News: Miss America Launches Kid-safe Web Browser Seven years before Lauren Nelson was crowned Miss America, an online predator e-mailed one of her friends lurid photos. Today, Nelson is the centerpiece of a new kid-friendly Internet browser.
News: Volcano kills four in Yemen At least four Yemeni soldiers were burned to death when a volcano erupted on a Red Sea island, sparking a major rescue operation on Monday for the rest of its garrison. Images of eruption taken by Canadian Forces.
News: How People Choose Mates In a survey of speed-daters, Indiana University cognitive scientist Peter Todd found that people didn't know what they were looking for in mates until they found it.
News: Three arrested in Germany bomb plot Federal prosecutor Monika Harms said two Germans and a Turk had obtained enough materials to make a bomb with an explosive power equal to 550-kilogrammes of TNT and that an attack appeared imminent.
News: Gere: Raise Human Rights at Beijing Olympics Richard Gere, in Venice to promote his movie, 'The Hunting Party,' says China's human rights abuses must be addressed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
News: Girl Found Dead in Arizona Mine Shaft A 13-year-old girl who fell into a 125-foot mine shaft while riding an all-terrain vehicle in northwestern Arizona has been found dead at the bottom of the shaft. Her 10-year-old sister was rescued with serious injuries Sunday.
News: Man Shoots Himself in Front of City Council A Tennessee barber committed suicide at a City Council meeting after his zoning request was rejected. About 50 people were in the room when Ronald "Bo" Ward shot himself in the head.
News: Cambodians left mentally scarred by Khmer Rouge regime Some 30 percent of Cambodia's nearly 14 million people reportedly suffer from debilitating mental conditions, many of them linked to the brutal Khmer Rouge atrocities in the 1970s. The start of a tribunal to try surviving leaders of the regime is expected to aggravate many of those old psyc...
News: Protester in flames A South Korean protester burned himself during a rally against the inter-Korea summit, which is scheduled to start next week. While hundreds of anti-North Korea protesters gathered in downtown Seoul and held rallies to denounce the second inter-Korea summit, the protester set himself on fire to con....
News: French mime artisist Marcel Marceau dies His extensive tours and appearances on camera brought him international acclaim. A veteran of dozens of films, one of his best remembered roles was a speaking cameo in Mel Brooks' Silent Movie.
News: Drug Bust 207 Million Dollars Recently DEA agents raided a home of Meth dealers in suburban Mexico and discovered 207 million cash piled in a back bedroom..really amazing to see!
News: Bush: Success in Iraq Will Lead Troops Home While 'formidable challenges' remain in Iraq, President Bush says, the United States will start shifting more troops into support roles - in addition to the troop withdrawals announced earlier in the week.
News: Raw Video: Tanker Rams Into House A runaway fuel tanker rams into a South Carolina house, injuring one man. The tanker was parked at a gas station across the street when it started rolling. No fuel spilled. The house was pushed off its foundation.
News: Mattel Recalls 800,000 More Toys The third major recall by Mattel Inc. Of lead-tainted Chinese toys has left the world's largest toymaker fighting to maintain its reputation as company shares fell sharply Wednesday.
News: 9-Year-Old Genius Starts College A nine-year-old mathematics prodigy attended his first university lecture in Hong Kong on Tuesday. But March Boedihardjo said he was already bored with his 'easy' classes.
News: Floods, Fire Ravage Greece As three major fires that ravaged southern Greece for 10 days were brought under control on Sunday, rain in the country's north flooded a village damaged by fires last year.
