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Watch: Instant Index: End of the World is Canceled This Year

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Watch: Instant Index: End of the World is Canceled This Year Diane Sawyer reports popular news stories that have people talking.


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'World's Oldest Person' Dies in Ga.

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'World's Oldest Person' Dies in Ga. Woman listed as world's oldest person dies in Georgia nursing home at age 116


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Congress May End Rape Kit Backlog

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Congress May End Rape Kit Backlog By MARY HATHAWAY WASHINGTON — In the midst of a fiscal crisis, usually divided Democrats and Republicans displayed a rare case of bipartisanship today on the Sexual Assault Forensic Evidence Registry (SAFER) Act, an attempt to ensure that rape kits will not be backlogged. “Democrats...


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Top 10 Overpaid Celebs

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Top 10 Overpaid Celebs Eddie Murphy's career is by no means dead, but Forbes just announced that he doesn't necessarily throw his films a lifeline, calling him the most overpaid actor in Hollywood.


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79-Year-Old Texas Man Knocks Out Home Intruder

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79-Year-Old Texas Man Knocks Out Home Intruder A 79-year old former bull rider in League City, Texas, proved that age was only a number when he knocked out a home intruder who was apparently high on bath salts. League City Police Department Sgt. Tamara Spencer told ABC News that Ervin Brittnacher "was just about as cool as he could be" after an agitated man came to his front door with a gun and tried to break into his home at 5:45 a.m. Monday morning.


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Catamaran Sailing Attracts NASCAR-Type Crowd

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Catamaran Sailing Attracts NASCAR-Type Crowd The sport is now chasing a new group of fans who flock to the likes of NASCAR races.


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Adopted Baby Ordered Returned to Dad

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Adopted Baby Ordered Returned to Dad A judge in Utah has ordered a couple to return their adopted toddler to her biological father after it was revealed that the little girl's birth mother gave up the child without the father's knowledge or permission. The couple does not want to give up the girl and plans to appeal.


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Cops, Bystanders Lift Car Off Family

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Cops, Bystanders Lift Car Off Family Kipinga Muanza Kalala, 37, was crossing three lanes of traffic with her daughter, Angela, and her four year old twin sons, Jack and Vic, when she was hit and subsequently trapped beneath a Kia Rio with her daughter, according to the Aurora Police Department.


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Ariz. Gov. Brewer Takes Secret Trip

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Ariz. Gov. Brewer Takes Secret Trip Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer is MIA. Sort of. The governor, who is best known for championing the state’s controversial immigration law, is currently taking a week-long work trip out-of-state, but her office has refused to disclose where she is going. The mysterious trip, which was...


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Harry, Pippa 'Shoo-Ins' as Godparents

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Harry, Pippa 'Shoo-Ins' as Godparents It seems that the future king or queen of England has dibs on the coolest aunt and uncle in town. With the palace's announcement of Kate's pregnancy, Kate's sister, Pippa Middleton, and Prince Harry are poised to be an aunt and uncle, respectively, for the first time.


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Anne Hathaway 'Shame' About Body

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Anne Hathaway 'Shame' About Body Anne Hathaway grins on the latest issue of Glamour, beaming in a pair of hot pants and a tank top. But in an interview with the magazine, the “Les Mis” star revealed that her obsession with being thin is a source of “shame” and said...


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Cosmic Waves Chirp Like 'Alien Birds'

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Cosmic Waves Chirp Like 'Alien Birds' Radio waves in Earth's radiation belts mimic chirps of 'alien birds,' spacecraft capture sound


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Hospitals Say Get Flu Shot or Get Fired

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Hospitals Say Get Flu Shot or Get Fired With officials at the Centers for Disease Control saying it’s gearing up to be a bad flu season, several North Carolina hospitals are taking no chances and requiring that all employees either get a flu shot or be fired. This past summer, officials at First...


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Dad of Girl Missing From Cancer Ward Located, Denies Role

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Dad of Girl Missing From Cancer Ward Located, Denies Role This weekend the U.S. Border Patrol located the father of the 11-year-old girl who was removed by her mother from Phoenix Children's Hospital with a catheter still in her heart. But he has denied playing any role in taking the cancer-stricken girl from her sickbed.


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Is Dutch St. Nick a Racist Stereotype?

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Is Dutch St. Nick a Racist Stereotype? Criticism of Dutch fictional holiday figure "Black Pete" grows amid immigration debate


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Dole Can't Sway GOP to Back Treaty

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Dole Can't Sway GOP to Back Treaty WASHINGTON — Former Republican Sen. Bob Dole of Kansas appeared the Senate floor in a wheelchair today, just six days after he was released from the hospital, to make a last minute appeal for senators to ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons With...


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