A Merritt Island, Florida, woman is in jail following an incident with her neighbors. Kathleen Aceto, 47, went to her neighbors house on Friday morning armed with God's orders and a gun. She tells police that God told her to shoot her neighbors.

A hospital spokeswoman says a ninth-grader who was shot by another student during a class change at a north Alabama middle school has died. Kristen Bishop of the Huntsville Hospital has confirmed the death of Todd Brown, age 14. No other details were available for release.

What a JOKE !!!! Who comes up with this stuff? I scored 64%, which surely isn't anything to brag on, but I rather obviously don't see eye-to-eye with the yahoo "expert" who wrote the quiz. They surely weren't thinking about average folks when they hatched this test.

By studying 7,000-year-old bones that have been found at Herxheim, Germany, archaeologists have determined the region was rife with cannibalism during the time that the first European farming society may have been failing

Venezuelan authorities have detained numerous bankers over the weekend, including one of the country's top financiers. In the past seven days the government has seized roughly 20% of the country's banking system.

Brazilian Senator Valdir Raupp has written a bill that makes it a crime to distribute, make, or import potentially offensive video games.

As we read through the headlines, ever seeking happy, good news, we are overcome by the cold, hard truth that the economic meltdown is gutting not only America, but the world. Life as many of us have known it is done...finished....finito....

These were in my inbox this morning, and I thought I would share them with you all. My friend is a pretty good photographer, yes? I hope I am not in violation of COH or copyright protocol by posting these here and giving him credit for them.

Marc Yu has dreamed of playing at Carnegie Hall most of his life, he says. "My technique is much better than one year ago," the ten year old said. "And now both of my hands can reach an octave."

"This is a real wake-up call for the international community," said David Steven, a fellow at the Center for International Cooperation at New York University, who was an adviser on the report. "You could get rapid social and economic change.

Colombian Defense Minister Gabriel Silva has issued a maximum security alert along the Colombian-Venezuelan border after a meeting today with Colombia's national security council.

Alyssa Bustamante, 15, of Jefferson City, Missouri, did not try to hide her desire for bloodshed. Her youtube profile noted that her hobbies were "cutting" and "killing people".

Are you scared? If you're scared, say you're scared. Not only is flu season on our doorsteps, it is a flu season like one we've never known.

Top banks in France are suing former Wall Street giant Lehman Brothers for billions. Other French banks and insurers have sued for hundreds of millions more.

Belgian farmers sprayed 3 million liters (790,000 gallons) of fresh milk onto their fields Wednesday, furious over the low milk prices they say are bankrupting farmers.

In spite of all the optimism in the economists' reports, the bad news just keeps right on coming to the homeless of central Florida. "We have a hiring freeze right now." "No, we're not hiring. Sorry!" "We are out of funds," from the primary charity organizations.

According to the CIA's 2008 estimates, China is now the wealthiest country in the world, with a staggering $368,200,000,000 in the country's account balance. The United States comes in last in the list of 191 countries, with a shameful -$568,800,000,000.

Empty storefronts are multiplying here in central Florida. So are empty houses, apartments, and condominiums.

Throughout the time of christianity, there has been a legacy of a one world currency that will come to be in the end times.

The headlines these days are, at the least, disturbing. Politics are politics, never seeming to be a productive forum.

How would you feel if you heard through the grapevine that your little girl was being abused? Neglected? Assaulted? Can you imagine putting proof of such allegations on a prosecuting attorney's desk, only to be told that he didn't have time to take the case? What would you sa …

There are many things to be had, from the smallest tidbits of plastic to the grandest of jewels. People wish, and long for the most peculiar things at times. Some might be wishing for something practical, and some might have their heart set on a new toy.

Officials say that even more villages are likely to flood as waters continue to rise, reports from Sitamarhi indicate. It is estimated that about 200 villages have been flooded, and at least 1 lakh of people displaced.

Gunmen killed eight security guards and made off with nearly $7 million Tuesday during a robbery at a bank in Baghdad that police say is the work of insurgents attempting to finance their operations.

Are You Prepared?

1. Turn off your lights. Wasteful use of energy not only runs up your bill, it compounds into devastating effects on the environment.

Are you ready for death? Does the thought of dying send your heart fluttering, your mind racing? Do your palms get sweaty and do you get all nervous or defensive? Are you calm in the face of death? When you consider your own ending, do you plan it? Do you accept it as reality? Do …

I was curious, as I do get somedays, about just how equal humans are around the world. I wondered what they earned in their daily efforts. It took some looking, but I finally found this information on Wikipedia. I'm shocked, to say the least.

It's time to move forward. It's time to let go of the battle. It's time to win the war.

Reports are optimistic that vaccines may be available in as little as two weeks.

Heather Louise Hughes has been jailed for 14 months for beating her former boyfriend's mother in the head with a claw hammer.

Justice State Secretary Nebahat Albayrak says that the Netherlands currently has approximately 2000 too many cells. The surplus of empty cells has led to the decision to close some prisons.

