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A lethal combination of strong dry winds and brush fires created a stunning, if slightly terrifying,‘fire tornado‘ in Brazil. The whirlwind of fire, a rare phenomenon, was caught on camera as it glided across fields and brought highway traffic to a halt in the Brazilian municipality of Aracatuba. However, the flame, which was said to […]
Jared Shreeve, a lab assistant at Seven Kings High School in the United Kingdom tricked a student into wearing a chloroform-soaked mask.
Adolf Hitler may have been descended from both Jews and Africans, DNA tests are indicating, the Daily Mail reported.
By now, you may have heard about how on last night’s edition of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart made fantastic comedic hay out of a Fox And Friends segment, in which the gathered panel indulged in some outsized fearmongery over Cordoba initiative funding without mentioning how the shadowy, unnamed figure at the center of controversy, […]
The state-run Xinhua news agency says the plane overshot the runway and burst into flames while trying to land in the city of Yichun in remote Heilongjiang province, Xinhua said.
Citing a statement from an aid worker in the Congo, an August 23 MSNBC report revealed that rebels in eastern Congo gang-raped nearly 200 women and some young boys during a four-day period between July 30 and August 3. The rapes took place only a few miles from a UN peacekeepers’ base.
Egyptian authorities stopped two people suspected in the theft of a painting by Vincent Van Gogh, nabbing them just moments before they were to board a plane and flee the country, according to Egypt’s official news agency, MENA. Egyptian Culture Minister Farouq Hosni said in a statement Saturday night that efforts to recover the stolen […]
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason violated state law by returning more than $74,000 in campaign contributions to his employees, the Ohio Election Commission has ruled. But the commission voted not to prosecute Mason because members concluded that he acted with good intentions, said Phillip Richter, the commission’s executive director. The commission also rejected Richter’s recommendation […]
Singer Wyclef Jean’s attempt to run as Haiti’s president has ended after election officials disqualified his candidacy.
Pro-football player turned Army Ranger who was killed in Afghanistan in April of 2004, Pat Tillman, is the subject of a riveting documentary that opens this weekend called The Tillman Story. Initially, the family was told that Pat was killed by enemy fire, but after months of investigation and a botched cover-up by the US military […]
Wyclef Jean’s name will reportedly be gone from November’s ballot in Haiti’s presidential election. The Grammy-winning Fugees star did not satisfy legal requirements to run in the Nov. 28 election, Reuters reported Thursday, citing a member of the provisional electoral council. “He is not on the list as I speak,” the council official told Reuters, […]
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to announce Friday that Israel and the Palestinians will return to direct negotiations for the first time in 20 months, delivering the Obama administration a small victory in its protracted effort to revive the Middle East peace process, two officials briefed on the situation said Thursday evening. […]