Downpours caused by Tropical Storm Agatha have created a giant sinkhole in Guatemala City, while throughout Guatemala officials have reported 120 dead and at least 53 missing. The sinkhole, which formed in the northern part of the capital city, swallowed up a space larger than the area of a street intersection, CNN reported on Monday. [...]
HOUSTON – Stephen Strasburg is ready — and so is the Washington Nationals’ ticket office. The Nationals said after Monday’s 14-4 win over Houston that their prized pitching prospect will make his major league debut against Pittsburgh on June 8 at Nationals Park. The 21-year-old right-hander is first scheduled to start for Triple-A Syracuse at [...]
CANADA – Police believe a third set of body parts discovered in Muskoka on Friday belong to the same unidentified murder victim as two other sets of human remains found almost exactly a week beforehand, scattered across the same tranquil vacation region. OPP spokesperson Constable Peter Leon would not confirm what body parts were found, [...]
One Australian has been wounded during a deadly commando raid on ships taking humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza Strip. Two other Australians, Fairfax journalists Paul McGeough and Kate Geraghty, were on board but were not hurt and are being detained in an Israeli detention centre. Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said at least one Australian [...]
Defense lawyers are fighting a motion to have Naomi Campbell testify in former Liberian President Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial, calling it a “publicity stunt,” according to The Associated Press. Earlier this month, prosecutors sought to get the supermodel subpoenaed to appear as a witness about claims that Taylor gave her “blood diamonds” during a [...]
AUSTRALIA – Eight monkeys were stolen from a wildlife park south of Sydney – with police appealing for public assistance to secure their return today. The animals – a male and female breeding pair of Cotton Top Tamarins with two six-month-old babies and four male Pygmy Marmosets – were discovered missing about 9am (AEST) yesterday [...]
The disgraced Duchess of York said she was under the influence of alcohol when she was caught in a newspaper sting trying to sell access to her ex-husband, in an interview with Oprah Winfrey to air today in the US. Sarah Ferguson also told the talk show queen, in her first interview since the scandal [...]
NEW ORLEANS – The best hope for stopping the flow of oil from the blown-out well at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico has been compared to hitting a target the size of a dinner plate with a drill more than two miles into the earth, and is anything but a sure bet on [...]
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