Oddly Enough Headlines
Tue, Jul 2 2013
Remains of New York woman missing for 28 years found in wall
NEW YORK - The remains of a New York schoolteacher who disappeared nearly 28 years ago have been discovered hidden in a false basement wall in the house where she lived with her husband, police said on Tuesday.
Man killed by three caged tigers in Italy
ROME - A 72-year-old man was killed by three tigers in a closed-down zoo in northern Italy after he entered the animals' cage to feed them, media reports said on Tuesday.
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.
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.
Sun, Jun 30 2013
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.
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.
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.
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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