Most Injured Finns Returning Home by Tuesday

"An extra flight for relatives of the victims of Saturday's bus crash left Monday morning for Malaga, Spain. The plane is to return to Finland around midnight Monday carrying lightly injured tourists and their relatives. Another flight is scheduled to transport relatives of...

World's oldest known person to turn 115

It's truly amazing when you consider that Edna Parker was born in 1893. To get a sense of how much time has passed, check out this list of 1893 achievements. Nabisco invented cream of wheat that year! "Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for...

'Skins' Taylor critical after Fla. shooting

NowPublic member mpress has this story covered: http://www.nowpublic.com/crime/sean-taylor-redskins-shot-s-dade-critical-responsive"'Skins' Taylor critical after Fla. shooting Safety in Miami hospital with lower body injury; police investigating incident Washington Redskins...

Trasylol Deaths At Least 235

Trasylol is an amino acid that stops blood from coagulating. It is created from a cow lung extract. During surgery, many patients are given Trasylol to prevent substantial blood loss. Trasylol slows down fibrinolysis, which can lead to the separation of blood...

Ethiopian Adoption Agency Speaks For Angelina Jolie

"Angelina Jolie's adoption of an Ethiopian baby was legal, the agency involved said today, rejecting reports that the child's relatives want her back. Newspapers have reported this week that relatives of two-year-old Zahara, including a woman who says she is her birth mother,...

Pinochet relatives indicted in Chile

"The widow and five children of dictator Augusto Pinochet were among 23 people indicted Thursday on corruption charges, a judge said. Judge Carlos Cerda said he ordered the detention of the 23 relatives and former associates of Pinochet because of "solid indications that they...

Female Circumcision Death in Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso was one of the first coutnries to outlaw female circumcision, and has been training government employees to pursue reports of the practice. However, the procedure still takes place in some areas."The death of a 14-year-old girl from female genital...

One old lady locked in the lavatory

"A great grandmother popped into a public loo after a long journey - and ended up locked in for 12 hours. Gwyneth Coles, 77, certainly knew what the matter was when a caretaker locked up the toilet block in Pickering, North Yorkshire. He had shouted out: "Anyone in?" but...

Paranoid About Neighborhood Kids, MASS man kills family, then himself on RR t...

"Neighbors knew Robert McDermott as a man who believed neighborhood children were plotting to gang up on him. He hid in the bushes with a camera to catalog their identities, they say. He also had a volatile relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, with whom he...