Warning: Graphic Content: Wreckage from Malaysia jetliner crash site in Ukraine

Warning: Graphic Content: Wreckage from Malaysia jetliner crash site in Ukraine

A Malaysian Airlines passenger plane with 295 aboard was shot down by a surface-to-air missile in Ukraine near the Russian border a day after a Ukrainian military jet was downed, Fox News confirms.

July 17, 2014: An Emergencies Ministry member works at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region. The Malaysian airliner was shot down over eastern Ukraine by pro-Russian militants on Thursday, killing all 295 people aboard, a Ukrainian interior ministry official said.

July 17, 2014: An armed pro-Russian separatist stands at a site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region. Dozens of bodies were scattered around the smouldering wreckage of a passenger jet that crashed in a field in eastern Ukraine on Thursday, a Reuters reporter said.

July 17, 2014: The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash is seen at the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: A man works at putting out a fire at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: A general view shows the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: A part of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane is seen after it crashed near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash is seen near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: In this photo taken with a mobile phone provided by Andrei Kashtanov, smoke rises from where a Malaysia Airlines commercial plane crashed in eastern Ukraine.

July 17, 2014: The site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash is seen in the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: People stand near part of the wreckage of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane after it crashed near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

July 17, 2014: Fires at the site of a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane crash are pictured near the settlement of Grabovo in the Donetsk region.

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FBI Reverse Mortgage Warning

FBI Reverse Mortgage Warning

The FBI recently released a Fraud Warning that reverse mortgages are being used to target scams involving seniors. This is the real thing, most news stories talk about how the senior is being taken advantage by the lender or loan officer when in fact most of those cases turn out to be that the borrower was talked into putting the funds into an annuity or some other investment. In these cases the borrower never loses money they just limit their access.

In this case the FBI warning points out the real problem is that Builders, Realtors and others talk the senior into buying a house with nothing down and it is really a property flipping scam that enriches the person flipping the property. It is totally illegal and I have had one case where I had to turn a senior and their builder friend into the FBI and the HUD Inspector General. My company has had several other inquires but we can tell very quickly now when it is a scam.

The key strategy is to recruit the senior to become a party to the scam and cheat the lender out of money that goes to the person doing the flipping, the benefit to the senior is that they are told they will end up with the home for free. The scam artist are even running ads and putting on seminars saying that you can get a home for free.

The unfortunate part to this whole thing is that it will give a product that does so much good for so many honest senior citizens another black eye. The reverse mortgage is helping many older American’s to keep their homes and to live more comfortable lives; these types of scams are run by a few and end up creating problems for the majority of people that really need it.

If you know someone that is 62 or older and they are either thinking about getting a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or you think they could live a more fulfilling life if they got one, help them do some research and find a reputable lender to work with.

My firm is in 22 States and of course we would love to help but there are many good quality lenders you can work with. Call a few and see if they will give you specific details over the phone, if they won’t you should keep looking, we give complete quotes and detailed information to folks even if they are in a State we cannot lend in.

I have been in the Financial Services industry since 1979 when I started as a Loan Officer for Wells Fargo Mortgage. Since then I have acquired my Securities Registration, Investment Adviser Representative Registration, Real Estate License, Insurance License and Mortgage Broker License in 22 States.

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UN experts tour site of attack as Assad gives warning to West

United Nations experts were in the eastern suburbs of Damascus Thursday for a third day of inspections of areas struck by a purported chemical weapons attack, as Syrian President Bashar Assad said that his country "will defend itself against any aggression," signaling defiance to mounting Western warnings of a possible strike.

Chemical weapons inspectors toured stricken rebel-held areas, ahead of a weekend departure that could clear the path for military action against Syria.

All the evidence gathered by the U.N. team will be brought to the Hague, Netherlands, where it will be separated into categories in an Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) laboratory. Samples will then be sent to undisclosed, OPCW-designated and certified laboratories in Europe for analysis. The U.N. refuses to disclose where the labs are located, apparently to safeguard the integrity of the investigation.

The evidence will be transported to the Hague inside special OPCW containers that are sealed for safety and to ensure that the samples themselves are not compromised. Chain of custody during the transportation process is said to be impeccable, with state of-the-art logging and chronicling of every step taken.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Western powers to hold off on any decisions until his experts can present their findings to U.N. member states and the Security Council.

Ki-moon will be given a briefing by the head of the inspection team, “in the coming days,” a U.N. spokesman told Fox News.

A formal written report could take many days and up to a couple of weeks.

The suspected chemical weapons attacks took place Aug. 21 in suburbs east and west of Damascus. The humanitarian group Doctors Without Borders has said the strikes killed 355 people.

The Syrian regime has denied a role in the attacks, suggesting instead that anti-government rebels carried them out to frame Assad.

