An Egyptian court sentenced 529 members of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood to death for murder and other offences on Monday in a sharp escalation of a crackdown on the movement that is likely to fuel instability. Family members stood outside the courthouse screaming after the verdict, which defence lawyers called the biggest mass death sentence handed out in Egypt’s modern ... Read More »
ABC Family has decided to pull its pilot for ‘Alice in Arabia’ amid the controversy surrounding the drama. The network announced the project on Monday and put it straight into development with a pilot order. However since Monday, there has been a massive backlash over potential stereotyping, which has resulted in the network pulling the pilot. Read More »
Weather forecasters are advising New Yorkers to enjoy the current spring weather while it lasts because another nor’easter is headed to the east coast. A nor’easter is a storm generated from northeastern winds. The snowstorm is expected to hit on Tuesday night. Read More »
Someone looks like they’re in a rough mood! What’s wrong, Emma Roberts – cat got your tongue? The We’re the Millers actress and her fiancé Evan Peters were caught on camera as they took a walk around WeHo after their yummy lunch on Thursday afternoon. Read More »
Walmart, a company controversial for recommending its employees supplement their low wages with government benefits like food stamps, has just released its annual report for the end of its fiscal year to the securities and exchange commission. Read More »
A California couple who found $10 million worth of buried gold coins may not be so lucky after all. The couple found the mint condition coins on their property while hiking a few months ago. Turns out, the coins may have been stolen from the U.S. Mint in 1900, according the San Francisco Chronicle. That would make the coins property ... Read More »
While adults and older children continue to struggle with obesity, America’s chubby infants and tubby toddlers appear to be slimming down. The prevalence of obesity among U.S. children ages 2- to 5-years-old has fallen from 14 percent in 2003 and 2004 to 8.4 percent in 2011 and 2012 – roughly a 43-percent decline, according new data from the Centers for ... Read More »
French satellite images of debris in the southern Indian Ocean have raised hopes that the search for a missing Malaysia Airlines jet is getting closer to discovering the fate of the flight that disappeared two weeks ago en route to Beijing. Malaysian authorities said images from a French satellite showed “potential objects” near the search area southwest of Perth, Australia. Read More »
Two boys who became marooned on ice in the Des Moines River near the Hydroelectric Dam were rescued by Fort Dodge firefighters Thursday afternoon. Both boys appeared to be unharmed, and they were examined at the scene in Hydro-electric Park by paramedics from Trinity Regional Medical Center. They were not taken to the hospital. Read More »
Eighteen people were still unaccounted for Sunday after a massive mudslide in Washington state that killed at least three people and forced evacuations because of fears of flooding. Read More »
According to a report from Reuters, a Texas teacher has given birth to quintuplets at a Dallas hospital. The quintuplets, four girls and one boy, were delivered on Tuesday at 29 weeks via C-section. They are currently in neonatal intensive care at the Baylor University Medical Center. Read More »
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