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TOKYO—A project to install air filters to reduce airborne radiation at the No. 1 reactor building of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex began Monday, in a move aimed at allowing workers to enter the building for the first time since the start of the crisis to make needed repairs...

It should come as no surprise to any parent that kids will bring home the darnedest things. Whether it is a slimy toad or a sniffling cold, they'll certainly keep you on your toes. Those items, as irritating as they may be, however, pale in comparison to an item one New York child recently...

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Yellow lines are normally used to stop motorists parking on the road - but now they have been painted on a pavement in a town centre to show pedestrians where to walk. Two lines stretch for 100m (328ft) down a high street. Other yellow lines have been painted around trees, a post box and...

A real-life ‘evil hypnotist’ is being hunted down after sending at least eight elderly bank customers into trances and stealing their money. The crafty crook has been collecting cash from unaware victims in the south-western Russian city of Stavropol. It is thought that he has...

A northern Colorado woman who was playing a game on Facebook while her 13-month-old baby drowned in a bathtub was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Shannon Johnson, 34, of Fort Lupton, cried as District Judge Thomas Quammen told her he didn't think she was a bad person or that she...

Despite the popular perceptions of plane travel, it is a relatively safe way to travel, and the folks over NASA are hoping to make it even safer. They have awarded four different research teams a total of $16.5 million to work on safer and more fuel efficient planes. They may even be quieter...

The news out of Japan has not been good this week. Officials there raised the severity rating of the nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant to the highest level, while the plant continues to dump radiation into the air and water and radiation is found in milk and drinking water in...

US restaurant chain Applebee's has been forced to apologise after a toddler was served margarita mix in his beaker instead of apple juice. Fifteen-month-old Dominic Dill-Reese was found to have enough alcohol in his blood to be over the adult drink-drive limit when he was rushed to...

I don't have InPrivate Filtering SETTINGS in the Safety menu, so i can't import filtering rules or add urls to my filter list, it's really annoying. I saw screenshots of other people's IE9 safety menu, and they all have that setting. I've tried to uninstall-reinstall ie9, but i still don't have...

Hello I am sorry if my prefix is not accurate but I could not find whay applied to this brief question. I will be flying soon and would like to know if my container of discs(dvd + cd) is safe to carry on or store . I am referring to xray and magnetism in that erasures may occur. If it is safe to...

Ryan Stephens has been charged with teasing Timber the police dog after he was found barking and hissing at the animal. The 25-year-old claimed ‘the dog started it’ when officers asked why he was barking at the K9 dog in a patrol car in Cincinnati, Ohio. Police said he appeared...

Link Removed due to 404 Error As Japan's prime minister visited tsunami-ravaged coastal areas for the first time Saturday, frustrated evacuees complained that the government has been too focused on the nuclear crisis that followed the massive wave. Nearly every day some new problem at...

Link Removed - Invalid URL after the 9.0-magnitude earthquake has raised questions over the option of using nuclear power to generate electricity. The disaster has prompted an outpouring of fierce opposition to nuclear energy, and many states have begun weighing their nuclear futures. However...

wo gigantic concrete pumps — described as the largest such equipment in the world — will soon be on their way to join the machinery being used to pour water on damaged reactors in Japan’s nuclear crisis, company officials said Thursday. Link Removed The two machines are normally used to...

Link Removed due to 404 Error The FBI is investigating what might be a bullet hole, discovered in the side of a US Airways Group Inc plane this week, the airline said Wednesday. The small hole in the Boeing 737-400 was found by a pilot Monday at the Charlotte/Douglas International...

(PhysOrg.com) -- Lie detection is coming to a whole new level. Soon we will not have to rely on the work of individual agents to figure out who is just trying to get on a plane and who is a criminal mastermind in the making. Link Removed - Invalid URL Researchers at the University of...

A terrified seven-year-old girl lifted the lid on the family toilet and found herself staring at a seven foot long boa constrictor, say police in Hanover, Germany. Police managed to photograph the monster snake and call in wildlife experts before it disappeared back down the S-bend...

Link Removed due to 404 Error ONAGAWA, Japan – As a massive tsunami ravaged this Japanese fishing town, hundreds of residents fled for the safest place they knew: the local nuclear power plant. Nearly three weeks later, 240 remain, watching TV or playing ball games with their children next...

A trip to the cinema is probably the best way of watching a horror film but a family claims they are part of their own ‘Scary Movie’ after being terrorised by poltergeists. Lisa Manning and her two children have been living in fear following hundreds of eerie goings-on. Ashtrays have...