US healthcare This article is more than 12 years oldUS man stages $1 bank robbery to get state healthcareThis article is more than 12 years oldUnemployed and without health insurance, man in North Carolina has himself arrested in order to receive treatmentIt was not perhaps the most obvious way of getting a bad back, arthritis and a dodgy foot seen to. But if you're unemployed in North Carolina with no health insurance, there is no obvious way.

Crate expectations … French volcanologist Katia Krafft by a volcano in Iceland in Fire of Love. Photograph: Image'EstMissing the heatwave? With the release of Sara Dosa’s hotly tipped new documentary Fire of Love, we round up the most epic, exploding-mountain movies ever made by Anne Billson20. The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)Steve Reeves seeks vengeance for his father’s murder and Vesuvius erupts in a shower of sparks in this handsome peplum epic, no more faithful to Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s 1834 novel than countless other films that borrowed its title.

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Indigenous peoplesJust 90 minutes from Toronto, residents of a First Nations community try to improve the water situation as the beverage company extracts from their land The mysterious rash on the arm of six-year-old Theron wouldn’t heal. For almost a year, his mother, Iokarenhtha Thomas, who lives in the Six Nations of the Grand River indigenous reserve in Ontario, went to the local doctor for lotions for the boy. It worked, for a time.

World news37 dead in Java tsunamiA powerful earthquake off the south coast of Indonesia's Java island today sent a tsunami several metres high crashing down on the resort village of Pangandaran, killing at least 37 people and leaving scores missing. Witnesses said "very many" homes along the coast were destroyed and more substantial buildings suffered damage as two waves, the first about seven metres high and the second two metres, cascaded ashore.