• Chicago police: Infant dead after throat cut with power saw

    CHICAGO (AP) — A 9-month-old girl is dead after a relative cut her throat with a power saw, a Chicago police official with knowledge of the investigation said Monday.

    Associated Press
  • Let me sleep: Georgia trash man gets 30 days in jail for 5 a.m. pick up

    If he keeps his nose clean, sanitation worker Kevin McGill of Sandy Springs, Ga., might just make it through his 30-day sentence (to be served on consecutive weekends) for disturbing wealthy residents by picking up the trash too early in the morning – just in time to celebrate National Garbage Man…

    Christian Science Monitor
  • Photos claim IS beheadings of homosexuals in northern Iraq

    The Islamic State group has publicly beheaded three men in northern Iraq, two of them for allegedly engaging in homosexual acts, according to photos shared by sympathisers on social media Tuesday. The jihadist group, which controls swathes of Iraq and neighbouring Syria, has carried out hundreds of…

    AFP
  • Chad, Niger soldiers killed as Boko Haram loses Nigerian towns

    By Abdoulaye Massalaki and Madjiasra Nako NIAMEY/N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - About 15 soldiers from Chad and Niger died in fighting to take control of two towns in northern Nigeria from Boko Haram, the first gains against the militants in a joint offensive launched at the weekend, military sources said…

    Reuters
  • 'Michelangelo of buttocks injections' convicted of murder

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A former madam who bragged of doing black-market "body sculpting" on thousands of women was convicted on Monday of murder in the death of a dancer whose heart stopped after nearly half a gallon of silicone was injected into her buttocks.

    Associated Press
  • Man killed skydiving into Idaho canyon from 500-foot bridge

    By Laura Zuckerman SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A 32-year-old Canadian man was killed on Monday when his parachute failed to open during a skydiving jump from a bridge into a canyon 500 feet below in southern Idaho, authorities said.   Bryan Turner, of Vancouver, British Columbia, was one of a group…

    Reuters
  • Mother killed in Australia while on phone to husband in India

    Prabha Arun Kumar, a 41-year-old IT professional, was taking a shortcut through Parramatta Park in the city's west at around 9.30pm (1030 GMT) on Saturday when she was killed. Family members told Indian media that the woman was speaking with her husband, G. Arun Kumar, at the time and he heard her…

    AFP
  • Bill Cosby accuser's mom appeals to comedian's wife

    SPRING HILL, Fla. (AP) — When William and Judy Thompson met comedian Bill Cosby in the late 1980s to discuss their teen daughter's modeling and acting career, they felt immediately at ease.

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  • Apple reveals the prices for every model of the Apple Watch

    Over an hour into Apple’s big spring event and we’re finally getting some news about the Apple Watch. Before that, we saw a new price for the Apple TV and a new MacBook model (along with updated MacBook Pro and MacBook Air models). Now we are finally learning the prices for each of the models of…

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    New Boston bombing video

    Surveillance video emerges showing Dzokhar Tsarnaev at the scene of the Boston Marathon bombing. Natasha Howitt reports.

    Reuters Videos
  • A loss not all bad for top-ranked Kentucky in SEC tourney

    LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — These Kentucky Wildcats have the chance to reach heights no team in the program's history has ever achieved — become undefeated national champions.

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    Medical examiner: Cayman Naib died of self-inflicted gunshot wound

    The Delaware County medical examiner has ruled that Cayman Naib, the missing Newtown Square teen found dead Sunday, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

    WPVI – Philadelphia
  • Montana killer bride in cliff case appeals, cites blindfold claim

    A Montana bride appealing a murder conviction for pushing her new husband off a cliff said on Monday her life sentence should be overturned partly because prosecutors claimed she blindfolded her mate before he plunged to his death but failed to prove it. In court documents filed on Monday with a…

    Reuters
  • Constitution Check: Is an old doctrine of separating government powers getting new life?

    Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center's constitutional literacy adviser, looks at Monday’s Supreme Court Amtrak decision as a sign that a constitutional separation-of-powers argument from the 1930s could be back in play.

    National Constitution Center32 mins ago
  • Jessica Chastain and Salma Hayek get frisky at Saint Laurent

    PARIS (AP) — In a tuxedo, a boisterous Salma Hayek ramped up the feminism at the Saint Laurent Paris show and encouraged actress Jessica Chastain to expose her chest.

    Associated Press
  • Secret Hideout Helped Penguins Survive the Ice Age

    Earth's last ice age was so cold that even Antarctica's emperor penguins had trouble with the chill, a new study finds. Just three populations of emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) likely survived the last ice age, which occurred from about 19,500 to 16,000 years ago, with one such population…

    LiveScience.com
  • London's 'iceberg homes' plumb the city's depths

    In London's most upmarket districts, shovel-wielding teams are hard at work in what look like mines hidden beneath luxury homes, sidestepping the British capital's planning rules by expanding underground. The trend started in the late 1990s, when residents developed small basements, calculating it…

    AFP