Members of the International Investigation Team (IIT) who have been putting their heads together since day one to find Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 are now looking at the likelihood of starting from scratch in hopes of finally solving this unprecedented aviation mystery.

Sources within the team that is based in Kuala Lumpur told the New Straits Times that among areas they were revisiting was the possibility that the Boeing jetliner had landed somewhere else, instead of ending up in the southern Indian Ocean.

"We may have to regroup soon to look into this possibility if no positive results come back in the next few days ... but at the same time, the search mission in the Indian Ocean must go on.

"The thought of it landing somewhere else is not impossible, as we have not found a single debris that could be linked to MH370.

South Carolina lawmakers advanced a "Stand Your Ground" bill this month that would allow pregnant women to use lethal force to protect their fetus. Opponents say the bill would give more legal protections to a fetus, thus weakening reproductive rights.

The South Carolina Senate Judiciary Subcommittee voted 3 to 2 earlier this month to expand on the state's existing "Stand Your Ground Law," which already allows use of deadly force to protect against"imminent peril of death or great bodily injury," to include protection of "unborn children," defined as "the offspring of human beings from conception until birth."

Supporters of the "Pregnant Women's Protection Act" say the existing Stand Your Ground law does not go far enough to protect a pregnant woman from attacks that could harm their fetus.

Opponents of the effort say that not only is the proposal redundant, considering the existing lethal-force law, but that it will grant more legal rights to a fetus, defining life as beginning at conception, thus posing a threat to birth control methods, in-vitro fertilization, emergency contraception, and other basic health and reproductive rights.

"These bills like to define a human being as a 'person' at fertilization, which would create a variety of restrictions that would limit the reproductive and family building choices of hundreds of thousands of South Carolina residents," said Dr. Michael Slowey, a reproductive endocrinologist and founder of Coastal Fertility Specialists in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.

A mother shared her grief and confusion outside of her Russell Street home Saturday in Covington, just hours after her 19-year-old daughter died as the result of an officer-involved shooting.

"When I was initially told she hit an officer, I can't fathom that idea because she wasn't perfect by any means, but she knew right from wrong," said Brandi Stewart, speaking about her daughter, Samantha Ramsey.

Ramsey died at Saint Elizabeth Medical Center in Florence Saturday after being shot four times by a Boone County Sheriff's deputy in the 6000 block of River Road near Hebron, Ky.

Boone County Sheriff's spokesperson Tom Scheben said deputy Tyler Brockman, 28, shot Ramsey after she accelerated her vehicle and struck him during a traffic stop outside a nearby field party.

The impact with Ramsey's car flipped Brockman onto its hood and injured his leg, Scheben said at the scene of the incident.

* Frank Phillips, 47, was found 'unsuitable for continued employment' by Knox County Sheriff J.J. Jones

* Deputies were called to a University of Tennessee student party that spilled out onto a residential street

* Students threw beer bottles at officers and several people were arrested

* A photographer on the scene took a series of photos of a deputy choking 21-year-old Jarod Dotson into unconsciousness

* The young man did not resist arrest, says the photographer, but police disagree

* He was complying with officers when the officer began to choke him

* Two other officers were behind Dotson, handcuffing him

A sheriff's deputy in Knox County, Tennessee has been fired after he was caught on camera allegedly choking a university student Saturday night.

Frank Phillips, 47, was been found 'unsuitable for continued employment,' according to a termination notice posted Sunday night on the Knox County Sheriff's Office's website.

'In my 34 years of law enforcement experience, excessive force has never been tolerated. After an investigation by the Office of Professional Standards, I believe excessive force was used in this incident,' Sheriff Jimmy 'J.J.' Jones said.

'Therefore, Officer Phillips' employment with the Knox County Sheriff's Office is terminated immediately.'

Peaceful rallies in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkov turned violent as a crowd of several thousand football ultras attacked a crowd of some 300 anti-government protesters. At least 14 people were injured, including two law enforcement officers.

