Both United States and UK officials announced on Sunday they are closing their embassies in Yemen for security reasons.
The announcement comes a day after President Obama linked the terrorist who tried to blow up a Northwest airplane on Christmas Day to an al Qaeda affiliate based in Yemen.
On New Year’s Eve the U.S. [...]

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In America, Charles Wesley Mumbere works as a nurse’s aide, caring for the elderly and the sick, but as of Monday, the Uganda native will be crowned king of his people in the mountains of western Uganda.
In a coronation, which is scheduled in the Kasese district on Monday, the 50-something-year-old man will rule [...]

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A 45-year-old Texas woman has been committed to a hospital for psychological evaluation, after authorities say she lived in an apartment with her dead boyfriend for a week.
Authorities discovered the body of William Drake, 50, on a living room couch after the unnamed woman’s brother flagged down police reporting a stench coming from [...]

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Khristian Oliver is scheduled to be executed on November 5, 2009 after jurors deliberating his case consulted the Bible for their decision.
It has emerged that while deciding whether thirty-two-year-old Oliver should be given the death penalty, jurors consulted the Bible and one juror read aloud a passage that said, “And if [...]

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A Myrtle Beach, South Carolina teenager was killed earlier today after he stabbed a school resource officer who defended himself by firing his revolver.
According to reports, an 11th grader at Carolina Forest High School asked the student resource officer if he could speak with him in his office.
It is believed that a [...]

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