A college student from Russia has been arrested and charged with building a suspected bomb in his bedroom at an apartment near Penn State’s satellite campus in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Vladislav Miftakhov, 18, a student at the Altoona campus, was in jail yesterday after being arrested Friday and charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking a catastrophe and several …

A tourist apparently trampled to death by elephants in Thailand was a woman from New York state. The US State Department said yesterday that she was 24-year-old Lily Glidden, who was from a small village named Freeville. Park rangers in Thailand found her body on January 18, five days after she had left alone from a campsite in Kaeng Krachan …

VETERAN BRITISH ROCKER Phil Collins says that he has started collaborating with compatriot Adele, reported to be working on a follow-up to her hit 2011 album 21. The former Genesis frontman, who effectively retired from music a few years ago, gave no more details of his cooperation with the multiple Grammy-winning British songstress.

A 4000-year-old Mesopotamia clay tablet dealing with the ancient biblical story of Noah’s ark has gone on display at the British Museum in London.

After going 11-5 during the regular season, the New Orleans Saints were looked at as a possible Super Bowl contender. That was, of course, until they hit the brick wall that is the NFC champion Seattle Seahawks. With the season having come to a close the Saints’ head coach, Sean Payton, has turned his attention to a bit of housecleaning. …

Columbia, Md. • A man carrying a shotgun opened fire at a busy shopping mall in suburban Baltimore on Saturday, killing two employees of a skate shop and then himself as panicked shoppers ran for cover, police said. Five others were injured. Police were still trying to determine the motive of the gunman who killed a man and a woman, …

About 10,000 Americans are expected to attend the event, which begins Feb. 7 in the Russian resort, under a cloud of suicide bombing and other terrorist threats. The U.S. is even deploying two Navy ships to the Black Sea to evacuate Americans should an attack occur.

“Octomom” Nadya Suleman, the California single mother of 14 children including octuplets, pleaded not guilty in Los Angeles on Friday to charges that she lied about her income when filing for public assistance. Suleman, who became a media sensation five years ago after giving birth to octuplets conceived through in-vitro fertilization, is accused of failing to report nearly $30,000 in …

Cities are for all people. Public places are where all can share in the good of the city. A cities public space should make all the people that live in the city happy. Making people happy requires that they have dignity, are treated equally, and have hope. That is what Enrique Penalosa did as mayor in Bogota Columbia.quick payday loans …

Since Comic-Con 2013 we haven’t heard much from the upcoming film ‘X-Men Days of Future Past,’ and to make up for it the studio has released a new teaser trailer offering some insight into the film. The video is a teaser for the upcoming trailer, set to release on Monday, and released from director Bryan Singer.

The price of a first-class postage stamp will go up this weekend. The price of first-class “Forever” stamps will increase from 46 cents to 49 cents starting Sunday, said Rich Hibbard, supervisor of the Mount Royal post office.