecutors Office additional papers accusing Kenji Abo, 58, a doctor from Tsu, of violating the Ordnance Manufacturing Law.
“I wanted to make (bullets) [...]
OTTAWA - Canada’s highest court is to rule Thursday on whether a man who found a fly in his bottle of water should be compensated for anxiety and depression.
Martin Mustapha of Windsor, Ont. said he was forever altered by finding the insect, despite the fact he didn’t drink from the bottle. He said he developed [...]
One of the most basic facts of life is that the future looks different from the past. But on a grand cosmological scale, they may look the same
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The basic laws of physics work equally well forward or backward in time, yet we perceive time to move in one direction only—toward the future. Why?
To account [...]
INTERNET daters beware – witty emails don’t lead to love, an Australian researcher says.
Too many people, particularly women, who go online in search of relationships fall for a clever line, said Queensland University of Technology (QUT) relationships psychologist Matthew Bambling.
They quickly formed emotional attachments to unsuitable people they had not even met in real life.
And [...]