Sixty-nine years melted away in a moment of pure joy Friday as a New Yorker was reunited with the son of a Polish farmer who helped save him from the Holocaust. Leon Gersten was grinning from ear to ear when Czeslaw Pólziec emerged in the waiting area at John F. Kennedy International Airport. “Hi! Hi! Hi!” the beaming Pole said ...
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Pint-sized 17-year-old weightlifter packs quite a punch with intense workout
Caters News Agency Norway-born Suzanne Svanevik, 17, has a dedicated workout that has turned her into an impressively fit and poweful teen. This incredible girl is only five foot tall and less than eight stone – but she’s stronger than many professional athletes. Suzanne Svanevik, from Bergen, Norway is a pin-up for all girls who’d rather be strong than skinny. ...
Read More »Teenage hitman for Mexican cartels returns to U.S.
Margarito Perez/Reuters Edgar Jimenez Lugo, center, also known as”El Ponchis,” talks to journalists in Cuernavaca, Mexico, in December 2010. The admitted teenage hitman served a three-year sentence for killing for a drug cartel, and is now bound for his native U.S. At age 14, pushed in front of TV cameras by Mexican authorities, a boy born in the U.S. admitted ...
Read More »Jail’s rough for hook-handed Al Queda suspect: lawyers
IAN WALDIE/REUTERS Radical Muslim cleric Sheikh Abu Hamza Al Masri, shown here in London’s Trafalgar Square in 2002, wants be housed at a special prison while he awaits trial on terrorism charges in New York federal court. This hardline jihadist is pretty soft. Hook-handed Islamic preacher Abu Hamza Al Masri, an accused Al Qaeda terrorist who once incredibly requested a ...
Read More »Husband uses PS4 to stream naked, passed out wife
Twitch A man used a live-streaming app on his PlayStation 4 console to expose his wife’s breasts before undressing her and exposing her naked body. The geek of the week let the Web sneak a peek. A PlayStation 4 owner used the system’s new live-streaming feature to share his drunk, presumably unconscious wife’s breasts with an online gaming community for ...
Read More »Lawmakers slam Iran nuclear deal
Murat Unlu/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images Secretary of State John Kerry announces the agreement reached on Iran’s nuclear program on Sunday. Lawmakers and diplomats across the globe wasted no time taking sides Sunday after the U.S. and five world powers struck a deal with Iran to scale back Tehran’s nuclear program. Just hours after an agreement was reached for Iran to halt ...
Read More »Chinese president visits victims of oil pipeline blasts
ChinaFotoPress via Getty Images Cars are scattered like toys in the aftermath of Friday’s oil pipeline explosions in Qingdao, China. The death toll rose to 52 on Sunday. BEIJING (AP) — China’s president on Sunday visited hospitalized victims of deadly explosions that ripped through residential and commercial roads from a ruptured pipeline owned by the country’s largest oil refiner. The ...
Read More »President Karzai won’t sign U.S. deal immediately
MASSOUD HOSSAINI/AFP/Getty Images Afghan president Hamid Karzai (left) talks as the head of the Loya Jirga, Sebghatullah Mujaddidi (right), listens during the first day of a meeting of around 2,500 Afghan tribal elders and leaders in Kabul on Thursday. Kabul rejected the council’s request to sign a security deal with the U.S. soon. KABUL, Afghanistan — An Afghan assembly has ...
Read More »Kerry joins Iran nuclear program talks in Geneva
PHILIPPE WOJAZER/POOL/EPA Secretary of State John Kerry (left), seen here with French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius on Friday, is heading to Geneva to participate in talks about Iran’s nuclear program. GENEVA — Secretary of State Kerry is heading to Geneva to join negotiations about Iran’s nuclear program, the State Department announced Friday. The trip raised expectations that a deal ...
Read More »Xbox One lights up Times Square
STAN HONDA/AFP/Getty Images Gamers are reminded to get ready for the launch of the Xbox One in Times Square. Microsoft’s successor to the Xbox 360 is going head to head with Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo’s Wii U in the eighth generation of video game consoles. The thrill is not gone. Seven hours of waiting on line for the Xbox ...
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