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Most popular news on 23 October 2007 |
Raging Calif. fires burn scores of homes
AP - Wildfires blown by fierce desert winds Monday reduced hundreds of Southern California homes to ashes, forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee and laid a hellish, spidery pattern of luminous orange over the drought-stricken region.
Outing gives Potter passages new meaning
AP - With author J.K. Rowling's revelation that master wizard Albus Dumbledore is gay, some passages about the Hogwarts headmaster and rival wizard Gellert Grindelwald have taken on a new and clearer meaning.
Former FBI spycatcher calls poker bluffs
AP - As an FBI spy catcher, Joseph Navarro could identify traitors through their subtle behavioral tics — even something as simple as a squint could be a giveaway.
Emotions Run Amok in Sleep-Deprived Brains
LiveScience.com - Without sleep, the emotional centers of our brains dramatically overreact to bad experiences, research now reveals.
Marie Osmond faints on 'Dancing'
AP - Marie Osmond fainted onstage during ABC's live broadcast Monday of "Dancing with the Stars" but quickly recovered.
5,000 minks freed in Denmark
AP - Thousands of minks escaped from a fur farm in western Denmark — possibly set free by animal rights activists, police said Monday.
Turkey sends more troops to Iraq border
AP - Dozens of Turkish military vehicles streamed toward the Iraqi border with heavy artillery and ammunition Monday after Kurdish guerrillas killed a dozen soldiers and claimed to have captured eight in an intensifying crisis threatening to spill into Iraq.
Kansas woman guilty of cutting baby from womb
Reuters - A Kansas woman was found
guilty on Monday of killing a pregnant woman, cutting the baby
from her womb and kidnapping the newborn in a gruesome ruse to
pass the child off as her own.
Colts crush Jags in AFC South showdown
AP - All that talk about defending Super Bowl champion Indianapolis being better this season just might be true. The Colts dominated every aspect of Monday night's showdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars, easily winning 29-7 and once again taking charge in the AFC South. They also moved a step close to setting up an undefeated matchup with New England (7-0). The teams meet Nov. 4.
Steve Martin writes children's book
AP - The trend seems as plain as the nose on your child's face, or an arrow through your head. There's Madonna, Billy Crystal and Jamie Lee Curtis. And Jerry Seinfeld. And John Lithgow. And Katie Couric.
Living on the Mafia hit list - a journalist's tale
Reuters - Lirio Abbate has an unwelcome distinction
among Italian journalists: correspondent in Sicily for the
state news agency Ansa and La Stampa newspaper, he has had his
own armed police escort for the past six months.
Taco Bell's World Series bet: free tacos for all
Reuters - Many Americans will be wagering on this
week's baseball World Series. For Taco Bell, the stakes are a
free taco for everyone in the United States.
Medal of Honor ceremony at White House
AP - President Bush publicly honored a fallen Navy SEAL Monday by presenting his grieving parents with the Medal of Honor — and privately honored their sacrifice by wearing a dog tag they'd given him moments before.
Homes destroyed as wildfires engulf southern Calif
Reuters - An epic wave of fast-moving
wildfires engulfed a massive swath of southern California on
Monday, destroying hundreds of homes as more than 250,000
people were told to evacuate from neighborhoods, schools and
hospitals.
Boy's calls to 911 lead to mom's arrest
AP - An 8-year-old boy riding in a car with his mom called 911 several times to report that she wasn't "acting normal," leading to her arrest for investigation of drunken driving and other charges, authorities said.
Just Another Babe-Hound
Dear Margo - DEAR MARGO: I am a 21-year-old female who has been having a secret affair with my boss for the past two years. When I met him he was single, but now he is engaged.
He wants to continue the affair, and as embarrassing as it is to admit, I also want to continue being with him. Deep down I feel that I love him, and the way I see it, I'd rather have some of him than nothing.
Latin American women rise in nations long dominated by men
McClatchy Newspapers - BUENOS AIRES, Argentina? Defying Latin America's longtime reputation as a bastion of machismo, women in South America are winning political power at an unprecedented rate and taking top positions in higher education and even, albeit more slowly, in business.
Panel: US must control security firms
AP - A panel recommended to the State Department that the U.S. government impose unified control over private security guards working for the U.S. in Iraq, an idea already floated by Defense Secretary Robert Gates, The Associated Press has learned.
Simple test can catch smokers who fib
Reuters - A simple device for detecting carbon
monoxide in the blood may help doctors get an honest answer out
of patients who smoke, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
2 US sailors shot to death in Bahrain
AP - A U.S. Navy sailor shot and killed two female sailors early Monday in the barracks an American military base in Bahrain, officials said.
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