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Severe Storms Pound Virginia, North Carolina
By DENA POTTER Associated Press Writer, April, 28, 2008 - RICHMOND, Va.—Authorities say one person has died and at least 200 injured as severe storms cut through central and southeastern Virginia and North Carolina. A total of 6 tornadoes were reported to have touched down.

Do-it-yourself Body Piercing Lands Teen in Hospital Seriously ILL
By Russ Pulley, The Kansas City Star, 5-8-2008 - A student who tried to pierce his lower lip is being treated at Children’s Mercy Hospital for a drug-resistant staph infection that nearly cost the boy his life. Zeke Wheeler, 15, a student at the Blue Springs Freshman Center, has undergone several surgeries to remove infected parts of his knees and hips. Now he faces the prospect of heart surgery, much more hospitalization and a long course of antibiotics.

Clinton Staffers Circulate 'Dressed' Obama
Feb. 25, 2008, Drudge Report (drudgereport.com)
With a week to go until the Texas and Ohio primaries, stressed Clinton staffers circulated a photo over the weekend of a "dressed" Barack Obama. The photo, taken in 2006, shows the Democrat frontrunner fitted as a Somali Elder, during his visit to Wajir, a rural area in northeastern Kenya. The senator was on a five-country tour of Africa.

World Flooding in Arkansas in over 25 Years

An aerial view of a flooded neighborhood is seen, Friday, March 21, 2008 over Newport, Ark. The storms began Monday and by Wednesday night up to a foot of rain had fallen across northern Arkansas.

Pope Meets with Kosovo's President

Pope Benedict XVI exchanges gifts with Kosovo's President Fatmir Sejdiu during their meeting at the Vatican February 2, 2008. Pope Benedict met Sejdiu on Saturday in a private audience where he asked about the future of the breakaway Serbian province which is expected to declare independence in the next few weeks.

China Storms Cause $7.5B in Damages
February 1, 2008, BEIJING - A winter storm dumped snow and has closed the Luohuo expressway for 8 days, local media reported. Three weeks of crippling snow storms across China have inflicted $7.5 billion in damages, the government said Friday, as it announced a $700 million relief fund for farmers. (Assosiated Press, Christopher Bodeen)  

 Kenya's Rift Valley burns, death toll soars
January 31, 2008,NAIVASHA, Kenya (Reuters) - Machete-wielding mobs faced off in Kenya's Rift Valley on Monday and the death toll climbed to nearly 100 people in the latest bout of ethnic violence touched off by a disputed election. In the worst incident of the latest flare-up, 19 people were burned to death locked inside a house in Naivasha on Sunday, police officer Grace Kakai told Reuters.

Bird flu death toll in Indonesia rises to 102
January 28, 2008, Indonesia - The woman, who was hospitalized with bird flu symptoms two weeks ago, died late on Thursday of multiple organ failure. Enquiries revealed that she had visited a poultry market prior to falling ill. The death is the fourth in the past week in the southeast Asian country after a 32 year-old man, a 23 year-old woman and a nine-year-old boy died of H5N1 infection.Indonesia has the world's highest human death toll from bird flu. The disease broke out in the archipelago in 2003.A 32 year-old woman has died from the H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus in Jakarta, bringing Indonesia's death toll from the virus to 102, China's Xinhua news agency reported on Friday. (Associated Press)

Kenya death toll rises to 103

Pope Meets With the President of France

Pope Benedict XVI (L) poses with France's President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Vatican December 20, 2007. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (VATICAN)

Pakistan's former Prime Minister Assassinated

RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated Thursday after addressing a large gathering of her supporters. Bhutto died of a gunshot wound to the neck, the Pakistani Interior Ministry said. The attacker then blew himself up. The bomb attack killed at least 22 others, doctors said.

Is UK turning into a Catholic country?

Reuters News - December 24, 2007 - LONDON: Roman Catholics have overtaken Anglicans as the UK's dominant religious group. More people now attend Mass every Sunday than worship with the Church of England, according to latest published figures. Despite England's official break with the pope in Rome during Henry VIII's reign more than 400 years ago, making Anglicanism and the Church of England dominant, Catholicism is now the most practiced faith in the land. A survey by the group Christian Research published in the ‘Sunday Telegraph' showed that around 862,000 worshippers attended Catholic Mass each week in 2006, exceeding the 852,000 who went to Church of England services.  

