Some spent the night stranded on the subway |
- Some spent the night stranded on the subway
- He killed wife with pills, hammer, screwdriver
- Airports reopen after monster blizzard leaves a trail of disruption
- Seine River swells due to heavy snow in Paris
- Day 2 of snowpocalypse paralyses US
- Polish twins have different fathers
- On Twitter, daughter discusses Benazir assassination
- Queen Elizabeth under fire for wearing fur hat
- Dramatic rescue at sea near South Korea
- Parcel bomb found at Greek embassy in Italy
- Transportation in disarray after blizzard tapers off
- UK terror plot: Indian origin man arrested
- Facebook feature in the brain 'rules your social network'
- 100-vehicle pile-up in China leaves seven dead
| Some spent the night stranded on the subway Posted: Around 9 p.m. on Sunday, Grigoriy Zilbergleyz, 64, bid farewell to a friend he was visiting on the Upper West Side of Manhattan and began his journey home to Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He hopped on a C train, transferred to a D and was riding on an aboveground N when he called his wife around 10:55 to let her know that he was only three stations away.
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| He killed wife with pills, hammer, screwdriver Posted: An 83-year old man in Taiwan has admitted murdering his wife with a screwdriver in what he claims was a "mercy killing" in the light of her Parkinson's disease. Wang Ching-hsi, a retired engineer, killed his wife Sun Yuan-ping, 80, who suffered from Parkinson's' disease, at their Taipei home Sunday.
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| Airports reopen after monster blizzard leaves a trail of disruption Posted: Airports and railroads limped back to life, but thousands were still stranded. Roads remained glazed and city streets choked with snow. Subways and buses ran sporadically. Power was still out for thousands. Business was bad, and there were grim tales of people snowbound for hours in cars, buses and trains.
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| Seine River swells due to heavy snow in Paris Posted: Rising water levels of the Seine River cause by heavy snowfall, forced tour boat operators to halt cruises on the Paris River on Monday. The Bateaux Mouches Company and Batobus, which are leading operators of sight-seeing trips along the Seine, both halted their services on Sunday. The companies normally run dozens of tours a day in good weather.
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| Day 2 of snowpocalypse paralyses US Posted: A powerful blizzard on the East Coast of the United States disrupted travel by air, rail and road on Monday, stranding thousands trying to return home after the Christmas holidays. Major airports and railways were shut for a second day after the heavy snowfall, which hit New York City, Boston, and Newark Liberty Airport, among other places.
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| Polish twins have different fathers Posted: A pair of twins born in Poland have different fathers, Polish media reported Monday -- in apparently only the seventh such case in the world.
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| On Twitter, daughter discusses Benazir assassination Posted: Three years after former Pakistani premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated, her youngest daughter says she still feels as if her mother passed away "just yesterday".
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| Queen Elizabeth under fire for wearing fur hat Posted: British Queen Elizabeth II and the Duchess of Cornwall have drawn flak from animal rights campaigners after they wore fur hats on Christmas Day, a media report said Monday.
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| Dramatic rescue at sea near South Korea Posted: South Korea's Coast Guard rescued all 15 crewmembers of a ferry that capsized during rough weather conditions off the country's southwestern coast, local media reported.
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| Parcel bomb found at Greek embassy in Italy Posted: A package bomb was found at the Greek Embassy in Rome Monday, three days after mail bombs exploded at two other embassies injuring two people.
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| Transportation in disarray after blizzard tapers off Posted: Sunshine and deep piles of sparkling snow blanketed the Northeast on Monday morning, but for frustrated commuters and holiday travelers struck by the winter's first ferocious storm, the beauty was short-lived.
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| UK terror plot: Indian origin man arrested Posted: Nine men, including a man of Indian origin, have been charged with conspiracy to cause explosions and plotting terror attacks in Britain, a week after they were arrested in a series of raids across England and Wales. One of the accused Gurukanth Desai, 28; is of Indian origin, who was arrested from Cardiff.
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| Facebook feature in the brain 'rules your social network' Posted: Strange it may appear, but a Facebook-like feature in your brain rules your social network, say researchers. A new study has found that amygdala, a small almond- shaped structure, deep in the temporal lobe governs the number of friends one is likely to make -- the larger the amygdala, the wider and more complex is its owner's network of pals.
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| 100-vehicle pile-up in China leaves seven dead Posted: At least seven people were killed and 15 injured when over 100 vehicles rammed into the back of each other in a foggy Monday morning on an expressway in China, officials said.
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