Arizona authorities said they were looking for a young leukemia patient whose mother allegedly took her from the hospital a day before her scheduled discharge.Phoenix police said the 11-year-old girl, identified only as Emily, has a catheter in her heart that could get infected and jeopardize her life, ABC News reported Sunday.Surveillance video shows Emily, who recently fought off an infection and had an arm amputated, walking out of the Phoenix Children‘s Hospital Wednesday night, ABC News sai

A Belgian man said he recently learned that his wife was actually a transgender woman.The 64-year-old husband, identified only as Jan, told a local newspaper that he learned the news after 19 years of marriage when a cousin from his wife’s Indonesian family finally confessed the truth.Belgian daily newspaper Nieuwsblad reported that Jan described his wife as “very beautiful and feminine.”“I thought she was an attractive woman, and she was all woman -- she had no male traits. She was always a goo

A Florida man who died after wolfing down worms and cockroaches to win a contest choked to death, autopsy results released Monday showed.Broward County Medical Examiner Craig Mallak said the death of Edward Archbold, 32, of West Palm Beach, was an accident, The Miami Herald reported.Mallak said Archbold‘s airway was clogged with “arthropod body parts” and he died of asphyxia. The autopsy ruled out toxic substances as the cause of death, the newspaper said.Authorities had said previously Archbold

Nineteen bodies have been discovered in Mexico‘s northern border state of Chihuahua, officials reported Sunday, including 11 apparently long-dead men found in mass graves and eight others who were tortured and killed in recent days.The state prosecutor’s office for missing people said 11 bodies were found in Ejido Jesus Carranza, near the U.S. border about 25 miles (40 kilometers) southeast of Ciudad Juarez. The area of sand dunes is a popular spot for picnickers from Juarez, which is just acros

A former Catholic brother wanted in Australia on more than 250 child sex charges was reported Monday to have fled New Zealand for Sri Lanka before his extradition could be secured.Bernard McGrath is facing 252 child sex charges in Australia relating to his time in church-run institutions in the 1970s and 1980s and was due to be extradited from New Zealand earlier this year.But McGrath‘s brother Clem told Australia’s Fairfax newspapers he had flown out of Christchurch several months ago after bei

Russian police suspect an accused burglar hid inside a false ceiling at an electronics store for a full day before he allegedly stole laptops and cellphones.The suspect didn‘t get far because he apparently retreated back to his hidden lair to wait until the coast was clear before making his escape.“The detained said he had hid there the day before,” the Interior Ministry said in a written statement. “At night, he stole the devices, got into his improvised hideout and started waiting for an oppor

A Florida doctor said he delivered his son in the parking lot of a hospital when he and his wife were unable to get to the emergency room on time.Dr. Timothy Hawkes, an orthopedic resident at Broward Health Medical Center, said he began the delivery with one hand while speeding to the hospital with his wife, Katelin, in the passenger seat of his Scion XB, and the baby was born in the facility‘s parking lot at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.“I am used to press

Authorities in Florida said a man allegedly posed as a dentist and kissed the buttocks of a female patient after giving her an injection.Hollywood police said John Collazos, 47, who has also been arrested for practicing dentistry without a license in Davie, was arrested Monday on a similar charge over a Nov. 19, 2010, incident when he treated an unidentified woman in Hollywood, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported Thursday.Investigators said Collazos had the woman come to an apartment he had

Two London teenagers face murder charges now that an elderly widow who was the victim of a daytime mugging has died, police said Wednesday.The pair, ages 14 and 15, are also suspected of another robbery on Tuesday, the day after Paula Castle was mugged in an alley in Greenford, a suburban neighborhood in western London, The Daily Telegraph reported.Witnesses said two men came up behind Castle, 85, and seized her purse, knocking her down. The handbag was found nearby.The teenagers were arrested W

An Australian investment banker who attached a fake bomb around the neck of a Sydney schoolgirl in a bid to extort money from her wealthy family was Tuesday jailed for at least 10 years.Paul Peters, 52, who was arrested and extradited from the United States in September last year with the help of the FBI, pleaded guilty to aggravated breaking and entering, and detaining the teenager for advantage.The father-of-three made global headlines when he broke into the multimillion-dollar Pulver family h

A company tracking online traffic patterns said Egypt‘s 100 most-frequently visited websites include five porn sites.Alexa, a division of Amazon.com, released the list amid an order last week by Egypt’s prosecutor general for the ministries of telecommunications, interior and information to begin enforcing a ban on Internet pornography, al-Arabiya reported Wednesday.The company said the porn sites rank at numbers 15, 23, 29, 67 and 83 on the list of the 100 most visited sites in the country.Mean

A real stinker knocked WXRM-TV off the air for many of the Colorado Spring station‘s viewers for a day -- a skunk that sprayed on the transmitter, staff says.Station engineers said the skunk got into the transmitter room atop Cheyenne Mountain about 8 p.m. Sunday and burned itself on equipment. The polecat reacted by spraying the transmitter, causing a breaker to trip.The signal wasn’t restored for the station‘s Dish, DirecTV and over the air viewers until shortly after 8 p.m. Monday, staff said