Long Island Newsday: World
- Woman stuck in swimming pool turns to Facebook for help
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 01:50 PMA New Hampshire woman who became stuck in a swimming pool after the ladder broke turned to Facebook to ask for help getting out.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Golden retriever digs up heroin in Oregon backyard
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 01:26 PMAn Oregon family's golden retriever has been honored by a sheriff for digging up $85,000 worth of black tar heroin in a family's backyard
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police: Attacks in Spain are linked, took long time to plan
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 12:01 PMThe back-to-back vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort had been planned for a long time by an Islamic terrorist cell -- and could have been far deadlier had its base not been destroyed by an apparently accidental explosion this week, Spanish officials said Friday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police in Finland looking for suspects after several people stabbed in Turku
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 10:58 AMA man stabbed several people in Finland's western city of Turku before police shot him in a leg and detained him Friday, police said, adding that authorities were looking for more potential suspects.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Fresh hope for justice in 1980 slaying of Archbishop Oscar Romero
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 11:01 PMArchbishop Oscar Romero was slain in San Salvador by a right-wing death squad nearly four decades ago as he celebrated Mass in a hospital chapel. Now, Salvadorans and human rights activists say they have reason to hope his killers may be brought to justice.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spacewalking cosmonauts release 3-D-printed satellite
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 02:00 PMSpacewalking cosmonauts set free the world's first satellite made almost entirely with a 3-D printer on Thursday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Anti-Muslim Australian senator wears burqa in Parliament
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 11:00 AMAn Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bavarian black swan finds companion through lonely hearts ad
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 06:37 AMA black swan in Bavaria is no longer alone after finding a companion thanks to a lonely hearts ad
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: Nude suspect sits on Los Angeles harbor crane
Wednesday - 08/16/2017 - 11:29 PMA suspected car thief has been perched high atop a Port of Los Angeles loading crane for well over an hour as police wait below, and he has now taken off all his clothes
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man charged with spraying manure on US border patrol car
Wednesday - 08/16/2017 - 02:19 PMA 53-year-old Vermont man who was spreading manure in a farm field not far from the Canadian border is facing charges he sprayed a Border Patrol car with liquid manure after a confrontation with the agent about immigration enforcement
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- Men say they've set record for traversing Boston's subway
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 05:46 PMTwo Boston-area residents say they've set the world record for travelling to every stop on the city's subway system in about 7 1/2 hours
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Death toll up to 450 in Sierra Leone mudslides, authorities say
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 02:38 PMRescue officials in Sierra Leone warned Friday that the chances of finding survivors in the debris of this week's mudslides "are getting smaller every day," as bereaved and homeless survivors faced the magnitude of all they have lost.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Driver forced to gun engine and jump rising drawbridge
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 09:48 AMA driver in New Jersey had to gun his engine and jump a drawbridge that began rising as he crossed it with his family
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Big catch! Drunken woman allegedly bites fisherman's line
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 08:40 AMIt wasn't exactly the catch a Florida man was hoping for while fishing in the Atlantic Ocean
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - NY courts spokesman fired after saying he 'barely' worked
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 03:00 PMThe New York state court system's longtime communications chief has been fired after inadvertently telling a reporter that he "barely" went to work
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Best weird AP news: 'Jorts-wearing bandit,' Denture-seeker
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 10:12 AMBest weird AP news: Woman finds wedding ring around carrot; Man charged with spraying liquid manure; 'Adventures in dentures'
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Barcelona police say van jumps sidewalk, causes injuries
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 12:09 PMA white van jumped the sidewalk Thursday in Barcelona's historic Las Ramblas district, crashing into a summer crowd of residents and tourists and injuring several people, police said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Are you for real? Police check out man looking for dentures
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 07:12 AMA wary woman in southern Germany has alerted police after a man buzzed on her door and asked for permission to search her balcony for his false teeth
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Escape artist llama makes bid for freedom on golf course
Wednesday - 08/16/2017 - 01:24 PMGolfers in New Hampshire say they were joined by a llama on the green, after he escaped from his pen to the sixth fairway at Eagle Mountain Golf Course in Jackson
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China urges U.S., North Korea to 'hit the brakes' on threats
Wednesday - 08/16/2017 - 09:44 AMChina has urged the United States and North Korea to "hit the brakes" on threatening words and work toward a peaceful resolution of their tense standoff created by Pyongyang's recent missile tests and threats to fire them toward Guam.
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- Cops in Spain, France hunt for ringleader in dual attacks
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 07:13 AMAuthorities in Spain and France pressed the search Saturday for the supposed ringleader of an Islamic extremist cell that carried out vehicle attacks in Barcelona and a seaside resort, as the investigation focused on links among the Moroccan members and the house where they plotted the carnage.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 1 American killed, 1 injured in Spain attacks, Rex Tillerson says
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 11:53 AMThe State Department says at least one American was killed and one injured in the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, Spain.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Former LI resident caught in middle of Spaniard terror attacks
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 12:55 PMCAMBRILS, SPAIN -- Shaken residents of two popular vacation destinations for Spaniards put their fears aside and attempted to go back to their routines hours after what Catalan authorities said appeared to be a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killed at least 15 people and injured dozens more at the height of the summer season.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - El Salvador's first cardinal has full schedule on Long Island visit
Friday - 08/18/2017 - 06:38 AMJosé Gregorio Rosa Chávez, the first cardinal in the history of El Salvador, was on Long Island on Friday for a three-day visit to celebrate with the faithful and offer solace to a Latino community facing gang violence and a government crackdown on immigrants.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Manchester bombing 'hero' charged with stealing credit card
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 02:02 PMA homeless man who was praised for helping victims of the Manchester concert bombing has been charged with stealing a bank card from someone caught up in the attack.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Amid U.S. tension after Charlottesville, Auschwitz-Birkenau weighs in
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 10:49 AMThe memorial site of Auschwitz-Birkenau is weighing in on the anti-Semitic and racially charged violence that has erupted in the United States, noting that hatred comes from people who promote it.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Constipated gorilla in Kansas zoo recovering after surgery
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 11:49 AMA constipated 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas is recovering after having surgery
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 2014 Hong Kong protest leaders get prison
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 07:33 AMA Hong Kong court sent young activist Joshua Wong and two other student leaders to prison Thursday for their roles in huge pro-democracy protests nearly three years earlier, in the latest sign that tolerance for dissent is waning in the Chinese-ruled former British colony.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Man to answer charges he sprayed manure on Border Patrol car
Thursday - 08/17/2017 - 12:07 AMA Vermont man accused of spraying liquid manure on a marked U.S. Customs and Border Protection car after confronting an agent about immigration enforcement is scheduled to appear in court
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Call the fashion cops: 'Jorts-wearing bandit' hits St. Louis
Wednesday - 08/16/2017 - 09:56 AMLaw enforcement are urging anyone who recognizes a man accused of robbing St. Louis-area Walgreens stores while wearing jean shorts to call "the fashion police."
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