ore than 30,000 single mothers have deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan. The Army, the most heavily deployed branch of the military, gives women just four months to stay stateside with their newborns before deploying to the war zone, leaving them little time to bond with or nurse their infants.
The divorce rate for female soldiers is [...]
ndian authorities on Sunday forced a US plane carrying Marines to land in Mumbai after a confusion about its call sign, but later allowed it to resume its journey, a US Embassy official said.
The Bangkok-bound plane was diverted while in Indian airspace, said the official, who didn’t want to be named because he wasn’t authorized [...]
he victims suffocated due to toxic fumes which engulfed the lift of the 14-storey building in which they were returning after dousing fire, Thane Chief Fire Officer Vijay Vaidya said.
After they successfully doused the fire on the terrace of the building, they got trapped in the lift and choked in the fumes that may have [...]
blaze erupted in a fireworks warehouse in southern India, killing at least 30 people and injuring 10 others ahead of a major Hindu festival.
The victims in Friday night’s explosion were mainly traders buying fireworks in bulk as millions of Hindus prepared to celebrate Deepavali, the festival of lights, the Press Trust of India news [...]
An Australian mom watched in horror as the stroller holding her 6-month-old boy rolled into the path of an oncoming train but the tot miraculously survived with barely a scratch.
Security video footage released Friday shows the baby’s mother looking away for a moment as the pram suddenly rolls off the edge and overturns onto the [...]
The American model and TV personality Anna Nicole Smith consumed increasing amounts of a rare sleep medication in the months after her son’s death, eventually drinking the powerful liquid sedative straight from the bottle, her former bodyguard has testified.
The drug, chloral hydrate, was cited as the primary cause of Smith’s fatal overdose the following year, [...]
A $100,000 reward has been offered for information that helps solve the brutal murder of a couple at their NSW coastal home almost two years ago.
The bodies of Robert Pashkuss, 51, and Stacey McMaugh, 41, were found by their 15-year-old son in their Caves Beach home near Newcastle on January 6, with each suffering severe [...]
THREE men have been arrested over the theft of Victorian bushfire donations with an estimated value of $500,000.
Police searched homes in the suburbs of Springvale, Scoresby and Seaford yesterday afternoon and seized stolen property including baby products, electrical goods, cosmetics and toiletries.
A 47-year-old Scoresby man and a 39-year-old Springvale South man have been charged with [...]
FORT COLLINS: A 6-year-old boy climbed into a homemade balloon aircraft in Colorado and floated away on Thursday, forcing officials to scramble to figure out how to rescue the boy as the balloon hurtled through the air.
The bizarre scene played out live on television and prompted fears that the flying saucer-shaped balloon would crash with [...]
t a time when the Centre wants to go the whole hog against the Maoists, Mamata Banerjee stepped up pressure on the government to withdraw central forces from trouble-torn Lalgarh.
After a meeting of the core group of Trinamool Congress on Wednesday evening, the Trinamool Congress chief raised the demand again, claiming that CPM was [...]
