Anna Nicole Smith collapses, dies at 39

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Anna Nicole Smith, the voluptuous former Playboy centerfold who married an octogenarian billionaire and waged a legal battle for his fortune all the way to the Supreme Court, died Tuesday after...

Brown's 5-year-old son left out of will

COLUMBIA, S.C. - The 5-year-old child of James Brown and his partner, Tomi Rae Hynie, is not included in the will read Thursday to six of the entertainer's children, attorneys for the late singer say. While the will...

Minutemen plan to patrol anew after border incursion

Volunteers with the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps are headed for the Arizona-Mexico border to provide backup for National Guard troops in response to an incident near Sasabe in which the approach of armed men forced...

Scandal: Cheerleaders Run Amok in Texas

'Mean Girls' Boozing, bikinis and bullying: how the scandalous behavior of five high-school cheerleaders rocked a bedroom community near Dallas. Jan. 2, 2007 - The pictures posted on MySpace.com looked like the...

Colo. avalanche buries, sweeps away cars

DENVER - A huge avalanche buried several cars and sent others over the edge Saturday on U.S. 40 near 11,307-foot-high Berthoud Pass, Colorado highway officials said. "Our crews said it was the largest they have ever...

Treatment keeps girl child-sized

Parents of a severely disabled girl in the US have revealed that they are keeping her child-sized in order to give her a better life. The nine-year-old, named Ashley, has the mental ability of a three-month-old baby...

Live, from Fort Lauderdale, it's the Sun-Sentinel Hate Line!

"A local website has become ground zero for hate in South Florida. It's loaded, on an almost daily basis, with racist stereotypes, slurs, and sentimental references to slavery and lynchings. You can see it at this...

Witness to Saddam's death

Judge Munir Haddad was present at Saddam Hussein's hanging on 30 December 2006. In an interview with the BBC's John Simpson, he explains what he witnessed. Judge Haddad: One of the guards present asked Saddam...
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Hussein executed, Iraqi TV stations report

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets. Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET),...

Ford's Close Call

"12-26) 21:26 PST Washington -- But for some quick action, Gerald R. Ford's presidency, and his life, could have ended amid gunshots outside San Francisco's St. Francis Hotel on the afternoon of Sept. 22, 1975. As...

Former President Ford dies at 93

"LOS ANGELES - Gerald R. Ford, who picked up the pieces of Richard Nixon's scandal-shattered White House as the 38th and only unelected president in America's history, has died, former first lady Betty Ford said...

Pinochet's grandson kicked out of Chilean army

"In his speech on Tuesday, Pinochet's grandson, also called Augusto, praised his grandfather for overthrowing the socialist government of Salvador Allende in 1973, and attacked judges who tried to bring the...

Photographs: 1973, Chile Before and After the Military Coup

A photo set on Flickr by Marcelo Montecino. Images include streets scenes in Santiago prior to and following the Military Coup. Montecino's brother, also a photographer, photographed political prisoners in...

Former Chilean dictator Pinochet dies at 91

"SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -- Gen. Augusto Pinochet, the fierce anti-communist dictator who ruled Chile with an iron fist from 1973 to 1990, died Sunday from heart complications, the Santiago Military hospital reported....

The orphans of Sumqayit

"Grim legacy of an abandoned Soviet chemical plant "

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