Balloon Boy parents hit with $42,000 tab for October stunt
The parents in the "Balloon Boy" ruse have been hit with a tab of $42,000 from local, state and federal agencies for their October stunt that briefly left many fearing for the fate of their 6-year-old, their lawyer said Monday.
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Auschwitz 'Arbeit Macht Frei' Sign Stolen
The infamous iron sign bearing the Nazis' cynical slogan "Arbeit Macht Frei" that spanned the main entrance to the former Auschwitz death camp was stolen before dawn Friday, Polish police said. The theft of the sign brought immediate condemnation.
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Canada Draws A Line In The Oil Sands
The Canadian government is leaving the door open to special tax breaks for the oil and gas industry to preserve its competitive position once proposed efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions kick in, a move likely to enrage climate-change critics.
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Cities Hold Key To Green Dream
Municipal leaders from North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and South America gathered in Copenhagen on Tuesday in a summit intended to emphasize that the bulk of desired emissions reductions will occur in green cities.
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Russian Nuclear Missile Test Fails, Visible In Norway
Russia admitted on Thursday another failed test of its much-touted Bulava intercontinental missile, after unusual lights were spotted in Norway across the border from the launch site.
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2009 in AutoTune
The end of another calendar year approaches which means a whole pile of musical montages and top 10 lists. It's missing some pretty huge events and mostly deals with entertainment crap but still a pretty catchy autotuned track.
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Three arrested for online 'ginger-bashing'
Three children at a California school may face criminal charges for allegedly bullying redheaded students following an Internet-based "Kick a Ginger Day," police have said.
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Six Bodies Found In Convicted Rapist's Home
A convicted rapist who fled before police arrived to arrest him on new rape charges was arrested Saturday in his inner-city neighbourhood after police found six decomposing bodies at his home.
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Middle-Class Families Cope With The Recession By Growing Pot
A financial stimulus for the recession-battered middle class: pot farming.
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60 Lashes Ordered For Saudi Woman
A Saudi court sentenced a journalist on Saturday to 60 lashes after she was charged with involvement in a television show in which a Saudi man talked about sex.
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Clashes Erupt At Temple Mount After 'Jewish Conquest' Rumour
Clashes erupted at Jerusalem's most holy shrine today with police firing water cannons and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of rock-throwing Palestinian protesters. it was one of the most intense incidents of violence in recent unrest around site.
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Musicians Want Gitmo Torture Soundtrack
A high-profile coalition of artists has demanded that the government release the names of all the songs that were blasted since 2002 at prisoners for hours, even days, on end, to try to coerce cooperation or as a method of punishment.
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H1N1 "Still A Young Person's Disease"
U.S. health officials released figures for swine flu hospitalizations and deaths for the seven weeks since the beginning of last month, drawn from 28 states. They found that more than half of all hospitalizations occurred among people 24 and younger.
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I Helped Richard Heene Plan a Balloon Hoax
For the first time, 25-year-old researcher Robert Thomas reveals to Gawker how earlier this year he and Richard Heene drew up a master plan to generate a massive media controversy using a weather balloon. To get famous, of course.
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Balloon Stunt In Works For Months: Report
An associate of the father accused of masterminding the runaway balloon publicity stunt in Colarado last week is wanted for questioning after he told an online publication the two of them had discussed a similar plan months ago.
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Rio Drug Gangs Shoot Down Police Helicopter, Torch Buses
Brazilian officials say security won't be a problem for the 2016 Olympics, despite drug-gang violence that plunged Rio de Janeiro into chaos yesterday. A firefight between rival gangs in a city slum killed 12, injured 6 and saw 8 buses set ablaze.
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Hurricane Rick Forms Off Mexican Coast
The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Rick was about 470km south of Acapulco, Mexico, as of 8am Pacific Time. The storm was moving west at about 15 kilometres an hour and was expected to run parallel to the Mexican coast.
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Obama Wins Nobel Prize, Twitter Goes Crazy
If you're wondering why half of the Twitter trends are currently related to US president Barack Obama, news broke recently that he has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
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Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. President Barack Obama is humbled by his Nobel Peace Prize, which was awarded to him by the Norwegian Nobel committee "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and co-operation between people."
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Skeleton Find May Rewrite Human Evolution
Researchers have unveiled the oldest known skeleton of a putative human ancestor – and it’s full of surprises. "We thought Lucy was the find of the century," says Yale paleoanthropologist Andrew Hill. "But in retrospect, it was not."
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GM To Close Saturn
The last-minute collapse of a deal for the Saturn brand between General Motors Co. and Roger Penske dooms about 350 dealers, 13,000 employees and a brand created as a counterpunch to Japanese compact carmakers.
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Powerful Quake Off Samoa Islands
A powerful earthquake has struck near the Samoa islands, triggering a tsunami warning for several Pacific nations. The 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit at 1748 GMT at a depth of 33km (20.5 miles).
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England Weeds Out "Pointless" University Research
No blue skies: From 2012 on, universities will have to show that their research influences the economy, public policy or society in order to secure the biggest research grants, the English government's funding body for higher education has said.
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In Hiding And Dreaming Of Britain
As police cars tore through the streets of Calais with their sirens wailing, Rustam Mahfouz and his friends were keeping a low profile. Below a quiet underpass near the main canal circling the old town, he and nine fellow Iranians smoked and waited.
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French Bulldoze "Jungle" Immigrant Camp
French police razed a squalid camp – known as ''the Jungle'' – used by illegal immigrants in scrubland near the English Channel port of Calais on Tuesday, using backhoes and buzz saws to clear the precarious dwellings of a fragile population.
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