Bill Gates Looks To Improve World Sanitation

Bill Gates is, in a manner of speaking, flushing his money down the toilet.
His charitable organisation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is looking for future toilets that can improve sanitation around the world.

At the Reinvent the Toilet fair, hosted at its Seattle campus this week, designs included…

Bride To Be Kills Groom, Hours Before Wedding

A 31-year-old bride-to-be was charged with criminal homicide after police say she brutally stabbed her fiancé to death just hours before their wedding.

Na Cola Franklin and her fiancé, 36-year-old Billy Brewster, were planning to get married at 10 a.m. on Saturday, August…

3 People Killed in Shooting Near Texas A&M

(CNN) — A Texas constable and two others were killed Monday in a shooting near Texas A&M University, police said.

Rhonda Seaton, a spokeswoman with the College Station police department, told CNN that the three people killed were the constable, the man authorities say exchanged gunfire with law enforcement…

2012 Olympics Close in Grand Style

London (BBC)-The London 2012 Olympics have ended with a spectacular musical closing ceremony and the official handover to the next host city, Rio de Janeiro.

The three-hour show featured some of the biggest names of British pop from decades past, including the Spice Girls, George Michael and Elbow…

Three U.S. Soldiers Killed by Afghan Worker on Base

KABUL (Reuters) – Three U.S. Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for NATO-led forces during which six American soldiers were killed in rogue attacks.
    The shooting took place on Friday night in the Garmsir…