Rains cause floods in Orissa; death toll rises to 33

" BHUBANESWAR: Five more persons died on Sunday in the torrential rains in Orissa taking the toll to 33, even as heavy downpour due to a fresh low pressure over the sea triggered floods in many parts of the state. While two persons were swept away in Rana river in...

Families flee river of ice after freak storm hits town

The bizarre fall weather has continued in the UK, with a freak ice storm hitting the British town of Devon."Dozens of people, including a mother in labour, had to be rescued after a freak hailstorm left a Devon town cut off by floodwater.More than a foot of hail fell on...

Man who had sex with girl, 12, admits rape but is freed after woman judge say...

She should go to a juvenile detention facility, she should get counselling as should her family"A barman who admitted having sex with a 12-year-old girl walked free from court after convincing a judge she had tricked him into believing she was an adult. Michael Graham, 25,...

13 killed as heavy rains lash in India

Heavy rains lashed Indian capital New Delhi on Friday providing much-needed respite from the high humidity existing for the past few days but created a massive traffic jams and brought pot holes on...

Trinidad DC Police decides Crime trumps citizens Right to Movement

Trinidad DC Police decides Crime  trumps citizens Right to Movement From Albert N. Milliron, Politisite.com We attempted to provide all sides to this issue.  So where do you stand?  Is Americans...

Anger over Grange Park 450 houses decision.

Building 450 extra houses at the M1 junction15 roundabout in Northamptonshire, county in central England, United Kingdom is a recipe for disaster...."Residents of Grange Park have reacted with anger to the backing...

Only Gandhi and Shah Rukh Khan did it in Paris!

"He will be unveiled in the presence of Albert Einstein, Charles De Gaulle, Mahatma Gandhi, Michael Jackson, John Paul II, Elvis Presley and Alfred Hitchcock at France's Grevin Museum in Paris, Monday, April 28,...

Irish Soldiers Score Web Hit With 'Stayin' Alive' Video Parody

Apparently the military isn't too happy with a platoon of Irish soldiers stationed in Lebanon who filmed a parody video of Stayin' Alive. But really, as long as it doesn't hurt anyone, does it really matter?The...

The New Slavery

"Human trafficking flies below the radar of most people's consciousness, but it happens — even in New Orleans By Sarah Andert The Capri Hotel on Tulane Avenue was no place for human inhabitants in November 2005. Floodwaters from the levee breaches had inundated the building...

Slovenia floods kill five

"LJUBLJANA, , 19 (UPI) -- At least five people were killed when strong rainstorms swept Slovenia, damaging houses and isolating towns and villages from the rest of the country. Heavy rains driven by high winds...

Tale of two cities: Biloxi and New Orleans

"n the Lower 9th Ward, Robert Green Sr., 52, who lost his mother and granddaughter during the storm, feels like the government has failed him. He's still waiting to receive his money from Louisiana's Road Home...

Oshawa hosting 'Stephen Colbert Day' today

A Stephen Colbert Look-alike contest? Free cake? Tonight in Oshawa, Ontario? Yes, but you'd never know it by trying to find out by going to Oshawa City Hall. The good fathers of Oshawa scrupulously avoid any...

At swearing in, congressman wants to carry Koran. Outrage ensues.

"Keith Ellison hasn't even started his new job, and he's already under fire. When America's first Muslim congressman, a Democrat from Minnesota, let it be known he will carry a Koran to his swearing-in ceremony on...

More Votes Than Registered Voters

The mainstream media censored the vast majority of the evidence of fraud, so that most Americans to this day, have never heard a fraction of what was amiss.

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