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WASHINGTON – Some of the first information gleaned from Osama bin Laden's compound indicates al-Qaida considered attacking U.S. trains on the upcoming anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. But counterterrorism officials say they believe the planning never got beyond the initial phase and have no...

residents of Japan have good cause to mistrust the media, TEPCO officials, and members of their government when it comes to assurances about radiation levels, plutonium dispersal, and the related health risks. Americans also have good cause to mistrust these same sort of assurances issued to...

Authorities on Massachusetts' South Shore are investigating an apparent bizarre murder-suicide with a power saw that left a husband and wife dead. The alleged crime was revealed at approximately 10 p.m. on Monday, when police officers in the historic town of Plymouth, located about 40 miles...

77-year-old Michio Ishikawa of the Japan Nuclear Technology Institute on the situation at Fukushima I Nuke Plant, as he appeared on Asahi TV on April 29. As I watched the video, I started to like Mr. Ishikawa, who continues to believe in the safety of nuclear power generation. He didn't mince...

Spray paint addict Kelly Gibson has been caught by the police red handed and silver faced for solvent abuse. He was arrested at his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana after his wife Elizabeth made a call to the police following an argument. Gibson had been arrested for the same offence 47...

For a crime-fighting Ninja has begun patrolling the streets of Royal Tunbridge Wells scaring off yobs, helping pensioners and rescuing cats from trees. The 25-year-old, who calls himself the ‘Neighbourhood Ninja of Tunbridge Wells’, claims to be a ‘grandmaster’ of the Japanese martial art...

Four bank robbers have been arrested after boasting about their successful raid on Facebook. The dim witted criminals posted the message "I'm rich" and "Wipe my teeth with hundreds" soon after an armed raid on a bank in Houston, Texas. Police were...

"The Japanese government has moved to crack down on independent reportage and criticism of the government's policies in the wake of the disaster by deciding what citizens may or may not talk about in public. A new project team has been created by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and...

Link Removed Fukushima Reactor Number 4 ©Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri. “Should the public discover the true health cost[s] of nuclear pollution, a cry would rise from all parts of the world and people would refuse to cooperate passively with their own death.” Dr. Rosalie Bertell. “No Immediate...

Drivers looking to avoid pricey citations for traffic offenses such as red-light camera violations and speed trap busts are turning to technology to level the playing field. As red-light cameras proliferate around the United States and cash-starved police agencies pump up coffers with...

For seven years, Roger Huang, a pastor who runs a rescue mission in San Francisco's Tenderloin district, has been trying to shut down the sex shops there. This week he may have seen a sign that his efforts are working. On Wednesday, a man burst into flames while inside one of those porn...

Police in China were stunned to spot a man 'driving' two bumper cars along a street. Officer Liu Yulin was watching CCTV footage of a road in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province when the bumper cars came into view. He said: 'I saw on the screen that a man was driving two bumper cars. He sat in...

TOKYO — Japanese officials struggled through the day on Tuesday to explain why it had taken them a month to disclose large-scale releases of radioactive material in mid-March at a crippled nuclear power plant, as the government and an electric utility disagreed on the extent of continuing...

Here’s a snippet from an interview about the Fukushima nuclear situation in Japan. It gives us some insight into why they are covering up the issues and the depth they are prepared to go to to maintain the lie that everything is going to plan. But what’s worrisome is that a nuclear reactor is...

The mayor of the isolated Japanese city of Minamisoma, Katsunobu Sakurai, speaks to DAVID McNEILL LIKE MOST Japanese men, Katsunobu Sakurai read apocalyptic comic-book stories about the future when he was a boy. He never expected to live through one of those stories. A common plot sees a...

Two men have been shot on nuclear submarine HMS Astute, in Southampton. A man has been arrested. Link Removed The HMS Astute shooting took place around midday as the nuclear sub was berthed at the docks. An officer was killed and another man injured. An armed guard on the ship was arrested...

The International Atomic Energy Agency weighed in on the simmering nuclear crisis with alarming radiation data, but the government said Thursday it has no plans for now to expand the current evacuation zone. The international nuclear watchdog said Wednesday in Geneva it detected about 2...

NEW YORK (Reuters) – The massive earthquake that forced the closure of four nuclear power plants in Japan has highlighted the grave risk of inadequate back-up generators at U.S. facilities, a leading U.S. scientist group said on Friday. While the U.S. regulator made clear that the national...

Police say that package exploded next to Egged bus 74 opposite Binyanei Ha'uma in central Jerusalem; Netanyahu delaying departure for Moscow. An explosion took place on or near a bus in central Jerusalem Wednesday afternoon. Police said that a bomb exploded outside Egged bus number 74 at...

A Russian bomb squad were called out to defuse a bomb on Monday, but an investigation into the ticking package revealed it to be a vibrating sex toy. The crack team of bomb experts were called out to a post office in Petrozavodsk after receiving a call from a postal worker who had...