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Former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said Thursday that he and former United States president Jimmy Carter planned to forge ahead with a visit to Zimbabwe at the weekend, despite their visit being rebuffed by President Robert Mugabe's regime.
Annan, Carter and Mozambican social activist Graca Machel, members of The...
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 An overnight fire killed eighteen children and an adult in
their dormitory at a Ugandan junior school near the capital, Kampala. The students were between the ages
of seven and ten. It is unknown why so many children were sleeping in the room,
which had 63 beds, at the time of the fire. However, survivors claim the death
toll could...
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 South African President Thabo Mbeki announced Saturday that National
Police Commissioner Jackie Selebi has been given an extended leave of
absence in the latest development over corruption investigations
against Selebi.
Mbeki said that Selebi, 57, had requested the leave himself.
Timothy Charles Williams, Deputy National...
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 The new head of South Africa's ruling African National Congress Jacob
Zuma has been charged with corruption, racketeering, fraud and money
laundering, his lawyer said Friday.
Michael Hulley confirmed Zuma, 65, had received an indictment from
the National Prosecuting Authority to stand trial in August 2008,
according to the SABC....
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The six French aid workers sentenced to eight years' forced labour and
fined almost 9 million dollars for attempting to kidnap more than 100
African children could be flown out to France by Sunday, the Nouvel
Observateur magazine said Thursday.
Supporters of the L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) aid organization
meanwhile have criticized...
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 A court in Chad Wednesday sentenced six French aid workers to eight
years of forced labour for attempting to kidnap more than 100 African
children, reports said.
The members of L'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark) were arrested in late
October as they attempted to resettle to Europe 103 children they said
were Darfuri orphans.
Further...
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 The trial of six French nationals charged over their attempt to spirit
out more than 100 African children from eastern Chad began in the
capital Ndjamena Friday, with the accused each facing up to 20 years in
prison if convicted.
The members of French aid charity l'Arche de Zoe (Zoe's Ark), who
are being tried alongside three...
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 According to a spokesman for the African Union said Saturday a number of
people have died and others injured during recent violence at a camp in
southern Darfur.
The AU's Noureddine Mezni would not say exactly how many people were killed
or injured in clashes Thursday at the Kalama refugee camp, which is southeast
of the South...
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 After a close match between opposition candidate Ernest Bai
Koroma, former minority leader in parliament and Solomon Berewa, Sierra
Leone's Vice President and candidate of the hitherto ruling Sierra Leone
People's Party for Presidential elections (SLPP), Koroma has won his second
poll and is to be the future President of Sierra...
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 Several members of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are being investigated by the authorities, as one of the group’s top leaders received a interdiction to leave the country. The leader of the world-wide Sunni Islamist movement, Essam el-Erian was stopped at the Cairo airport by the police to embark in a plane that was heading for...
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After four embryos kept in glass jars were found in the home of a woman who died last week in Innsbruck, the state prosecutor confirmed Thursday that DNA tests would be conducted to determine their origin.
The 68-year-old woman had asked her partner to dispose of the embryos before she died a natural death, but he decided to inform...
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 Sydney, Australia – The investigations of a global child
pornography network obliged the Australian police take measures and entitled
them to arrest 70 people and to remove four children from their homes. Twenty
other persons are expected to appear in front of the court the following days
and more arrests are foreseen.
All of them...
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Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Monday named lawyer Fernando Francisco Gomez Mont as his new interior minister to succeed Juan Camilo Mourino, killed in a plane crash six days earlier.
Gomez Mont, like Calderon, belongs to the National Action Party, in which he has served in a number of posts.
Under the Mexican constitution,...
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 A scientist and former U.S. Army man was named a person of interest in the 2001 anthrax deadly attack. He was later cleared of all charges, but a federal judge wanted to make public the court records which have been sealed for so many years. U.S. District Court Chief Judge Royce Lamberth released the information for The New York Times...
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Stacy Peterson, the wife of a former police officer, has become known worldwide as she disappeared a year ago with nobody to track her down. On Tuesday, there has been exactly a year since her disappearance and the family members will hold a candlelight vigil. Still, her husband will again be in New York to tell a national television...
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 Authorities announced on Thursday that a medical helicopter crashed and killed four people. The accident occurred in a Chicago suburb and a 13-year-old girl was among the dead. She was suffering seizures. The aircraft was heading toward Children’s Memorial hospital in Chicago and was coming from Valley West Hospital in Sandwich.Around...
