Strauss-Kahn refused to pay maid for sex: Report Posted: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn declined to pay the Guinean maid for sex and his refusal led her to accuse him of sexual assault, a media report said. The 32-year-old maid at the Sofitel Hotel in Manhattan knew who Strauss-Kahn was and saw him as an opportunity to make money.
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US: Protesting against helmets, he died in bike crash Posted: Police say a motorcyclist participating in a protest ride against helmet laws in upstate New York died after he flipped over the bike's handlebars and hit his head on the pavement.
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Angry bird attacks; and it's not a game app Posted: Bicyclists in eastern Oregon say they're getting whacked on the head by an angry bird. Riders in Pendleton told the East Oregonian that a male hawk is dive-bombing them because they're too close to a nest he's guarding in an old cottonwood tree.
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Woman claims miracle cure by World War II era Pope Posted: Maria Esposito was ready to give up. Wasted away at 42 kilos (92 pounds), she couldn't bear another dose of chemotherapy to fight the Stage IV Burkitt's lymphoma that had invaded her body while she was pregnant with her second child.
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Thailand gets first woman Prime Minister Posted: The sister of exiled former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra led Thailand's main opposition party to a landslide victory in elections on Sunday, heralding an extraordinary political turnaround five tumultuous years after her fugitive billionaire brother was toppled in an army coup.
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Afghanistan: 17 children wounded in grenade attack on school Posted: A suspected militant on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at the gates of a school in north Afghanistan today, injuring 17 children, the interior ministry said in a statement.
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