Deal-toll Stands at 105 in China Mine Blast

Chinese miners help with the rescue operation in the flooded Zhangzhuang mine in eastern Shandong province, August 2007. The death toll from China's latest major coal mine disaster rose to 105 on Friday, official media said, as hope for survivors dwindled and anger mounted over a litany of mistakes that led to the tragedy.

More Young People are Contracting Aids

FRIDAY, Nov. 30 (HealthDay News) -- In the 26 years since scientists first spotted AIDS in America, millions of dollars have been poured into outreach efforts aimed at keeping young people clear of HIV, the virus that causes the disease. But on the eve of World AIDS Day, a disturbing statistical fact has emerged in this country: The number of newly infected teens and young adults is suddenly on the rise.

4,000 Dead, Millions Displaces after Cyclone

Nov. 29, 2007 - The final toll from Cyclone Sidr was likely to be more than 4,000 as hundreds of fishermen are still missing in Bangladesh, the army said on Thursday. Armed forces spokesperson Lieutenant Colonel Faruque Hussain, giving updated figures, said 3, 256 bodies had been found and that 880 people were missing and feared dead. An estimated 360 000 people have been left homeless with 4,7-million people affected. (AFP/Farjana Khan Godhuly)

Deadly Superbug is Cause for Concern

Oct. 23, 2007, CBS News - More than 90,000 Americans get potentially deadly infections each year from a drug-resistant staph "superbug," the government reported Tuesday in its first overall estimate of invasive disease caused by the germ. Deaths tied to these infections may exceed those caused by AIDS, said one public health expert commenting on the new study. In recent years, the resistant germ has become more common in hospitals and it has been spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and in poor urban neighborhoods. A county in southern Virginia closed its 21 schools on Wednesday to clean them to prevent the spread of a dangerous bacterial infection that killed a 17-year-old high school student, officials said.

Study: Low-fat diet may cut cancer risk

By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer Tue Oct 9, 2007
WASHINGTON - Cutting dietary fat may also cut the risk of ovarian cancer, says a study of almost 40,000 older women that found the first hard evidence that menu changes protect against this particularly lethal cancer.But don't wait too long to get started: The protection didn't kick in until the women had eaten less fat for four years and counting. 

Pope Meets With Mexican Politicians

Pope Benedict XVI poses with Catholic politicians of the Centrist Democrat International (IDC), including their president Pier Ferdinando Casini (3rd R) and Mexico's former president Vicente Fox (2nd R) and his wife Marta Sahagun (R), at the Pope's summer residence of Castelgandolfo near Rome September 21, 2007. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (ITALY)

Death-toll at 71 amid Fears of Deadly Disease Outbreak

A man on a small boat passes flooded houses at the Gia Lac commune, in the district of Gia Vien, in the northern province of Ninh Binh, on 09 October 2007. The death toll from Vietnam's typhoon and floods has reached 71, with 15 people listed as missing, amid rising fears of disease outbreaks in water-logged areas, officials said Wednesday.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)

200 Protesters Killed by Myanmar Government

Sept. 28, 2007 - YANGON, Myanmar - Soldiers clubbed and dragged away activists while firing tear gas and warning shots to break up demonstrations Friday before they could grow, and the government cut Internet access, raising fears that a deadly crackdown was set to intensify.The Washington-based dissident group, U.S. Campaign for Burma, said about 200 protesters were killed and scores more arrested and beaten. The bloodiest day was Thursday, when troops opened fire into a crowd. (Associated Press).

California Wild Fires Destroy 14,000 Acres

September 19, 2007 - Firefighters are bracing for flare-ups today as forecasters predict wind gusts up to 35 miles per hour. A U.S. Forest Service spokesman says about 340 residents of the Fawnskin area remain evacuated. Voluntary evacuations were called off in the Green Valley Lake, Lucerne Valley, Running Springs and Arrowbear communities. The blaze has charred just over 14,000 acres and is 86 percent contained.

