A 32-year-old Manchester, Iowa, man is accused of hitting his 63-year-old father on the head with a flashlight and a piece of firewood, and then attempted to remove his pacemaker with a pocketknife. The Delaware County sheriff released a statement on Sunday saying that Jesse Fierstine attempted to murder his father, Charles Fierstine, by cutting [...]

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A 20 something year-old man desperately trying to enter Britain illegally, hung onto the roof of a Eurostar train travelling at 186mph from Brussels to London, officials said. It is believed that the immigrant jumped onto the roof of the train from an overhead bridge in Calais when the train slowed down to about 100mph [...]

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 FROM THE TELEGRAPH Private security guards on board an Italian cruise ship carrying 1,500 passengers and crew fired pistols and used water hoses to fight off an attack by Somali pirates. The dramatic confrontation was sparked when six men in a small skiff sped up to the MSC Melody late on Saturday, firing their AK-47s [...]

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(CNN) — The United States government declared a public health emergency Sunday as the number of identified cases of swine flu in the nation rose to 20. The declaration is part of a “standard operating procedure” that will make available additional government resources to combat the virus, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said at the [...]

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(CNN) — A man in northern Idaho says he has seen a massive hand of God in his life, and he is willing to share it with the highest bidder. Paul Grayhek says the “Hand of God” appeared in his backyard in March. Paul Grayhek, 52, listed the rock formation he dubbed the “Hand of [...]

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