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Leverkusen hang on to top spot; Bayern stunned by Gladbach comeback
Hamburg (dpa) - Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals at Borussia Moenchengladbach to draw 2-2. Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed level on 28 points with Leverkusen at the top after edging Wolfsburg 3-2. Bayern were left three points...

Leverkusen hang on to top spot; Bayern stunned by Gladbach comeback

Texas to execute Mexican, defying world court, US president
Texas was preparing to execute a 33-year-old Mexican man on Tuesday, defying a ruling by an international court, orders from US President George W Bush and demands from the Organization of American States, the US secretary of state and the US attorney general. The case, which has become a cause celebre among death penalty...

Texas to execute Mexican, defying world court, US president

Chessboard Killer Behind Bars
According to local media, a Russian supermarket worker, who confessed to killing 63 people with the goal of marking each death on a chessboard which has 64 squares, has been found guilty of 48 murders by a jury after four months of deliberation. Alexander Pichushkin, who began his killing spree as early as 1992, committed most...

Chessboard Killer Behind Bars

Today is Tuesday, July 10
the 191st day of 2007 with 174 to follow. The moon is waning. The morning stars are Mercury, Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Venus and Saturn. Those born on this date are under the sign of Cancer. They include Protestant theologian John Calvin in 1509; American painter James Whistler in 1834; brewer...

Today is Tuesday, July 10
 

Leverkusen hang on to top spot
Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals in a 2-2 draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach. Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed second, level on 28 points with Leverkusen but with a slightly inferior goal difference after edging Wolfsburg...

Leverkusen hang on to top spot

Mourinho splits football buffs as Inter dither on pitch
Three months after taking over Inter Milan, star coach Jose Mourinho seems to have achieved better results in media exposure than in the performance of the Italian champions. Inter's only truly convincing game was a 2-0 win away to Panathinaikos in the Champions League opening game, while a 1-0 defeat to AC Milan at the weekend topped...

Mourinho splits football buffs as Inter dither on pitch
 

Nepal's government asked to end torture of children in custody
A leading international human rights organization asked the Nepalese government Wednesday to take urgent steps to end what it called the widespread abuse and torture of children in police custody. US-based Human Rights Watch said it had documented more than 200 cases of torture or abuse by Nepalese police against boys and girls...

Nepal's government asked to end torture of children in custody

Thai woman gets 14 years for smuggling drugs
A Thai woman was sentenced to 14 years in prison Wednesday for trying to smuggle 500 grams of cocaine into the country early this year, media reports said. The West Java Banten's Tanggerang district court found Thitirat Charoensuk, 24, guilty for violating the country's tough anti-narcotic laws. In addition to handing down a...

Thai woman gets 14 years for smuggling drugs

Deja vu for Hamilton?By Jens Marx, dpa
With just the Chinese and Brazilian Grand Prix races remaining last season, McLaren-Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton had an advantage of 12 points over his closest rivals. He threw away his commanding lead in the last two races however, when he bizarrely decided not to change from intermediate tyres and slipped off the track and retired...

Deja vu for Hamilton?By Jens Marx, dpa

Filipino woman sentenced to death for killing Taiwan woman for cash
A Taiwan court on Wednesday sentenced a Filipino woman to death for killing a Taiwan woman for money. The Kaohsiung District Court in southern Taiwan passed the sentence on Armia Menecia Panaglima, 39, in the killing of Chiu Mei-yun, 48, in Kaohsiung on September 12, 2007, the Broadcasting Corporation of China (BCC) reported. ...

Filipino woman sentenced to death for killing Taiwan woman for cash

Hamilton has slim lead into first F1 night race
Formula One heads into unknown territory on the weekend for the maiden Singapore Grand Prix which also marks the first race under floodlights. World championship leader Lewis Hamilton must overcome the disappointment of having an appeal against a latest penalty revoked and like all other drivers will have to adapt to the unfamiliar...

Hamilton has slim lead into first F1 night race

Ugandan mob kills man for smoking in bar
 A man was lynched by an irate mob in a bar in Eastern Ugandan after refusing to stop smoking despite repeated requests from fellow drunken patrons, an official said Friday. The incident was the first deadly attack targeting a smoker since a 2004 ban on smoking in public places was imposed in the East African nation. "The man...