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 An employee from a mall in Tennessee was shot and killed while other customers were running both ways after a gunman started firing inside the crowded shopping mall on Wednesday afternoon. The police arrested William Johnson, 42, after they wounded him with a gun. The man was charged with murder, aggravated kidnapping and two counts of...
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On Monday, the police forced the front door of the Rajarams. Neighbors alerted the officials because they had noticed that no one was picking the newspaper no more and no activity seemed to be done neither inside nor outside their house. Friends called the police and what they had found inside was a terrible picture of a grotesque...
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Hope Orwick, 35, from Louisville stabbed and killed her two daughters and then she killed herself. The police are now trying to identify the reason for which the woman could have done such a thing. Alicia Smiley, the Louisville Metro Police spokeswoman, said that one of the family members who came to visit them, found their bodies at...
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 Investigators of the Fossett Plane remains have stated that they found them at the crash site, only a day after they had discovered the wreckage of the plane which was flown by the adventurer Steve Fossett. The millionaire had disappeared 13 months ago in the mountains of Sierra Nevada in east-central California. Madera County’s sheriff...
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 Federal authorities released further information about the Metrolink crash that killed 25 people last month. They said on Wednesday that the Metrolink engineer managed to send a text message only 22 seconds before the oncoming train ahead hit them. Robert M. Sanchez sent the message at 4:22 p.m. before the train he was driving crashed...
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 Gerson Funes-Reina, 18, was took into police custody and charged with murder after the body of his girlfriend’s mother was found stuffed in a suitcase in the woods near northeast Harris County. Maria Rodriguez, 55, was found on Sunday morning, as Harris County Sheriff's Office said. The woman’s body was discovered by a man who was...
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 The troubled south of Philippine was the target of an attack. The crime gang put a bomb inside a bus in Digos city and killed six people on Monday. On Tuesday, the officials in Philippine said that the attack hadn’t been planned by the Muslim separatist rebels.The Metro Shuttle bus attack might have been created by a gang called Al...
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Florida police have been searching for Caylee Anthony, 3, for more than two months. The little girl has been missing since mid-June, although her mother has reported her missing on July 15. The authorities have found evidence that Casey Anthony’s truck indicates it had been holding the 3-year-old’s decomposed body. Sergeant John Allen...
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 People Infected with HIV in New York City are about three times more than in any other part of the nation. The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene released an estimated statistic on Wednesday through which they revealed that 72 of every 100,000 New Yorkers contracted HIV in 2006.The national rate is only 23 per 100,000...
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Authorities are looking for a serial killer from Los Angeles, California. They believe that the murderer killed at least 11 people in 23 years after DNA and ballistics tests have confirmed that the same killer committed all the 11 crimes in Los Angeles and Inglewood. Many of the people slew were prostitutes or drug users. The...
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 Authorities released on Friday a statement through which they reported that two planes were only a minute far from a collision that endangered hundreds of lives. The risk of the collision happened when one of the airplanes turned away from the other over the Atlantic Ocean this week.The planes involved in the nearly-incident were a Delta...
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 On Friday in central Oklahoma a train derailed and sent fireballs into the sky but the incident caused no injuries. Only two people were aboard the train, an engineer and the conductor, but they got off with no wounds. The train derailed near the 110-car Burlington Northern Santa Fe where about seven cars were carrying crude oil or...
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 The helicopter that crashed in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest on Tuesday killed nine men and injured four other. The chopper rose from the helipad and then crashed into trees. National Transportation and Safety Board managed to recover the helicopter’s cockpit voice recorder and sent it to Washington D.C. to be verified. The accident...
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 Sayed Rahman admitted to have killed Ingrid Rivera on the roof of the Spotlight Live club. The Times Square worker confessed to have taken the drunk Queens woman to the roof of the club, killing her and putting her body in a rooftop shed.Rivera, 24, came to the club to attend the birthday party for rapper Lil’Kim. Rahman targeted the...
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 A charter bus that was running off a highway near north of Dallas crashed onto one side on a roadway below. 12 people were killed on Friday at about 12:45 a.m. CT (1:45 a.m. EDT) as the bus rolled over and endangered the life of nearly fifty-five people who were inside it.The bus crashed about 60 miles north of Dallas, nearly half a mile...
