An attractive lady from Seattle was driving through a remote part of Texas when her car broke down.
A local on horseback came along and offered her a ride to the nearest town.
She climbed up behind him on the horse and they rode off.
The ride was pretty uneventful except that every few...
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya blamed Somali al Shabaab rebels on Sunday for grenade attacks that killed at least six people and wounded scores at a bus station near the heart of the capital Nairobi a day earlier. Internal Security Minister George Saitoti said four grenades were hurled into the...
CNN) -- After weeks of waiting, an American researcher who suffered a suspected stroke while working at the South Pole has arrived in New Zealand for evaluation and treatment, a National Science Foundation official confirmed Monday.
Renee-Nicole Douceur, 58, said in an interview on the "Early...
Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- In the second such attack in two days, militants attacked a police station in Pakistan on Sunday.
The Sunday attack took place in the central Pakistani city of Multan and wounded six, officials said. Initially, police said three people had died, but later clarified...
GURNEE, Ill., -- Police in a Chicago suburb said a woman found naked outside of their station told officers spirits told her to take her clothes off and walk to the building.
Investigators said three officers discovered the 52-year-old woman, whose name was not released, standing at the...
A 15-year-old boy who disappeared from a Calgary bus station has been found safe, police say.
The teen was travelling alone from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba to Langley, B.C. when he disappeared early Thursday morning. Police said he was last seen leaving the Greyhound bus station in downtown...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Two astronauts made history Friday as the final spacewalkers of NASA's 30-year shuttle program, completing construction of the International Space Station with the smooth addition of an extension boom.
"This space station is the pinnacle of human achievement and...
(CNN) -- A spacewalk of more than eight hours -- the sixth-longest in history -- was successfully completed Sunday morning, the second of four spacewalks of the space shuttle Endeavour mission, NASA said.
The spacewalk, which began shortly after 2 a.m. ET, was completed at 10:12 a.m., NASA said...
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Four suicide bombers wearing Afghan police uniforms stormed a traffic police station Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, prompting a lengthy gunfight that left at least 10 people -- including three police officers -- dead, authorities said.
The Taliban claimed...
A man working at a gas station in Mississauga suffered life-threatening injuries after chasing a driver who allegedly stole gas.
The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. Thursday at a Petro Canada station on Southdown Road near the Queen Elizabeth Way. Emergency crews arrived to find the man...
U.S. space shuttle Endeavour blasted off on Monday on the next-to-last flight in NASA's shuttle program, carrying a potentially revolutionary physics experiment to the International Space Station.
The flight is the 25th and final one for the spacecraft Endeavour, which was expected to reach the...
A blast hit a metro station in the center of the Belarusian capital Minsk on Monday and police said some people had been killed.
The state news agency BelTA said the blast occurred at 5.55 p.m. (11:55 a.m. ET) at the metro station Oktyabrskaya on a square of the same name about 100 meters...
When an unmanned Japanese cargo ship ends its mission in a fiery blaze in Earth's atmosphere tonight, it will be carrying a few tokens of sympathy for earthquake victims in Japan: three paper cranes from the crew of the International Space Station.
The cranes were folded by the space station's...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The International Space Station is getting an extra storage room.
Space shuttle Discovery delivered the new compartment over the weekend.
The orbiting astronauts will install the 21-foot-long chamber Tuesday morning. It's loaded with supplies as well as a humanoid robot...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Space shuttle Discovery zoomed toward a Saturday afternoon check-in at the International Space Station, its final visit before being parked at a museum.
"Your reservation has been confirmed," Mission Control notified the six shuttle astronauts first thing Saturday...
-- A Boston-bound Amtrak train derailed Monday afternoon just east of New York City's Penn Station, the rail service said.
No injuries were reported among the approximately 147 passengers and an unspecified number of crew members, Amtrak said in a news release. It called the accident, which...
-- A transit passenger in Washington, D.C., said Friday no one came to his assistance after two young people attacked him without provocation at a busy rail station.
Allen Haywood told HLN's Prime News he was standing next to a pillar, reading at the Metro L'Enfant Plaza Station Sunday evening...
A Stockholm subway station shut Thursday night as Swedish police converged on an item made to look like a bomb.
Authorities got a call around 8:30 p.m. alerting them about the suspicious device at Kungstradgarden subway station in the Swedish capital, said Stockholm police Capt. Henrik...
The international space station has been occupied continuously for 10 years as of Tuesday.
-- The crew of the International Space Station marked the 10th anniversary of continuous human occupation of the orbiting science laboratory with a typical workday, pausing only briefly for a chat with...
German authorities have arrested 23 people from around the country suspected of being involved in a right-wing extremist radio station that played neo-Nazi songs, Federal Criminal Police said Thursday.
They were arrested after raids of 22 homes in 10 German states, police said. Some 270...