Ugandan mob kills man for smoking in bar

Singapore AIA customers line up for third straight day
For the third day in a row, hundreds of customers unconvinced of the soundness of American International Assurance (AIA) converged on the service centre in Singapore Thursday with many determined to surrender their policies. "Even with the AIG bailout by the US government, everything is still uncertain," said Karen Tan, a...

Singapore AIA customers line up for third straight day

South Korean arrested in murder of Vietnamese girl
Police in Vietnam have arrested a South Korean man accused of murdering a Vietnamese student after her body was found in a suitcase, an official said Tuesday. Kim Ki Jong, 26, was arrested Monday in Hanoi after police found the body Thursday in the outlying district of Cau Giay, said Nguyen Duc Trung, head of the city's Social Crime...

South Korean arrested in murder of Vietnamese girl

Korean arrested in murder of Vietnamese girl found in suitcase
Police in Vietnam have arrested a South Korean man accused of murdering a Vietnamese student after her body was found in a suitcase, an official said Tuesday. Kim Ki Jong, 26, was arrested Monday in Hanoi after police found the body Thursday in the outlying district of Cau Giay, said Nguyen Duc Trung, head of the city's Social Crime...

Korean arrested in murder of Vietnamese girl found in suitcase

Argentina beat Germany to win women's hockey bronze
Argentina beat Germany 3-1 to win the women's hockey bronze medal on the final day of the Olympic tournament Friday. Playing before a capacity crowd including football icon Diego Maradona, the Argentines repeated their bronze medal success of 2004 with first-half goals from Claudia Burkart and Carla Rebecchi before Noel Barrionuevo...

Argentina beat Germany to win women's hockey bronze

Indonesian woman sentenced to life in prison for smuggling drugs
An Indonesian woman was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday for smuggling more than 3 kilograms of heroin into the country early this year. North Sumatra's Medan District Court founded Winanti Rosmanasari, 24, guilty of violating the country's tough anti-narcotics laws. Chief Judge Ardy Djohan said Rosmanasari was guilty of...

Indonesian woman sentenced to life in prison for smuggling drugs

Italy start strongly while Hernanes spares Brazil blushes
World champions Italy made a strong start to the men's Olympic tournament Thursday, comfortably overcoming Honduras 3- 0 in their Group D opener while Brazil needed a late goal from Hernanes to overcome Belgium in Group C. Sebastian Giovinco put the Azzurri in front on 41 minutes in Qinhuangdao while Giuseppe Rossi made it 2-0 on the...

Italy start strongly while Hernanes spares Brazil blushes

Amnesty International: China has betrayed Olympic values
China has failed to improve human rights in the run up to the Beijing Olympics and risks 'permanently sullying' the legacy of the Games, human rights group Amnesty International has said. A highly-critical report by Amnesty, entitled The Olympics Countdown: Broken Promises, accused the Chinese authorities of giving empty...

Amnesty International: China has betrayed Olympic values

China is the World’s “Top Executioner”
According to an annual report on the death penalty by the human rights group Amnesty International, China executed at least 470 people last year, more than any other country in the world. The group also mentioned that five countries carry out 88 percent of all known executions worldwide: the U.S. (42 people), Pakistan (135), Saudi...

China is the World’s “Top Executioner”
 

Old rivalry has produced some classic moments
 Franz Beckenbauer says whenever he climbs into a taxi in London the driver invariably has one subject on his mind: whether it was a goal or not. The 1966 World Cup final - and Geoff Hurst's controversial strike off the underside of the bar for England's third in the 4-2 win - is still a cause for intense debate in both...

Old rivalry has produced some classic moments

German industry workers demonstrate for more pay
Thousands of German factory workers walked off their jobs Tuesday and attended demonstrations, demanding wage rises of 8 per cent on the fourth day of nationwide labour disruption. In the port city of Hamburg, 5,000 repair workers left a riverside shipyard and trooped through a pair of 100-year-old tunnels originally built for...

