A woman in suburban Chicago was found stabbed to death in her bathtub, in the gown she wore at her wedding, officials said.Estrella Carrera, 26, was found in her home in Burbank, southwest of Chicago, Sunday afternoon, police said. She had apparently suffered stab wounds and was discovered in her unfilled bathtub, wearing her wedding gown, the Chicago Tribune reported Monday.Carrera was last seen

World News May 15, 2012

A father and 3-year-old son drowned after their boat capsized on the River Avon in Barford, England, while two other children survived, officials said.The man, identified by locals as Julian Mynott, had taken his son Freddie and daughter Florence and another boy out in a rowing boat Saturday when it capsized on a weir just after 5:30 p.m., The Daily Telegraph reported.Florence and the other boy we

World News May 14, 2012

Forty-nine bodies with their heads, hands and feet hacked off were found Sunday dumped on a northern Mexico highway leading to the Texas border in what appeared to be the latest carnage in an escalating war between Mexico's two dominant drug cartels.Local and federal authorities discovered the bodies before dawn lying in a pool of blood at the entrance to the desert town of San Juan, on a highway

World News May 14, 2012

The lead singer of a Swedish metal band said he had to cancel a Minnesota concert when an accidental head bang on a tour bus left him bleeding.Mikael Akerfeldt, lead singer of death metal bank Opeth, said he was retrieving underwear from his suitcase on a tour bus belonging to fellow metal act Mastodon when he accidentally hit his head, resulting in a gash "open down to the skullbone," The Local r

Performance May 11, 2012

Millions of iPod owners may be surprised to learn they're suing Apple, industry analysts said.A lawsuit against Apple by RealNetworks, which developed the Real Player app and the Harmony music service, has been given class-action status U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, Mashable reported Thursday.Consumers who purchased iPod devices between Sept. 12, 2006, and March 31,

Technology May 11, 2012

A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 5-year-old girl she was babysitting and streaming a video of the incident on the Internet.Jennifer Mahoney, 33, of Manapalan Township admitted in federal court in Trenton Wednesday she had sexually abused the girl on multiple occasions, once using the streaming service Skype to broadcast a live video of the assault on the Internet, The (Newar

May 11, 2012

Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett will take the mound Thursday night at Fenway Park, as controversy swirls around the struggling starter.With Beckett (2-3, 4.45 ERA) en route back to Boston ahead of his scheduled start vs. Cleveland, manager Bobby Valentine was left in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday to address reports that Beckett played golf on an off day last week, a day after the team announced he'd be

Baseball May 11, 2012

Twin suicide car bombs exploded outside a military intelligence building and killed 55 people Thursday, tossing mangled bodies in the street in the deadliest attack against a regime target since the Syrian uprising began 14 months ago.The bombings fueled fears of a rising Islamic militant element among the forces seeking to oust President Bashar Assad and dealt a further blow to international effo

World News May 11, 2012

The United States expressed condolences Tuesday over the death of a South Korean nuclear inspector in Iran.Seo Ok-seok, a 58-year-old inspector at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was killed earlier in the day in a car crash near a reactor site in central Iran, according to local media and the South Korean Embassy there."We certainly express our deepest condolences to the family of t

International May 9, 2012

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected light emanating from a so-called super-Earth planet beyond our solar system, scientists say.Although the planet is not habitable, detecting it is a historic step in the ongoing search for signs of life on other planets, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., said Tuesday.Super Earths are more massive than Earth but lig

Technology May 9, 2012

A mugger who attacked a woman in Japan fled empty-handed -- and with one finger missing -- after the intended victim chomped off his pinkie.The 59-year-old woman fought back after a man snatched her bag as she arrived at her apartment in the northern city of Sapporo, police said Tuesday.The woman gave chase as her attacker made his getaway on a bike, wrenching the stolen tote from his grasp and bi

May 9, 2012

Researchers in South Korea say they are unlocking the secret to why black pepper fights fat.Soo-Jong Um, Ji-Cheon Jeong and colleagues at Sejong University in Seoul said black pepper and the black pepper plant were used for centuries in traditional Eastern medicine to treat gastrointestinal distress, pain, inflammation and other health disorders.Despite the long medicinal history, scientists know

Technology May 8, 2012

The CIA thwarted an ambitious plot by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner using a bomb with a sophisticated new design around the one-year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, The Associated Press has learned.The plot involved an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit in on Dec. 25, 2009. This new bomb also was desi

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