In Phoenix, Homeless Battle Summer Heat

In Phoenix in the summer temperatures average 108F-42C and often hit 115F- 44C- with a record if 122F-59C. There is little rain with sunshine of 14 hours a day. Night time temperatures average 85F-29C= and often...

USS Grunion wreckage found

The USS Grunion,  WWII submarine, has been found off the Aleutian Islands in Alaska.As reported two years ago today, an Object off Alaska coast may be WWII sub, it has now been proved true.Six Michiganders...

Global warning: Melting ice threatens Arctic foxes

Some more wildlife animals are on the brink of extinction because of  global warming. "Polar bears may not be the only Arctic wildlife threatened by global warming. Scientists have discovered that Arctic foxes also struggle as the ice disappears because they rely on the...

Science: dinosaur find in Dorset

"The most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in Britain is about to go on display - evidence of a species unique to Britain that perished in a devastating flood.The first piece was retrieved from a beach in Dorset in 2000 by David Sole, a former solicitor turned...

'Ethnic cleansing' in Kenya?

"NAIROBI, Kenya - President Mwai Kibaki's government accused rival Raila Odinga's backers on Wednesday of responsibility for an explosion of tribal violence over a disputed presidential poll that has plunged...

Canada 2007 "Year of the Assassins"

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorVancouver and Toronto are having a Banner Year in 2007 in what amounts to the "Year of the Assassin", rivalling our 2010 Olympic Status as the best country to live in...

The Big Questions: What is consciousness?

"The philosopher Derek Parfit put it starkly: we are not what we believe ourselves to be. Actions and experiences are interconnected but ownerless. A human life consists of a long series - or bundle - of enmeshed mental states rolling like tumbleweed down the days and years,...

Bus Crash in French Alps Kills 26

Religious pilgrims on their way to the Notre-Dame de la Salette were met with disaster when their bus plunged from a cliff in the French Alps. "Twenty-six Polish pilgrims died when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident black spot in the French Alps...

Fire Engulfs Stores Amid Standoff

"Maryland - A 29-year-old gunman was believed to have perished yesterday in a fire that broke out in a liquor store during his standoff with police and engulfed a Frederick shopping complex. The gunman, identified...

Online maps may have killed James Kim - do you have a story to tell?

He swam among tech toys and complex new processes. As a technology journalist he had access to all the bells and whistles available. So here's a disturbing question that is being raised about the death of James Kim: did an online map he downloaded lead to his death?We'd like...

Deaths Of Illegal Immigrants Also Takes Toll On Border Coroners

Morgue expanded. Deaths of illegal migrants. Died from heat exposure. Migrants' dead bodies. 1,400 autopsies. Arizona-Mexico border. Pima County.

Woman Has Rare Case of Bubonic Plague

The Bubonic Plague, more commonly referred to as the "Black Death," ravaged Europe between the years 1347 and 1350. During this short period, 25 million people (one third of Europe's population at the time) were killed.  Thousands of people died each week and...

Was Hurricane Katrina the worst hurricane ever to hit the United States?

Hurricane Katrina was the most expensive. But not the greatest loss of life.

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