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PODAMPETTA, India – Agya Amma’s house in this seaside village was flattened by the cyclone that roared in from the Bay of Bengal with torrential rains and winds topping 200 kilometers (131 miles) per hour. But the fact that she was still here on Monday, surveying the pile of twisted wood and shredded thatch that had been her home, was ...

LiveLeak Video shows the moment a thief robs a motorcylist at gunpoint in Brazil but is then shot down by an undercover cop before he can get away. Dramatic video shows a Brazilian biker being held up at gunpoint before an undercover cop shoots his attacker down so he can’t escape. The terrifying scene reportedly went down in Sao Paulo ...

AP Indian villagers on tractors move past bodies of victims of a stampede Sunday on a bridge across the Sindh River in Madhya Pradesh state, India. NEW DELHI — At least 64 people were killed Sunday in a stampede by masses of Hindu worshippers crossing a bridge to a temple in central India, police said. The chaos broke out as ...

Patrick Semansky/AP At the sentencing hearing for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, a Pentagon official said the classified information Manning gave to WikiLeaks to publish put entire communities in danger. The classified info that Army Pfc. Bradley Manning dished to WikiLeaks put entire Afghan villages at risk of harm from the Taliban for cooperating with U.S. forces, a Pentagon official testified ...

Laurent davoust/Getty Images/iStockphoto Dmitry Argarkov rewrote a credit card application sent to him by Tinkoff Credit Systems. The bank signed off on it without reading the fine print. Score one for the little (Russian) guy. Dmitry Argarkov put a few revisions in his credit card application: Zero percent interest. No fees. No credit limit. Then he sent it to Tinkoff ...

J. Scott Applewhite/AP Secretary of State John Kerry has taken no chances with terror threats, ordering embassies throughout the Muslim world to evacuate or remain vigilant in recent weeks. WASHINGTON — The State Department on Thursday warned Americans not to travel to Pakistan and ordered nonessential government personnel to leave the U.S. Consulate in Lahore because of a specific threat ...

Twitter Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two 18-year-old British girls, Kirstie Trup (l.) Katie Gee, in Zanzibar, according to authorities. DAR ES SALAAM — Men riding a motorbike threw acid at two British teenage girls in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous Zanzibar region, leaving them with facial, chest and back injuries, a senior police official said on Thursday. The pair, identified ...

Santiago Rios/LatinContent/Getty Images Rosario Central (left) and Newell’s Old Boys (right) form one of the most brutal rivalries of the soccer world. Newell’s Old Boys and Rosario Central are Rosario, Argentina’s two biggest names in soccer, and as such the city is divided in half. The animosity between fans of these two teams is more than palpable and can be ...

MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images A police trooper inspects a vehicle Wednesday at the entrance of the Sanaa International Airport. The U.S. has evacuated its staff from the city’s embassy. An al Qaeda plot to seize control of two major cities in Yemen and bomb oil and gas pipelines was thwarted Wednesday by officials in the Arab nation. The foiled attack targeted ...

Andres Ponte/AP Preliminary reports said the explosion was registered at the building’s central heating system and was probably caused by a gas leak. A natural gas explosion has killed 12 and injured 60 in Rosario, Argentina on Tuesday. The explosion trapped dozens of people in the upper floors of the building while smoke filled the sky in one of the ...