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Matthew O’Sullivan, 37, of Los Angeles, California, was charged with first-degree criminal sexual act on Wednesday. O’Sullivan is an employee at the company that produces the video series of “Girls Gone Wild.” His accusations came after he had groped a woman aboard a bus outside a New York bar called Nubar. On Tuesday night, the “Girls...
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 About two years ago, it was terribly hard to get a checked bag from US Airways flights in Philadelphia. Passengers had to wait more than an hour to get their baggage back. Bearing in mind the problems, US Airways decided to make a bit of a change.To start with, Philadelphia International Airport has cut the waiting time for the baggage...
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 Jim Giuntoli found a large golden retriever mix, named Ben, together with another terrier-mix in the traffic on Interstate 5 near Kent, last month. Giuntoli took Ben at a King County animal shelter, but they wanted to euthanatize it. A non-profit animal-rescue organization saved the dog’s life.At Animals First Foundation in Seattle Ben...
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 Salmonella has caused a big disaster since its outbreak back in April. Tomatoes were out of blame. Still, certain raw tomatoes were got off the market on June 7. The FDA groceries and restaurants stopped receiving the tomatoes and the industry started to fail. Tomatoes producers ran out of money and costumers.Trace backs of the...
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 A strong wildfire burnt from 1,000 acres to 1,600 acres somewhere between Saturday morning and evening near the Yosemite National Park. The fire began on Friday afternoon when, as the authorities later discovered, two women and two men started to shoot rocks with a rifle.Because of the high temperatures and the low humidity, the fire...
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 170 houses were evacuated near the entrance to Yosemite National Park. A strong wildfire burnt from 1,000 acres to 1,600 acres somewhere between Saturday morning and evening. Only one day has offered the fire the strength to burn on both sides of a steep canyon along the Merced River.Officials say there is a lot of fuel contained in the...
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Salmonella seems to be in the trend this season, but is not fashionable. The bacterium that causes food poisoning is a rod-shaped bacterium which could be found in the intestine and can also cause gastroenteritis and typhoid fever.Starting April 1, this year, Salmonella Saintpaul has sickened more than 1, 300 people and about 242 were...
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 Detainees awaiting trial at the Cook County Jail, one of the
nation’s largest local penitentiaries, have undergone extremely ineffectual
medical care, maltreatments executed by jail employees and rundown, unsafe
building conditions often left unfixed for months, according to an announcement
released by federal authorities on...
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Attorney General Michael Mukasey said on Wednesday that the Bush
administration will do everything to ensure the government tools to fight terrorism
before the next president takes office.
Mukasey added that changes for FBI agents will be clear and
consistent for conducting investigations “while maintaining vital civil
liberties...
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 Nearly three dozen cable car passengers were stuck for
almost five hours during a sightseeing tour above Bronx Zoo. An emergency
mechanism caused the Skyfari, which offers its passengers a whole view of the
zoo, to shut down at about 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday night.
The Skyfari was opened in 1970 and it is certified
by the state...
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Last week, a 12-year-old girl was found dead in a narrowed grave, near her uncle’s home, in Burlington, Vermont. Brooke Bennett was killed and the authorities are now investigating the cause of death and the suspects. Her uncle, Michael Jacques has been arrested while the investigations go on. A federal prosecutor reported for the...
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 This morning, a blaze destroyed a beachfront house in Malibu and damaged two others. The authorities shut down traffic in both directions on Pacific Coast Highway for hours so the firefighters could fight the spreading of the fire. The trailer house fire happened in Las Virgenes Canyon Road and has spread and burned more than 20 acres...
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A Coast Guard ship collided with a Block
Ferry Island
during Independence Day holiday week, on Wednesday, in New London, Conn.
The accident occurred at about 12:15 p.m. and it’s all under investigation at
the time being.
No one was seriously injured. Three passengers reported
minor wounds and two of them were treated at an...
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A Seattle-area woman is accused of first-degree murder and may get the death penalty because she stabbed and killed a pregnant woman, cutting her live baby from her womb, on Friday, in Columbia Park, Seattle. Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong claimed that the baby was hers. She allegedly killed the mother of the baby and hours later called...
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The uncle of the 12-year-old girl missing in Vermont was
arrested Sunday by Vermont State Police, due to charges of sexually assaulting
a minor.
Police said investigations into the disappearance of Brooke
Bennett revealed evidence that her uncle had sexually assaulted someone else.
While Brooke still hasn’t been found, her...
