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March 18 2011 A BRITISH man had surgery to reattach his testicles after his girlfriend allegedly bit them off, the Daily Mirror reported yesterday. Maria Georgina Topp, appeared in court accused of carrying out the horrific attack on her boyfriend Martin Douglas, in Newcastle, northern England...

he fatality was reported in northern California's Del Norte County, where a 25-year-old man was declared dead Friday afternoon after being swept out to sea off a beach while trying to photograph the tsunami's arrival, said Joey Young, a spokesman for the county's emergency operations center...

[Courtesy CNN] Tokyo (CNN) -- An 8.8-magnitude earthquake hit Japan early Friday, triggering tsunami warnings and sending people fleeing out of buildings in the capital. The quake rattled buildings and toppled cars off bridges and into waters underneath. In Tokyo, crowds huddled together and...

By AMY FORLITI, Associated Press Amy Forliti, Associated Press – Thu Feb 24, 9:22 am ET MINNEAPOLIS – A Minnesota man charged with two counts of aiding suicide was committing a crime — not playing a game — when he "hunted" vulnerable people on the Internet and encouraged two of them to kill...

Graphic gallery, War in Gaza inlcludes wounded children.

It's cold today, 2 degrees F right now, and we have a layer of ice over everything after having freezing rain off and on for two days previous. The stuff is frozen so hard that road crews are having difficulty clearing it away. Then it snowed some more yesterday. The ice keeps the snow from...

First cyclone hits Queensland, but the big one is still building Tom Reilly January 31, 2011 THE upper reaches of Queensland's central coast were hit by a cyclone last night which battered some areas with winds of up to 140km/h. The category two cyclone, named Anthony, made landfall near Bowen...