DUBLIN (AP) - A miscarrying woman who died in an Irish hospital should have had her blood poisoning detected much sooner and been offered an abortion to improve her odds of survival, an experts' report concluded Thursday in a case that is forcin... [Full Article]
Hong Kong (Reuters) - When a king cobra lunges at Chau Ka-ling as the door to its wooden cage falls open in her busy Hong Kong restaurant, she just laughs, then pulls it gently into her arms. For Chau is a "snake king," one of scores in Hon... [Full Article]
MINSK, Belarus (AP) - City authorities in the Belarusian capital of Minsk are carelessly trapping stray cats in locked basements, dooming them to starvation, animal activists say. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
DAKANUA, Taiwan (AP) - Her eyes lit bright with concentration, Taiwanese linguist Sung Li-may leans in expectantly as one of the planet's last 10 speakers of the Kanakanavu language shares his hopes for the future. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Members of an Islamist-dominated panel tasked to write a new constitution are gathering to vote on the document's final draft in a move likely to stoke a widening political crisis over decrees giving the president near absolute powers. (Source: ... [Full Article]
Visit the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris and chestnut trees greet you as you wander among graves of luminaries such as Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Images of an unannounced HTC (2498) tablet were published on Twitter on Tuesday evening courtesy of evleaks. The device appears to have a 10.1-inch display with an odd bottom mounted front-facing and rear camera. The mysterious tablet features a larg... [Full Article]
They were seemingly ordinary tweets from two friends hanging out on a railroad bridge in their hometown, enjoying one last summer night together before heading back to college. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
Following yesterday's sad quarterly earnings report that confirmed the deterioration at Research in Motion we've heard about for the last year, The Wall Street Journal's Will Connor tells us why exactly the BlackBerry maker failed so h... [Full Article]