Brazil hospital releases Naomi Campbell .

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Naomi Campbell was released Friday from the hospital where she underwent abdominal surgery. The 37-year-old British supermodel, a frequent visitor to Brazil, was admitted for an emergency operation Monday. "She recovered very well from her surgery," said Mirtes Bogea, a spokeswoman for the Sirio Libanes hospital in Sao Paulo. "Doctors signed her release and she left in the afternoon in a helicopter that someone sent to pick her up." Bogea declined to provide further details. On Tuesday, the model's publicist, Jeff Raymond said she had been hospitalized "to have a small cyst removed." read more - yahoo.com

Man in Critical Condition in Ricin Case .

LAS VEGAS — A man who stayed in a Las Vegas hotel room where ricin was discovered on Thursday has been hospitalized in critical condition since Feb. 14 with symptoms consistent with exposure to the deadly toxin, Las Vegas police said Friday. The man’s identity, age and hometown were being withheld on Friday as investigators tried to determine why ricin, as well as castor beans from which is it derived, were found in a room at an Extended Stay America hotel one mile west of the Las Vegas Strip. Deputy Chief Kathleen Suey said the man had been staying in the room where the ricin was found for an unknown length of time and was leasing the room when the substance was discovered. A man, said to be a relative or friend of the sick man, had gone into the room to retrieve the patient’s belongings when he found the vials of white powder and showed it to the hotel’s manager, Deputy Chief Suey said. read more - nytimes.com

45 die in Guatemala bus wreck.

GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AP) -- An overcrowded bus plunged off a highway and rolled into a gully on Friday, killing 45 people and injuring 20 more, authorities said. The bus with an official capacity of 40 passengers was carrying some 65 passengers when it was crushed by the impact of the crash. Carlos Perez, a spokesman for the national firefighters company, said the death toll is likely to rise, given the serious condition of the injured. "Many of them had broken bones or severe head injuries. It's likely that many of them will die," Perez said. read more - cnn.com

Body of supermodel Katoucha found in river.

Autopsy shows no foul play, model may have fallen into Seine, police say. PARIS - The body of Katoucha Niane, one of the first African women to attain international stardom as a model and a vocal opponent of female genital mutilation, was found in the Seine River, police said Friday. Known simply as Katoucha, the former top model for Yves Saint Laurent and other top designers was found Thursday near the Garigliano bridge in Paris, judicial police in Paris said. An autopsy showed no signs of foul play, pointing to the possibility that the 47-year-old may have fallen accidentally into the river, they said. read more - msnbc.com

Girl, 12, Declared Hero for Saving Siblings in House Fire.

A 12-year-old Illinois girl was honored Friday with her own day for her heroism during a recent house fire, MyFOXStLouis.com reports. "He allegedly pressed his five-month-old son's head hard with his hand and committed other abusive acts at his house on February 16, killing the boy,'' an Osaka police spokesman said. "He has said he was suffering stress from his job and family.
East St. Louis Mayor Alvin Parks Jr. presented the girl, Derrionna Adams, with a plaque and declared it Derrionna Adams Day in the city at an assembly for Adams held at her school, according to MyFOXStLouis.com. "It is not the worlds that you save. It's the deeds that you do," Parks said in honoring the sixth-grader read more -foxnews.com.au

French tourist found in Outback.

THE word "HELP" drawn in the desert sand has led searchers to a lost French tourist who had been missing in the Northern Territory Outback for five days. The woman had left her jacket and scraps over an 8km path. Searchers following the trail finally found her, badly sunburnt and dehydrated, after a 35-hour search yesterday. read more - news.com.au

Pregnant woman uses train toilet, baby slips out .

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - A newborn baby girl survived an ignoble birth after slipping down the toilet bowl of a moving Indian train onto the tracks when a pregnant woman unexpectedly gave birth while relieving herself on Tuesday. "My delivery was so sudden," said the Bhuri Kalbi, the mother of the infant, born two months prematurely. "I did not even realize that my child had slipped from the hole in the toilet." Kalbi, a 33-year-old woman from a village in Rajasthan, fainted on the toilet seat after the birth for a few minutes before waking up and alerting her family read more - yahoo.com.au

Broadway actor sentenced in sex case .

