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...

Gayatri Devi: A maharani and a beauty

Gayatri Devi, once described as one of the most beautiful women in the world, has died at the age of 90.The fashion icon broke with tradition by winning election to parliament in 1962. She was re-elected twice.She...

Gold Cup and Saucer goes tonight

straight from my hometown paper in Moncton NB, i'll be at the final tonight too. "CHARLOTTETOWN - Ontario invader Mach It Paid has drawn the rail for the 49th running of the $60,000 Sobeys Gold Cup and Saucer race tonight at the Charlottetown Driving Park Entertainment...

4-year-olds sex education probe

The headline makes this more sensational than it is with the emphasis at 4 years old being on building good relationships. Young people tell us that the ins and outs of sex education are pretty well taught but the...

Kate and Gerry McCann to be cleared of any involvement in Maddy disappearance

There has been some disagreement over whether the Portuguese investigation into the dissapearance of British child Madeline McCann has been 'closed,' . The Portuguese police are reportedly about to clear the girl's parents as possible suspects."Kate and Gerry McCann are set...

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...

4-year-old shot herself at Sam's Club with Grandmothers Gun

Columbia -A local TV station is reporting that a 4 year old child removed a gun from her grandmothers purse and shot herself at the Sam's Club.  The child was found in critical condition and is now...

Surrey UK - Two Children Die of Stab Wounds

How can something like this happen?, Reading this story makes me sick to my stomach and so sad. "A five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl have died from stab wounds in Carshalton, Surrey, Scotland Yard has said. The two children were found seriously injured at a house...

Woman Spots Eye Defect Madeleine on Moroccan coast

"A battered and bruised girl bearing "the mark of Madeleine" has been spotted in Morocco. The blonde child was seen by a woman who told detectives she even recognised the distinctive fleck in Madeleine's eye,...

New 'Madeleine in Morocco' sighting: 'I'm convinced it was her, says woman'

"A Spanish tourist who believes she saw Madeleine McCann dragged across a street in Morocco has been desperately searching for the four-year-old ever since. Isabel Gonzalez, 60, is certain she saw the blonde toddler with a North African woman wearing a headscarf in the remote...

Picture of blonde girl in Morocco is new twist in Madeleine case

"Speculation over the Madeleine McCann case was given new impetus last night after the emergence of a photograph taken in Morocco showing a small blonde girl bearing a resemblance to the missing four-year-old. The...

Family devastated by four-year-old stabbing

"The family of a four-year-old boy who was stabbed to death have said they are "devastated" at their loss. The young boy was taken to hospital with serious injuries after an incident on Sunday afternoon at a house in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. He died a short time...

Madeleine McCann's mother declared suspect

Certainly a strange twist to an even stranger mystery in the disappearance of a child who vanished into thin air.PRAIA DA LUZ, Portugal -- The mother of missing British girl Madeleine McCann, who disappeared in...

Madeleine's parents subjected to 'spiteful' internet hate campaign

"The parents of   Madeleine McCann have become the subject of a hate campaign on the internet. Their local newspaper, the  Leicester Mercury, has had to ban all comments on stories about the missing four-year-old after it was bombarded with "spiteful and defamatory"...

MADDY SUSPECT RELEASED

"Police last night released the official suspect in the search for Madeleine McCann. Briton Robert Murat spent eight hours with Portuguese police being questioned by detectives hunting the missing four-year-old, from Rothley. Murat was questioned by police in the town of...

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