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An air tragedy happened on Sunday afternoon, at about 3:45 p.m., when two helicopters that were heading to a hospital near Arizona, collided.
Six people were killed and three other were injured in the collision. One of the dead victims was a patient and the others were part of the medical crew. Two other members of the rescue team were...
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A military spokesman said on Saturday that a soldier at Fort Bragg
in North Carolina
was the primary suspect in the death of a pregnant servicewoman. The victim,
Spc. Megan Lynn Touma, aged 23, was found dead in the bathtub of a motel a week
ago. Her body was found after a maintenance supervisor inspected a strange odor
he smelled...
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Police investigations have shown that six teens have tried
to copy the virtual life of a video game in the real life, by several
robberies, a crime, a fight and a car-jacking. The police didn’t know first
about the real intentions of the boys, that were to copy the happenings of the
game, but they found it out during the...
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U.S.
attorney Robert Nardoza reported that a Long Island
millionaire, accused of complicity in a slavery case, was sentenced on Friday to
40 months of imprisonment, marking the end of a shocking trial of domestic
workers' persecution.
Mahender Sabhnani, aged 51, was convicted of helping his
wife abuse two Indonesian housekeepers....
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The Oklahoma
police is trying to discover the name of the killer who shot to death two young
girls on Sunday evening. Eleven-year old Skyla Whitaker and her best friend, 13-year-old Taylor Paschal-Placker were walking on a road in the small town
of Weleetka, 60 miles south of Tulsa, when the killer fired multiple
gunshots at...
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 Boston,
June 2 – British computer engineer Briton Neil Entwistle accused of deadly
shooting his American wife and baby daughter will be brought today against the Boston court in Massachusetts.
Two years have passed since his
27-year-old wife and baby Lilian Rose died in the family’s rented home in a Boston suburb. According
to...
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 New York City
officials decided to suspend several crane operations in the city during the
weekend in order to focus on the Friday’s accident according to which a crane
put an end to the lives of two workers.
The crane fell from about 200 feet above the street, strongly crashed
into a luxury apartment building on East
91st...
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Washington, May 27 – Former Illinois
Governor George Ryan and a co-defendant Larry Warner lost their chance to get
out of prison, by losing a U.S. Supreme Court appeal. The main arguments
brought in front of the justice were based on the fact that their constitutional
rights had been violated when the panel of judges dismissed two...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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 An East Harlem
woman was charged in the death of her 6 year-old foster daughter because she
administrated an adult pain medication patch, allegedly to treat the child’s
complaints of neck pain, which caused an apparent overdose.
On Saturday night, Taylor Webster, 6,
complained of headache and neck pains. Joanne Alvarez, 54, gave...
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Roxanna Brown, a 62-year-old
American director of a museum in Thailand
was found dead Wednesday night in a detention center in Seattle. The cause
of her death has not been yet established. The Seattle
Times indicated that she might have suffered a heart attack. But has she
received all the medical care that she needed?
Maggie...
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 The FBI raided the office of U.S. Special Counsel Scott
Bloch in an investigation of whether he obstructed justice by having his computer
files erased, the Associated Press reports.
According to FBI officials, computers and documents were
seized from Scott Bloch’s office during the raid Tuesday morning. They also
mentioned...
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 New pieces of information came up regarding the six sea
lions shot dead in Columbia River traps.
According to The Associated Press, investigators think the
killers managed to get through the tricky waters into the restricted area,
dropped the doors of two metal cages and then began shooting with a
high-powered rifle at the six...
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 A state audit found that there were 49 cases in which convicted
sex offenders appeared to have the same address with child-care facilities. Los Angeles County officials announced Thursday
their intention to begin checks.
One of the conclusions of the audit was that even though child-care
employees must submit to criminal...
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 Police in Colorado Spring and the Texas
rangers arrested a Colorado
woman on local charges of pretending to be a girl locked in a basement. She
called the police and allegedly pretended to be a 16-year-old girl victim of an
abuse. The Texan Rangers were in Colorado,
continuing their investigations about the polygamist FLDS compound...
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 Wal-Mart, the nation’s larger seller of firearms, announced
Monday that it would adopt a much stricter gun policy. This means it will
toughen the rules for gun sales and it will create an internal log of which
guns they sell that are later used in crimes.
J.P. Suarez, the chief compliance officer for Wal-Mart
Stores Inc.,...
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At least eight people were killed and 23 injured Friday when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia Muslim funeral in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, officials said.
