A 15-year-old girl missed her high school exams because she had fallen in sleep for two months. Stacey Comerford in England nodded off in April, and then it was June when she woke up.“I’ve missed nine exams and my birthday in November,” Comerford said. She was predicted to get  A’s in the nine eaxams in last November. The reason for her deep slumber is that Stacey suffers from Kleine Levin Syndrom, also known as Sleeping Beauty Syndrom. Stacey’s mother, Bernie Richard, said that her daughter is

Police in Japan suspect a man may have fatally stabbed two people because an acquaintance refused to give him a job, sources told The Yomiuri Shimbun.Kyozo Isohi, 36, was arrested Sunday in Osaka in the fatal stabbings of two people he told police he did not know.The Yomiuri Shimbun said Isohi had visited an acquaintance in Osaka to ask for a job.Police, who are to analyze Isohi‘s psychological state at the time of the killings, suspect his failure to get the job might have prompted the attacks.

TOKYO (AFP)--Three-quarters of the tons of meat from Japan's controversial whale hunt last year was not sold, despite repeated attempts to auction it, officials said on Wednesday.The Institute of Cetacean Research, a quasi-public body that organises the country's whaling, said around 75 percent of roughly 1,200 tons of minke, Bryde's and sei meat from the deep-sea mission did not find buyers.It is

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)--Bulldozers dug through tons of rocks and dirt on Wednesday in hopes of recovering 71 victims of a landslide that occurred after two earthquakes struck in northern Afghanistan earlier this week.Two bodies have been recovered so far and 69 other people are feared dead--entombed in the rubble in Baghlan province's Burka district, Mahmood Haqmal, the spokesman for the province

BEIJING (AFP)--Graphic images posted online showing the bloody corpse of a baby whose mother was allegedly forced to terminate her pregnancy at seven months have caused an uproar in China.Rights groups say authorities in north China's Shaanxi province forced Feng Jianmei to abort her pregnancy on June 2 because she was unable to pay a 40,000 yuan ($6,270) fine for exceeding China's "one-child" pop

BLOOMINGTON, Indiana (AP) ― Elinor Ostrom, an Indiana University professor of political science and the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, died Tuesday at age 78. Ostrom died of cancer Tuesday morning at IU Health Bloomington Hospital, university spokesman Steve Hinnefeld said. He said the school was informed of Ostrom’s death by her longtime friend and colleague, Michael McGinnis, a professor of political science at IU. Ostrom shared the 2009 Nobel Prize for economics with Oliver Wi

BAGHDAD (AP) -- Coordinated car bombs in four Iraqi cities targeting Shiite pilgrims killed at least 56 people and wounded dozens more early on Wednesday in Iraq‘s latest wave of sectarian-fueled violence, officials said.The death toll was expected to rise in the attacks, which included car bombs that tore into Shiite religious processions at four different locations across Baghdad. It was the third attack in the capital this week targeting the annual pilgrimage commemorating the 8th century dea

YANGON (AFP) -- Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi left Myanmar Wednesday on her first trip to Europe since 1988 to formally accept the Nobel Peace Prize that thrust her into the global limelight two decades ago.Her visit marks a new milestone in the political changes that have swept the country formerly known as Burma since decades of military rule ended last year, bringing to power a new quasi-civilian government.“I would like to do my best for the interests of the people,” Suu Kyi told reporters

BEIJING (AP) ― Chinese police on Tuesday announced the arrests of 23 people as part of a joint U.S.-Chinese investigation into a gun trafficking ring that smuggled dozens of firearms into the country.The arrests announced by the Ministry of Public Security follow the detention of three men in the United States last month in connection with the scheme. They included Joseph Debose of North Carolina, a staff sergeant in a U.S. National Guard special forces unit, along with two Chinese nationals.Deb

Judith Kerr’s book about a tiger that eats all the food in a little girl’s house has turned into a reality.A huge tiger named Enzo is living with a family as their pet in Brakpan, South Africa. Michael Jamison and Jackie Smit brought nine-week-old Enzo into their home in 2011, but as he grows he now eats 11 pounds of meat a day.His life is the same as other pets: sharing the place with 14 other dogs, lying on the bed and sprawling on the sofa.“He is happy living with us -- but we have to remembe

A prominent Georgia Tech professor has found himself amid a sex scandal after a suggestive e-mail he wrote was revealed to the public, WSB-TV reported Monday.In the e-mail about a trip to Thailand, Professor Michael Meyer made a specific reference to the Nana hotel situated next to Bangkok’s red light district, saying “I want to tell you the sex trade is unbelievable. Gorgeous women to stay the night with you for $30 to $40.”Georgia Tech’s legal office has requested an investigation into the iss