German industry workers demonstrate for more pay

Podolski dreams of Cologne on Munich bench
 Luci Toni is still sidelined when Bayern Munich visit his former club Fiorentina in the Champions League on Wednesday but that doesn't mean that Lukas Podolski will be playing. Podolski, 23, is a successful Germany striker with 31 goals in 59 caps but is yet to show similar form in Munich where he is normally third choice on the...

Podolski dreams of Cologne on Munich bench

State can fine or fire failed managers, EU agrees
European Union states which intervene to bail out failing banks should have the right to fire the banks' managers or cut their pay, EU finance ministers agreed Tuesday in Luxembourg. If the state is forced to intervene, "the government should be in a position to bring about a change of management," the finance ministers of...

State can fine or fire failed managers, EU agrees

EU concerned over religious persecution in Iran
The European Union on Friday expressed concern over Iran's plans to introduce the death penalty for the apostasy. Converts to Christianity in the Islamic state were already being detained, the presidency of the 27-member bloc said in Paris. The followers of minority religious groups such as Christians and Sufi or Sunni Muslims were...

EU concerned over religious persecution in Iran

Pensioner ordered to knit pullovers as penalty for slashing tyres
An 89-year-old woman has been told to take up knitting in order to avoid prosecution for slashing more than 50 car tyres, justice officials said Friday. "We'll drop the case if she knits a few pullovers," prosecutor Helmut Bleh said in the southern city of Kaiserslautern. "We can't send her to prison, and she doesn't...

Pensioner ordered to knit pullovers as penalty for slashing tyres

EADS delays first flight of new military plane
European aerospace group EADS said Thursday that the first flight of its new A400M multi-purpose military transport plane has been postponed "because of the unavailability of the propulsion system." The postponement is another blow for EADS, which has already lost billions of euros because of delays to its A380 superjumbo...

EADS delays first flight of new military plane

Danish side Aalborg to appeal red card of wrong player
Danish side Aalborg BK are expected to appeal against a red card handed to one its players in the Champions League tie Wednesday away to Celtic, reports said Thursday. Italian referee Matteo Trefoloni sent off Michael Beachamp instead of Michael Jakobsen with some 10 minutes left of the goalless match at Celtic Park. Aalborg sports...

Danish side Aalborg to appeal red card of wrong player

Shevardnadze: Russia a threat to Europe
Former Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze Tuesday labelled Russia a threat to Europe and called for Moscow to be punished for its invasion of Georgia. "The Georgia conflict is a test," the former Soviet foreign minister told the French daily Le Parisien. "If the Europeans let Russia away with this, what guarantee...

Shevardnadze: Russia a threat to Europe

UN Panel Takes Major Step Toward the Abolition of Death Penalty
A UN General Assembly committee adopted Thursday a moratorium on the death penalty after countries that want to maintain the practice failed to push through amendments that would have derailed it. The UN human rights committee voted 99-52, with 33 abstentions, to approve the moratorium, which proponents said should ultimately lead...

UN Panel Takes Major Step Toward the Abolition of Death Penalty

Djindjic Assassin And Mastermind Get Maximum Penalty
Wednesday, the murderer and the man who planned the assassination of former Serbian prime minister Zoran Djindjic got 40-years sentences. Djindjic was shot-dead in the stairway of the governments building on March 12, 2003 by  Zvezdan Jovanovic, a former police lieutenant colonel. The entire operation was allegedly planned by his...

Djindjic Assassin And Mastermind Get Maximum Penalty

Ocalan Is Supported Even Behind Bars
Strasbourg was the meeting place for approximately 15,000 Kurds, as they protested against the jailing of the former leader of the Kurdish militant group Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Abdullah Ocalan. Thousands of Kurds gathered in the French city of Strasbourg to support the former PKK leader and ask for a fair medical examination. To...

Ocalan Is Supported Even Behind Bars
 

Lewis Hamilton: Looking to be F1's youngest ever champion
Lewis Hamilton is just one step away from being crowned Formula One's youngest ever world drivers' champion in only his second season in the sport. The McLaren-Mercedes driver goes goes into Sunday's final race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix at Interlagos, holding a seven- point lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa and needs just...