A 27-year-old Lousiana woman has been terminated from her post with the Ouachita Parish School Board after taking her 15-year-old student to a deserted backroad and putting a gun to her head.

"It's so (expletive) sad people have to live among idiots like that," said Jacqueline Maris, 50, of the Netherlands' national public radio. Freelance photographer Daimon Xanthopoulos, 29, and Ms. Maris were not injured in the encounter.

Thirty-nine bundles of relics were found today, and identified as saints. The bodies of Mary Magdalen, John, James, and John the Baptist, among others, were discovered today inside a German portable altar.

A potentially lethal radioactive lead ball is missing in China. The ball contains Caesium-137, a tiny amount of which can damage the human nervous system and cause death. The Caesium-137 can also explode if it is exposed to water.

A 22-year-old man was shot to death after fighting with another bowler about a ball. The young father left the bowling ally with friends after the spat, and was followed.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 119 points today, forcing it to end it's week on a sour note at 7062. Where is rock bottom?

Six Sam's Club stores will be closing across Canada after failing to perform adequately over the last 5 years. Wal-Mart Canada expects to open 26 new supercenters as well as expand others, hoping to offset the job loss from their wholesale outlets.

After being shot in the back at Mardi Gras, a 21-year-old man is in stable condition in a local hospital. Mardi Gras ended at midnight Tuesday night with a total of 12 shootings tainting this year's celebrations. It is unknown if the shootings are related.

There is a lonely road in Arkansas that I used to know. It's a nice road, as far as roads can be nice, I guess. It's made of red clay and gravel, so during the rainy season it gets a little messy. It gets grated often, so most of the time, it's a nice, quiet, lonely little road.

A Tennessee lawmaker is pushing to change laws regarding how horse meat is sold. Current laws require that the meat be individually packaged and labeled. Strawberry Plains Republican Frank Niceley would like to legalize the sale of whole carcasses.

"I always sort of thought beer would be recession-proof because there's always a reason to drink ... good times or bad times," says Omar Ansari.

Leonard Marc Shuster, 47, made a plea deal with authorities to serve 15 years for planning to have sex with a 7 year old girl and her mother.

Two houses in London have been taken over by squatters. Each home is valued at $30 million. Squatting is legal in the UK, providing that there is no forced entry and the property is not criminally damaged during their stay.

Vietnam, Malaysia, Russia, and Morocco are all implicated in signed deals with other governments to secure shipments of precious food commodities. Some contracts are estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

With the Madoff investors wiped out by the alleged fraud, Wells Fargo says it went ahead and wrote off the loans.

"The American labor movement, forged at great cost when workers had no rights, is gasping for air, the victim of its own success. Organized labor has driven up the cost of manufacturing in this country to the point where many U.S.

The Dutch government is considering sentencing parents to jail if they allow their daughters to be circumcised, local media reported Wednesday.

Farmers in Greece have set up 70+ blockades to protest the falling commodity prices. Freight traffic at the borders of Albania, Macedonia, and Turkey has been halted, although emergency medical supplies are allowed to cross borders.

"Through complex commercial and stock market operations, as well as falsifications, the arrested managed to make the value of the shares of a firm on the stock market increase, without deposits to back it up, and profited from the subsequent sale of the shares," says a police rep …

Swiss senator Dick Marty is urging Europe to grant asylum to those released from the terrorist detention camp of Guantanamo Bay.

Dutch Financial Minister Wouter Bos orchestrated a timely and bold rescue of Dutch banks while effectively stabilizing the general economy with wide-ranging support. "He rescued the economy, and himself, from the brink of an abyss," reports Dutch economist Arnold Heertje.

Ten million euros have been earmarked by the City of Hague for programs that help highly gifted children to develop to their fullest potential.

When you look, what do you see?

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack was quoted Wednesday saying, "Look, these guys are trying to - at every turn, trying to wiggle out of a commitment they made and that their president put his name to."

Mexican police spent Friday night working the scene of a mass murder outside their capital. The bodies of 24 men have been found with their hands bound and shot to death execution-style outside the capital.

The U.N.'s World Health Organization desperately needs funding for Haiti if it is to do it's job. There is a shortage of medical supplies. Insulin, anesthetics, surgical material, antibiotics and emergency kits are running low.

"I want to advise the owners of these channels, who broadcast calls for such indecency and impudence ... and I warn them of the consequences," he said. "What does the owner of these networks think, when he provides seduction, obscenity and vulgarity?" he said.

"Earlier this week, Russia said it will send a naval squadron and long-range patrol planes to Venezuela in November for a joint military exercise in the Caribbean.

Forecasters say the storm is likely to strengthen as it approaches southern Florida by Monday.

US-led troops crossed the Afghanistan-Pakistan border today to attack a village inside Pakistan. US rules of engagement allow American soldiers to chase militants across the border into Pakistan by "about 6 miles". Pakistan's Foreign Ministry is protesting the invasion.

