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German Billionaire Adolf Merckle commits suicide, after being hit by a train, on Monday.

With the slumping global economy, many people are falling into despair amidst the bleak situation.

OHIO - Police say a 4-year-old Ohio boy shot his babysitter with a shotgun in revenge for accidentally stepped on his foot and was angry.

An Australian woman has been charged with murder after allegedly setting her husband's genitals on fire because she thought he was having an affair.

London based Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the maker of classic china and crystal, filed for bankruptcy protection on Monday after running out of money and failing to find a buyer.

Officials have said that at least 33 people were killed when a huge chunk of mountain slid onto a road in northern Guatemala on Sunday and crushing them.

Experts have raised concerns about the dangers of so-called third hand smoke is used to describe chemicals that remain when a person has been smoking.

Eight dead and one has been injured when a helicopter bound for an offshore oil platform crashed in Louisiana's marshlands, Sunday afternoon.

President-elect Barack Obama daughter's Sasha and Malia began their first day of school at Sidewell on Monday.

Twenty two year-old, Danny Platt, was charged with first-degree murder of his 2-year-old son.

A series of powerful earthquakes on Sunday morning rattled the eastern Indonesian province of West Papua, collapsing a number of buildings and injuring at least three people, officials said.

First month of the year is typically the busiest time for gyms as people make losing weight their New Year's Resolution

WASHINGTON - A Muslim family that was ordered off an AirTran Airways flight on New Year's Day received an apology and refund on Friday from the airline, which said its decision to bar the passengers was necessary.

Fleet, Hampshire UK - A British mixed race couple have become parents to a set of black and white twin girls for a second time.

Evidence has been uncovered that hints to the possibility that a comet hit earth more than 13000 years ago, just as the planet was emerging from an ice age, reported today in the journal science.

Going through ones belongings after death can bring about all sorts of surprises; the relatives of Dr. Harold Carr were ones who received such surprise.