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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...

Yesterday I was browsing the web on Yahoo search like I always do. And I was searching for a well known social web hosting forum.That I was visiting two weeks ago and had no problems getting onto that site then. I will not tell you the link as I do not want anyone else to click on it, as it is...

A learner driver attacked his examiner after he refused to accept a cash bribe in exchange for letting her pass. Jin Su reportedly handed the examiner a red envelope which contained between £400 and £500 during her test and said: 'This will be good for you – and for me.' When examiner...

Boozed-up British tourists have to watch where they walk in Alicante after a new patterned pavement has been laid causing nausea and confusion. The crazy design in the Spanish holiday resort causes the eye to think that the pavement is not flat but stepped. Set in rows of diamonds at...

The most difficult thing in a nuclear crisis, the Tokyo firefighter said, was the inability to sense where the danger was. The Tokyo Fire Department's elite rescue team was among those called in to cool down a nuclear plant north of the capital that was badly damaged by a March 11 earthquake...

Ah, summer days at the public swimming pool: No running, swim at your own risk and of course, no diving. Darren Taylor clearly doesn't remember that rule: The Denver resident recently broke the "certified shallow diving record," aka, the "hurling oneself from a very great height into a pool...

TOKYO – Some shops across Tokyo began rationing goods — milk, toilet paper, rice and water — as a run on bottled water coupled with delivery disruptions left shelves bare Thursday nearly two weeks after a devastating earthquake and tsunami. The unusual sights of scarcity in one of the...

Efforts to restore power to the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan were stalled by smoke billowing from reactors yesterday. A cable that could allow cooling systems to be restored was attached to reactor No.2 – one of six at the tsunami-hit facility. But engineers had to...

The global electronics industry continues to assess the damage to the supply chain. Here’s a rundown on some of the company’s that issued statements on their business in Japan on Thursday. Link Removed Cabot Corp. (CBT): All employees safe; minimal facilities damage. The company, which makes...

Link Removed due to 404 Error 20:00 JST March 19: One of six tsunami-crippled nuclear reactors appeared to stabilize on Saturday as Japan raced to restore power to the stricken power plant to cool it and prevent a greater catastrophe. Engineers reported some rare success after fire trucks...

Link Removed - Invalid URL Explosions. Radiation. Evacuations. More than 30 years after Three Mile Island, the unfolding crisis in Japan has brought back some of the worst nightmares surrounding nuclear power — and restarted a major debate about the merits and the drawbacks of this energy...

Don't laugh, but a vicious squirrel has terrorized a Vermont neighborhood, attacking at least three residents and eluding wildlife control experts for more than a week. The small gray squirrel in Bennington, Vt., has broken the peace that existed between humans and the small woodland...