A disabled man was awarded $8,000 by Disneyland after the It’s A Small World ride broke, stranding him for 30 minutes while the theme song played on a loop.
Lawyer David Geffen says Jose Martinez was the only passenger not rescued when the ride broke down in 2009, and staffers failed to call the fire department to free him.
The ride’s familiar, and arguably...
Greek police say a bomb has exploded near the Acropolis in central Athens, but it was not immediately clear what the target was and whether anybody has been hurt.
The explosion followed a warning call to a Greek newspaper late Wednesday.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack.
A giant fish got its own back on an angler when it dragged him to his death after he hooked it in southern China.
The fish, believed to be a giant sturgeon, pulled Huang Wu, 58, into the water when he tried to retrieve his fishing rod, say witnesses.
‘One minute he was chatting to us about what a big fish he had, the next it was the fish that had him,’ said...
Armed guards from Vladimir Putin’s entourage were involved in an ugly fight in South Africa after they were ordered to put top secret suitcases – believed to contain the codes for Russia’s nuclear arsenal – through a security scanner.
The nightmare scenes came as the Kremlin leader arrived in Durban on an official trip to attend the ‘BRICS’...
The older brother of South African star sprinter Oscar Pistorius appeared in court on Wednesday to face charges over a deadly road crash five years ago.
Carl Pistorius, 28, faces charges of culpable homicide after a 2008 road accident in which a 36-year-old woman motorcyclist was killed.
His appearance comes a day before his Paralympian hero brother makes a court challenge...
The Syrian opposition opened on Wednesday its first “embassy” in Qatar, a day after the opponents of President Bashar al-Assad were given Damascus’s seat in the Arab League.
The head of the Syrian National Coalition, Ahmed Moaz al-Khatib and Qatari State Minister for Foreign Affairs Khaled al-Attiya inaugurated the representative office dubbed the “Embassy...
The state of North Dakota approved the most restrictive abortion laws in the United States, a move that challenges federal protection of a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy.
Republican Governor Jack Dalrymple signed a bill that bans any abortion after a fetal heart beat can be detected, typically around six weeks after conception when many women still don’t...
Reclusive North Korea is to cut the last channel of communications with the South because war could break out at “any moment”, it said on Wednesday, days of after warning the United States and South Korea of nuclear attack.
The move is the latest in a series of bellicose threats from North Korea in response to new U.N. sanctions imposed after its third nuclear...
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