Emergency crews rescued a man from a chunk of ice floating in the Mississippi River in Minnesota, reports CBS station WCCO-TV in Minneapolis.
The Anoka County Sheriff’s Office said Amos Benjamin Cohen, 19, was watching wildlife at a community park when the ice he was standing on broke loose.
They said Cohen floated down the Mississippi River [...]

Most mornings, Dominic, 8, Gabe, 7, and Ali, 5, Corradino sit munching their organic oatmeal in their kitchen in Akron, Ohio, while their mother, Tegan, doles out vitamins, fish oil pills and nettle drops. She hopes the supplements and regular visits to an acupuncturist and chiropractor will help ease their allergies and asthma.
Corradino has seasonal [...]

Growing numbers of young women believe that they can postpone having children by freezing their eggs, with some companies even marketing this option to high-flying career types, a report says today.
Births from frozen eggs are still in the low hundreds, but thousands of women who are aware of the technology - and have the money [...]

Chance led Lord Wedderburn to trace his own passion for human rights back to his ancestor, the son of a slave, he tells Cassandra Jardine
Amazing Grace, the new film that tells the story of William Wilberforce’s campaign to end the slave trade, is a glossy memorial to the passing of the Bill that ended the [...]

1765 Britain enacted the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies.
1882 Congress outlawed polygamy.
1894 Hockey’s first Stanley Cup championship game was played as the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association defeated the Ottawa Capitals 3-1 in Montreal.
1895 In what is generally regarded as the first public display of a movie projected onto a screen, Auguste [...]