Michelle Childers and her husband were driving through a forest in Idaho when a tree limb crashed through the passenger side window and into her neck.
Ms Childers described the incident as a “green explosion”.
“I asked (my husband) ‘what where is it?’ “
“It’s in your neck,” her husband answered.
Ms Childers said all she could feel was [...]
September 17, 2009 | Posted in
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THREE British Muslims were sentenced today to life in jail for plotting to blow up transatlantic airliners with liquid bombs in suicide attacks on the scale of September 11, their judge said.
Judge Richard Henriques said the planned “terrorist outrage” was “the most grave and wicked conspiracy ever proven within this jurisdiction”, as he passed sentence [...]
September 14, 2009 | Posted in
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A 16-YEAR-OLD schoolgirl attempting to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world has suffered a setback after her yacht hit a bulk carrier, but she plans to continue her record voyage.
Jessica Watson left Mooloolaba on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast yesterday on a 10-day preliminary solo journey to Sydney in her 10.4-metre sloop Ella’s [...]
September 8, 2009 | Posted in
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26 year old man committed suicide in San Felipe, northern Chile, while chatting with his former girlfriend through a webcam, police said.
Simon Venegas, affected by a deep depression that caused his emotional breakdown, took the drastic decision to kill himself and broadcast it live via Internet,so his former girlfriend could see it.
The woman, in an [...]
September 6, 2009 | Posted in
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CRIMINAL charges against Melbourne Storm star Greg Inglis must fail, his lawyer has told Sunshine Magistrates Court.
Michael Croucher told Sunshine Magistrates’ Court today that Inglis, 22, would plead not guilty.
He is facing charges of intentionally causing injury and unlawful assault over an alleged attack on his girlfriend.
Mr Croucher said a second police statement from Inglis’s [...]
August 25, 2009 | Posted in
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A YOUNG P-plater drove his car with the engine turned off and keys out of the ignition because he thought it would save petrol.
It instead resulted in his death and one of his passengers losing half her face, a coroner has found.
The bizarre act caused the steering wheel to lock and resulted in the vehicle [...]
August 24, 2009 | Posted in
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A FIRE lit by muslims in a women’s tent at a Kuwaiti wedding party on Saturday killing at least 41 people.
The head of Kuwait’s fire brigade Jassim al-Mansouri said 61 people were critically injured.
The fire took just three minutes to destroy the tent in which between 150 and 180 people were celebrating the wedding, according [...]
August 16, 2009 | Posted in
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Gay pop star George Michael was arrested and questioned after his Land Rover car collided with a truck in Britain.
The singer, 46, was held on suspicion of driving under the influence of drink and drugs but was released without charge after five hours, the BBC said.
He was taken to the Lodden Valley police station near [...]
August 15, 2009 | Posted in
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A Russian woman frustrated at failing to obtain French nationality hurled a ceramic cup at the Mona Lisa but did not damage Leonardo da Vinci’s famed portrait, a spokesman for the Louvre Museum said on Tuesday.
The attack happened on August 2 and the unnamed assailant was immediately arrested.
“The woman threw an empty cup at the [...]
August 11, 2009 | Posted in
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A SLEEPING man had boiling oil poured over him by his housemate because he bought a whole takeaway chicken instead of a quarter, a court has heard.
Sahal Said, 23, screamed as he woke up in excruciating pain after his housemate Mohamed Wahani, 24, emptied the contents of a hot oil filled saucepan on him in [...]
August 5, 2009 | Posted in
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