Oddly Enough Headlines
Mon, Jul 1 2013
Hitler's food taster feared death with every morsel
BERLIN - Margot Woelk spent the last few years of World War Two eating lavish meals and fearing that every mouthful could mean death.
Sat, Jun 29 2013
Glastonbury hosts heaven, hell and haircuts alongside the music
PILTON, England - Tomato fights, anarchic gymnasts and astrophysics drew festival-goers of all ages away from the mainstream music acts at Britain's Glastonbury festival this weekend.
Mon, Jul 1 2013
Israeli who murdered his parents used tips he found online
JERUSALEM - An Israeli who stabbed his mother and father to death was convicted of murder on Monday partly because he searched online for tips including "how to kill your parents and get away with it".
Remembering Gettysburg: Non-Americans join the fray
- It hardly sounds like a dream honeymoon: a week charging around a battleground reverberating with the clamor of 135 cannons, the reek of gunpowder smoke and the cacophony of 12,000 soldiers and 400 horses.
Fri, Jun 28 2013
California woman gets life for chopping off husband's penis
- A judge sentenced a Southern California woman who cut off her estranged husband's penis and tossed it in the garbage disposal to life in prison with the possibility of parole.
Not a vulture but a drone: South Africa police detain cameraman
PRETORIA - South African police on Friday detained the owner of a radio-controlled helicopter drone carrying a camera that was filming scenes around the Pretoria hospital where ailing anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela is being treated.
Two bronze animal heads, stolen 153 years ago, returned to China
BEIJING - The family of a French billionaire and art collector eased a sore point in history on Friday by returning two bronze animal heads, among Chinese treasures pillaged from a Beijing palace by French and British troops more than a century and a half ago.
Seattle fireworks too scary for baby bald eagles
SEATTLE - Just because they're both emblems of American pride doesn't mean fireworks and bald eagles should share the same skyline.
Japan PM Abe hops and flips in voter-wooing game app
TOKYO - It's a bird, it's a plane ... It's a cartoon version of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, hopping and somersaulting his way through the sky in a smartphone game app his party hopes will lure young voters ahead of a July 21 election.
Singapore 'Hello Kitty' fanciers bare claws in quest for toy
SINGAPORE - Singapore residents braved hazardous air, bid hundreds of dollars and queued for hours to lay their hands on a special Hello Kitty stuffed toy, swept up in a craze for the mouthless Japanese cat that peaked this week in the city-state.
McCain, Biden coming together for Sedona, Arizona forum
These days Washington is not known for bipartisanship, but every now and then a breakthrough is made. It is noteworthy that Vice President Joe Biden, a Democrat, and Senator John McCain, a Republican, are appearing together at a forum in Sedona, Arizona on Friday.
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