Dutch man suffers cut buttocks in joke mishap

"UTRECHT, Netherlands - Dutch police say a man who pushed his exposed buttocks against a restaurant window as a joke was injured when the glass broke and lacerated his behind.Authorities say a man, 21, and two others had run down a street Sunday morning with their pants...

Are you lacking Self-Discipline?

"man does not live until he begins to discipline himself;he merely exists. Like an animal he gratifies his desiresand pursues his inclinations just where they may lead him.He is happy as a beast is happy, because he is not consciousof what he is depriving himself; he suffers...

Missing teenage beauty queen is found in London

"A TEENAGE beauty queen has been reunited with her parents after vanishing for nine days with a man she met on a social networking website. The family of Kovi Dunbar, 17, blamed cruel jibes at school about an illness which altered her looks, after she disappeared from her...

China says suffers "massive" Internet spy damage

"China has suffered "massive" losses of state secrets through the Internet, a senior official said, as China faces reports that it has raided the computer networks of Western powers. Vice Minister of Information Industry Lou Qinjian said his country was the target of a...

Japan nuclear plant shut after quake

"TOKYO — Officials ordered the world's largest nuclear power plant to be idled indefinitely Wednesday after the government acknowledged that it had not been built to withstand the force of an earthquake that hit Japan's west coast, and that it probably sits atop a...

Woman Refused Sight-Saving Drug

"A woman with a degenerative eye disease has been told she cannot have potentially sight-saving treatment on the NHS because it costs too much. Notts County Primary Care Trust says Margaret Maslowska, 82, from Eastwood, Notts, cannot have the drug Lucentis. Mrs Maslowska...

Number of drug-addicted seniors to surge as boomers retire

"Mavis Becker was a little early to the psychedelic Sixties. In the mid-Fifties, at the tender age of 14, she started smoking pot. Within a decade, most of her friends were taking Timothy Leary's advice to turn on, tune in and toke up. Not much has changed since. Ms. Becker...

Woman Suffers Burns In Blaze At Apartment

" April 14, 2007 Utah - A woman who didn't leave her burning apartment quickly enough suffered minor burns early Friday in a two-alarm fire in Salt Lake County. Firefighters were called at about 2:45 a.m. to the Spring Meadow Apartments, 4128 S. 465 East, and arrived to find...