Pope Meets With Sudan's President

Pope Benedict VI talks with Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir during a private audience at the Vatican Friday, Sept. 14, 2007. President Omar al-Bashir, who came to power in 1989 in a military and Islamic coup, arrived in Rome a few weeks before the expected deployment of an international peacekeeping force to try to improve the security situation in the war-ravaged western Sudanese region of Darfur. More than 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been uprooted. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano/h.o.)

More than 40 Dead, Scores Mission

September 5, 2007 - PUERTO CABEZAS, Nicaragua - The death toll from Hurricane Felix rose to more than 40 on Thursday as rescuers searched the seas and civil defense workers reached isolated communities devastated by the Category 5 storm. Scores of others remained missing. The ocean was filled with debris, preventing a rescue mission from coming ashore in Sandy Bay, where the eye of Felix made landfall Tuesday with catastrophic 160 mph winds and a storm surge estimated at 18 feet above normal tides.

Israeli President Shimon Peres Meets Pope Benedict XVI

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI welcomes Israeli President Shimon Peres for their private audience at the pope's summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, on the outskirts of Rome, Thursday, Sept. 6, 2007. The 35-minute meeting between Benedict and Peres was the first since the veteran statesman and Nobel Peace Prize laureate became president in July. It came amid an international push for peace in the Middle East. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, HO)

 8 killed, 80 Injured when trains collide near Rio
By PETER MUELLO, Associated Press Writer

August 31, 2007 - RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - A speeding train carrying hundreds of commuters slammed into an empty train near Rio de Janeiro on Thursday, killing eight people and injuring more than 80, officials said.The commuter train was traveling at nearly 60 mph when it slammed into the rear end of an empty six-car train maneuvering slowly from one track to another, the Supervia company that runs the train said. (AP Photo/Marcelo Carnaval, O Globo)

Hurricane Makes a Direct Hit in Mexico
August 23, 2007, Mexico - Hurricane Dean ripped into Mexico's Gulf coast on Wednesday with screaming winds and torrential rain that killed two people, flooded towns and forced thousands into shelters, but then weakened rapidly. The total number of killed in Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico and other parts of the Caribbean stood at 19. (Reuters News)

Infectious diseases spreading faster than ever
By Laura MacInnis, Reuters News
Wed Aug 24, 2007 - GENEVA - Infectious diseases are emerging more quickly around the globe, spreading faster and becoming increasingly difficult to treat, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. In its annual World Health Report, the United Nations agency warned there was a good possibility that another major scourge like AIDS, SARS or Ebola fever with the potential of killing millions would appear in the coming years.

Plane Explodes, One Dead

A China Airlines airplane burns after an explosion in Naha on Japan's southern island of Okinawa August 20, 2007. The left engine of a Boeing 737-800 jet belonging to Taiwan-based China Airlines exploded shortly after arrival in Naha city from Taipei, ripping the plane apart, officials and witnesses said, but all 165 passengers and crew escaped safely. REUTERS/Kyodo (JAPAN) JAPAN OUT

Vietnam storm death toll reaches 74

Aug. 16-2007 - HANOI - Vietnam rushed more food aid and donations on Monday to victims in the central region, where 74 people have died from floods caused by a tropical storm last week, officials said on Monday. Officials said that along with food, clean water was a priority for flood victims now, because water supplies have been polluted with mud, garbage and the carcasses of dead livestock.

Outage that left 17,000 passengers stranded at LAX traced to malfunctioning Computer

LA Times, 8-16-2007 - LOS ANGELES - The outage that left some 17,000 international passengers stranded on airplanes at LAX over the weekend has been traced to a malfunctioning network interface card on a single U.S. Customs desktop computer, it was reported today.The card, which allows computers to connect to a local area network, experienced a partial failure that started about 12:50 p.m. Saturday, slowing down the system, Jennifer Connors, a chief in the office of field operations for the Customs and Border Protection agency, told the Los Angeles Times.

3 Church Elders Shot to Death During Service

Associated Press - Aug. 13, 2007 - Missouri - Prosecutors on Monday filed three murder charges against a Micronesian man accused of opening fire inside of a church, killing three people and wounding five others during a worship service. Prosecutors also charged the man, Eiken Elam Saimon, 52, with assault, felonious restraint for holding the congregation hostage. Saimon was not related or known to the congregation.

