Thursday 23 May 2013
Tornado survivors thanked God, sturdy closets and luck in explaining how they lived through the colossal twister that devastated an Oklahoma town and killed 24 people, an astonishingly low toll given the extent of destruction.
An FBI agent shot and killed a Florida man with suspected links to the Boston Marathon bombings early this morning, NBC News reported.
LOS ANGELES, which has more storefront medical marijuana shops than any other U.S. city, will close hundreds of the dispensaries and hike taxes on those that will be allowed to remain under a ballot measure approved by a wide margin of voters.
Somewhere, Richard Nixon is smiling. Four decades after Watergate and two decades after his death, we still can't stop talking about the dark anti-hero of American politics. His five o'clock shadow visage remains too convenient a metaphor for lazy critics looking to lacerate a president from the opposing party.
A US college student being held hostage by an armed man was shot and killed by a police officer, writes Ian Adams.
Maths classes teach us what prime numbers are from an early age.
A single ticket in Florida has matched all the numbers to win the highest Powerball lottery jackpot in history at an estimated $590.5m (€460m).
AMERICA'S east coast is bracing itself for "Swarmageddon" as hordes of flying insects emerge from underground.
A single winning ticket for a record U.S. Powerball lottery jackpot worth $590.5 million was sold in Florida, organizers said late yesterday, but there was no immediate word about who won or where in the state the ticket was bought.
A commuter train traveling eastbound from New York City derailed near the Connecticut suburb of Fairfield during the evening rush hour on Friday and collided with a westbound commuter train, injuring up to 60 people, three critically, officials said.
US President Barack Obama has attempted to reassert his authority by promising the American people that he is taking swift action to address a trio of political scandals that have hit the White House.
POLICE in Pennsylvania have arrested a homeless murder suspect, known across the world as 'Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker', after the discovery of a 73-year-old's body in New Jersey.
A CHICAGO man facing evicting with mountains of bills is now a multi-millionaire thanks to a lottery ticket bout months ago and found in a cookie jar in his kitchen.
The surviving Boston marathon bomber allegedly scrawled a note inside the boat where he was found, blaming the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for the attack.
Jorge Rafael Videla, who was a part of one of the bloodiest chapters Argentina's history has died.
At least six people died, dozens were injured and hundreds left homeless as 10 tornadoes tore through Texas.
Move over Rory McIlroy, this office worker has got amazing putting skills.
AT least six people were killed and scores more injured when tornadoes ripped through a stretch of Texas near Dallas-Fort Worth last night.
Safely guarded in an air-conditioned vault in Atlanta, Georgia, lies one of western society's most valuable artefacts.
MOST people expected the all-too-familiar Washington disease to set in, but few predicted the symptoms to appear quite so quickly.
Bitcoin, the internet "currency", is being targeted by federal regulators in the US in a major crackdown.
Ariel Castro, the Cleveland man accused of kidnapping and raping three women during a decade of captivity at his run-down home, will plead not guilty to the charges, his lawyer has said.
OJ Simpson has begun testifying in his bid for a new trial in the Las Vegas armed robbery and kidnap case that put him behind bars more than four years ago.
Anti-government activists styling themselves as Robin Hood and his Merry Men, who top up parking meters to stop strangers receiving tickets, are being sued by authorities in New Hampshire.
TEXAS paramedic who responded to a fertilizer plant explosion last month pleaded not guilty to possessing pipe bomb components, his lawyer said, after agreeing to postpone his detention hearing.
A Philadelphia doctor was sent to prison today to serve three life terms without parole for murdering babies during late-term abortions and other crimes at his squalid clinic.
The Kremlin is surprised by the "crude and clumsy" espionage activities of the United States in Russia, after a suspected CIA operative was caught trying to recruit a Russian agent, a senior advisor to President Vladimir Putin said today.
THE Port Authority of New York and New Jersey released the video of the spire's installation last Friday.
A man less than two weeks into a 10,000-mile journey for charity to dribble a soccer ball from his home city of Seattle to Brazil has died after being struck by a car.
US President Obama has become embroiled in two separate controversies that have forced the White House to go on the defensive.
IT WAS billed as a racy look at Hillary Clinton in her mid-20s, lingering on her early sex life with husband Bill.
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