Haiti food aid lags, hunger deepens

UN and UNICEF need to respond immediately regarding this. " Haiti - Every inch of Rivilade Filsame's body hurt, from his swollen, empty stomach to his dried-out, wrinkled skin. The 18-month-old had been crying...

Midwest flooding cleanup begins

The Mississippi River appears to have crested in Northern Missouri, but many communities are still threatened downstream. Water contamination is a serious concern, and many are getting shots for hepatitis and...

Girl's twin found inside her stomach

"ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they...

World's most obese man vies for different record

Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, is now vyingfor a different record: the human who has lost the most weight."Uribe, who weighed as much as a small truck at more than half a tonne, is dieting...

The catered life of the American consumer

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorCBC's Neil MacDonald certainly puts things into perspective, as well as why some US retailers are none too please when Canadian Consumers  show up with US cash...

Burns Girl Grows New Head of Hair

"A five-year-old girl has been given a new "piggyback" head to help her replace skin and hair she lost in an horrific burns accident as a toddler. Sidra Afzal, from Fleur-de-Lys, near Caerphilly, is being treated by doctors at Morriston Hospital, Swansea. They implanted a...

Texas Flooding Continues, 5 Confirmed Dead -AP

UPDATE: The search continues for Edgar Garcia:"Searchers were using helicopters and cadaver dogs to look for a Central Texas man who remained missing today after his vehicle was swept away by...

Palestinian Checkpoint Socks: For Those Long Waits

One gets a feeling that this story will be all over the Internet rather shortly, so here it is. The story isn't so much the invention itself as the circumstances that spawned it: when the extreme becomes the banal."A West Bank woman has developed special socks to help...

£96,000 Merc written off as satnav leads woman astray

This is what happened to a driver who put her faith in her satellite navigation system – she ended up in deep water. The £96,000 Mercedes sports car was swept away in a swollen river and the motorist had to be rescued as it sank.

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...

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