Thousands of fans of two Ukrainian football clubs Dnipro and Metalist gathered in Kharkov's Constitution Square where they joined some 250 pro-Kiev activists holding a rally.

A pizza deliveryman was in critical condition after two plain-clothes police officers in Philadelphia broke department protocol and opened fire on his moving vehicle, claiming their lives were in danger.

The officers were responding to reports of gunfire on Tuesday night when they saw 20-year-old Philippe Holland with his hands in his pocket, and wearing a hoodie.

"As I understand it, they asked the male to stop," Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross explained on Tuesday. "The male, in quick fashion, got in his car and he drove at a high rate of speed towards the officers. The officers then discharged out of fear for their lives."

Alice Miller sees the roots of worldwide violence in the fact that children are beaten all over the world, especially during their first years, when their brain becomes structured.. The damages caused by this practice are devastating, but unfortunately hardly noticed by society.

A Canadian tourist alleges she was raped by at least one drunk police officer at police headquarters in Paris, according to French media reports.

French media are reporting the 34-year-old woman is from Toronto and is the daughter of a police officer.

The unnamed woman reportedly met some cops at a pub late Tuesday and chatted with them for a while before being invited to visit the iconic headquarters on the River Seine.

She alleges that at the headquarters, the officers, including a captain in an anti-gang unit, sexually assaulted her in an office.

The woman was found near headquarters crying and wanting to file an official complaint.

Inside the long-awaited package, six pages of government paperwork dryly affirmed Carol Tapanila's anxious request. But when Tapanila slipped the contents from the brown envelope, she saw there was something more.

"We the people...." declared the script inside her U.S. passport - now with four holes punched through it from cover to cover. Her departure from life as an American was stamped final on the same page: "Bearer Expatriated Self."

With the envelope's arrival, Tapanila, a native of upstate New York who has lived in Canada since 1969, joined a largely overlooked surge of Americans rejecting what is, to millions, a highly sought prize: U.S. citizenship. Last year, the U.S. government reported a record 2,999 people renounced citizenship or terminated permanent residency; most are widely assumed to be driven by a desire to avoid paying taxes on hidden wealth.

The reality, though, is more complicated. The government's pursuit of tax evaders among Americans living abroad is indeed driving the jump in abandoned citizenship, experts say. But renouncers - whose ranks have swelled more than five-fold from a decade ago - often contradict the stereotype of the financial scoundrel. Many are from very ordinary economic circumstances.

Some call themselves "accidental Americans," who recall little of life in the U.S., but long ago happened to be born in it. Others say they renounced because of politics, family or personal identity. Some say signing away citizenship was a huge relief. Others recall being sickened by the decision.

At the U.S. consulate in Geneva, "I talked to a man who explained to me that I could never, ever get my nationality back," says Donna-Lane Nelson, whose Boston accent lingers though she's lived in Switzerland 24 years. "It felt like a divorce. It felt like a death. I took the second oath and I left the consulate and I threw up."

A sickening injustice happened this week in Philadelphia. Several Cops who were even caught on video terrorizing 22 Philly bodega owners will not be facing any criminal charges.

A Philadelphia plainclothes narcotics squad had barreled into the immigrants' bodegas, guns drawn. They had cut the wires on the stores' video surveillance systems, robbed thousands of dollars from the cash drawers, stolen food and merchandise and then trashed the shops on their way out the door.

Video from one of the heists can be seen below. One of these scumbags starts barraging the store owner, asking him if it was uploading to his computer at his house. Then he cuts the wires!

According to Philly.com, the shop owners were all legal immigrants. None had criminal records. Nor had they ever met - they hailed from four corners of the city and spoke different languages. Yet the stories they told Daily News reporters Barbara Laker and Wendy Ruderman were identical.

The fact that this disgusting villainy was caught on film and had 22 different witnesses makes it a fairly easy case to prosecute right? Not in police state America.

One of the cops, speaking of this incident told Philly.com that "The only way a cop can lose his job in this city is if he shoots another cop during roll call."