Terrified Motorists Get Lift Across Bridge

Between 1,200 to 1,400 calls are made every year to the bridge's Drivers Assistance Program that provides motorists with a crew member to drive them across if they're too afraid to drive themselves. After the Thursday collapse of a highway bridge in Mount Vernon, Wash., the number of calls might increase with more...

abcnews.com (20 hours ago)

The hottest French TV of 2013: The Returned

It's four years since a coach taking local teenagers on a school trip plunged down a French mountain, killing several students. But, just as final plans for a much-debated memorial are being passed round the weekly bereavement support group, the children start to come home, acting as if nothing has happened,...

guardian.co.uk (23 hours ago)

A Culture Of Fear And Intimidation...

Submitted by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Last week when I arrived to Bangladesh, the immigration officials there were positively ecstatic to see a foreign tourist entering the country. I’ve also been to places in Africa and the South Pacific where you’re greeted upon arrival by dancing tribespeople singing...

zerohedge.com (2 days ago)

Will Japan Trigger a Global Financial Meltdown?

Japan’s bond market is officially losing control. We have definitely taken out the multi-year trendline here, making a new high higher after a higher low. This is BAD news as it indicates that Japan’s bond market could be entering a cyclical downturn. If this happens then the great global bond market rig of the last...

zerohedge.com (2 days ago)

Chris Durban: I sank a German U-boat in 1943, I was just 20-years-old and terrified

independent.co.uk (2 days ago)

Did my faulty breast implants kill my darling daughter? As experts warn leaking implants may harm...

When Luna Petagine was diagnosed with cancer aged just 18 months, her mother, Lucy, pictured, from Watford, was plagued with doubts.

dailymail.co.uk (3 days ago)

He's always headed in the wrong direction: Oklahoma tornado pursuit challenges storm chaser and...

As terrified residents headed for safety in Oklahoma, Samaras and his team of tornado chasers were speeding toward Shawnee, hoping to get there before the twister hit.    

nydailynews.com (3 days ago)

Two men 'shot by armed police after hacking soldier to death with machetes in London street as...

A serving soldier who was wearing a Help for Heroes t-shirt is believed to have been hacked to death with knives by two men who were later shot by police in Woolwich, south London.

dailymail.co.uk (3 days ago)

Terrified family tied up in raid on £10m home

Three generations of a family were tied up by a gunman in a raid on a £10 million home in Surrey.

standard.co.uk (3 days ago)

Okla. Kids Asked Teacher, 'Is This Really Happening?'

As the terrified tornado-whipped students of Briarwood Elementary School in Moore, Okla., cowered on their hands and knees with backpacks over their heads, tearfully pleading for their parents, they asked their teacher, 'Is this really happening?' Sheri Bittle, a first-grade teacher at Briarwood, today recounted the...

abcnews.com (4 days ago)

Terrified kids, teachers' heroics

Terrified children, teachers' heroics, no shelter: Inside a tornado-ravaged school elementary school in Moore, Oklahoma

cnn.com (4 days ago)

Dudley Terrified By "Over-Reaction" To QE End, Says Fed Could Do "More Or Less" QE

Up until today, the narrative was one trying to explain how a soaring dollar was bullish for stocks. Until moments ago, when Bill Dudley spoke and managed to send not only the dollar lower, but the Dow Jones to a new high of 15,400 with the following soundbites. DUDLEY: FED MAY NEED TO RETHINK BALANCE SHEET PATH,...

zerohedge.com (4 days ago)

Muhammad al-Dura and Israel's obsession with the propaganda war | Rachel Shabi

If Israel's government is to be believed, Palestinians have sunk so low as to be capable of faking their own deaths. Or wait, maybe the Israeli accusation of fakery is itself the indication of a horrifying new nadir. An Israeli report has concluded that Muhammad al-Dura, the 12-year-old Palestinian whose death in...

guardian.co.uk (4 days ago)

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

MOORE, Okla. -- I photographed about a dozen children pulled from under the rubble. I focused my lens each one of them. Some looked dazed. Some cried. Others seemed terrified.

citizen-times.com (4 days ago)

'All I Could See Was Destruction'

MOORE, Okla. (AP) - I left the office as soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV. I had photographed about a dozen twisters before in the past decade, and knew that if I didn't get in my car before the funnel cloud hit, it would be too late. By the time I got to Moore, all I could see was destruction. I walked...

huffingtonpost.com (4 days ago)

AP photographer describes destroyed Okla. school

As soon as I saw the tornado warnings on TV, I had to leave the office right away. I had photographed about a dozen tornados in my decade in Oklahoma and if I didn't get into my car before the funnel cloud swept through, I knew I would get stuck in traffic and arrive too late at the scene. By the time I got to...

foxnews.com (4 days ago)

The woman on a mission to expose sexual abuse

Anna Hall is nothing if not patient. It was 17 years ago, over a cup of coffee in her adopted home city of Leeds, when she first heard that some British Pakistani men were grooming, raping and trafficking young white girls. She immediately knew she should bring the evidence to a wider public, yet it took three years...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

Israel claims iconic images which showed the death of a Palestinian boy in Gaza 13 years ago may...

