Officials at a Chinese airport said a woman attempted to smuggle tadpoles onto a plane by hiding them in her mouth.The airport said the woman, a foreigner, was found to have a bottle of liquid in her luggage at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport‘s security checkpoint and she was told she would have to immediately drink or discard the liquid, the Guangdong Southern Media Network reported Wednesday.The woman poured the liquid into her mouth and security workers became suspicious when she refus

A California preschool teacher allegedly caught trying to drug children has been charged by police with attempted endangerment and assault.Deborah Gratz, 59, was working at the Kiddie Academy in Morgan Hill, 20 miles south of San Jose, earlier this month when a fellow teacher allegedly saw her adding Sominex, an over-the-counter sleep aid the manufacturers cautioned is not intended for children 12 or younger, to the children‘s water cups. For that, Gratz, who has worked at the school since 2007,

An 18-year-old girl in Britain was put behind bars on Thursday for sexually assaulting a younger girl, British media reported. The accused had allegedly made the victim believe that she was a boy.According to the Mirror, the plaintiff was sentenced to three years in prison at Wood Green Crown Court after she admitted to six incidences of sexual assault on a 16-year-old. She was also to be put on the sex offender registry for life.The schoolgirl -- who pretended to be a goth boy named Scott -- fi

JERUSALEM (AP) ― Seeking a fresh start to a strained relationship, President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday demonstrated solidarity on the key issues that have stirred tensions between them. The U.S. president vowed he would do “what is necessary” to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, while Netanyahu reaffirmed that his newly formed government seeks a two-state solution to Israel’s decades-long dispute with the Palestinians. Obama, in Israel fo

DHAKA (AFP) ― Bangladesh President Zillur Rahman, a veteran ruling party politician named to the largely ceremonial post in 2009, died Wednesday in a Singapore hospital, officials said. He was 84.Rahman, who was suffering from kidney and respiratory problems, was flown to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital by air ambulance on March 10 after his health worsened.The nation declared three days of mourning after his death in the early evening in Singapore and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expressed

A Pennsylvania mother banned from a discount store allegedly told her 7-year-old daughter to blast pepper spray at employees trying to get her out.Police said Delaina Garling, 27, of Upper Darby went to a Family Dollar store in Upper Darby with her young daughter and son Monday, even though she had been banned for theft, the Philadelphia Daily News Wednesday. The manager recognized her and started to escort her out, but police said she pulled out her pepper spray and sprayed him and another stor