This harrowing picture shows an X-ray of a 15-year-old boy’s skull after a five inch knife was plunged into his head.

Amazingly the teenager survived the stabbing and ten months on from the attack… Continue reading

A mother told police that child-sized human remains uncovered in her basement freezer were those of her two adopted daughters, and police believe that she is responsible for their deaths.

The House failed to pass a $700 billion economic bailout package Monday, sending lawmakers back to the drawing table to try to stave off an economic collapse, and the stock market plummeted on… Continue reading

WASHINGTON — More than 90 percent of nursing homes were cited for violations of federal health and safety standards last year, and for-profit homes were more… Continue reading

The polypill, which contains four different drugs, is set to go into clinical trials… Continue reading

Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) reports from the floor of the House that the Republicans have been cut out of the process and called unpatriotic for not blindly supporting the fraudulent bailout. He says the only… Continue reading

Drinking water supplies are to be tested for the presence of prescription drugs amid fears that rivers are being contaminated by the growing quantity of pharmaceuticals flushed unwittingly down the drain.

The Government has commissioned… Continue reading

Rash of government warnings fails to deter effort to sue dairies, officials

Chinese lawyers seeking redress for infant victims of toxic milk say they are facing growing official pressure to abandon the efforts, blaming… Continue reading

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva blamed the United States for the global financial crisis and said its financial bailout plan was unfair to poor people.

U.S. lawmakers on Sunday were set to… Continue reading

Sorry PotBelly Sandwich Works customers, you can’t order the Chicken Salad Sandwich unless you qualify for a mortgage. Ashley’s husband thought his usual lunchtime meal cost $4.23, but, as his wife discovered when… Continue reading

The disclosure comes as official figures show that nearly 60 children aged 15 or under have been rescued by… Continue reading

East Lancashire’s leading public health expert has backed proposals to add fluoride to the region’s drinking water.

Dr Ellis Friedman, director of public health for NHS East Lancashire, said it would be unethical not… Continue reading

What Lincoln would have said to Paulson’s $700 Billion Ransom

“These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with… Continue reading

I think I am probably going to die any minute now. An inflamed, deceived mob of about 50 desperate men are crowding round the car, some trying to… Continue reading

Dede, now 35, baffled medical experts when warty “roots” began growing out of his arms and feet after he cut his knee in a teenage accident.

The welts spread across his body… Continue reading

LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A Texas jury acquitted a man accused of killing a boy who broke into his home looking for a snack — a case that sparked outrage in this border city, where… Continue reading

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Matt Blunt today issued the following statement on news reports that have exposed plans by U.S. Senator Barack Obama to use Missouri law enforcement to threaten and intimidate his critics.… Continue reading

A 59-year-old woman turned her Cotswold cottage into a sophisticated cannabis

Responding to increasing Internet privacy concerns, AT&T (NYSE:T), Verizon (NYSE:VZ) and Time Warner (NYSE:TWX), the country’s largest ISPs, told a Senate committee during a hearing Thursday that they don’t engage… Continue reading

HTML clipboardJapan and Germany make cars. Saudi Arabia pumps oil. China supplies the world with socks and toys and flat-screen TVs. What does the United States produce? Lots of stuff, but in recent… Continue reading

If you live in a state bordering Canada or Mexico, you may soon be given an opportunity to carry a very high tech item: a remotely readable driver’s license. Designed to identify U.S. citizens as… Continue reading

It’s not every day that a superpower makes a bid to transform itself into a Third World nation, and we here at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund want to be among the… Continue reading

Testing prompted by an Associated Press story that revealed trace amounts of pharmaceuticals in drinking water supplies has shown that more Americans are affected by the problem than previously thought — at least… Continue reading

Authorities are investigating the death of a baby in a hot minivan in northeast Georgia after being left in the vehicle by her foster mother.

Chief Deputy David Cochran… Continue reading

Gardasil, the cervical cancer vaccine, which is being advised for all young women, may be causing pancreatitis, a painful, debilitating disease that can be fatal. Australian sources reported that three women developed pancreatitis… Continue reading

Did Muammar Gaddafi fall down and bump his head? He does not seem to be thinking logically — that is logically for a Wall Street banker.

“Speaking during celebrations to mark 39 years in power… Continue reading