Cheryl K. Chumley

Boat carrying 150 capsizes off Australia; 4 killed

A boat carrying about 150 people who were believed to be asylum seekers flipped Tuesday in the waters off Australia's Christmas Island.

July 16, 2013

Apple vows to investigate after woman killed by iPhone shock

A 23-year-old Chinese woman was shocked to death while answering a telephone call on her iPhone while it was charging.

July 16, 2013

China museum closes over fake exhibits; cartoon pictures passed off as Qing dynasty

Chinese authorities shut down a museum on Tuesday after discovering that curators attempted to pass off fake artifacts as genuine pieces of history — including one vase decorated with cartoon characters that was billed as a precious finding of the Qing dynasty.

July 16, 2013

Big Brother label hits retailers accused of tracking customer movements

Retailers are facing fire, accused of Big Brother-type tactics that have led them to track the cell phone signals of customers to observe where they go and what they do inside store walls.

July 16, 2013

Black youths attack Hispanic man: ‘This is for Trayvon’

A group of black youths chased and attacked a Hispanic man in the streets of Baltimore in a suspected revenge beating for the not-guilty verdict rendered by jurors to George Zimmerman.

July 16, 2013

Indiana boy, 6, buried in sand for hours on path to full recovery

A 6-year-old Indiana boy who was buried for hours when a sand dune collapsed and swallowed him is well on the way to recovery. Doctors at the hospital where he's healing said Tuesday he's now moving his arms and legs.

July 16, 2013

Neil Bush to the rescue: Son of George H.W. Bush saves group at sea

Shirley Polinger and her six passengers were stuck at sea, stranded due to an engine failure in waters off the coast of Kennebunkport, Maine, when a ship approached.

July 16, 2013

George Zimmerman fallout: God is racist, religion professor says

An associate professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania said the not-guilty verdict of George Zimmerman means one sure thing: God is a racist.

July 16, 2013

NSA leaker Edward Snowden requests temporary asylum: Russian report

A Russian news outlet is reporting that U.S. fugitive Edward Snowden has requested temporary asylum in Russia.

July 16, 2013

European Union settlement order evokes Israeli ire

Israel is angered by a new order from the European Union that bans member nations from any type of dealings with Israeli settlements that were constructed in disputed areas beyond the 1967 borders.

July 16, 2013

Greek unions call for more transit strikes

Unions in Greece are calling for a one-day nation strike to protest new proposed economic reforms — austerity measures that are a condition for receipt of eurozone bailout dollars.

July 16, 2013

Texas judge found dead in chambers, shot in head

Authorities found a Texas judge dead in his chambers Monday evening, killed by a gunshot to his head.

July 16, 2013

Russia, China faulted for blocking new U.N. sanctions on Iran

Russia and China won't declare Iran's recent missile tests a violation of U.N. rules, effectively blocking the global body from imposing any new sanctions on the country, diplomats say.

July 16, 2013

Bad buzz: Mosquitoes love to bite beer drinkers, study

Roughly 20 percent of people are more frequent meal tickets for mosquitoes than the rest of the population, and Smithsonian Magazine set out to investigate: Why?

July 16, 2013

David Petraeus takes salary cut for professor gig — to $1

Gen. David Petraeus, the former CIA director who resigned in disgrace in November only to face fire for a more-than-generous salary offering for a teaching gig at a New York school, has now agreed to a deep pay cut: He will earn $1 for the class.

July 16, 2013

Juror B-37: ‘I think Trayvon got mad and attacked’ Zimmerman

One of the six women on the George Zimmerman jury spoke on Monday, giving a bit of insight of behind-the-doors discussion and saying the general consensus was 17-year-old Trayvon Martin was the aggressor.

July 16, 2013

Jennifer Lopez ‘cozies up to dictators’ — to the tune of $10M in two years

Jennifer Lopez recently took fire for singing "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to Turkmenistan dictator Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov, but that's hardly the sole singing gig she's had with a leader of a country who rules with an iron fist.

July 15, 2013

Cow crashes through roof, kills sleeping man

As freak accidents go, this one is pretty high on the list. A sleeping Brazilian man was killed when a cow wandered from a nearby field onto the roof of his home and crashed through, plummeting onto the bed located directly beneath.

July 15, 2013

U.S. diplomat slighted in Egypt as both sides turn down talks

The first senior-level U.S. diplomat to visit Egypt since the military coup against President Mohammed Morsi was snubbed on Monday — by both Islamists and their opponents.

July 15, 2013

Van Jones mocks Zimmerman trial: Black kids have to wear tuxedos to buy candy

Reacting to the not-guilty verdict in the George Zimmerman murder trial, noted liberal Van Jones asked: What? Do black children now have to dress up to go buy candy?

July 15, 2013