A private ambulance company in New York City is facing backlash after suspending an emergency medical technician who tried to save a schoolgirl from choking. Qwasie Reed violated Assist Ambulance rules by stopping, but says he would do it again. Reed was driving a nursing home patient to a doctor’s appointment when he was flagged at a red light outside Public School 250 in Brooklyn last week. Against... 

A new report suggests that youth homelessness in the UK is more than eight times higher than the official figures. A new report suggests that youth homelessness in the UK is more than eight times higher than the official figures. The report has been published by Centrepoint – the UK’s leading charity for homeless young people. It says some 136,000 young people aged between 16 and 24, sought... 

The National Health Service (NHS) in England has unveiled new plans to ensure patients requiring urgent care are seen within four hours. The drive is aimed remedying the NHS failure to meet its target for dealing with 95% of Accidents and Emergency (A&E) patients within four hours last winter. NHS plans to ensure the time frame by creating better links between Primary Care Trusts and Hospitals. The... 

The issue of security of the Russian segment of the Internet will be a topic for discussion at the meeting of the Russian Security Council, with the participation of President Vladimir Putin and several high-ranking officials. The meeting will take place next week. According to various reports, the officials will make a number of decisions regulating the use of the Internet in Russia, providing for... 

Should a hurricane or other life-threatening, catastrophic weather event impact South Texas, illegal aliens occupying various shelters will be first in line to get “to safer ground,” a National Weather Service coordinator says. At a meeting last week, emergency managers in the Rio Grande Valley region addressed the reality that, in addition to picking up the tab for putting the immigrants up,... 

Tokyo suggested that it would allow the US to bring nuclear weapons into Japanese territory in the event of a serious threat to its security. In a briefing with lawmakers, Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida outlined conditions that would lead Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government to make exceptions to Japan’s longstanding posture against possessing, producing, or allowing nuclear weapons... 

Just when you think you’ve become numb to terror drills, a drill emulating a school bus hijacking leaves you shocked and speechless. Officials in the small town of Rossford, Ohio, with a population of 6,293 as 2011, felt the need to run a school bus hijacking drill on students who were en route to an event. School teachers, administrators and transportation directors set up chairs in an empty parking... 

The new killer virus in the Middle East, novel coronavirus, aka Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) is deadly, there is no cure, its transmission mechanisms are hazy, though there have been cases of human to human transmission, yet the WHO imposes no travel restrictions in the run-up to the Hajj. Some questions to be answered… How interesting. Is the World Health Organization... 

At least two people have been killed in devastating floods gripping the western Czech Republic. The disaster caused by torrential rains has prompted the evacuation of metro stations, several hospitals and the zoo in the capital. Heavy rain over the weekend has resulted in flood warnings in west, north, central and south Bohemia. At least one woman is dead, after her home collapsed in Trebenice u Prahy,... 

The coldest ever December has rolled through Russia causing the evacuation of hundreds of people in Siberia, where temperature hit below -50C, and plunging Moscow into its coldest night in the season. Will Christmas lift the frosty spell? ­The cold weather that has Russia in its icy embrace has been causing all kinds of havoc. Flights and buses delayed and cancelled, many schools have been closed,... 

In the wake of the destruction caused by hurricane Sandy the people of Iran are reaching out in a variety of ways, by offering help and emergency aid relief. Even the Red Crescent Organization of Iran has offered to send an emergency response team to help with the rescue and clean up effort. Mahmud Mozaffar, the leader of the Red Crescent Organization told the Fars News Agency that: “We are ready... 

Chicago, Illinois is expected to swell with armed security forces during next month’s NATO Summit, but will that be enough to keep the Windy City under control? Officials are now readying a massive exit strategy to vacate the entire metropolis. A memo has been sent out of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Red Cross office that confirms that officials are already taking measures to handle an emergency of...