Alabama couple charged with rape in bid to impregnate girl
(Reuters) - An Alabama couple has been charged with raping a 17-year-old relative multiple times in an unsuccessful attempt to impregnate her so they could keep the baby, prosecutors said Monday. Jeremy and Amanda Swann, both 29-year-old residents of Jones, about 40 miles northwest of Montgomery,…
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ISIS an 'Incredible' Fighting Force, US Special Ops Sources Say
Official: 'They Operate Like a State With a Military'
Khat - Somalia's paradise flower (10 photos)
Grown on plantations in the highlands of Kenya and Ethiopia, tons of khat, or qat, dubbed "the flower of paradise" by its users, are flown daily into Mogadishu airport, to be distributed from there in convoys of trucks to markets across Somalia. Britain, whose large ethnic Somali community…
Russian military sources soldiers enter Ukraine 'by accident'
Russian military sources quoted by state agencies on Tuesday said that Russian troops captured by Kiev and shown on Ukrainian television had crossed the border accidentally. "The soldiers were really taking part in patrolling a section of the Russian-Ukrainian border, they crossed it most likely by…
India doctors remove foetus left inside mother for 36 years
Doctors in India have removed the skeleton of a foetus that had been inside a woman for 36 years in what is believed to be the world's longest ectopic pregnancy, a doctor has said. The 60-year-old woman became pregnant at the age of 24 but suffered a miscarriage because the foetus had been growing…
Iran 'will speed arming of Palestinians' after Israeli drone downed
Tehran will "accelerate" arming Palestinians in retaliation for Israel deploying a spy drone over Iran, which was shot down, a military commander said on Monday. Iran, which does not recognise the existence of Israel, has confirmed it supplied Palestinian fighters from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad…
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Woman, 75, gets life term for killing husband
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A judge in Wyoming sentenced a 75-year-old Missouri woman to life in prison on Monday for killing her husband with a rifle in the mid-1970s and throwing his body down the shaft of an abandoned gold mine, where it remained for nearly 40 years.
Two teens killed by Chicago police after pointing guns, police say
By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two teens were shot to death by Chicago police in separate incidents on Sunday after they refused to drop their guns and pointed them at officers, police and a police union spokesman said on Monday. In the first incident, gang enforcement officers responded to…
British Intelligence Reportedly IDs James Foley's Executioner
Intelligence officials from Britain's MI5 and MI6 agencies say they know the identity of "Jihad John," the man responsible for the beheading of American journalist James Foley, according to reports from news outlets in the U.K. Fox News also says American officials have corroborated those reports.…
Woman, 75, gets life for killing husband in Wyoming 40 years ago
An elderly Missouri woman convicted of killing her husband four decades ago and burying his body in an abandoned Wyoming gold mine was sentenced to life in prison by a Wyoming judge on Monday, a prosecutor said. Laramie County District Attorney Scott Homar had sought a minimum of 20 years in prison…
Experimental U.S. hypersonic weapon destroyed seconds after launch
By David Alexander and Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A hypersonic weapon being developed by the U.S. The mission was aborted to ensure public safety, and no one was injured in the incident, which occurred shortly after 4 a.m. EDT at the Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska, said Maureen Schumann,…
Not a good night for movie stars at Emmys
The Emmys welcomed plenty of movie stars to television's biggest awards show, including Julia Roberts, Woody Harrelson, Kevin Spacey, Mark Ruffalo and the reigning Oscar winner for best actor, Matthew McConaughey. All were sent home empty-handed.
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Man suffers burns when OnePlus One explodes in his back pocket
As exciting and intriguing as the CyanogenMod-powered OnePlus One might be, perhaps it’s a good thing that the phone is so difficult to purchase right now; with a relatively small number of OnePlus One handsets in the hands of the public, we already have out first report of an injury having been…
'Perfect storm' for Ebola to spread, says virus pioneer
Peter Piot, the Belgian scientist who co-discovered the Ebola virus in 1976, on Tuesday said a "perfect storm" in West Africa had given the disease a chance to spread unchecked. "We have never seen an (Ebola) epidemic on this scale," Piot was quoted by the French daily Liberation as saying. "In the…
Billy Crystal remembers Robin Williams at Emmys
Billy Crystal, left speechless by Robin Williams' death, paid tribute to his great friend and comedy brother at the Emmy Awards, movingly remembering him as "the greatest friend you could ever imagine."
The U.S. Had No Idea Egypt and U.A.E. Were Going to Bomb Libya
Egypt and the United Arab Emirates secretly teamed up to launch two airstrikes against Islamist forces in Libya.
Notting Hill Carnival (44 photos)
Despite the bad weather over one million visitors are expected to attend the two-day event which is the largest of its kind in Europe. The event has taken place on the West London streets every August Bank Holiday weekend since 1964. The annual celebration sees a five-kilometer (three-mile) route…
Great white shark spotted off beach in Massachusetts
Swimmers ordered out of the water at beach in Duxbury after shark was spotted by state police helicopter
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Deal reached to end deadly Brazil riot
Brazilian authorities reached a deal with rioting prisoners Monday who killed four fellow inmates, beheading two of them, and held two guards hostage. Elson Faxina, a spokesman for the Parana state attorney's office, said an agreement was signed to end the uprising at the Cascavel city correctional…
