Official: 44 dead in Mexico prison riot

A fight among inmates led to a prison riot in northern Mexico that killed 44 people Sunday, a security official said.Nuevo Leon state public security spokesman Jorge Domene Zambrano said the riot broke out at about 2 a.m. in a high-security section of a prison in the city of Apodaca outside the nort

Feb. 20, 2012

Son wants 98-year-old mom evicted

A Connecticut man attempting to have his 98-year-old mother evicted from her home said he wants her out of the house for her own good.Peter Kantorowski, 71, eldest son of Mary Kantorowski, said he wants his mother out of the Fairfield home she has occupied since 1953 because "she would be better off

Feb. 19, 2012

Maid kills Singaporean widow after being called stupid

SINGAPORE (AFP) - A teenage Indonesian maid is facing a long jail term after pleading guilty to hitting and strangling an 87-year-old Singaporean widow who called her stupid, a report said Thursday.Now 19, Vitria Depsi Wahyuno had lied about her age in 2009, saying she was23 to meet the minimum age

Feb. 16, 2012

Grandpa charged in forced Grand Canyon hikes

A U.S. man faces trial Wednesday on accusations that he forced his young grandsons to hike for kilometers in the Grand Canyon without food or water in brutal August heat.Christopher Alan Carlson’s grandsons, who were 12, 9 and 8 at the time, told investigators that Carlson hit, pushed, choked, and s

Feb. 16, 2012

TV channel for dogs launched in US

A television channel designed specifically to be watched by dogs Monday in San Diego for stay-home-canines while the owners are away at work or too busy to play. The first and only television network for dogs, DOGTV, scientifically developed and tested for four years, DOGTV, “a new channel for man‘s

Feb. 16, 2012

Apple considering smaller iPad?

Apple Inc. is working with component suppliers in Asia to test a new tablet computer with a screen smaller than the iPad, sources told The Wall Street Journal.Officials at some of Apple's suppliers, who asked to remain anonymous, said the company has shown them designs for a device with a screen siz

Feb. 16, 2012

Angry Birds fly to Facebook

“Angry Bird,” the most-downloaded mobile app of 2011, was catapulted to the world of Facebook on Tuesday in a bid by its Finnish maker Rovio to get one billion people playing the addictive game.True to the game’s quirky theme, a bird flung at a pig on a giant screen marked its official Facebook laun

Feb. 15, 2012

Colombian priests hired hitmen to kill themselves

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) _ Rev. Rafael Reatiga asked his parishioners to pray for him and gave the choirmaster a list of songs for his funeral shortly before he was found shot to death together with another Roman Catholic priest, a Colombian prosecutor said Tuesday.Authorities initially suspected robbe

Feb. 15, 2012

Aspirin could beat cancer spread: Australian study

 Aspirin and other household drugs may inhibit the spread of cancer because they help shut down the chemical "highways" which feed tumours, Australian researchers said Tuesday.Scientists at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre said they have made a biological breakthrough helping explain h

Feb. 15, 2012

Man gives Valentine's kidney

A Chicago man is celebrating Valentine's Day by giving his girlfriend one of the most precious gifts he has -- his kidney.Terry Lee said his girlfriend, Trisha Beckwith, was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease Lupus after they had been dating for about four months and soon discovered her kidneys w

Feb. 15, 2012

Match-fixing allegations also emerge for baseball, basketball

Baseball and basketball officials on Tuesday were scrambling to find evidence of match-fixing attempts in their professional leagues, following recent testimony by a gambling broker, who has been arrested for an alleged connection with volleyball match fixing, that other leagues also had match-riggi

Feb. 14, 2012

New finding suggests ‘super-Earth’ may be lifeless after all

Astronomers have discovered several candidates of so called “super-Earth,” potentially habitable planets outside solar system, raising anticipation to find extraterrestrial life forms.However, new study indicates such planets may be dry despite ideal distance to their stars.According to a research p

Feb. 14, 2012

Malaysia deports Saudi journalist in Twitter row

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) -- Malaysia on Sunday deported a young Saudi journalist wanted in his home country over a Twitter post about the Prophet Mohammed, defying pleas from human rights group who said he faced execution.Hamza Kashgari, who was detained in Malaysia on Thursday after fleeing Saudi Arabia,

Feb. 13, 2012

Lab study raises questions over nano-particle impact

Tests involving chickens have raised questions about the impact on health from engineered nano-particles, the ultra-fine grains commonly used in drugs and processed foods, scientists said on Sunday.Chickens exposed to high oral doses of polystyrene particles 50 nanometers (50 billionths of a metre)

Feb. 13, 2012