Chinese authorities arrested a man and his girlfriend in the death of an elderly woman he knocked down while driving drunk and whose body was later found buried at a construction site. Police say the woman likely was alive when buried.The official Xinhua News Agency reported Thursday the couple was intoxicated and returning home from a bar in the eastern city of Cixi on April 30 when the man ran o

An 84-year-old Swedish woman who fell through the fabric of a chair on her balcony was stuck for two days, friends said.Neighbors in Karlskrona told the Kvallsposten newspaper they became concerned when they noticed the woman's newspaper hadn't been brought inside and the woman failed to show up for church on Sunday, The Local.se reported Wednesday.Friends and neighbors contacted the building's ca

A woman who called 911 after her husband was unable to breathe found a snoring Maryland dispatcher at the other end of the line.The woman called 911 from her Montgomery County home on April 4. According to a recording of the call, she repeatedly says "hello" but gets no reply. A second dispatcher intervenes and gives her first aid advice as the first dispatcher can be heard snoring. The woman's hu

A U.S. man was arrested for climbing Mount Rushmore National Memorial in western South Dakota, local newspapers reported.The unnamed climber was arrested about Monday on charges of trespassing and climbing the memorial, Mount Rushmore spokeswoman Maureen McGee-Ballinger said. Park rangers found him directly below the memorial and escorted him down the mountain.McGee-Ballinger said similar incident

The Seoul municipal government said Wednesday it will discourage shops from leaving their doors open while the air conditioning is on as part of a campaign to save energy in the hot summer months.Starting Thursday, officials from the city government, the central ward of Junggu, the state-run power monopoly Korea Electric Power Corp., and a civic group will visit shops in the shopping district of M

A Channel Islands auction house says it's selling a vial that allegedly contains blood residue from Ronald Reagan _ a move denounced Tuesday by the late U.S. president's family and his foundation.The vial being auctioned online was used by the laboratory that tested Reagan's blood when he was hospitalized after a 1981 assassination attempt in Washington, the PFCAuctions house said.Reagan's son Mic

Fitch cut Japan's credit rating by two notches on Tuesday, citing its "leisurely" efforts at shrinking a massive public debt, as Tokyo struggles to kick-start the world's third-largest economy.The global agency downgraded Japan's long-term foreign currency rating to "A+" from "AA", with a negative outlook, noting "growing risks for Japan's sovereign credit profile as a result of high and rising pu