The Syrian president struck a tough tone Thursday. His comments, from a meeting with a delegation from Yemen, were reported by the state news agency SANA.

"Threats to launch a direct aggression against Syria will make it more adherent to its well-established principles and sovereign decisions stemming from the will of its people, and Syria will defend itself against any aggression," Assad said.

It's not clear if Assad would retaliate for any Western strikes or try to ride them out in hopes of minimizing the risk to his own power.

Already, the conflict has sparked growing anxiety among civilians in neighboring countries.

Israelis stood in long lines Thursday for government-issue gas masks. Turkey's government crisis management center said officials had designated bunkers at seven areas along the border. And Lebanon's foreign minister, Adnan Mansour, warned that international military action against Syria would pose a "serious threat" to the security and stability of the region, particularly in Lebanon.

In one of the videos, the inspectors stood next to their U.N. vehicles, and the accompanying caption indicated Thursday's date and the location. In another video, the U.N. convoy was seen driving through a street, accompanied by armed rebels in pickup trucks.

On two previous tours this week, the inspectors visited a western suburb of the city as well as Zamalka where they took biological samples from suspected victims.

In countries neighboring Syria, governments began taking precautions against possible Syrian retaliation.

Israel has called up reservists and deployed missile defense batteries in preparation for a possible Syrian response to an American attack.

In Turkey, the government's crisis management center said on Twitter that a team of 100 chemical weapons experts were sent to the border area, which was being screened for any signs of chemical attacks.

Turkey is Assad's strongest critic and has backed Syria's opposition and rebels. The country said this week it would take part in any international coalition that would move against the Syrian government.

Fox News’ Jonathan Wachtel and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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When a written warning just isn’t enough: talking cigarette packs

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Smokers are used to written warnings about smoking on the sides of their cigarette packs. But what about a pack that talks?

A group of researchers from University of Stirling's Centre for Tobacco Control Research in Scotland are working on cigarette packs that attempt to dissuade would-be smokers from lighting up, The Scotsman reports.

The group is currently testing the talking packs on young women. When the smoker opens the pack, a recorded message plays. One message states that smoking reduces fertility. Another message includes a phone number where smokers can get assistance in kicking the habit.

Researchers told the Scotsman that the verbal warnings got positive reactions from the volunteers participating in the study. Volunteers, particularly 16- and 17-year-old females, did say the messages would make them think about stopping, according to the Scotsman. They used the terms "hard-hitting" and "off-putting" to describe the message about fertility.

If talking cigarette packs sound annoying, that's part of the idea. One volunteer thought the talking packs might make her stop, simply because they'd be too obnoxious to deal with. "Some people would maybe say I need to pack that in because the packets are doing my nut in," the woman said, according to the Scotsman.

Crawford Moodie of the Centre for Tobacco Control Research told the Scotsman that consumers "may see [cigarette] packs that play music or talk, so we wanted to see if that could be used for our purposes."

The researchers are now working on another study that will include men and older adults.

The project was funded by Cancer Research U.K., as the BBC noted.

According to the 2012 Scottish Health Survey, 23% of all adults ages 16 and older were current smokers in 2011. In 2006, 25.4% of Scottish adults were smokers.

In the United States, 19% of all adults ages 18 years or older smoke cigarettes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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That warning ' zombie apocalypse ' in Montana? It was fake

(Reuters)-it is Maya Apocalypse survivor as announced in December, but now fear "Zombie Apocalypse" and its deadly attacks? Do not worry. It was a fake, hacker's work in Montana.

Hackers infiltrated the system of local emergency broadcast station KRTV in Great Falls, Montana, a CBS affiliate, and zombie reporting, the station said Tuesday.

Spectators were warned of a so-called zombie apocalypse and advised not to get caught up with monstrous creatures, the station said.

Station engineers were investigating the incident, which occurred during a broadcast on Monday afternoon, said Jon Saunders, vice President of the station's parent company, Cordillera Communications.

Videos posted on the Internet shows that the transmission interrupted local transmission of Steve Wilkos talk shows.

No images flashed across the screen during the prank. But a male voice told viewers: "the civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from the grave and attacking life." The voice warned "not to approach or catch these bodies as they are extremely dangerous."

Saunders said early reports suggest similar but separate attacks were launched in the last 24 hours against emergency alarm systems for TV stations elsewhere, including Michigan.

"It seems to be more prevalent than we thought," he said.

The hoax has caused several humorous-minded residents in Great Falls to call the authorities to ask if guns were an adequate defense against hordes of zombies.

"We don't have any set calls about it," said Bill Hunter, spokesman for the Police Department in Great Falls.

Local police has not been asked to investigate the hack in Montana station, he said. Hunter said it was not immediately clear why the hackers had been trying to get a rise of a scare of zombies.

"It was a real giggle," he said.

(Editing by Alex Dobuzinskis, Cynthia Johnston and Leslie Adler)

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