NEW YORK - 500+ flights have been canceled at New York City! Airports closed ahead of a winter snowstorm. Most of the cancellations (380) are at Newark Liberty International Airport, said Steve Coleman Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman. Fifty-seven flights have been canceled at Kennedy Airport and 150 have been canceled at LaGuardia. Arriving flights are coming in two hours late at Kennedy Airport, and departures and arrivals are more then one hour late at LaGuardia. The storm could very ... Read More

Believe it or not, in a small village of Deshnok in India lays a beautiful temple - devoted to rats. Yes you read it well - Karni Mata temple is devoted to RATS. Every day hundreds of worshipers of the Hindu goddess Shri Karniji make the long pilgrimage to this shrine. Shri Karniji is reputed to have lived for 151 years, and it's said she was capable of miracles. Today in her temple you can find a large number of rats. ... Read More

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Relatives beat a Malaysian couple to death in a ritual which is thought to meant to help the man to stop smoking, police said this Friday. The couple died of head injuries after being beaten with broomsticks and motorbike helmets during a family gathering at a Kuala Lumpur home Wednesday, said Ku Chin Wah, head of the city's crime investigations department. Four detained members of family have been released except one of the couple's sons and three other relatives remained ... Read More

JERUSALEM, - Fifteen people - mostly Israeli soldiers - were injured at an intersection in Jerusalem Monday night when a driver crashed with his car into a group of people, Jerusalem police told CNN. The driver was shot and killed at the scene by an Israeli soldier who was part of the group, police said. The driver of the black BMW was not immediately identified, but authorities said he was a young Palestinian from East Jerusalem's Jabal Mukaber neighborhood . The incident happened about ... Read More

CHICAGO - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's fundraising machine risen to amazing $66 million which is new record in August and also 500,000 new donors were added to the ranks, a campaign spokesman said on Sunday. Obama was running even or slightly behind his Republican rival John McCain in opinion polls but led him in the fundraising race through the summer. Obama made a heroic decision not to take public funds for the final two months leading up ... Read More

NABLUS - The Israeli military says a Palestinians stabbed a 9-year-old Israeli boy in a West Bank settlement outpost, setting off clashes that left injured six Palestinians. The military says the boy was hospitalized with just slight injuries, and that he will recover very soon. The military said Saturday events began when a Palestinian man set fire to an abandoned building in an outpost of the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar. The military says the boy saw him, and then called for help and was ... Read More

URBANA, - A Catholic priest on the University of Illinois campus has been charged with selling cocaine from his church office and rectory. The Reverend Christopher Layden pleaded not guilty Thursday to two counts of delivery of less than 1 gram of cocaine within 1,000 feet of a church and one count of possession with intent to deliver 1 to 15 grams of cocaine near a church. The 33-year-old was arrested on Wednesday at St. John's Catholic Newman Center after investigators found 3 grams ... Read More

MASSACRE tycoon Chris Foster shot his daughter Kirstie dead while she was she chatting to her friends on the internet.Police are now examining the 15-year-old’s charred computer, they said yesterday. Debt-ridden Foster, 50, also killed wife Jill, 49, before torching their mansion and killing himself. Police who have examined CCTV footage believe he started at least three pockets of fire which destroyed the £1.2million home on Tuesday last week. Det Supt Jon Groves, said: “CCTV from the house shows a man, who we strongly believe ... Read More

Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- Hurricane Gustav strengthened to a "dangerous'' Category 4 storm that threatens to hurt U.S. oil and natural-gas production and refining more severely than hurricanes Katrina and Rita did three years ago. Gustav will probably become a Category 5 storm today as it crosses the Gulf of Mexico. The storm already has shut almost three-quarters of oil output in the region and refineries operated by Valero Energy Corp. and Exxon Mobil Corp. There will be a special trading session today ... Read More

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - The well known Gustav became a hurricane on Friday for the second time as it plowed toward Cayman Islands, the start of a buildup that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm just three years after Hurricane Katrina. Gustav  killed 71 people in the Caribbean and now it is expected to swirl through the Cayman Islands, a tiny offshore tax haven studded with resorts and cruise-ship souvenier shops, before crossing Cuba's ... Read More