Typhoon Rammasun: China Girds For Massive Storm
BEIJING (AP) — A powerful typhoon killed one person and damaged several houses on the southern Chinese island of Hainan on Friday after claiming 54 lives in the Philippines. Typhoon Rammasun made...
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LA Engineers Building Hot Tub Cadillac
As automotive ideas go, this one's all wet -- and that's exactly how its inventors want it. Two Los Angeles-based engineers are on a race to set the first world record for the fastest hot tub ever,...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: Double Barrel Game-Changing Events -- A Civilian Plane Shot...
As the cyclical violence in the Middle East continued with an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza, two game-changing events happened elsewhere. If the suspicions that the Malaysian airliner was shot down...
View ArticleIran Nuclear Talks Extended
VIENNA, July 18 (Reuters) - Iran and six world powers on Friday agreed to a four-month extension of negotiations on a possible nuclear deal that would gradually end sanctions on Tehran in exchange for...
View ArticleJust A Forklift Forklifting A Forklift Forklifting A Package
Need a lift? Not these guys. These innovative forklift operators have figured out how to extract a maximum amount of lift from their rigs, with a maneuver likely to make OSHA inspectors sigh. While...
View ArticleQuinn Lucas Schansman, U.S. Citizen Killed On MH17, Leaves Behind Happy Memories
Nineteen-year-old Quinn Schansman boarded an airplane on Thursday in Amsterdam, prepared to join the rest of his family already on vacation in Malaysia. On Friday, however, President Barack Obama...
View Article1 In 5 Of Gaza Dead Are Children
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip (AP) — Sobbing and shaking, Ismail Abu Musallam leaned against the wall of a hospital Friday, waiting for three of his children to be prepared for burial. They were killed as...
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About 100 AIDS Activists Died On Flight MH17. Here's How We Can Keep Their...
About 100 AIDS medical researchers, health workers and activists headed to a health conference in Australia were killed on Thursday's Malaysia Airlines crash, the Age reported. And experts say we may...
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Children In Gaza Have 'No Safe Place' To Go. Here's How To Help Them
Soon after 5-year-old Noureldin went to bed last week in Gaza City, an air strike flattened his home. Six members of his family were killed as they had tea in the yard. Noureldin, who hasn't "uttered a...
View ArticleGovernor Gets Personal While Explaining Plan To Help Undocumented Children
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) detailed Friday his plan to temporarily provide shelter to undocumented children who have illegally entered the United States. Patrick is working to help the...
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This Is What The Victims Of Flight 17 Did For AIDS Research
AIDS researchers, activists and advocates en route to the 20th International AIDS conference in Melbourne, Australia are among those believed to have perished on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was...
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A Love Letter To Louise Bourgeois, A Feminist Icon Whether She Likes It Or Not
Louis Bourgeois is a feminist art icon, even if she -- in some mythical afterlife populated by giant spiders and contorted, alien figures -- would hate the label. When she was alive, she was aloof on...
View ArticleNBC News Correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin Returning To Gaza
NEW YORK -- NBC News correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin will return to Gaza to cover the Israeli invasion, an assignment that comes two days after he was mysteriously removed by the network. "Ayman...
View ArticleU.S. Building Case Tying Pro-Russian Separatists To Plane Crash In Ukraine
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States began building a case Friday linking pro-Russian separatists to the shocking downing of a passenger jet in Ukraine. A somber President Barack Obama declared the...
View ArticleChina Highway Collision Kills Dozens In Hunan Province
BEIJING (AP) — A truck loaded with flammable liquid collided with a bus on a highway in southern China on Saturday, killing at least 38 people. The state-run Xinhua News Agency said the truck...
View ArticleJapan's Rotating Seats Solve Train Travel's Greatest Woe (VIDEO)
For motion-averse passengers, enduring a rocky train ride in a seat facing backward can be a painfully nauseating experience. But for those in Japan, this particular travel woe might be a thing of the...
View ArticleErdogan: Israel More Barbaric Than Hitler
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of "barbarism that surpasses Hitler" during its ground invasion of Gaza. Erdogan made the comment during a campaign...
View ArticleGunmen Kill At Least 21 Egyptian Troops Near Libyan Border
CAIRO (AP) — Gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked a border guard post Saturday in Egypt's western desert in a brazen assault that killed 21 troops deployed in the province along the...
View ArticleIsraelis Destroy Hamas Tunnels In Gaza Offensive
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel said it widened its ground offensive early Sunday, sending more troops into Gaza after demolishing more than a dozen Hamas tunnels and intensifying tank fire on...
View ArticleUkraine Accuses Russia Of Destroying Evidence At Malaysia Airlines Flight 17...
By Anton Zverev and Peter Graff HRABOVE/DONETSK, Ukraine, July 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine accused Russia and pro-Moscow rebels on Saturday of destroying evidence to cover up their guilt in the shooting...
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