Today's Headlines [July 2]

Surveillance video footage inside a New York hospital has shown a patient lying ignored in the psychiatric ward floor before she collapsed and finally succumbs to her death as workers failed to help.

The 49-year-old Jamaican woman, Esmin Green, had been waiting in the emergency room for nearly 24 hours when the video shows her sliding from her chair and lying face down on the floor at 5:32 a.m. on June 19. A member of hospital staff and a security can later be seen passing by without doing anything.

The staff at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn finally checked on Green after another female patient got their attention, but it was too late to revive her. (see more)

The father of 2 children allegedly killed by their grandfather identified their bodies today as their NSW police officer mother recovered from surgery for an axe blow to the head.

The policewoman was today conscious in a Sydney hospital after being placed in an induced coma following an operation yesterday on a fractured skull.

She ran bleeding to her neighbour's home in Brougham Street, Cowra, shortly after 2pm on Monday, after finding the bodies of her 52-year-old mother, seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter.

The policewoman's axe wounds were allegedly inflicted by her 69-year-old father at his weatherboard home in the central NSW (see more)

Brooke Bennett's body has been found in a rural road. Uncle is being linked to death. (see more)

JULY 2--A Kentucky woman is facing prostitution charges for allegedly trading sex for gasoline. According to court records, Nowak admitted paying for her services. A local prosecutor noted that it was sad to see someone selling their body for gas, in this case about 25 gallons worth... (see more)

GRANITE CITY, Ill. - Police and FBI agents captured an ex-convict suspected of killing eight people in two states as he smoked a cigarette outside of a southwestern Illinois bar Tuesday night. (see more)

Nelson Mandela was on list for fighting South Africa's apartheid regime

He will be removed under a bill President Bush signed Tuesday

State Department, Homeland Security will waive restrictions

Mandela spent 27 years in prison for fighting South Africa's racist system
 (see more)

watermellon has same effects as viagra! (see more)

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has checked into a hospital in the south of France where she's expected to give birth to her twins, a hospital spokeswoman says.

Jolie is fine and everything is going well, hospital spokeswoman Nadine Bauer said today.
 (see more)

The South African government has pledged it will do everything necessary to ensure that Africans, regardless of their origin, will once more live together in peace with one another. (see more)

the first reports were that he had dropped his hat while on the ride and jumped a fence w/ numerous 'keep out/danger' signs to get it...
come to find out, he was trying to cut in line (?) to get back on the ride w/ out having to wait.
either way... kinda sad & weird way to die. (see more)

The colombian and france politician Betancourt is free after 6 years. She has been a hostage of an terrorist community in colombia  (see more)