NEW YORK - A Broadway actor who played the beast in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast" was sentenced Friday to 60 days in jail and three years' probation for sexual encounters with a 15-year-old drama student. James Barbour pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal to two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a minor, admitting he fondled the student when she visited him alone backstage in his dressing room in June 2001, while he was starring on Broadway in "Jane Eyre." The 41-year-old actor also acknowledged that the teen visited him the next month at his Manhattan apartment, where more sexual contact occurred. He told Judge Micki Scherer he knew then that she was 15. read more - yahoo.com.au

Court: Man dies from shark bite on Fla. dive .

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - An Austrian tourist died after being bitten by a shark while diving near the Bahamas in waters that had been baited with bloody fish parts to attract the predators. Markus Groh, 49, a Vienna lawyer and diving enthusiast, was on a commercial dive trip Feb. 24 when he was bitten about 50 miles off the coast of Fort Lauderdale, said Karlick Arthur, Austrian counsel general in Miami. Groh was in the open water without a cage or similar protection. read more - yahoo.com

Teen son charged in Ga. deputy’s killing.

He's also accused of shooting two sisters — one was rap star's daughter. LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. - A teenage boy is accused of fatally shooting his mother and her two little girls, one of whom was the 4-year-old daughter of rap star Juvenile. Anthony Tyrone Terrell Jr., 17, was charged Friday with murder in the deaths at the family home near Lawrenceville, where the bodies were found the night before, said police spokeswoman Illana Spellman. She identified the victims as Gwinnett County Sheriff's Deputy Joy Deleston, 39, and her two daughters, Micaiah, 11, and Jelani, 4. The motive was still unclear. Deleston brought a paternity suit in 2004, claiming that the 32-year-old rap star Juvenile, whose real name is Terius Gray, was Jelani's father, Gwinnett County court records show. ...read more - msnbc.com

Man Charged In Manhattan Baby Sitter Rape.

NEW YORK - The NYPD has arrested Kevin Rios, 21, of Manhattan, and charged him with raping a 34-year-old woman at knifepoint inside of an East Harlem apartment building elevator, police said. He was also charged with criminal possession of a weapon. Police said the woman, who is from New Jersey, was on her way to work as a baby sitter. Officials said they believe the suspect followed the victim from the subway and into the building. Police said she held the elevator for her attacker prior to the sexual assault read more -msnbc.com

Woman Killed In East Village Market.

NEW YORK - One woman was dead and another was seriously injured Friday after a man stabbed them inside an East Village supermarket. The incident happened at Key Foods on East 4th Street and Avenue A at around 3:10 p.m. The slain woman, Tina Negron, 25, was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center after being stabbed in the torso. She was pronounced dead at 5:45 p.m. The other woman, 27, was taken to Bellevue Hospital Center with wounds to the torso and leg, police said. read more - msnbc.com

Topping 122 Feet, Snowman in Maine Vies for World Record.

BETHEL, Maine — The world's tallest snowman is no man. The "snowwoman" towering over this village features eyelashes created from discarded skis and bright red lips made from painted car tires. She wears a giant red hat and a 100-foot-long scarf, and her blond tresses are made from rope. She gets a little bling from a snowflake pendant that's 6 feet long. "She's a beauty. Gotta love those eyelashes," said Robin Zinchuk, executive director of the local chamber of commerce and a chief instigator of the town's offbeat project. read more - foxnews.com

Five injured in Helicopter crash .

FOUR men critically injured in a helicopter crash in north west Sydney are being prepared to be airlifted to hospital. Police said five people were aboard the aircraft when it crashed in dense scrub near Arcadia at 12.55pm (AEDT). A fifth passenger is in a stable condition with minor injuries, a NSW Ambulance Service spokesman said. Helicopters will transport the seriously injured, who are all aged in their thirties, to Westmead and Liverpool hospitals. A man with spinal and back injuries will be taken to Liverpool hospital in a serious condition. A second man will be taken to Westmead hospital with facial and pelvic injuries. He is in a serious condition. A third man will be taken to Westmead hospital with shoulder injuries. He is in a serious condition. A fourth man has been taken to Liverpool Hospital with spinal injuries. His condition is unknown. read more - news.com.au