Heavy overnight rains flooded Istanbul, Turkey, stranding motorists and flooding arterial roads. The floods led to the death of at least 31 people and the cost of damage has been estimated as being in excess of $70 million in northwestern parts of the country.
The flood devastated businesses, swept away cars and swamped houses, roads, and farming land. Fueled by the worst rain in 80 years, waters rose up to six feet (2 meters) high in the city's İkitelli district, cutting off the route to Istanbul's main airport and the highway to Greece and B
A 19 year old from South Tyneside, England has been banned from looking after animals after stealing a cat and forcing it to inhale cannabis.
Mark Kane, from South Shields, England, was banned from looking after animals for 10 years after causing "unnecessary suffering" to a tabby cat in January 2009. Kane was originally sentenced to three months in jail which was suspended two years. Kane also has to pay £100 (US$167) in fines.
Kane had stolen the cat from a friend of his girlfriend. A mobile phone camera recorded the incident and showed Kan
A businessman implicated in a serial murder case in India which has been dubbed the "house of horrors" has been cleared on appeal of abducting, raping, and murdering fourteen-year-old Rimpa Haldar. He had been sentenced to death along with his servant.
The Allahabad High Court in Uttar Pradesh ruled that there was no evidence to link Moninder Singh Pandher to the girl's remains, which were among those of nineteen young women and girls recovered from bags near his house. Servant Surinder Koli's conviction was upheld as was his sentence. Both
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Disney president John Lasseter has announced that British actor Timothy Dalton will be voicing a character in Toy Story 3.
Dalton, who previously starred as James Bond in Licence to Kill and The Living Daylights, will star as a thespian hedgehog called Mr. Pricklypants in Toy Story 3, a film which is due for release in June 2010. Mr. Pricklypants is described as "a hedgehog toy with thespian tendencies".
John Lasseter, Disney/Pixar Chief Creative Officer, made the announceme
A lawmaker in California who resigned from the California Assembly Wednesday after a videotape with racy comments was leaked says that his "decision to resign is in no way an admission that [he] had an affair or affairs."
Mike Duvall (R-Orange County), who become involved in this scandal earlier this week, denied that he had any affairs with anyone, in a statement posted on his web site. Duvall said, "My offense was engaging in inappropriate storytelling and I regret my language and choice of words. The resulting media coverage was proving to
Former Genesis band member Phil Collins has announced that he will never play the drums ever again.
Collins says his decision is due to a spinal injury which makes it too painful for him to hold up his drumsticks. In an interview with British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, Collins, age 58 said, "I've got a condition that means I can't play any more. After playing drums for 50 years, I've had to stop."
"Obviously I'm very sad about it. My vertebrae has been crushing my spinal cord because of the position I drum in. I can't even hold the sticks
After eight years, the 9/11 attacks have been remembered in New York, in the United States at the site of the former World Trade Center. Other memorial services were held at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
U.S. President Barack Obama attended a memorial service at the Pentagon. In a speech Obama stated, "Eight Septembers have come and gone. Nearly 3,000 days have passed; almost one for each of those taken from us. But no turning of the season can diminish the pain and the loss of that day. No passage of time and no dark skies
The Director of public prosecutions in England and Wales are going to seek a retrial for three men who are thought to have been involved in a plot to attempt to bomb transatlantic flights.
Ibrahim Savant and Arafat Khan are both 28 years old. Waheed Zaman is 25 years old. All of the men were recently found "not guilty" of attempting to bomb aircrafts. A spokesman for the Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer, confirmed that he will be seeking a retrial.
On Monday, a jury in Woolwich Crown Court in London, England failed to reach verdi
Gertrude Baines, the world's oldest person, died aged 115 in Los Angeles, California on Friday. The suspected cause of death is heart failure.
"She passed away this morning at 07.25 [14.25 UTC]," said administrator Emma Camanag of the Western
Convalescent Hospital.
Baines, who was born on April 6, 1894, became the world's oldest person in January this year, after
Maria de Jesus, a Portuguese woman, died aged 115.
Charles Witt, Baines' doctor, said, "she told me that she owes her longevity to the Lord, that she never did drink, she never d
One of the criminals listed as "most wanted" by the United Kingdom's Scotland Yard, has been arrested in the Netherlands after escaping six years ago.
Noel Cunningham, 47, was being taken to Inner London Crown Court in June 2003 and was going to be tried in there for a planned £1,250,000 robbery of a security van in Brixton, South London, England. However, just outside the court, two armed men ambushed the Securior police vehicle and shot the prison van driver in the leg before pistol-whipping a guard. Cunningham and two accomplices managed t
Hurricane Fred, currently a Category 2 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale, is spinning harmlessly in the eastern Atlantic Ocean.
The National Hurricane Center first designated the storm Tropical Depression Seven on Monday, September 7. Fred reached Category 3 major hurricane status for a time, but has since weakened slightly.
The storm, situated about 645 miles (1040 km) west of the Cape Verde islands, is likely to dissipate before threatening any land areas, forecasters say. Fred currently has winds of 105 miles per hour (165 km
Reading Rainbow, an American children's television series is to stop showing on television. It ceased to be shown on Friday after a 26 year long run because of a funding shortfall of several hundred thousand dollars needed to renew the broadcast rights.
The PBS show has more than two-dozen Emmy awards, and its run is shorter only than Sesame Street and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood.
Each episode of the show would focus on a theme in a specific book and then explore that theme through multiple stories. Each show would also provide recommendati
