Swine flu- nation's toll touches 125

latest update-  5thSeptember 2009, 09:09pm IST"NEW DELHI/BANGALORE: Nine people, including six in Karnataka, died of swine flu on Saturday, taking the country's toll from the infectious influenza A (H1N1) virus to 125, health authorities said. The death toll in...

NowPublic Takes Top Spot on User-Generated News Article

In an article about citizen journalism on Wednesday, the Canadian Press gave NowPublic top dibs. " "I am no longer going to look at the news because it's something historical and something I want to see," said...

Toronto City Mayor David Miller opens New Art Gallery of Ontario

The $276-million transformation of the AGO was realized by the Toronto-born architect of the world, Frank Gehry, building on the generous $100 million dollar gift of the late Ken Thomson’s unparalleled collection...

Cocaine Found On 4 Out Of 9 Bills

This might amaze you there is cocaine on four out of nine tested bills. The only thing i can think out is that the ratio around my house is going to be more like 6 out of 9 Bills.Either way i never know money was...

Eyewitness: Russian troops pull back

"All morning, the Russian soldiers had been standing listlessly around the checkpoint at Igoeti, just 35km (22 miles) from Tiblisi. As they cradled their rifles and chatted to local villagers, it seemed they were in no hurry to go. Then suddenly, at around noon, the first...

Somalia bombing 'kills 15 women'

Somalia is witnessing a severe fighting for last one year and it has caused more than 8,000 civilians life and one million forced from their homes after a fight erupted between government forces and...

Greater Vancouver Zoo, Lion Eats Eagle in front of visitors.

Certainly a sad day, and horrific experience for onlookers and especially children who  witnessed  a trained Golden eagle performing, only to be harrassed by crows and into the waiting mouth of a...

Eyewitness To Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa

South Africa was plagued by xenophobic-related violence last month. Photographers Halden Krog, Alon Skuy, Tebogo Letsie, Lebohang Mashiloane, James Oatway, Moeketsi Moticoe, Muntu Vilakazi and myself spent day and night documenting the horror that is driving thousands of...

TV news photographer keeps camera rolling during scuffle with police officer

"An Eyewitness News 4 photographer was cuffed and cited Thursday morning for disobeying a police officer. It was a situation where the photographer was trying to do his job. And now the Albuquerque Police...

Serial killer targets young college men?

Update: Fox is reporting that the FBI is skeptical of the "smiley face" theory, attributing it to graffitti."Could there be a calculated, cross-country plot to kill young college men? It seems a little hard to...

Somali Pirates 'Killed in French Rocket Attack'

Conflicting reports are emerging regarding an alleged French rocket attack on pirate ship off the coast of Somalia: Sarkozy denied claims that anyone was killed in the attack, while eyewitness accounts tell a very...

Writing From The Battlefield: Iraq

This is an amazing guy... he's a dentist in Iraq and has been blogging about day to day life in the war-torn country. We see images on the news all the time from Iraq, but the personal voice is missing... well,...

Half a Decade of War: Five Years After Iraq Invasion, Soldiers Testify at Win...

" AMY GOODMAN: [Five years ago] on March 19th, 2003, the US began bombing Baghdad. The invasion was on. Six weeks later, President Bush stood under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared an end to major military combat operations in Iraq. Now, half a...

Police Mistake Caucasian Man for African-American Suspect

Great police work. Those guys can’t even tell a black guy from a white guy. You gotta love Florida. See Video"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — A bad case of mistaken identity in Orange County should have been as clear as...

Taser Death Video: Can we trust citizen journalists?

Citizen Journalists are not restricted versus mainstream media whose news publishers may feel certain embarrassing stories may prevent future access in the case of bias in reporting on political scandals or upset...

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