Thousands of pet cats in Beijing are being killed in secretive government pounds to prepare the Chinese capital for the Olympic Games, it is being reported. According to the U.K’s Daily Mail newspaper, hundreds of abandoned cats are being rounded up and sent to what some animal welfare groups describe …

ATHENS, Greece – A truck crashed into a passenger and cargo train in southern Greece Saturday, killing the truck driver and injuring two people, the Fire Service said. The crash occurred shortly before 1 p.m. local time (1100 GMT) near the town of Pyrgos in the western Peloponnese region, some …

Google’s Gmail online e-mail service ran out of juice for several hours Tuesday morning for users in Europe and possibly worldwide. British users noticed Gmail conked out around 10:30 local time, or 5:30 a.m. EST, and came back online about 3 hours later. Reports came in from the U.S. that …

BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Reps. Mike Simpson and Walt Minnick are pushing to extend federal benefits to victims of nuclear fallout from Cold War-era weapons testing programs. Simpson, a Republican, and Minnick, a Democrat, are teaming with a Utah congressman in seeking a hearing in the House Judiciary Committee. Simpson …

NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. – Authorities say they are allowing parents to pick up children from two locked down schools in North Las Vegas after a teenager fired shots at a police officer and three other people in the neighborhood. North Las Vegas police Sgt. Tim Bedwell says parents must …

The results of a small trial suggest that vitamin B12 is a safe, effective, and inexpensive treatment for repeat canker sores. “The frequency of (repeat canker sores) is as much as 25 percent in the general population,” researcher Dr. Ilia Volkov, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, said …

TAMPA, Fla. – Way before Prince, Paul McCartney or the Rolling Stones ever stepped onto a Super Bowl stage, there was Shirlee Bertolini. In her donkey costume. So much has changed since she paraded around the Los Angeles Coliseum field for that very first halftime show. Truth is, she wouldn’t …

This is a rush transcript from “Your World With Neil Cavuto,” December 30, 2008. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. BRIAN SULLIVAN, GUEST HOST: In Washington now, Congress getting a pay raise effective tomorrow: nearly five grand per elected member. As Americans are …

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Dominican authorities have repatriated nearly 500 Haitians who sought refuge at a church to avoid deportation. Dominican border police chief Santo Domingo Guerrero Clase says authorities negotiated for several hours with a Roman Catholic priest before he allowed them to enter the church and detain …

The International Consumer Electronics Show, the largest trade show in the U.S., opens this week in Las Vegas with a full slate of giant TVs and inventive gadgets, despite the pall of a recession hanging over the industry. The economic downturn will temper the normally dizzying extravaganza, and some attendees …