AP - Police say a man tried to cut off his own arm at a restaurant in Modesto, Calif., because he thought he had injected air into a vein while shooting cocaine and feared he would die unless he took drastic action.
AP - There’s no telling what might turn up in Lake Michigan.
Reuters - Japan’s Foreign Ministry denied on
Saturday media reports that Beijing had for the first time
acknowledged that pesticide-laced dumplings — at the heart of
a bilateral row — had probably been contaminated in China.
AP - A disposable diaper has saved the life of an 18-month-old boy, breaking his fall from a third-floor apartment window, officials said Thursday.
AP - It was an unusually honest ad for a live-in nanny, a 1,000-word tome beginning, “My kids are a pain.” But it worked, attracting a brave soul who’s never been a nanny before.
Reuters - Dog lovers beware.
Reuters - The Tower of Pisa is being
challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the
northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe’s most steeply leaning
tower.
Reuters - An Italian museum Thursday defied Pope
Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture
portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg
that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
Reuters - An Italian museum on Thursday defied Pope
Benedict and refused to remove a modern art sculpture
portraying a crucified green frog holding a beer mug and an egg
that the Vatican had condemned as blasphemous.
Reuters - The Tower of Pisa is being
challenged by a lesser-known 12th-century building in the
northern Dutch town of Bedum as Europe’s most steeply leaning
tower.