Lewis Hamilton: Looking to be F1's youngest ever champion

Hamilton looking for revenge in Ferrari's backyard
Although Lewis Hamilton is still hoping that an appeal will reinstate him as the winner of the Belgium Grand Prix, he is looking forward to gaining revenge in Ferrari's backyard by winning Sunday's Italian Grand Prix. The McLaren-Mercedes driver won last Sunday's race at Spa but was later handed a 25-second penalty which demoted him...

Hamilton looking for revenge in Ferrari's backyard

Hamilton did gain an advantage, says rival Massa
Lewis Hamilton was "too optimistic" in overtaking Kimi Raikkonen in the Belgian Grand Prix on Sunday, Raikkonen's Ferrari team-mate Felipe Massa says on his website. Massa, who was awarded the race on Sunday after Hamilton was penalised for the manoeuvre, said the McLaren-Mercedes driver should have waited before attempting...

Hamilton did gain an advantage, says rival Massa

The F1 plot thickens as McLaren appeal Hamilton ruling
The decision to strip Lewis Hamilton of his victory at the Belgian Grand Prix has been greeted by a mixture of bemusement and cynicism in Britain. Meanwhile one Italian media report said the race stewards decision to penalise the McLaren-Mercedes driver, thus gifting the race to Ferrari's Felipe Massa, was justified. Italian media...

The F1 plot thickens as McLaren appeal Hamilton ruling
 

Rights commission calls for action on death row Nigerians
 Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission called on the government Wednesday to examine why so many Nigerians are facing the death penalty worldwide. "More than 50 Nigerians are currently on death row across the globe," the commission's spokesman, Lambert Oparah, said. "The situation should be a worry to the...

Rights commission calls for action on death row Nigerians
 

Barenaked Ladies’ Singer Busted For Cocaine
Steven Page, singer and guitarist for the band Barenaked Ladies was arrested in Fayetteville for cocaine possession, authorities said. Page, 38, was arrested as he was visiting two women at their apartment in Syracuse, and was charged with fourth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance. According to the Associated...

Barenaked Ladies’ Singer Busted For Cocaine
 

Hamilton on pole for Hungarian GP as McLaren dominate
Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix ahead of McLaren-Mercedes team-mate Heikki Kovalainen as he seeks his third successive Formula One victory. The 23-year-old Briton set a best time of 1 minute 20.899 seconds, 0.242 seconds ahead of Finland's Kovalainen to capture his fourth pole position of the...

Hamilton on pole for Hungarian GP as McLaren dominate

South Africa defeats England 15-6 for World Cup title
South Africa won the 2007 Rugby World Cup by beating holders England 15-6 in a hard-fought title match, played Saturday at the Stade de France outside Paris. The tournament's leading scorer, Percy Montgomery, converted all four of his penalty kicks and young Francois Steyn kicked another to account for all of the points for the...

South Africa defeats England 15-6 for World Cup title
 

Prosecutor May Remain on “Alpha Dog” Case, Supreme Court Rules
The California Supreme Court unanimously decided that the prosecutor who helped in the making of “Alpha Dog” may remain on the case which became the subject of the movie. The case involved Jesse James Hollywood, who faces the death penalty for his role in the kidnapping and murder of a 15-year-old boy. Ronald Zonen, a deputy district...

Prosecutor May Remain on “Alpha Dog” Case, Supreme Court Rules
 

Snipes on Bail in Tax Case
Actor Wesley Snipes has been granted bail while he appeals against his conviction for tax offences, BBC News reports. The 45-year-old Blade star was sentenced in April to three years in prison, the maximum penalty, for failing to file income tax returns between 1999 and 2001. A U.S. judge granted Snipes’ request for bail saying...

Snipes on Bail in Tax Case

Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for Tax Charges
“Blade” actor Wesley Snipes was sentenced to three years in prison Thursday for failing to file tax returns, the maximum penalty, the Associated Press reports. The actor wrote to the government $5 million in check, highlighted his clean criminal record and called on famous friends in order to convince the judge that he...

Wesley Snipes Gets 3 Years for Tax Charges

The “Notorious” Wesley Snipes May Get Three Years in Prison
Actor Wesley Snipes is on the way of finding out his sentence on Thursday for three misdemeanor tax convictions. He was accused of failing to file taxes for three years 1999, 2000 and 2001, to which he owes the government $2.7 million in back taxes. The action star was found guilty in February. Furthermore, Snipes was acquitted in...