The world's tallest building stands at 2,257 feet in Dubai, and is still growing. Burj Dubai, being built by Emaar Properties, is 160 stories tall already, and it's final height has yet to be revealed.

Gustav was just short of becoming a top-scale Category 5 hurricane as it terrorized Cuba's mainland. Screaming 150 mph (240 kph) winds toppled telephone poles, mango and almond trees.

Hurricane Gustav has weakened considerably after flooding Haiti, killing at least 11 people, but forecasts indicate that it can return to hurricane strength as it moves across the Gulf of Mexico.

Archeologists working at Peru's Huaca Pucllana ruins pulled a mummy from a tomb on Tuesday, thought to be from the ancient Wari culture that flourished before the Incas.

There is a cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee that goes by the name of Babyland. A backhoe digs graves there, and bodies are placed inside. Yes, bodies... Health officials foot the bill to bury babies, as many as five at a time, in the grounds of Babyland.

Iraqi Shiite assassination teams are being trained in at least four locations in Iran by Tehran's elite Quds force and Lebanese Hezbollah and are planning to return to Iraq in the next few months to kill specific Iraqi officials as well as U.S.

Villa Leopolda, found on the French Riviera, sold for an amazing 500 million euros this week. The mansion was built by King Leopold II in 1902.

"Steadily rising oil prices are due to phenomena that have nothing to do with supply and demand," Khelil, also Algerian Energy and Mines Minister, was quoted by the state news agency as saying in a briefing for diplomats.

The index ranks every county in the country by the percent of monthly income spent on fuel. Two Delta counties - Holmes and Quitman - rank in the top 10. Two other Mississippi counties - Jefferson and Wilkinson - also made the list.

According to the Arkansas farm service agency, 870 thousand acres of wheat were planted in Arkansas this year alone. Some 139 thousand acres were affected by the flooding.

Cullman County Coroner Gary Murphree says 52-year-old Doris Cronk of Welti was killed on impact and pronounced dead at the scene at 11:30 p.m. Sunday.

"When you become a witch doctor, you must kill people," he said. Walking through the room, Nichols paused and asked, "Did you say kill people?" "You must make sacrifices," he said.

With 18 months left on its decade-long contract, the US Forward Operating Location in Manta has few friends in this South American nation - and fewer still who believe that the agreement has any hope of being extended.

South Korea has reported the first bird flu outbreak in Seoul, Tuesday, May 6, 2008.The capital was hit by bird flu despite a massive cull which saw the slaughter of more than five million chickens and ducks last month.

"Dear friends, for over 25 years both my situation and my country have not progressed. Things are getting harder; more corpses than I can count are laying around as a result of economic regression.

In Bolivia rioting is not just a family affair, it's a way of life. South America's poorest and by some measures most volatile country has gone through 84 presidents and dictators in the past 182 years.

In the 21st century it's producing power to light the homes of Reno. In fact, with the final phase of this geothermal energy plant coming on line today, it is producing 75 to 90 megawatts, literally enough, it is claimed, to meet the residential needs of the entire city.

Police say that the bodies of three infants have been found inside a freezer in the basement of a home in west Germany.

Among the devices that could be searched by border agents are cell phones, PDAs, digital cameras and USB storage devices.

While the last Arctic summer was the warmest on record, we had a cold summer with a sea-ice maximum in the Antarctic. The expedition shall form the basis for understanding the opposing developments in the Arctic and in the Antarctic," Fahrbach said.

A 19-year-old was shot in the chest. He was taken to Southwest General Hospital, where he died.

A young girl is recovering after a rat crawled into her crib and attacked her. KCTV5's Dana Wright has been following the girl's journey as her doctors and family strive to give her a normal life.

"The envoy has been suggested by the U.S., the UK, the usual suspects," said Boniface Chidyausiku, Zimbabwe's U.N. ambassador. "As far as we're concerned, when an envoy comes to Zimbabwe, it's got to be in agreement with the government of Zimbabwe."

There are 3.3 million children working in Mexico to help their homes' finances and more than 2 million of them have abandoned studies, a social welfare organization in Mexico said.

The country's treasury relies on Pemex, Mexico's state oil company, for nearly 40% of overall tax revenues, and oil exports, which in 2007 were worth $44.4 billion, account for around 10% of the country's export revenue.

According to police, the boy's 11-year-old sister held the victim down during the attack.

"Army and police-force conflicts with heavily armed narcotics cartels have escalated to levels equivalent to military small-unit combat," the U.S. Embassy said last week in a travel warning to Americans.

"Foreign oil firms operating in Venezuela will pay higher taxes on profits made in the country, under laws approved by parliament. They face a 50% tax when a barrel of crude is priced at $70 or more, rising to 60% when average prices tops $110. " The gods are against us.

"Nojoud told the court she had signed the marriage contract two-and-a-half months ago on the understanding she would stay in her parents' house until she was 18. "