California hospital ID’s dead woman as missing patient

foxnews.com - SAN FRANCISCO – A patient who disappeared from her room at San Francisco's main hospital last month was identified Wednesday as the woman found dead in an emergency stairwell, horrified authorities said as they continued to investigate how she got there and died. SUMMARYLynne Spalding was admitted to San Francisco General Hospital for an infection on Sept. 19 and was reported missing from her room there two days later.

Flesh-eating Krokodil drug surfaces in Chicago suburb

foxnews.com - Three patients have been treated this week at a southwest suburban Joliet hospital in Chicago for using a synthetic opiate that doctors say rots the skin from the inside out."If you want to kill yourself, (using) this is the way to do it," said Dr. Abhin Singla, Director of Addiction Services at Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Joliet.Crocodile, which also is spelled Krokodil, started being manufactured about a decade ago in Russia, where heroin is harder to find, Singla told the Herald-News.

Will Edward Snowden be the latest winner of EU human rights award? - CTV News Buffer Mode 2008

ctvnews.ca - Edward Snowden, considered a whistleblower by supporters or traitor by critics, could soon be the latest recipient of a prestigious human rights prize that includes Nelson Mandela and Aung San Suu Kyi among its laureates.Snowden is one of three finalists up for this year's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought .The winner will be announced on Oct. 10 and the prize will be awarded in Strasbourg, France on Nov.

Dreamliner flight diverted back to San Diego over maintenance issue

foxnews.com - SAN DIEGO – A Boeing 787 Dreamliner headed to Tokyo was diverted back to San Diego because of a possible problem with the aircraft's deicing system.NBC-7 in San Diego reports the Japan Airlines flight left Lindbergh Field shortly after 1:30 p.m. PDT Wednesday. But the plane turned around and landed back in San Diego by 3:10 p.m. PDT.Airline officials told the television station the pilot received an error message for the deicing system.

North Korea replaces hard-line military chief

bigstory.ap.org - SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean state media has confirmed that the nation's hard-line military chief was replaced only a few months after his appointment.The personnel change was believed to have been made in August and came as North Korea was pushing to ease animosity and resume lucrative cooperation projects with South Korea after threatening nuclear war this past spring.The name of new military chief, Ri Yong Gil, came in a Korean Central News Agency dispatch listing top officials who accompanied leader Kim Jong Un to a Pyongyang mausoleum on Thursday.

Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan kidnapped: government

sg.news.yahoo.com - Libyan Prime Minister Ali Zeidan was kidnapped at dawn on Thursday by an armed group and taken to an unknown location, the government said."The head of the transitional government, Ali Zeidan, was taken to an unknown destination for unknown reasons by a group" of men believed to be former rebels, the government said in a brief statement on its website.

Edward Snowden's father flies to Russia, hopes to see son

news.yahoo.com - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden 's father arrived in Moscow on Thursday and said he hopes to see his son, who was granted asylum in Russia after he leaked details of government surveillance programs and fled the United States.Speaking to journalists at a Moscow airport , Lon Snowden said he had not had any direct contact with Edward Snowden but that he felt "extreme gratitude that my son is safe and secure and he's free.