Two residents of Hawaii have asked a district court in Honolulu to stop the Department of Energy and its partners from constructing a particle accelerator facility on the border between France and Switzerland. Walter F. Wagner and Luis Sancho's federal lawsuit filed Monday also seeks to delay the opening of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) pending its safety inspection on grounds that the gigantic atom smasher that physicists will use to study the origin of the universe could accidentally create "strangelet," an unknown matter, or an expanding black hole that both could destroy the Earth.

A video of a U. S. Marine throwing a puppy off a cliff has spread throughout the Internet, inciting rage among thousands of views. The video showed a grinning Marine holding a black-and-white puppy by the scruff of the neck. "Cute puppy, huh?" a Marine is heard saying, followed by a reply from a second Marine; "oh, so cute little puppy. " The Marine holding the puppy then pulls his hand back and hurls the dog off a rocky ravine; the puppy can be heard yelping all the way down until it hits the ground.

Hawaiian Airlines will refund a would-be passenger a full $225 it collected as a processing fee after she canceled a Hawaii trip for three. Jane Wilkens was supposed to travel with her 77-year-old mother and a family friend, but her mother passed away unexpectedly on September. When Wilkens asked for a refund for $4,287, Hawaiian Airlines tacked a $225 processing fee. Before Jane's mother could make the trip, she underwent surgery for a back problem, but she died three days later from a blood clot.

A Japanese soldier from World War II stationed in Burma (now Myanmar), sent a postcard to his friend was received after 64 years after it was sent. The postcard was kept by a former U. S. soldier and a Japanese exchange student. According to Mukogawa Women's University, the card traveled in three different countries and one state, including Burma, Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii before reaching Shizuo Nagano, 80, in southern Kochi prefecture.

A postcard sent by a Japanese soldier from Burma during World War II has finally been received, 64 years after it was sent. The postcard traveled through Burma, Nagasaki, Arizona and Hawaii before reaching 80-year-old Shizuo Nagano in southern Kochi prefecture, according to Mukogawa Women's University. A student from the university was instrumental in the postcard reaching its final destination.