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SALVATORE DI NOLFI/EPA Rescue workers attempted in vain to resuscitate the 55-year-old dad. His wife and two daughters remain critically injured at area hospitals. A California family on vacation in Switzerland was ripped apart by a horrific hot air balloon crash on Tuesday morning, according to Swiss police. A 55-year-old father died after a hot air balloon carrying his family ...

TEL/AP Ayman al-Zawahri, left, speaks to Osama bin Laden in this TV image from Al-Jazeera. Zawahiri succeeded bin Laden at the top of Al Qaeda’s pyramid. An intercepted electronic communication between Al Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and Yemen was what prompted the Obama administration to order the temporary closure of 21 diplomatic outposts in the Middle East, U.S. officials said ...

Ham went on the lam in China when a truck carrying piglets overturned on a motorway. Hilarious cellphone footage shows traffic cops struggling to contain the stampeding hogs as they desperately made a break for freedom. ITN via YouTube The video has been a hit on YouTube. RELATED: MORE DEAD ANIMALS FOUND IN CHINA – 410 PIGS AND 122 DOGS ...

Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Iran’s new President Hasan Rouhani was sworn in as president in an open session of parliament. Iran’s new president on Sunday called on the West to abandon the “language of sanctions” in dealing with the Islamic Republic over its contentious nuclear program, hoping to ease the economic pressures now grinding its people. President Hasan Rouhani spoke after being ...

Alastair Grant/AP Prince George, getting a lift from his pops, Prince William, made a splash wearing a white swaddle from Brooklyn-based retailer aden + anais. Prince George may already follow in his British mother’s fashionable footsteps, but his street style is all New York. The royal baby made a huge splash when he was carried out of the hospital by ...

Twitter People in Japan didn’t find this picture of a Burger King employee resting on a bag of buns funny. Also note the gross bucket in the top right corner. No one wants buns near their buns. A Burger King employee in Japan has been fired after he tweeted a picture of himself lounging on a bed of hamburger buns. ...

PARWIZ/REUTERS Remains of a dead body are carried away from the site of a suicide attack in Jalalabad province. KABUL, Afghanistan — Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. Authorities also reported that ...

Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP A U.S. jury had recommended that Somali pirates Shani Nurani Shiekh Abrar (left) and Ahmed Muse Salad (right) receive a sentence of life in prison for the killing of four American citizens.  NORFOLK, Virginia— A U.S. jury has recommended that three Somali pirates be sentenced to life in prison in the killing of four Americans ...

StMichaelsHospital/via YouTube The 45-year-old unidentified Canadian, who suffered a stroke and suffers from synesthesia, says he experiences sexual sensations whenever he hears the theme from James Bond movies. James Bond is giving this Canadian a license to be thrilled as he orgasms every time he hears the 007 theme music. The 45-year-old, who does not want to be named, experiences ...

Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired U.S. Army General Colin Powell, right, denies he had an affair with Romanian diplomat Corina Cretu, left. He says email messages made public by a hacker are those of ‘a friendship that electronically became very personal and then back to normal.’ Colin Powell denied Thursday that he cheated on his wife of 50 ...