When is a nail in the heart a good thing?
Matt Robinson might say it’s when the nail plugs its own hole.
The 17-year-old Dexter, Mo., boy was working on a barn when a colleague passed a nail gun to him down a ladder.
The gun swung toward him and Robinson said he must have touched the trigger [...]

Toby, a 2-year-old golden retriever, saw his owner choking on a piece of fruit and began jumping up and down on the woman’s chest. The dog’s owner believes the dog was trying to perform the Heimlich maneuver and saved her life.
Debbie Parkhurst, 45, of Calvert told the Cecil Whig she was eating an apple at [...]

The age of the British amateur inventor toiling away in his humble garden shed lives on - and Geoff Hatton is proof of it.
The former hovercraft engineer has designed and patented a flying saucer from his workshop in Peterborough that has grabbed the imagination of the American military establishment.
“My son said it was a [...]

For the past two years, China has protected the Sudanese government as the United States and Britain have pushed for United Nations Security Council sanctions against Sudan for the violence in Darfur.
But in the past week, strange things have happened. A senior Chinese official, Zhai Jun, traveled to Sudan to push the Sudanese government to [...]

This love story — and to its central characters it is indeed a love story — began when experts and victims from around the world gathered in Rwanda to discuss genocide.
Donald and Lorna Miller had traveled from California to the capital city of Kigali to share the story of her father — an Armenian genocide [...]