The “Notorious” Wesley Snipes May Get Three Years in Prison

Jodie Foster Receives Threatening Mail in L.A. Airport
Michael Smegal of Holliston was arrested Tuesday due to the fact that he was allegedly sending threatening letters and packages having the words “Jodie Foster S” included on them. Moreover, in December 2007, Smegal mailed a bomb threat, again having Foster’s name on it, to the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles. The 42-year-old man, who...

Jodie Foster Receives Threatening Mail in L.A. Airport

Barron: Another Hilton with Problems
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said that Barron Nicholas Hilton, Paris Hilton’s 18-year-old brother, was charged Thursday with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and being an unlicensed driver. According To People Magazine, the LA County Sheriff’s Department said that the boy was found carrying a fake...

Barron: Another Hilton with Problems
 

PES 2008 Details Revealed
Konami Digital Entertainment, the Japanese gaming titan has finally released on Thursday the details of the upcoming versions for PSP and Nintendo of his Pro Evolution 2008, which is scheduled to be released in the New Year.The two handheld versions were developed by Konami’s football Studio in Tokyo, being adapted for each device...

PES 2008 Details Revealed
 

Federal Judge Threatens to Hold Reporter in Contempt in Anthrax Case
U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton said on Tuesday that he would hold former USA Today reporter Toni Locy in contempt of court in case she still refuses to identify her sources related to a bunch of stories about a former Army scientist under scrutiny in the 2001 anthrax attacks. The federal judge said that the former USA Today...

Federal Judge Threatens to Hold Reporter in Contempt in Anthrax Case

Rise in Cannabis Abuse Rates
The number of adults seeking medical help for cannabis addiction has risen by 50% since Labour downgraded the drug, health authority figures show. Over 16,500 adults sought treatment for cannabis use in England in 2006/7 compared with 11,057 two years earlier when the drug moved from Class B to C. Currently 500 adults and...

Rise in Cannabis Abuse Rates

Warning on Anti-Drinking Adverts
Researchers say that some anti-drinking advertising campaigns may backfire by inadvertently glamorizing the habit. The study, led by the University of Bath, said focusing on idiotic behaviour carried out when drunk may be "catastrophically misconceived". The researchers warned that young people might see...

Warning on Anti-Drinking Adverts
 

McCain would likely continue court's rightward shift
 John McCain did not mince words in his reaction to an important Supreme Court decision in June on the rights of suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. McCain called the 5-4 the ruling "one of the worst decisions in the history of this country," adding that it would result in the courts being flooded by a...

McCain would likely continue court's rightward shift

Life Prison for Mother Who Cooked Her Child
China Arnold, 28, killed her baby girl of only a month by burning her to death inside a microwave oven. The jury failed to reach a consensus when giving her the death penalty so they finally decided to sentence her to life in prison without parole.  The prosecutors stated that the woman had voluntarily put the little baby in the...

Life Prison for Mother Who Cooked Her Child

Repairman Charged of Killing Ex-Girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher
Michael Thomas Gargiulo, 32, pleaded not guilty on Thursday to the charges of stabbing and killing two women, one of whom was a former girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher. The murderer who is from Santa Monica now faces two counts of murder and two counts of burglary.Gargiulo killed Ashley Ellerin, 22, an ex-girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher, and...

Repairman Charged of Killing Ex-Girlfriend of Ashton Kutcher

Florida Man Held in Police Custody for Threatening Obama
Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, is being held in police custody with no charges, but accused of threatening to kill Senator Barack Obama if he wins the presidential elections. Police thought the man was serious and they arrested him for precaution, especially because is the first threat toward Obama.Geisel made the threats against Obama while...

Florida Man Held in Police Custody for Threatening Obama

Jury ends second day of deliberations in Hamdan trial
A military jury ended its second day of deliberations on Tuesday in the case of Osama bin Laden's former driver, Salim Hamdan, who faces up to life in prison if convicted of conspiracy and supporting terrorism. The six-person jury consisting of US military officers met Tuesday morning, ending their closed-door deliberations...

