Penguins beat Red Wings' in triple-overtime

The Pittsburgh Penguins managed to beat the Detroit Red Wings’ to win Game 5 after triple-overtime last night.  The Penguins and Red Wings’ will now play Game 6 tomorrow night."Not so fast Motor City....

Transformers shirt gets jet ban

" Brad Jayakody, 30, was shocked when he was told to change his top if he wanted to catch his flight from Heathrow’s Terminal 5. IT consultant Brad — on a British Airways trip with four colleagues to...

Couple in UK dumps newborn girls

Indians have penchant for male child and girls are often either killed in womb or abandoned after birth. This has led to peculiar situation of skwed sex ratio in many parts of  India. Due to heavy dowry...

TV's Ellen to wed actress partner

Ellen DeGeneres is to marry her long-time partner, actress Portia de Rossi, after California lifted its ban on same-sex ceremonies.""I am announcing I am getting married," DeGeneres told the audience during a...

53 Illegal Immigrants Held by Human Smugglers in Phoenix

Fifty-three illegal immigrants being held against their will were found by authorities in Phoenix, Arizona on Sunday after immigration officials received a tip. The immigrants were a group that had been smuggled into the US illegally and were being held in a fortified one...

Family's anguish over murdered son in South-East London

A teenager who had just bought his first lottery ticket and was off to Disneyland later this year, bled to death in his brother's arms after an apparently unprovoked assault at a baker's shop in Lee Green, south...

Father tried to sell daughter

In a shocking incident father of a teenage girl tried to sell her to Arab Businessman. She ran away from her with her younger sister. "A teenager from Delhi ran away from home with her younger sister after her parents allegedly tried to sell them to a Qatar-based businessman....

Pheonix AZ - U.S. Marshals Capture Alleged Child Rapist

"Phoenix, Ariz. – This afternoon members of the U.S. Marshals led Phoenix High Intensity Drug Task Force (HIDTA) Fugitive Task Force arrested an alleged child rapist from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Lance Kelly, 51, was wanted by the Albuquerque Police Department after it...

Tony Blair makes list of world's 100 most influential people

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been named one of Time Magazine's 100 most influencial people.Current Prime Minister Gordon Brown did not make the list however."The former Prime Minister is one of the...

Concentration camp doctor tops list of 10 most-wanted Nazis

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorYou have to ask yourself, what constitutes a Mass Murderer? Killing one person, two persons, twelve persons, six million persons, it is all semantics I suppose.Sixty...

Colombian police kill notorious drug lord

Colombian police say that they have killed one of their most notorious criminals, and one of the US' most wanted criminals - Miguel Angel Mejia Munera."The drug lord and leader of a new generation of paramilitary groups was one of the US' most wanted criminals. Washington had...

Madeleine McCann left alone as 'last minute decision'

In what will lead the be the worst decision of their lives, the parents of Madeleine McCann tell in a UK documentary special how the decision to leave their children alone the night Madeleine disappeared, was only...

Wanted: 150 female diabetic chocolate eaters

Participants in a study testing the health effects of chocolate are required to eat a modified sample of the stuff every day. Sounds like they're still looking for participants too..."LONDON, England (CNN) --...

Glynn County Sex Offender Captured

"A fugitive wanted by the Glynn County Sheriff’s Department was by the U.S. Marshals New York /New Jersey Regional Fugitive Task Force in Rochester, New York on April 25, 2008, based on information generated...

Not-so-free-press: Andrew Mwenda (and others) arrested

"“We think the government is not happy with a story The Independent published in a recent issue exposing atrocities committed by government forces during the war.” — Bob Kasango, legal counsel for The IndependentFrom Reuters:"“Ugandan security forces on Saturday...

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