A former military man is suing a hospital for veterans over the fact that medical staff forgot a scalpel inside him. Bridgeport, Connecticut resident Glenford Turner said the surgical instrument was discovered several years after surgery. All this time he suffered from constant pain in ...

In the village Vazhiny Podporozhsky district of Leningrad region, three second graders stoned 77-year-old Anatoly Fedotov, who during World War II spent three years in the Finnish camp. Students attacked the pensioner when he was returning home from the village administration, where he was awarded a medal for the 70th anniversary of the Victory. The children spent the educational ...

Illinois acquitted a police officer who shot and killed a 95-year-old World War II veteran who threatened him with a cane and a shoe spoon, The Guardian reported. The incident occurred in July 2013. Police Officer Craig Taylor and his colleagues were called to a nursing home in ...