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145 die in India temple stampede: Mostly women, kids crushed at religious festival in Himachal Pradesh state

Lightning hits 91 spectators at racetrack

Bridge collapse revealed holes in federal data: Internal e-mails show confusion in the hunt to inspect similar spans

Man beheads girlfriend on Santorini island: Greek carried teacher's severed head around tourist destination, police say

Soap opera, 'Noor', upends Arab gender roles -- "A top Saudi cleric forbade viewers from watching [...] and has also declared that any TV station airing [it] is against God. This has put Saudi-owned Middle East Broadcasting Company (MBC), which airs the show three times a day, at loggerheads with Saudi religious leaders." | more about Noor

World's tiniest snake found in Barbados: Scientists says snake is so diminutive it can curl up on a U.S. quarter -- thread snake