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BBC The wreck of the ship that carried Captain Robert Scott on his doomed expedition to the Antarctic a century ago has been discovered off Greenland. The SS Terra Nova was found by a team from a US research company. Scott and his party set off from Cardiff aboard the Terra Nova in 1910...

BBC Two police officers have been shot dead and two others wounded after they were attacked in the US state of Louisiana. The shooting happened early on Thursday in the community of St John the Baptist Parish, 35 miles (56 km) west of New Orleans. Police spokesman Captain Dane Clement told...

BBC The trial of a US army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people in a shooting spree at an army base has been suspended while a court decides whether his beard should be removed. Major Nidal Hasan's lawyers say the beard is an expression of his Muslim faith, but army regulations state...

Oh boy this is going to get ugly !! BBC Breaking News BBC News - Home

Blonde takes her computer in for repair and the techie asks for her password so he can get into her setting to fix it. The blonde says "MickeyDonaldGoofyPlutoMinnieWoodyBuzzLondon" Geek says "Why the long password?" Blonde replies "The manual said it had to contain at least 7...

BBC Bill Gates is, in a manner of speaking, flushing his money down the toilet. His charitable organisation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for future loos that can improve sanitation around the world. At the Reinvent the Toilet fair, hosted at its Seattle campus this...

I was visiting my son and daughter-in-law last night when I asked if I could borrow a newspaper. 'This is the 21st century, old man,' he said. 'We don't waste money on newspapers. Here, you can borrow my iPad.' I can tell you, that bloody fly never knew what hit it...

AP CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut Light & Power has reimbursed a woman almost $10,500 after acknowledging it billed her for 25 years for the electricity used to power streetlights near her home. Grace Edwards tells the Hartford Courant she discovered the billing error after a...

ABC A nearly 400-foot deep sinkhole in Louisiana has swallowed all of the trees in its area and enacted a mandatory evacuation order for about 150 residences for fear of potential radiation and explosions. The 400-square-foot gaping hole is in Assumption Parish, La., about 50 miles south...

Discovery News Ever tried to find a parking spot in New York City? If so, you're probably still looking for one because your car is too big to squeeze into any of those tiny spaces that are available. You might not have that problem if you had the Hiriko Fold city car, an uber-compact...

Reuters WINNIPEG, Manitoba (Reuters) - After spring floods drowned his seeding plans two years straight, Canadian farmer Walter Finlay is harvesting what looks to be an average or slightly better crop of wheat and canola. Average will do just fine this year. The worst drought in a half...

By JIM AVILA | Good Morning America A man whose jet ski failed him in New York's Jamaica Bay swam to John F. Kennedy airport, where he was easily able to penetrate the airport $100 million, state-of-the art security system. Daniel Casillo, 31, was able to swim up to and enter the airport...

What a fantastic Olympic Games !! Congratulations to USA and of course Team GB :p Outstanding !! :)

Not that I am for the death penalty, but I often wonder, when this subject keeps coming to light, why don't the prisons use what vets use when we have to have a pet euthanised? :confused: BBC News - The search for a humane way to kill

BBC Police officer 'among injured' in Wisconsin shooting Police have confirmed that a shooting has taken place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek in the US state of Wisconsin. An officer had been shot multiple times but was expected to survive, said Greenfield Police Chief Bradley Wentland. There...

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Love the line about police officers were unable to give chase LOL :p BBC A farmer in the US state of Vermont who was facing a minor drugs charge is now in more serious trouble after driving a tractor over seven police cars. Roger Pion crushed the county sheriff's cruisers on Thursday...

Yahoo News Minnesota man accidentally destroys 40,000-square-foot lawn Rob Olson wanted his lawn to look nice as he prepared to host a fundraiser meant to benefit individuals with Cystic Fibrosis. But the Lake Elmo, Minn., man accidentally killed all of the grass on his 40,000-square-foot...

BBC A US ship has fired on a boat off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, US officials say. The USNS Rappahannock fired on a vessel after it ignored warnings and rapidly approached the ship, the US Navy says. There is no confirmation of casualties although AP news agency reported one...

BBC A US man has recovered a vintage sports car he spotted being sold on eBay 42 years after thieves stole it from him, officials in California say. Robert Russell, 66, said he had never given up searching for the 1967 Austin-Healey, which was stolen in 1970. After seeing the car on...