Jury ends second day of deliberations in Hamdan trial

Man Convicted in Ohio Says He Is Too Fat for Death Penalty
Richard Wade Cooey, 41, was sentenced to death penalty after he had raped and killed two women in 1986. He was scheduled to be executed on October 14, this year, but he says he is too fat to face the lethal injection drug.Cooey says that the executioners will have trouble with finding his veins and his 267 pounds would diminish the...

Man Convicted in Ohio Says He Is Too Fat for Death Penalty

Bin Laden driver pleads not guilty
The former driver for Osama bin Laden pleaded not guilty to terrorism-related charges on Monday as the first trial under US President George W Bush's controversial military commissions got under way in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been charged with conspiracy and providing material support for terrorism and...

Bin Laden driver pleads not guilty

Life in Prison for the “Black Widows” Who Killed Two Homeless
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Life in Prison for the “Black Widows” Who Killed Two Homeless

Life in Prison for Killer in Metrolink Crash
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Life in Prison for Killer in Metrolink Crash

Vermont Girl Seems to Have Been Killed by Her Uncle
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...

Vermont Girl Seems to Have Been Killed by Her Uncle

Woman Kills Future Mother to Tear the Baby Out
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...

Woman Kills Future Mother to Tear the Baby Out

U.S. Seeks Capital Punishment In USS Cole Terrorist Attack
The Pentagon declared on Monday that it would seek the death penalty against a Saudi Arabian detained at the Guantanamo bay prison, accused of conspiring in the October 2000 terrorist attack on the USS Cole warship, that killed 17 U.S. sailors and injured approximately 50 other service members. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was filed...

U.S. Seeks Capital Punishment In USS Cole Terrorist Attack

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty For Child Rape
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down on Wednesday the death penalty for child rape. This was the first decision in more than 30 years that assessed whether an illegality other than murder should receive capital punishment or not. The 5-4 Court verdict rejected a Louisiana law that allows execution punishment for people accused of...

U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Death Penalty For Child Rape

Court Limits Mentally Ill's Right to Self-Representation
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday, by a 7-2 vote, that states may demand a mentally ill defendant who wants to lead his own defense to accept the assistance of a lawyer. The decision nullifies an Indiana Supreme Court pronouncement that stipulated a criminal defendant who is found sufficiently capable to stand trial should be allowed to...

Court Limits Mentally Ill's Right to Self-Representation

Pope Benedict XVI Gave Bush Special Treatment at Vatican
Today, USA President George W. Bush was given a special treatment by Pope Benedict XVI. The US President had the opportunity to take a walk along with the pope through the Vatican gardens, the place where popes pray privately. The Guardian.co.uk reports hat this was the first time for a head of a state to meet the pope outside of...

Pope Benedict XVI Gave Bush Special Treatment at Vatican

Virginia Gov. Prevents Scheduled Execution
Virginia Governor Tim Kaine prevented Monday the execution of a convicted triple murderer for the third time and ordered the commutation of his death sentence, a day before the scheduled execution. He said that Percy Levar Walton is so profoundly mentally ill and impaired that he did not understand that he was about to die. In...

Virginia Gov. Prevents Scheduled Execution

Woman Gets Life in Prison for Murdering Pregnant Friend and Three Children
A woman from Illinois pleaded guilty Monday to killing her pregnant friend, her unborn child and the victim’s other three children. 26-year-old Tiffany Hall pleaded guilty to four charges of murder and one of intentional homicide in the death of the fetus, which she cut from the mother's womb. The plea deal allowed her to...

Woman Gets Life in Prison for Murdering Pregnant Friend and Three Children

9/11 Terrorists Acted Defiant Towards Tribunal
The trial of the five terrorists who are believed to be behind the November 11 attacks has not yet been set to start at Camp Justice. However, the suspects appeared in front of a war crime tribunal for the first time on Thursday. The new courtroom where the suspects will be judged is surrounded by razor wire fences. First came...

9/11 Terrorists Acted Defiant Towards Tribunal

September 11 Attacks' Suspects To Be On Trial
The alleged key suspect behind the attacks upon U.S. from 11 September 2001 will stay before the military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay. The man who is considered al-Qaeda’s number three has refused to be defended by lawyers. He is actually trying to convince the court to sentence him to death, for he wants to become a martyr in the...

