HERKIMER, N.Y. — A New York woman is accused of running over a bound man who she said promised her $180,000 if she ended his life, but police said they have no evidence he wanted to die. Francis Nelson, 74, was found dead, his hands and feet still tied, near his abandoned car on a [...]
New York City labor unions are preparing to back the unwieldy grassroots band occupying a park in Lower Manhattan, in a move that could mark a significant shift in the tenor of the anti-corporate Occupy Wall Street protests and send thousands more people into the streets. The Transit Workers Union Local 100′s executive committee, which [...]
BERLIN (AP) — Namibian tribal leaders were taking possession Friday of the skulls of 20 of their countrymen, taken by German colonial forces more than a century ago for racial experiments. The handing over of the skulls is a rare reminder of Germany’s short-lived past as a colonial power in Africa, which included the bloody suppression of a [...]
GENEVA (AP) — The U.N. human rights office on Friday questioned the fairness of a Bahrain court that sentenced an anti-government protester to death and gave lengthy prison sentences to medical staff who treated the injured during the country’s uprising. Bahrain’s military-run National Safety Court reportedly gave defendants and their lawyers little time to prepare, failed to investigate allegations of torture and conducted [...]
MADRID (AP) — Doctors are waiting to see if a baby cut from the belly of his mother in a Madrid church after she was shot dead has suffered brain damage, an official said Friday. The baby boy, delivered after his mother died in an apparently random attack, was in cardio-respiratory arrest at birth Thursday evening, [...]
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) — Meredith Kercher would have been 25. She would have finished her degree at Leeds University and perhaps been preparing for another Halloween, a day she loved. Instead, her family awaits an appeals verdict expected Oct. 3 against former roommate Amanda Knox, convicted along with the defendant’s former Italian boyfriend of murdering her four years [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – Facebook faces regulatory scrutiny in Ireland, site of its European headquarters, over its handling of personal information, the Financial Times reported on Friday. The newspaper said the Irish data protection commissioner is to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook’s activities outside the United States and Canada after complaints by European and U.S. [...]
Over the past two decades, Disney Channel has launched a whole host of young actors to fame. From the now grownup “The New Mickey Mouse Club” alumni group of Ryan Gosling, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera to the more recent tween icons like Hilary Duff, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez, the Mouse House [...]
And you thought Michael Scott was a bit unhinged. Now free to pursue movie roles full time, Steve Carell has been on a roll. He starred this summer in the romantic comedy “Crazy, Stupid, Love.” and just finished filming indie apocalypse dramedy “Seeking A Friend For The End of the World.” Now, as he shoots [...]
Adele has her sights on goals way bigger than mere gold trophies and platinum records. The British songstress, it seems, is intent on making every person with even a whisp of a soul break into uncontrollable sobs. The Grammy-winning, chart topping phenomenon has spent the last two years turning back the clock on pop music, [...]
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