LONDON - A mother-of-two who confronted a blood-soaked, knife-carrying man in the moments after the suspected ideologically motivated murder of a British soldier said she wanted to protect onlookers.Ingrid Loyau-Kennett, 48, jumped off the bus she was riding in southeast London Wednesday when she saw a man slumped on the sidewalk next to a crashed car.British police said on Thursday that officers ...

Maya Rudolph and Danny McBride have taken a few awkward turns on the big and small screens, but they turned it up a notch for GQ magazine's June comedy issue.The comedy stars have recreated some of the famed Awkward Family Photos that make that website a must-see for anyone who has ever had a family picture taken. Matching outfits? Check. Bad hair? Check. Awkwardly posed dog? Yup.Rudolph, who star...

Clevelands most camera-ready hero may now also be its best fed.More than a dozen Ohio restaurants and at least one in Pennsylvania have pledged free burgers for life to Charles Ramsey, the Big Mac-munching man who was credited with helping a woman escape from the home where she had been held captive, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.Ramsey mentioned in numerous interviews earlier this month tha...

The havoc time wreaks on fashion spares no one, not even the president of the United States.In a newly unearthed photo published Thursday in TIME magazine, a 17-year-old Barack Obama is seen wearing a white dinner jacket as he poses with friends on the night of their senior prom in Hawaii. The 1979 photo was snapped inside the home of former classmate, Kelli Allman, who was the prom date of the pr...

Thieves targeting your cellphone. Now, some officials say, a machine popping up in malls across the country is helping criminals. TODAY National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen reports.It sounds like a great idea: An ATM where you can trade in your used cellphone and get instant cash for it. But now some police say these machines are making it easier than ever for criminals to profit off y...

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper is under fire for his decision to block the execution of man convicted of massacring four people at a Chuck E. Cheese in Aurora, Colo., two decades ago.The Democrat has vowed not to sign a death warrant for Nathan Dunlap as long as he's in office, even though he declined to back an outright repeal of capital punishment two months ago.Hickenlooper's decision on Dunla...

STOCKHOLM -- Hundreds of youths have torched cars and attacked police in four nights of riots in immigrant suburbs of Sweden's capital, shocking a country that dodged the worst of the financial crisis but failed to solve youth unemployment and resentment among asylum seekers.Violence spread from the north to the south of the city on Wednesday as groups of youths pushed through Stockholm's suburbs ...

Obama to scale back his administrations drone policy Also expected in his 2:00 pm ET national security speech: better securing diplomatic facilities and stating his desire to close Gitmo About that Holder letter WaPo on the White House trying to shield Obama from IRS investigation Cruz: I dont trust the Republicans Scott Walker heads to the Hawkeye State And Happy (upcoming) Memorial Day...

An inventor's romantic proposal idea has come to happy fruition. It took months of work, but Ben Kokes crafted an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Julie, that would light up from within but only after he put it on her finger and took her by the hand.(First, for those who can't stand the suspense, don't worry: She said yes, and she loves it.)The idea of a ring that glows when he's near it occu...

New census estimates show that most of the nation's largest cities further enhanced their allure last year, posting strong population growth for a second straight year.Big cities surpassed the rate of growth of their surrounding suburbs at an even faster clip, a sign of America's continuing preference for urban living after the economic downturn quelled enthusiasm for less-crowded expanses.Farth...

Authorities said they would continue their search Thursday for a Minnesota child who remained missing after a gravel slide swept several children on a school fossil-hunting trip into a pit, killing one.The fourth-graders from a St. Louis Park elementary school were hiking in Lilydale Regional Park on Wednesday when a steep slope soaked by rain gave way, authorities have said. Two trapped children ...

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. A little treasure in the debris of a home that once welcomed Rebecca Garland's four grandchildren gave her such a delight as her friends and family scoured the mountain of rubble for any mementos left behind by Monday's powerful tornado.This is where we measured the kids' height! she exclaimed as her son Lee held up a piece of a wall showing the rising tick-marks as his th...

After years of emotional debate, the Boy Scouts of America are considering a proposal at their annual meeting to allow gay youths to participateopenlyin the popular organization for the first time.The exclusion of gay Scouts has been the subject of much wrangling and soul searching in the century-old organization -- from local troops and councils to online petitions to national board meetings. T...

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane landed in Dallas on Thursday, breaking the distance record for a solar-powered flight on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. MST (7:47 a.m. ET) Wednesday with Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse's co-founder and CEO, at the control...

An 80-year-old Japanese mountaineer became the oldest person to reach the top of Mount Everest on Thursday - although his record may last only a few days. An 81-year-old Nepalese man, who held the previous record, plans his own ascent next week.Yuichiro Miura, who also conquered the 29,035-foot (8,850-meter) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time Thursday, according...

The first trailer for the science-fiction film "Europa Report" has been launched onto the Internet, and it just might be the most realistic and harrowing depiction of space travel on the big screen in years.In "Europa Report," an intrepid crew of astronauts leaves Earth behind for Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter, on a private space mission to seek out alien life. As the first two-minute trailer...

Across the nation fewer and fewer teens are giving birth, especially Hispanic girls, according to a new government report.Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that from 2007 to 2011, the overall rate of teen births plummeted a full 30 percent. The biggest decline was among Hispanic teens, whose birth rate dropped 34 percent. Among non-Hispanic black teens there was...

The Swiss-made Solar Impulse plane was assured of setting a distance record for solar-powered flight on Wednesday as it sailed from Phoenix to Dallas-Fort Worth, on the second leg of its coast-to-coast odyssey across America.The super-light, super-wide plane rose from its runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor International Airport at 4:47 a.m. MST (7:47 a.m. ET) with Andre Borschberg, Solar Impulse's co-...

Expulsion from the Boy Scouts of America is a dishonor few Scouts endure. But that was the punishment imposed on Kim Kuska, a self-taught naturalist and former biology teacher who had been with the organization for more than 50 years.His crime: an obsession with the rare, and unfortunately named, Dudleys lousewort.Since the 1970s, the Eagle Scout and adult Scout leader-turned-whistle-blower has w...

An inventor's romantic proposal idea has come to happy fruition. It took months of work, but Ben Kokes crafted an engagement ring for his girlfriend, Julie, that would light up from within but only after he put it on her finger and took her by the hand.(First, for those who can't stand the suspense, don't worry: She said yes, and she loves it.)The idea of a ring that glows when he's near it occu...

By Stephanie Pappas LiveScience A baby Neanderthal who lived in what is now Belgium about 100,000 years ago started eating solid food at 7 months old, revealing a new aspect of the evolution of breast-feeding.The precision of this estimate is courtesy a new technique that uses elements in teeth to determine when breast-feeding started and stopped. Though researchers can't be sure the young Neander...