September 11 Attacks' Suspects To Be On Trial

British Resident Charged at Guantanamo Bay
The Pentagon says Binayam Mohamed, an Ethiopian national, is accused of supporting terrorism and conspiracy to commit terrorist attacks in the United States. He allegedly planned with al-Qaeda to use a radioactive “dirty bomb.” His lawyers say the case is based on evidence obtained through torture while he was in...

British Resident Charged at Guantanamo Bay

Prostitution Ring Case: Woman Pleads Guilty
A 23-year-old New Jersey woman admitted she had a role in the prostitution ring and the scandal related to it that took down former Gov. Eliot Spitzer. Cecil Suwal pleaded guilty to running the daily operations of the high-priced escort service, known as the Emperor’s Club V.I.P, linked to Eliot Spitzer. She called her former job...

Prostitution Ring Case: Woman Pleads Guilty

Trial Started For Wife And Daughter Murderer
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...

Trial Started For Wife And Daughter Murderer

Virginia, Third Execution Since the Moratorium on Capital Punishment
Virginia was the third state to put a convicted murder to death by lethal injection since the US Supreme Court ended an unofficial moratorium on capital punishment last month. Kevin Green, 31, who was convicted for killing a southeastern Virginia convenience store owner in 1998 during a robbery, was pronounced death at 10 p.m.,...

Virginia, Third Execution Since the Moratorium on Capital Punishment

Georgia: Sentence Changed before Scheduled Execution
The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles commuted the death sentence of Samuel David Crowe two hours before his scheduled execution, Crowe’s lawyer said. Crowe had been scheduled to be executed by injection at 7 p.m. ET Thursday at Georgia Diagnostic and Classification Prison in Jackson. The man, 47, was convicted in 1988...

Georgia: Sentence Changed before Scheduled Execution

Mississippi Executes Convicted Killer
This case is the second US execution since the Supreme Court lifted a moratorium on death penalty last month. Convicted murderer Earl Wesley Berry was executed at the Mississippi State Penitentiary at Parchman, state officials said. The man was pronounced dead at 6:15 p.m. local time at Parchman prison, said Tara Booth, spokeswoman...

Mississippi Executes Convicted Killer

US Delays Bin Laden’s Driver Trial
A military judge has postponed the trial of Osama bin Laden’s former driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, saying the Supreme Court should first rule on the rights of inmates to contest their detention and to see if that ruling affects the detainees’ cases. The Supreme Court is expected to rule by 30 June.Hamdan was to be the first prisoner tried...

US Delays Bin Laden’s Driver Trial

Asian Art Expert Found Dead In Detention Center
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...

Asian Art Expert Found Dead In Detention Center

Flight Attendant Accused of Setting Fire to Aircraft
According to a criminal complaint, on May 7, Eder H. Rojas, 19, started a fire in the restroom of a Northwest Airlines flight, traveling from Minneapolis to Regina, Sask. A flight attendant discovered the fire and flight 2040 was forced to make an emergency landing in Fargo, N.D, authorities said. He allegedly smuggled a lighter...

Flight Attendant Accused of Setting Fire to Aircraft

Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Face Capital Charges
Five men, accused of conspiring to kill thousands of people by financing, directing and organizing the 9/11 suicide missions, face death penalty charges at the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. A Pentagon official has formally approved death penalty charges against them for allegedly conspiring in the September 11...

Five Guantanamo Bay Detainees to Face Capital Charges

Judge Removes Top Legal Adviser from Guantanamo Case
A US military judge has disqualified the Pentagon’s top legal adviser in the Office of Military Commissions, one of the key figures in Guantanamo war crimes tribunals, The New York Times reported.Navy Capt. Keith Allred ruled that Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann of the Air Force Reserve was too closely allied with the prosecution. He is...

Judge Removes Top Legal Adviser from Guantanamo Case

Arrest in Killing of Pregnant Woman
Santa Cruz authorities said Tuesday they managed to solve the 2006 slaying of a pregnant woman and arrested a suspect in the case. It appears the suspect in the killing of 28-year-old Joanna “Asha” Veil will be named today at a news conference. Policemen initially identified a local man, already in state prison for rape and...

Arrest in Killing of Pregnant Woman