After five days, backpack only clue to missing girl's whereabouts

The search for a missing Colorado girl entered its fifth day Tuesday with scant clues as to what may have happened to 10-year-old Jessica Ridgeway. A backpack and water bottle were found on Sunday. Those items are being tested by the Colorado Crime Lab for DNA evidence. "The...

And the 'sexiest woman alive' is... (topless photo)

Actress Mila Kunis has gone topless for the cover of Esquire magazine after editors crowned her the sexiest woman alive.The 29-year-old Black Swan actress, poses seductively in a pair of skintight trousers, with her back to the camera, for the men's publication's...

New York Officials Apologize for Billing Man Killed by Cop Car

New York City officials are apologizing after sending a letter to a New York man demanding he pay $710 within 10 days for damaging the cop car that struck and killed him during a chase last spring. Tamon Robinson was caught digging up paving stones at a housing complex in...

Rugby player loses testicle after final defeat

British rugby league player Paul Wood has lost a testicle after a collision during the English sport's showpiece final at Manchester's Old Trafford stadium on Saturday. Wood was playing for the Warrington Wolves against Leeds Rhinos in the Super League Grand Final. The...

Will Supreme Court make hoarders of us all?

If you buy an iPod or a phone, a book or a DVD, it’s currently legal to resell it, as thousands of eBay and Craigslist posts attest. However, as Jennifer Waters at MarketWatch reports, a little-known case “tucked into the U.S. Supreme Court’s agenda this fall could...

Report: Killer Van der Sloot expecting a baby with Peruvian woman

Joran van der Sloot is back in the news again, and just when people think there's no way his actions could shock them, he goes and does it again. The key suspect in the Natalee Holloway case is currently in prison for the murder of Stephany Flores, but a very different...

Previously unheard 1963 Beatles concert tape unveiled on BBC

British newspaper the News and Star reported Saturday that a previously unknown Beatles concert tape from 1963 taped by a fan was premiered in the UK by BBC Radio Cumbria. The tape, taken from a Nov. 21, 1963 concert by the Beatles at the ABC Cinema Carlisle. was taped by...

Consumer and Investor Confidence Soars Following Jobs Report

On Friday, the government reported a decline in the unemployment rate to 7.8%, the lowest level in more than three years. Over the weekend, consumer and investor confidence jumped to levels nearing the high water marks of 2012. The Rasmussen Consumer Index, which...

Mammoth carcass found in Siberia

A well-preserved mammoth carcass has been found by an 11-year-old boy in the permafrost of northern Siberia. The remains were discovered at the end of August in Sopochnaya Karga, 3,500km (2,200 miles) northeast of Moscow. A team of experts from St Petersburg then spent five...

Amplats fires 12,000 South African platinum miners

The world's biggest platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, has fired 12,000 striking South African miners after a protracted strike over wages. Amplats said three weeks of illegal strikes by 28,000 workers in Rustenburg had cost it 39,000 ounces in output - or 700m rand...

Pastors to defy IRS on political endorsements

This Sunday, around 1,400 pastors plan to make political endorsements in defiance of IRS laws about tax-exempt institutions, in an effort called “Pulpit Freedom Sunday.” From the Religion News Service: "“The IRS says tax-exempt organizations, or what they refer to...

Abu Hamza to be extradited to US

Five suspected terrorists including Abu Hamza al-Masri can be extradited to the US, ending a long legal battle, UK High Court judges have decided. The court ruled Abu Hamza, Babar Ahmad, Syed Talha Ahsan, Adel Abdul Bary and Khaled al-Fawwaz did not show "new and compelling"...