Groom Leaves Bride After Her Wedding Joke
This apparent wedding joke did not go over well with the groom.
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Ebola-carrying bats may be heroes as well as villains
By Ben Hirschler LONDON (Reuters) - Bats are living up to their frightening reputation in the world's worst Ebola outbreak as prime suspects for spreading the deadly virus to humans, but scientists believe they may also shed valuable light on fighting infection. Bats can carry more than 100…
Nigerian extremist says kidnapped girls married
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — With a malevolent laugh, the leader of Nigeria's Islamic extremists tells the world that more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls have all been converted to Islam and married off, dashing hopes for their freedom.
Court hears 'born in Jerusalem' passport case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The first time Menachem Zivotofsky's case was before the Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer laid out why courts should stay out of a dispute between Congress and the president over whether Americans born in Jerusalem may list Israel as their place of birth on passports.
Iraqi officials: IS extremists line up and kill 50
BAGHDAD (AP) — Islamic State group extremists lined up and shot dead at least 50 tribesmen and women in Iraq's Anbar province, officials said Saturday, the latest mass killing committed by the group.
Photos of the day - October 31, 2014 (21 photos)
A polar bear eats a pumpkin during Halloween celebration in the Tiergarten Schoenbrunn zoo in Vienna, Palestinians pray as Israeli police officers stand guard during Friday prayers in East Jerusalem and Eric Frein is escorted by police into the Pike County Courthouse for his arraignment in Milford,…
Four dead, 1 rescued from capsized boat in Northern California
(Reuters) - Four people died and one person was rescued by helicopter after their boat capsized on Saturday in a Northern California bay known to have rough waters, officials said. The U.S. Coast Guard in San Francisco was notified around 10 a.m. local time about the capsized vessel and the…
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'We just had a hunch': US marshals nab Eric Frein
MOUNTAINHOME, Pa. (AP) — Scott Malkowski, a task force commander with the U.S. Marshals Service, spied a figure moving from the woods toward an abandoned airplane hangar in the Pocono Mountains. Looking at his face, his black hat and fleece, and his height and weight, Malkowski was certain he had…
British-Iranian volleyball woman gets one year in jail
A Tehran court has jailed for one year a British-Iranian woman who was arrested after trying to attend a volleyball match, in a decision condemned Sunday as an outrage. The case of Ghoncheh Ghavami, a 25-year-old law graduate from London, has drawn considerable attention because of her dual…
India's fading Chinese community faces painful war past
Suspected of being a spy or a China sympathiser, nine-year-old Indian-born Monica Liu and her family were loaded into railway cars for a detention camp in India's Rajasthan desert. Liu was one of about 3,000 people of Chinese descent, most of them Indian citizens, rounded up and held at the fenced…
Mike Tyson says he was sexually abused as a child
Los Angeles (AFP) - Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson was sexually abused when he was seven years old by a stranger on the street, he told US radio.
Kentucky man charged with killing parents, sister
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man was charged Friday with killing his parents, his sister and an acquaintance nearly a week after the four were found shot to death in southwestern Kentucky.
Third victim in Washington state school shooting rampage dies
By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A girl shot during a rampage at a Washington state high school last week that left two other girls dead along with the gunman has died from her wounds, Providence Regional Medical Center in Everett said on Friday. Shaylee Chuckulnaskit, 14, died at 4:45 p.m.…
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Woman Found Dead In Home
The local police homicide unit is investigating the mysterious death of a woman found in her home with traumatic injuries.
'Plastic' Halloween skulls found in Connecticut are human remains
By Richard Weizel MILFORD Conn. (Reuters) - A pair of Connecticut junk haulers was stunned to learn on Friday that two skulls picked up at the cluttered home of a deceased man on the day before Halloween were human remains, not made of plastic as they had thought. The skulls were among thousands of…
Report says 60,000 veterans get triple benefits
WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly 60,000 veterans were triple dippers last year, drawing a total of $3.5 billion in military retirement pay plus veterans and Social Security disability benefits at the same time, congressional auditors report.
Father of 'Canadian Psycho' tells of troubled childhood
The father, whose name was not released because of a court order, said Luka Rocco Magnotta had grown up in the absence of normal social ties. Magnotta has admitted to the underlying facts in the case, including killing 33-year-old Lin Jun. His attorney has said Magnotta is schizophrenic and has…
Three trick-or-treating teenage girls killed in California hit and run
(Reuters) - Three teenage girls were killed while trick-or-treating in southern California on Friday evening when they were struck by a hit-and-run driver, authorities said. The girls, ranging in age from 13 to 15, were in costume and carrying candy bags when they were hit while walking across a…
US man found strangled in Dominican Republic
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A 55-year-old American was found strangled in his apartment in the Dominican Republic's capital, authorities said Saturday.
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Mexico police questioned in killing of 3 Americans
MATAMOROS, Mexico (AP) — Authorities were investigating on Friday a possible police connection to the killing of three U.S. citizens visiting their father in Mexico who were found shot to death along with a Mexican friend more than two weeks after going missing.