An angry crowd took to the streets after the blast in Dera Ismail Khan, and some people fired guns into the air in the city, which is 300 kilometres south...
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An Air China plane returned to Beijing 10 minutes after take-off Thursday after a telephoned threat of a terrorist attack that later appeared to be a hoax, state media said.
Flight CA1595 to the eastern city of Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, was ordered to return to Beijing's Capital International Airport after an...
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The Indian Navy foiled an attack by Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden and destroyed their ship, the Indian government said Wednesday.
The Indian Navy's INS Tabar stealth frigate, which has been deployed in the Gulf of Aden for anti-piracy surveillance and patrol operations, was attacked by pirates late Tuesday, a government...
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Malaysian marine police have detained 43 Indonesians for attempting to enter the country illegally by boat in the eastern Sabah state on Borneo island, an official news report said Tuesday.
Police detained the immigrants early Tuesday during river patrols, said district marine police chief Husaini Zainal Abidin.
"A check on a...
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Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem Monday accused the US of "criminal and terrorist aggression" by launching a raid on civilians in which seven people, including three children, were killed.
Speaking at a news conference during a visit to London, al-Muallem urged the US government and the government of Iraq to...
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Iraqi security sources killed an Iranian man on Thursday and arrested another after an armed struggle in Kut, south-east of Baghdad, a security source said.
The two men held Iranian nationalities, and were believed to have been in Iraq to conduct terrorist attacks, General Aziz Latif al- Emarah told the Voices of Iraq (VOI) news...
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After a series of atrocities against Iraqi Christians in Mosul, around 400 Christians arrived in Syria to escape the harsh conditions of home, according to a statement by a Syrian refugee assistance organization Friday.
In the last few days, some 20 Christian families arrived in the city of Qamhley, which is close to the Syrian-Iraqi...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday said her country wanted to cooperate with China as a key part of efforts to resolve the global financial crisis.
"Cooperation with China is of utmost importance" for Germany, Merkel told reporters after talks on the financial crisis with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
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Thailand's army chief sharply undercut his prime minister Thursday in saying on national television that - if he were premier - he would resign to take responsibility for the deaths of protestors.
General Anupong Paochinda denied intending to pressure Somchai Wongsawat to step down, saying that society, through popular protests, was...
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Malaysian airport police seized 29 kilograms of ketamine worth 1.15 million ringgit (350,000 dollars) that was believed to have come from India, news reports said Tuesday.
Customs officers at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport discovered the ketamine powder Sunday stored in two black plastic bags and hidden inside a steel...
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Thailand on Tuesday said the country would defend itself from any Cambodian "use of force," while expressing "surprise" at Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's ultimatum to remove its troops from a disputed border area or face a "large-scale conflict."
"If Cambodia does resort to the use of force in...
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The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has launched investigations into cases of 48 media personnel who were either killed or subjected to acts of violence, the director of the ministry's National Command Center said Monday.
"Investigations have been launched following the establishment of a partnership with the Journalistic Freedoms...
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A Malaysian couple was beaten to death during a "cleansing ritual" which was supposed to rid them of health and financial problems, a news report said Friday.
The couple, aged 47 and 41, went on Wednesday to seek the help of their nephew who claimed to have the power to heal and cleanse.
Along with their three...
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Israeli fraud squad detectives questioned outgoing Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for the eight time in recent weeks on Thursday, regarding corruption affairs in which the premier is suspected of being involved.
It was the Israeli leader's first interrogation since he resigned the premiership on September 21.
Israel Army Radio reported...
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At least two suspected Islamic militants wanted in connection with recent bombings in Indian cities were killed by the police in national capital New Delhi on Friday, officials and news reports said.
The gunbattle erupted after the militants holed up inside a flat in the Muslim-dominated Jamia Nagar area in southern Delhi fired on a...
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In a contest which could decide the fate of the Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Israel's ruling Kadima party began electing a new leader Wednesday to replace discredited Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
Some 144 polling stations opened their doors at 10 am (0700 GMT) at locations throughout the country, and stay open for 12 hours, to...
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Indonesia's anti-corruption watchdog has named an anti-trust official and a businessman as suspects in a bribery case, officials and media reports said Wednesday.
Muhammad Iqbal, a member of the Business Competition Supervisory Agency was caught red-handed by anti-corruption officers late Tuesday at a Jakarta hotel receiving a...
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