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A major blaze in a fireworks factory at Sivakasi in Tamil Nadu, India, has reportedly led to 10 people, including children, dead and more than 20 injured on Wednesday, local media reports said.

Glenn Beck is boycotting American Airlines permanently, the Conservative personality announced on his radio show Tuesday evening, citing an instance of being treated rudely by an attendant during a recent flight on the carrier.

The Pentagon claimed ex-Navy SEAL Matt Bissonnette’s new book about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden , “No Easy Day,” contains “sensitive and classified” information, promising to take legal action against the author.

California Highway Patrol Officers have located the vehicle believed to be connected to the shooting of a CHP officer on Interstate 680 in Alamo Tuesday. Reports indicate that one of the two suspects is still at-large.

City officials in Belgium's capital Brussels recently announced a set of new fines that target use of offensive language in public.

Elderly actress Betty White has been requested via petition to show support for President Obama at the upcoming 2012 Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.. Already confirmed for the DNC is Kal Penn, who will be hosting the political event.

Don't expect Erica Depalo to win any more "Teacher of the Year" awards anytime soon if the allegations that she had sex with a 15-year-old student prove true.

The two assassins had approached the Colombian drug lord Griselda Blanco on motorcycles as she exited a butcher shop in Medellin, where they delivered two fatal bullets into her skull and left the 69-year-old's body lying in the street.

An injured hawksbill sea turtle has laid six eggs after being rescued and brought to a turtle hospital in the Marathon, Fla.

Thousands of visitors to the Angeles National Forest in California were evacuated when a wildfire broke out in the East Fork San Gabriel Canyon off State Route 39 Sunday.

Former military officials -- including two who were associated with the U.S. Air Force's Project Blue Book -- will speak during a Sept. 22 lecture in Las Vegas. They promise to delve into some of the previously unknown information the military has about UFOs.

The Iowa sir show crash in Davenport Saturday killed one veteran pilot, Glenn A. Smith, when he lost control of the Soviet-era jet he was flying. Video footage from spectators has been released, depicting a giant fireball emerging from a nearby field.

Gulf Coast residents are spending Labor Day weekend cleaning up the mess left behind by Hurricane Isaac, which pushed north on Friday into the central U.S. after leaving entire water-logged neighborhoods without lights, air conditioning or clean water.

Pictures of the blue moon Friday have begun to go viral on Twitter as tweeters from all over post their own photographs. Most people know that the term "blue moon" doesn't mean that the moon is actually blue. However, some denizens of the Twitterverse have chosen to alter their images of Earth's only moon.

New York will be opening the world's largest ultraviolet, or UV, drinking-water disinfection plant in a couple of months, Scientific American reported Friday.

A tsunami warning for the Philippine Islands region was canceled after a magnitude-7.6 earthquake struck offshore the Philippines Friday, according to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center, or PTWC.

Witches in the 21st century? Yes, in Ghana, where common belief in witchcraft among the rural poor has resulted in mass deportation of women to "witch camps"

Maria Montessori?s 142nd birthday has been commemorated by Google, with the search engine giant dedicating their daily doodle to the Italian physician. She was well known for her philosophical ideas and education methods, which bear her name and are used in schools throughout the world.

A shooting early Friday inside a shopping center in Old Bridge, N.J., about 30 miles southwest of New York City, has left at least three dead, including the shooter, according to The Associated Press.

Maria Montessori, a household name with all those seeking an alternative education to their children, is being remembered with great reverence Friday - on the occasion of her 142nd birth anniversary.

Hundreds of girls below the age of 10 each year are forced into marriage in Iran, and the trend is experiencing a dramatic increase. This alarming statistics was accompanied by an official statement from the Iranian parliament's legal affairs committee that Iran will push to legalize marriage for girls of merely 9 years old.

Pre-eminent French author Richard Millet has sparked controversy by writing that Anders Behinrg Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, "is exactly what Norway deserves."

Hurricane Isaac causes significant damage to US Gulf Coast but nothing on the scale of Hurricane Katrina.

Isaac, once a Category One hurricane but now just a tropical storm, is expected to be downgraded further to a tropical depression by late Thursday. In the meantime, the storm continues to pack winds of 45 miles per hour and pour down about feet of rain in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi. We've gathered a slew of photos and pictures of the devastation throughout New Orleans and Mississippi from Isaac.

A rare two-faced cat, born with two faces, two mouths, two noses and three eyes, has lived for 12 years, according to the Associated Press. Frank and Louie the two-faced cat is the pet of Marty Stevens of Worcester, Mass., who rescued the feline from being euthanized because of his condition.

A 100-year-old driver backed his car on to a pavement and plowed straight into 11 people, including nine children, opposite an elementary school in South Los Angeles Wednesday.

A gas explosion at a coal mine in Southwest China Wednesday afternoon killed 19 miners and trapped dozens more, Xinuha reported.

Venus, a "two-faced" cat with black fur on one side and orange fur on the other side of his face has gone viral. The question is: Is she real, or just another silly web hoax?

Whale vomit will lead to a filthy fortune for an 8-year-old English boy after the piece of ambergris he discovered is estimated to be worth more than $60,000.