Accountant faces jail for hurling acid over lawyers

" An accountant was facing an indefinite jail sentence today after throwing hydrochloric acid over three High Court lawyers. Ashok Mahajan, 55, who has a history of courtroom violence, launched his furious attack...

Acid Thrown Into A Crowd Of Shoppers In Hong Kong: 30 Injured

Thirty people sustained burns after two bottles of acid have been thrown into the crowd in the busy Mong Kok shopping district of Hong Kong on Saturday. A similar attack took place in December of last year when 46 people suffered injuries in a similar acid-throwing incident....

The girl child victim of acid attack gets support

The girl child victim of acid attack gets supportLucknow, INDIA: The case of Baby Bitta, the youngest acid attack victim came up for hearing at the Child Welfare Committee (CWC), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, on 12 May 2009 at the Government Children’s Home (Infants) at Prag...

Acid dumped in Bellaire Ohio's water supply

In Bellaire, Ohio, thousands of the city's residents have been told to stop drinking the water supply as a nearby chemical treatment plant accidentially added toxic hydrochloric acid to the water. There have been...

Arrested Mexican man confessed to have "dissolved" 300 bodies

Tijuana police arrested Santiago Meza López who  was one of the 20 most wanted criminals in the FBI list.He says " I didn't feel anything" I just disposed of the bodies dipping them in acid". " Hacerlos...

Afghan Girls, Scarred by Acid, Defy Terror, Embracing School

These girls are to be admired.Ir will take time, years, buteventually women should andwill be allowed to live normallives in Afghanistan. "Then the man pulled Shamsia’s burqa from her head and sprayed her face...

Afghans Arrest Schoolgirl Acid Attackers

"They were walking to school in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a group of teenage girls discussing a test they had coming up, when two men on a motorcycle sprayed them with a strange liquid. Within seconds...

Afghanistan: Acid Attack Affects Attendance at Girls Schools

The acid attack on school girls in the southern Kandahar province on Nov. 12 has affected attendance of students in girls schools in the city of Kandahar. A survey report shows that families of students are...

Kandahar School Girls Disfigured by Acid Attack

Kandahar:  This morning, two men sprayed a group of female students outside their school with acid, blinding at least two of them.  The attackers used toy guns and quickly fled the scene."Doctors say the...

Rising Ocean Acidity Threatens Marine Life Fertilisation

The Greek sea God, Poseidon must have been having a bad year, as well as the past 365,000 years I believe. Because not only are the jellyfishes taking over the ocean (caused by the rising sea...

Spinach holds hope for diabetics

Study shows that spinach may prevent heart attacks in diabetics. With all of the benefits spinach has to give, we can add prevent heart attacks in diabetics to the list as well. " Diabetics may soon be...

Lafayette residents return after acid spill is cleared

UPDATE:  May 19, 8:38 AM EDT  Lafayette residents return home after the acid spill from trail derailment is cleaned up.A narrow evacuation perimeter of about 1,000 feet from the derailed train-cars...

LSD Inventor Albert Hofmann Dead at Age 102

Albert Hofmann, the pioneering Swiss chemist and advocate ofpsychedelics who discovered the hallucinogenic properties of LSD, diedTuesday. He was 102. What?  I thought drugs caused you to die early.  He...

26 injured in Indiana engine plant explosion

This is a developing story, please share any information or footage. "CAREFREE, Ind. — An explosion that released a cloud of hydrochloric acid gas at an Indiana engine plant has sent at least 26 people to a hospital. Police say no one's life was in danger after the blast...

East Asian nations hold talks on environment

"During the closed-door talks, they will "discuss global environmental issues such as climate change and problems in the Northeast Asian region including yellow dust," Japan's environment ministry was quoted by AFP as saying in a statement.Yellow dust -- sand blowing in from...

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