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A man wielding a screwdriver and screaming someone wanted to kill him tried to hijack a subway train by forcing his way into a motorman's cab, cops, a witness and the motorman said Monday. The terrifying 10-minute ordeal on a crowded northbound No. 5 train happened Friday and prompted panicked passengers to rush to the conductor's defense. "I had some passengers helping me, so thank God for them," said motorman Darryl George, 36. "There are still good people in New York City." Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2011/07/26/2011-07-26_start_train_or_die_terrifying_10minute_crisis_for_conductor_on_5_train_in_bronx.html#ixzz1TFbYwoJt

Two men were gunned down outside of an AT&T store across the street from Irving Mall on Sunday afternoon. The shooting at 2701 Belt Line Road happened as the two men and a woman were leaving the store. Officer John Argumaniz, an Irving police spokesman, said calls to 911 started coming in at 2:21 p.m. "When officers got here, two males were suffering from gunshot wounds," he said. One man was pronounced dead at the scene, his body lying next to a tan Chevy Suburban, not far from shattered glass. A second man was pronounced dead at Parkland Memorial Hospital. No one else was injured.

Land transfer will become easily navigable with the introduction of online registration system in the state of Orissa.

A new national poll suggests that President Barack Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll released Monday, two days before Obama marks 100 days in the White House, indicates that three in four Americans feel Obama has the personal qualities a president should have. But when asked if Obama agrees with the respondent on the issues, that number drops to 57 percent. The survey also indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapprove.

Police warn of fraud affecting several Brentwood Group(s).\n

Safety engineering consultant group scam a in Brentwood with fraud-ulent practices.\n

In another instance of degrading morality of humanity, a father had been found allegedly involved in raping his own daughter for years, in suburb of Bhadrak, a well civilized town of Orissa.

India Inc believes the move by the Barack Obama administration to reduce tax breaks for US firms that ship jobs overseas will hit American companies more than impact on the Indian outsourcing industry. "It's a more US-US issue rather than one aimed at stopping outsourcing, or off-shoring, or anything to do with India," said Som Mittal, president of the National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom), a representative boddy for the industry.

cricket's biggest icon, Sachin Tendulkar turned 36 today and said he still feels like a boy of 16. The right-hander, bracketed in the same league with the legendary Don Bradman, is currently leading the Mumbai Indians in the ongoing Indian Premier League in South Africa. "I feel like 16. I think it's the good wishes and blessings that count," he said.