13 Confirmed Dead after Bridge Collapse 

August 10, 2007 - Emergency personnel survey the remains of the collapsed I-35W bridge that spans the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota. At least five people were killed and 110 injured and 8 people are still missing when the Interstate 35W bridge plummeted more than 60 feet into the Mississippi River on Wednesday afternoon. (REUTERS/Scott Cohen) (Click for more news).

Man Cuts off Hand for Hindu Goddess Offering

August 1, 2007 - KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A 23-year-old Nepali man cut off his right hand after morning prayers and offered it to Kali, the Hindu goddess of power, the Annapurna Post local daily said on Wednesday. More than 80 percent of Nepal's 26 million people are Hindus who frequently sacrifice animals such as goats, buffaloes and roosters in temples.

Democrats Embrace Gay Agenda
August 2, 2007, by Ben Smith [politico.com] Supporters of gay rights see a dramatic shift in their relationship to the party, a move from being a controversial minority courted only in the primary toward being an integral part of the Democratic coalition. "We've moved from being just an issue to being a broader constituency," said Fred Hochberg, a gay activist and former Clinton appointee who backs Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) "We've moved from (candidates saying), 'All right, I've got to handle this issue,' to (being) a community whose interests are part of a broader fabric of America."

Worst Flood in England in Over 60 Years

A bridge emerges from flood water near Tewkesbury, England, Monday July 23, 2007. Torrential rain sweeping through large parts of Britain continued to cause disruption across the country, with warnings that water levels could rise to critical levels. Thousands of homes have already been evacuated because of flooding as a barrage of unseasonable wet weather shows little sign of abating, with more than 48,000 homes in the counties of Gloucestershire and Herefordshire in western England, left without electricity, food, and fresh drinking water after a flooded power station had to be shut down.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

48 Injured during Bangkok Riots

Police officers and protesters were injured when as many as 5,000 demonstrators, some throwing rocks and stones, attacked barricades outside the home of Prem Tinsulanonda, head of the king's privy council, late yesterday. Anti-coup government demonstrators clash with Bangkok police Sunday, July 22, 2007, during a demonstration. Demonstrators clashed with police outside the house of former Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, who they accuse of instigating last year's coup against former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. (AP Photo/Sakchai Lalit)

Poisoned Food Recalled in the U.S.

Four cases of botulism poisoning in Texas and Indiana have caused nationwide recall of tens of millions of cans of chili, chili sauce, beef stew, corned beef and dog food, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said Monday. Georgia-based Castleberry Food Co., a subsidiary of Bumble Bee Seafoods, first issued a recall Wednesday after the botulism cases were traced back to its Hot Dog Chili Sauce Original. Nine other products also were included in that recall.

63 Forest Fires Started in One Weekend

Firemen stand in front of a blaze in Mount Parnitha National Park, some 20 kilometers northwest of Athens in June 2007. Some 63 forest fires broke out in Greece over the weekend, firefighters said Sunday amid soaring temperatures that forecasters warned were set to continue until the end of the week.(AFP/File/Aris Messinis )

Barack Hussein Obama Wants Your Kindergarteners to Know About Sex

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." ABCnews.com

NY Explosion Created Terrorism-Related Panic

Fire and emergency crews responded to the scene of a suspected steam pipe explosion near Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, said officials. The New York Police Department said a steam pipe exploded, and had no immediate detail on possible injuries. The NYPD said it does not appear to be terrorism-related. Steam shot into the air from a gaping hole in ...July 19, 2007. (REUTERS/Brendan McDermid)

Spiritualism Seeps into the United States Senate

By Charles Babington, Associated Press, July 12, 2007 - Rajan Zed, a Hindu clergyman from Hindu Temple in Reno, Nev.,  made history Thursday by offering the Senate's morning prayer, but only after police officers removed three shouting protesters from the visitors' gallery.  Zed, the first Hindu to offer the Senate prayer, began: "We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the Earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the heaven."