The video showed terrified Mohammed al-Dura, 12, and his father, Jalal, cowering in front of a wall during an exchange of fire between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen.

dailymail.co.uk (5 days ago)

Josie Gibson terrified of gaining weight again after having boob job

The former Big Brother star recently lost six stone but is scared of gaining weight again as she won't be able to exercise after her operation

mirror.co.uk (5 days ago)

Epic Photo Still Sparks Controversy Among Israel, Palestinians

JERUSALEM -- A new Israeli report into the death of a Palestinian boy during a fierce gunbattle in the Gaza Strip more than a dozen years ago has reignited an emotional debate over who killed him – and how the incident has shaped perspectives of the Mideast conflict. Israel says a French TV report in 2000 that...

huffingtonpost.com (5 days ago)

Israel, Palestinians still arguing over epic image

A new Israeli report into the death of a Palestinian boy during a fierce gunbattle in the Gaza Strip more than a dozen years ago has reignited an emotional debate over who killed him — and how the incident has shaped perspectives of the Mideast conflict. Israel says a French TV report in 2000 that claimed Israeli...

foxnews.com (5 days ago)

Stalker obsessed with his GP left her so terrified she gave up work and would hide behind her...

Stalker Raymond Knight, 72, who made a Gloucestershire doctor's life a 'living hell' for five years has been locked up for nearly four years.

dailymail.co.uk (5 days ago)

Terrified dog padlocked to guardrail along busy interstate in Texas

On Monday, the City of San Antonio, Texas, Animal Care Services released information regarding the rescue of a dog who had been padlocked to a guardrail along a busy highway on Sunday.The abandoned dog, now known as "Fresno...

examiner.com (5 days ago)

Hear Pharmakon's Horrifyingly Pained 'Ache'

Pharmakon makes blood-curdling music which, like a good horror film, demands your terrified attention. Margaret Chardiet handily made SPIN's Best New Artists list for February, in which we described her sound as being "as cuddly as a

spin.com (5 days ago)

Daniel Kitson – review

"I don't think anyone really knows who they are," says Daniel Kitson. "So much of what we know about the world is assumed." It's not often standup can be mistaken for Humean philosophy, but it's a while since Kitson has resembled a normal standup. As if to emphasise the distinction, he sits down throughout this...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

It will take more than PCC regulations to stop the bullying of trans people | Jane Fae

Oh, the ingratitude! Last week, the Press Complaints Commission announced its intention to "issue editorial guidance for journalists on how to report on transgender issues in accordance with the letter and spirit of the Editors' Code of Practice". Are the trans community happy? Not a bit of it. Or rather, one hears...

guardian.co.uk (5 days ago)

China asks NKorea to release fishing boat, crew

China is urging North Korea to release a Chinese fishing boat whose owner says it was seized by gun-toting North Koreans earlier this month and held for ransom, in the latest irritant in relations between the neighboring allies. Boat owner Yu Xuejun, who wasn't aboard, first publicized the seizure on his microblog...

foxnews.com (5 days ago)

Teenage pregnancies won't be stopped by shaming young mothers | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Teenage pregnancy. The term still sends terror shooting through my veins, even now, seven years clear of my teens. It hung over me like a sceptre, whispering: "Whatever you do, don't get yourself pregnant." It was the worst thing. The end of everything. This idea, that teenage pregnancy destroys your entire future,...

guardian.co.uk (6 days ago)

College Role 'Terrified' Kerry Washington

Before Kerry Washington took telelvision by storm, playing crisis manager Olivia Pope on ABC's "Scandal," she recalled one of her most cringeworthy roles was in college when she was cast as a frog.    

abcnews.com (6 days ago)

Plane's miraculous crash landing

TERRIFIED passengers had a miraculous escape when a pilot was forced to make a crash landing in New York after his plane's landing gear failed.    

news.com.au (7 days ago)