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Oklahoma tornado tears massive path of death, destruction

Moore, Oklahoma (CNN) — Rescue workers raced against time and darkness Monday night looking for survivors after a powerful tornado blasted an area outside of Oklahoma City, leveling homes and leaving at least 51 people dead. At least 20 of the dead were children, including at least seven from Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, which lay directly in the path of the monster storm’s wall of wind. Seventy-five students […]

Topless FEMEN Protesters Disrupt Barbie 'Dreamhouse Experience' Opening In Berlin (PHOTOS)

BERLIN, May 16 (Reuters) – Women’s rights protesters disrupted the opening of a giant pink doll’s house in Berlin on Thursday, saying the Barbie “Dreamhouse Experience” objectified women. Promoting the doll made by Mattel Inc, the house allows paying visitors to try on Barbie’s clothes, play in her kitchen and have a go on her pink piano. The exhibition will be open until Aug. 25. A handful of protesters gathered […]

Boston suspect 'wrote message in boat'

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the accused in Boston Marathon bombing, who was found hiding in a boat days after the blasts, left a handwritten message describing the attack as retribution for US wars in Muslim countries, an American news channel has reported. The CBS News report on Thursday cited anonymous sources and said that Tsarnaev used a pen to write the message on an interior wall of the boat, where police found […]

Saudi man arrested in Detroit after statement on pressure cooker

Hussain al-Khawahir, 33, arrived at the Detroit airport on Saturday and was questioned about why he had brought a pressure cooker with him. The man’s name was spelled al-Khawahir in the criminal complaint, while a spokeswoman at the U.S. attorney’s office had earlier said it was al-Kwawahir. He initially said the pressure cooker was for his nephew, a university student in Toledo, Ohio. “The Defendant then changed his story and […]

Bangladeshi garment factory death toll rises as owner arrested on border

When the building he owned collapsed, entombing hundreds of garment workers beneath its choking rubble, Mohammed Sohel Rana vanished. He abandoned his home in Savar, 12 miles north of the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, and drove off. While rescuers frantically dug out the living and the dead, Rana was nowhere to be seen. On Sunday, however, Bangladeshi police caught up with the fugitive politician, arresting him in the border town of […]

Canadian police: 2 arrested in al Qaeda-supported terror plot

Canadian authorities have arrested two men accused of plotting to attack a passenger train in an al Qaeda-supported plot, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said Monday. Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal, and Raed Jaser, 35, of Toronto, are accused of conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway train, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said. While the suspects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was […]

Police Say Boston Marathon Suspect in Custody and Alive

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive Friday after a standoff in boat in a Watertown backyard, police said. Police converged on a home at 67 Franklin Street and surrounded a boat in the driveway where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding. This came after a tip from a resident that she had seen blood on the boat and in the grass and noticed a ladder. Earlier, officials revealed that Dzhokhar […]

For 16 years, Charles Cullen kept killing his patients

For 16 years, Charles Cullen kept killing his patients while his employers preferred not to notice. Lizzie Crocker on the new book that tells his story.   No one will ever know how many patients Charles Cullen murdered over the course of his 16-year career as a night nurse. From 1987 until 2003, the man who may be the most prolific serial killer in American history was the subject of […]