Paisley Attacks Pope for “Un-Churching” other Christians

July 12, 2007, Ireland Online (www.online.ie) - Ian Paisley, has launched a strong attack on Pope Benedict XVI. Mr Paisley is accusing the Pope of excommunicating every non-Catholic Christian and said Rome has not changed from its devilish ways. Mr Paisley, the founder and head of the fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church, said Pope Benedict had celebrated July 12 by un-churching every denomination in Christendom excepting his own. He had, said Mr Paisley, declared the Church of Rome alone was sole true church and all others were "not Churches in the proper sense of the word" but merely religious associations.

Over 200 Feared Dead in Brazilian Plane Crash

Firefighters try to extiguish the fire around the wreckage of a TAM Brazilian A320 aircraft that crashed while landing at Congonhas airport in Sao Paulo. The United States on Wednesday extended condolences to the people of Brazil over a plane crash that left more than 200 feared dead, calling it a "terrible tragedy." (AFP/Everton De Freitas) 

Over 100,000 without Power After Typhoon

Surging waves hit the shore line as strong wind blows over the Amami Oshima island, southern Japan following the approach of a powerful typhoon Man-Yi, Friday, July 13, 2007. A powerful typhoon pounded Japan's southern Okinawa island chain Friday, injuring residents, cutting power to tens of thousands of households and grounding hundreds of flights, officials said. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)

"Other Christian  are not True Churches" Says Pope

By Nicole Winfield, The Associated Press, July 10, 2007 - Pope Benedict XVI reasserted the primacy of the Roman Catholic Church, approving a document released Tuesday that says other Christian communities are either defective or not true churches and Catholicism provides the only true path to salvation. Despite the harsh tone, the document stressed that Benedict remains committed to ecumenical dialogue.

Over 1000 Students Clash with Police

July 5, 2007 - Fresh clashes erupted at Pakistan's besieged Red Mosque, where "terrorists" were said to be holding women and children as human shields despite calls from its captured leader to surrender. The militants students are protesting the arrest of one of Pakistani's radical clerics. ((AFP/Farooq Naeem)

Record flooding affects Homes and Businesses in Kansas

Aerial view shows oil spill from Coffeyville Resources refinery in the Verdigris River in Coffeyville, Kansas July 2, 2007. Much of Kansas was swamped with waters that rose more than 30 feet.  (Cindy Price/The Coffeyville Journal/Handout/Reuters)

Terrorists Attempt to Blow up Airport in England

Two men slammed a Jeep SUV filled with gasoline canisters into the departure doors of Glasgow airport in Liverpool, turning the vehicle into a potentially lethal fireball. Police said one of the two suspects in the Glasgow attack had been seriously burned and had been found to be wearing a "suspicious device" when he was taken to a hospital for treatment. REUTERS/Chris McNulty/Daily Mail/Pool (BRITAIN)

Monsoon death toll in India nears 500
July 5, 2007 - The death toll from this year's monsoon in India has climbed to almost 500. The western state of Maharashtra has suffered the highest number of casualties. The death toll there currently stands at 358. Meanwhile, volunteers and government officials have been using boats to hand out rice and drinking water to thousands of people stranded in their homes in India's eastern city of Kolkata. (Desmond Boylan/Reuters)

Zimbabwe Archbishop Calls for Overthrow of Government

Bulwayo, Jul. 2, 2007 (CWNews.com) - Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, has openly called for the overthrow of the government led by President Robert Mugabe. In an interview with the Sunday Times of London the archbishop said: "I think that it is justified for Britain to raid Zimbabwe and remove Mugabe." Archbishop Ncube later told BBC that he while he suggested intervention by Great Britain, the former colonial ruler of the African country, he could justify action by any other power, to ease the suffering of the people of Zimbabwe. Some action is required, he said, to oust "a government which is ready to sacrifice the lives of its people."

 Hundreds of Thousands Homeless, 76 Dead

People wade through a flooded street in Liuzhou, China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 28, 2007. Hundreds of thousands of people were homeless across southern China after flooding that has so far killed at least 76, destroyed homes and ruined crops, and more heavy rains were forecast for the days ahead. REUTERS/China Daily.

