AP - Prosecutors say a former Souderton resident posed as a music mogul on an Internet dating site and swindled more than $100,000 from 13 women all around the country.
Reuters - Gordon Brown has taken to “cold calling”
members of the general public, newspapers reported on Friday,
in the latest charm offensive aimed at restoring his battered
popularity.
Reuters - U.S. customs officials
have seized a statue of Jesus Christ made from plaster mixed
with cocaine — the latest sophisticated attempt to smuggle
drugs from Mexico.
AP - The view along Illinois highways this summer should be beautiful ? for the turkey vultures.
Reuters - An Indonesian businessman will throw
100 million rupiah (5,429 pounds) from an airplane on Sunday as
part of a marketing ploy for his second book, organisers said.
AP - The Kiss Army fan club has an enthusiastic new recruit: Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. In a departure from her normally staid diplomatic duties, Rice met the legendary glam rock quartet when they happened to share a hotel in the Swedish capital. Rice was in Stockholm on Thursday for an international conference on […]
Reuters - A computer has been trained to
“read” people’s minds by looking at scans of their brains as
they thought about specific words, researchers said on
Thursday.
Reuters - A Fox News employee who says she
suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after being bitten
by bedbugs at work filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the
owner of the Manhattan office tower where she worked.
Reuters - Tiny freshwater organisms that have
amazed scientists because of their sex-free lifestyle may have
survived so well because they steal genes from other creatures,
scientists reported on Thursday.
Reuters - A New York lawyer is suing Delta Air
Lines for $1 million, saying his family vacation turned into a
nightmare after they were stranded in an airport for days and
treated disdainfully by airline employees.