A study released by the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress said the hearts of immigrants are at a higher risk due to stress caused by settling down in a new country. Through an ultrasound, researchers from the Simon Fraser University in Vancouver compared the narrowing of artery of 618 Canadian residents, which included ethnic groups from China, Europe and South Asia. Of the 618 respondents, 460 were immigrants.

An 8-year-old boy who died after accidentally shooting himself in the head with an Uzi submachine gun while attending a gun show has been identified. Christopher Bizilj, lost control of the Uzi as he was firing it, forcing the gun upward and back, causing him to shoot himself in the head, police say.

With the worsening economy everything is for sale on Craigslist, including one kidney from someone self-described as a healthy, healthy, broke and about to be homeless 35-year-old. Selling a kidney is unquestionably illegal but its hard to tell if the ad is serious or a prank.

Los Angeles police found Monday six bodies of a family, victims of an apparent murder-suicide, at a home in San Fernando Valley's Porter Ranch district. Three letters police found at the family's two-story house in the 20600 block of Como Lane indicate that the gunman was 45-year-old financial advisor Karthik Rajaram. He cited financial problems as the reason for killing his family and himself.

A religious leader in Pakistan has issued a fatwa or religious opinion condemning President Asif Ali Zardari for flirting with the U. S. Republican vice presidential candidate during a meeting. The fatwa of cleric Maulana Abdul Ghafar, a prayer leader at radical mosque Lal Masjid in Islamabad, branded as indecent, un-Islamic and unbecoming of a head of state Zardari's gesture to Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) while shaking hands with her at the United Nations headquarters last week.