A 55-year old Ontario woman who was buried in snow for three days was discovered Monday and found alive. A rescue team found Donna Molnar 12:30 p.m. near a farmer's market on a town 75 kilometers west of Toronto.

Rescuer Ray Lau and his Dutch shepherd were scouring the area looking for signs of life when the dog sniffed something and ran 15 meters to a depression in the snow and started barking.

A Massachusetts man who wanted to quickly melt ice on a porch using a blowtorch instead has set a four-storey house on fire partly damaging it.

No one was injured from Monday's blaze that started when the flame on Vasco Silva's blowtorch ignited the vinyl siding on the back of his house in New Bedford and the flame quickly spread up to the third floor.

A 55-year old Ontario woman who was buried in snow for three days was discovered Monday and found alive. A rescue team found Donna Molnar 12:30 p.m. near a farmer's market on a town 75 kilometers west of Toronto.

Rescuer Ray Lau and his Dutch shepherd were scouring the area looking for signs of life when the dog sniffed something and ran 15 meters to a depression in the snow and started barking.

A group of Japanese adventurers from the "Yeti Project Japan," claim to have photographed the footprints of the legendary giant ape-man Yeti after spending 42 days in the Himalayan peaks.

Team leader Kuniaki Yahihara, from Maebashi, Japan said the photographs have been sent to scientists in Kyoto University for study.

An 80-year old woman was attacked by an 18-year old man, but ended up holding the attacker's gun and pointing it directly at him.

The gun slipped out of the man's grip and fell on the floor during a scuffle. The woman managed to grab it and use it to threaten the man intending to run away with her purse.