A British man helped deliver his baby son by following clips on YouTube, after his wife went into labour early, he said Friday. -He typed "how to deliver a baby" into the Google search engine." I didn't even have time to panic. She started complaining of pain around 10.30 pm. I went on G...
Font Size: Decrease Increase Print Page: Print Ruth Gledhill | May 02, 2009Article from: The AustralianAN eight-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia has won a divorce from her 50-year-old husband at the third attempt. The girl, who has not been named and who has been living with her mother in the city of On...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30511265/ ROME - The elderly man claimed he needed the oranges in his suitcase to keep up his vitamin C level, but Italian police soon realized the "C" stood for cocaine.Customs officers in Rome on Thursday arrested a 76-year-old Dutch man who tried to smu...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. military's primary focus needs to shift immediately from Iraq to Afghanistan, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Monday. "We remain committed to the mission we've been given in Iraq -- make no mistake. ... But Afghanistan has been an e...
EU economies will contract by 4% in 2009, the European Commission has forecast - more than twice what as it had predicted at the start of the year. The worsening of the global financial crisis, dropping levels of world trade and continuing house value falls had prompted the huge downgrade, it said. Eu...
Along with the Prom story, Saturday's LA Times also featured an article about "greenshirts" - high school seniors who have athletic aspirations at the collegiate level who graduate HS early so that they can join their future college team for spring practices. http://www.latimes.com...
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) Fast food chainMcDonald's lost a lawsuit in Malaysia on Wednesday after an appeals court overruled a decision that its trademark had been infringed by a local restaurant called McCurry. "Where the learned judge, with respect, erred is to assume that McDonald's had a m...
Have you ever watched a TV infomercial and thought: "Why didn't i think of that?" Now, there might be a way to capitalize on your next great idea, and you can thank the ultimate TV pitchman himself. The Marketing magnate Billy Mays is unmistakable with his black beard, khaki pants and blue s...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30504078/ NORTH EAST, Pa. - Police in northwestern Pennsylvania say they're stumped by a burglary: The thief took some jellybeans from a home but nothing else.Sgt. Mark Zaleski said it remains unclear whether the suspect wanted only jellybeans. Or maybe that's al...
SANTA MONICAA man is suing rapper and pop culture icon Snoop Dogg for $22 million in a case that is now in trial at the Santa Monica courthouse. Richard Monroe, Jr., claims that Snoop, whose legal name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus, as well as members of his entourage, physically assaulted him at a conc...
NAIROBI, Kenya (CNN) -- The fight for political reform in Kenya has moved into an unlikely venue -- the nation's bedrooms. Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki, left, is all smiles with PM Raila Odinga during last year's swearing-in ceremony but since then relations have soured. Activists in the East Afri...
MONEY stuffed in a woman's bra saved her life after she was shot aboard a bus in the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, local media reported today. The incident took place on Saturday in Bahia's capital, Salvador, where 58-year-old Ivonete Pereira was shot in the chest by one of two attackers who...
Supreme Court Justice David Souter plans to retire later this year, according to two media reports a move that would offer President Barack Obama his first chance to shape the Supreme Court in his own image. NPR and MSNBC both reported Souters retirement, with NPR saying he would step down at the end o...
Even though this is one of my articles, I wanted to know what you guys think: Egypt slaughtering all pigs to stop swine flu CAIRO The Egyptian government says it has begun slaughtering all pigs in the country as a precautionary measure against the possible spread of swine flu. The Health Ministry says...
The Eight Principles1. America is good. 2. I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday. 3. The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government. 4. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it. 5. I have a right to l...
(CNN) -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Friday he appreciated U.S. President Barack Obama's friendly gestures at last weekend's Summit of the Americas, but said they don't change his view of the United States as an imperialist nation. Hugo Chavez had handshakes and smiles for President Ob...
Quotes... "Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely."-Adam Smith from The Wealth of Nations"Communism deprives no man of the power to appropriate the products of society; all that it...
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/INSIDE-WASHINGTON-Rude-apf-15091434.html?.v=1WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Americans enjoying their small windfall from President Barack Obama's "Making Work Pay" tax credit are in for an unpleasant surprise next spring.The government is...
Soon, the neon lights of the Bund may run off electricity sent to Shanghai all the way from the Mongolian north. China is in the process of building three new ultra-high voltage (UHV) power lines to connect Shanghai to Huainan, in Anhui province, and Xilingol, in Inner Mongolia. The State Grid Corpo...
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