At Least 11 Dead after Texas Floods

A firefighter walks through a pile of rubble caused by flood waters in Haltom City, Texas, June 27, 2007. Storms dumped up to 18 inches of rain on parts of central Texas, flooding several towns and stranding dozens of people on rooftops, cars and in trees Wednesday. No fatalities were immediately reported in the latest in a series of storms blamed for at least 11 deaths in the past week and a half.  REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi

200 Homes Destroyed in Lake Tahoe Fire

LAKE TAHOE, Calif., June 28 (UPI) -- Officials ruled a 3,000-acre fire that has destroyed 200 homes near Lake Tahoe, Calif., was caused by human activity. Investigators didn't know exactly what sparked the wildfire, which officials said was about 55 percent contained Wednesday, the South Lake Tahoe (Calif.) Daily Tribune reported.

Iranians Protest Gas Rations

Iranians burn gas stations during a protest against gas-rationing in Tehran, Iran on early Wednesday June, 27, 2007. Angry Iranians attacked several gas stations in protest after the government suddenly began long-threatened fuel rationing, while many others rushed to fill their tanks. The Oil Ministry announced the start of rationing Tuesday night only three hours before it was due to begin at midnight. (AP photo)

 Texas Mob Kills Man After Car Accident
Associated Press, June 21, 2007 - A crowd beat a man to death on Tuesday after a vehicle he was riding in struck and injured a 4-year-old child in Austin, the police said. Investigators were struggling to piece together what happened when the man, David Rivas Morales, died defending the driver from members of the crowd. There could have been 2 to 20 attackers, said a police commander, Harold Piatt. The car in which Mr. Morales, 40, was a passenger had entered an apartment complex’s parking lot when it struck the child, Commander Piatt said. The driver got out to check on the child and was confronted by several people, Commander Piatt said.

 Anglicans, Lutherans to debate same-sex rights
By Douglas Todd, Vancouver Sun, June 20, 2007 - The Anglican church and the Evangelical Lutheran church are gathering in this warm Prairie city for the next three days to make contentious decisions over how far to go to sanction homosexual relationships. The two churches, which together count almost one million members in Canada, will be debating pro-homosexual proposals that are anathema to many of their denominations' conservative adherents, both in Canada and especially in Africa, where the denomination is expanding rapidly. 

Nine Firefighters Die in Deadly Fire

Two firefighters mourn the loss of nine Charleston area firefighters who died fighting a fire at the Sofa Super Store in Charleston, S.C., Tuesday, June 19, 2007. The fire began Monday evening at the furniture warehouse. Two employees were rescued. (AP Photo/Alice Keeney)

Mudslides, lightning Kill more than 134

June 14, 2007 - Bangladeshi people gather as rescue workers search for the bodies of landslides victims, in Chittagong. Emergency workers dug through piles of mud looking for more bodies in southeastern Bangladesh Wednesday as the death toll from landslides and storms rose to at least 134 here, officials said.(AFP/Jaber Alam)

FBI Finds It Frequently Overstepped in Collecting Data
Thursday, June 14, 2007 - An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited bipartisan congressional criticism. (By John Solomon, Washington Post Staff Writer).

Rush-Hour Blast In Nairobi Kills 2, Wounds Dozens
NAIROBI, June 11 - A bomb exploded at a downtown bus stop here early Monday morning, killing two people, injuring more than 35 and sending out a shock wave that hurled glass, shrapnel and bodies into the air, witnesses and officials said. There was no immediate assertion of responsibility.

Seafood Imports from China Raised in Untreated Sewage
June 5, 2007 - Fish products consumed by Americans are being treated with dangerous drugs and chemicals. China, the leading exporter of seafood to the U.S., is raising most of its fish products in water contaminated with raw sewage and compensating by using dangerous drugs and chemicals, many of which are banned by the Food and Drug Administration. (By Joseph Farah, WorldNetDaily.com)

History's worst mass killer gets Hollywood makeover
June 4, 2007 - A man who is believed to have killed up to 100 million people in his life is to be the subject of a positive $60 million biographical film portrait, if a Hollywood producer gets his way. "Challenging Heaven" by Steven North will tell the story of the founding