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The mother who shot her four children and herself dead at her Port St. John, Fla., home on May 15 had two times the legal…

  via ITV News An 18-year-old girl from Heysham in Lancashire is seriously ill in hospital after drinking a cocktail made with liquid nitrogen. The drink, which was sold at a bar in Lancaster, also contained Jaegermeister. She was rushed to hospital where doctors had to remove her stomach to save her life. The girl […]

via CNN Britain’s public service broadcaster, the BBC, was caught up in a growing furor Saturday over claims that a late children’s TV presenter sexually abused young women and girls, sometimes on its premises, in the 1960s and 1970s. The abuse claims, which come almost a year after presenter Jimmy Savile died, were made by […]

via BBC News An outbreak of rare fungal meningitis in the US has now affected 47 people in seven states, health officials say. Doctors at about 75 medical clinics are being warned to alert patients who received suspect steroid injections. Five people have died from the illness, which the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has […]

Via BBC News A record $181m was raised in September for US President Barack Obama’s re-election bid, officials say. “This is by far our biggest month yet,” said campaign manager Jim Messina in an email to supporters. No September figures for Mr Obama’s Republican rival are available yet. Mr Obama narrowly beat Mitt Romney in […]