Five children were discovered by authorities in south central Pennsylvania hidden in a condemned house with no heat, running water or identification. York County police Lt. Tim Utley said there were no birth certificates, no records of immunizations, and no school records, since the children, ranging in age from 2 to 13, were kept hidden [...]
Not only people suffer from morbid obesity in the United States today; our pets are also suffering serious health issues due to extreme weight gain, experts say. About 90 per cent of companion animals, dogs and cats, which translates to approximately 90 million pets, are “tipping the scales”, according to the Association for Pet Obesity [...]
A high school student in a northeast Wisconsin school held 23 classmates and his teacher hostage, Monday, for about five hours before turning the gun on himself, authorities said, Tuesday. He is in critical condition with potentially life threatening injuries in a Bay Area Medical Center, said Marinette, Wisconsin, Chief of Police Jeff Skorik. The [...]
If website owners didn’t have enough to worry about, they will now. Two new denial of service attack tools were released that exploit flaw in the underlying protocol of the web, HTTP. Unlike other denial of service attacks that have been around for years that target “flooding” servers with connections, this attack does the opposite. [...]
A hangover is the consequence of excessive drinking that affects about 70% of all the people overindulging during the festive season. The symptoms of hangover vary from person to person and can be mild or acute, but they usually include headache, nausea, sensitivity to light and noise, dehydration and dizziness. Some people are resistant to [...]
Monday saw planned military drills for the front-line island targeted in last week’s deadly North Korean attack postponed, just hours after South Korean authorities announced the exercises would take place. Earlier, live-fire maneuvers by South Korean troops triggered the North’s military assault which killed four people and wounded both troops and civilians, resulting in returned [...]
A recent Swiss study, published in the British Medical Journal, indicates the links between depression and acne are not just based on side effects from the medications used to treat the skin affliction. Doctors said acne on its own raises the risk of depression, most likely due to self-esteem. “Your skin is what you present [...]
Canadian-born actor Leslie Nielson has died at 84. Nielson was being treated at hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, for pneumonia, with his wife, Barbaree and friends by his side, when he succumbed to his illness at 5:34 pm, his agent John S. Kelly said in a statement. “We are saddened by the [...]
The body of what’s believed to be a missing college student from upstate New York has been found, and a man who had a relationship with her has been charged with second-degree murder. Steven Pieper, 21, was arrested for her death. Jenni-Lyn Watson went missing November 19 from her home in Syracuse, New York, and [...]
An Argentinian man has been arrested for allegedly fathering 10 children with his own daughter, and violating her for 30 years, a local government agency reported Saturday. A special inquiry into the Santa Fe area, due to multiple cases of sexual abuse reported in 2009, has been triggered, the government site also reported. Renconquista judge [...]