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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...
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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...
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A court in southern Vietnam has sentenced a Chinese woman to death for circulating large amounts of counterfeit Vietnamese currency, the presiding judge said Wednesday.
Chinese citizen Guo Jin Hua, 65, conspired with 31-year-old Mai Van Truc and 35 other Vietnamese to smuggle nearly 5 billion dong (300,000 dollars) in fake bills from...
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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...
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Hundreds of Catholics massed Friday in downtown Hanoi, singing and praying, after the government sent police and earthmovers to clear a disputed piece of property and turn it into a public park.
Priests said construction crews arrived at 4 am Friday to break down walls and clear structures on the site of Hanoi's former papal...
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A Vietnam court is trying 37 members of a ring that circulated smuggled counterfeit Vietnamese currency in what amounts to the largest counterfeit trial in the country's history, a court official said Thursday.
The ring, led by a Chinese woman, Guo Jin Hua, 55, is accused of smuggling nearly 5 billion dong (300,000 dollars) in fake...
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A political internet blogger who reported on protests during the Olympic torch relay through Vietnam in April was sentenced Wednesday to two and a half years in prison on charges of tax evasion.
Nguyen Van Hai, 55, widely known by his pen name Dieu Cay, was convicted of having failed to pay 10 years' worth of value-added tax on part...
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A Singapore tycoon, who pleaded guilty to two counts of illegally attempting to purchasing a kidney from an Indonesian is too sick to survive in prison, said his attorney Thursday.
Attorney Cavinder Bull said jailing Tang Wee Sung, executive director of the tony CT Tang Department store and owner of prime real estate, would be...
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An international human rights group on Friday urged China to stop torturing Liu Jie, an activist who is serving 18 months in a labour camp for organizing a petition signed by more than 12,000 people seeking political reforms.
The group, Chinese Human Rights Defenders, said in a statement that Liu has been subjected to torture since...
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Police in Vietnam have arrested two of their colleagues accused of accepting a bribe of 1 billion dong (60,000 dollars), an official said Friday.
The Police Department of the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau arrested Major Vo Van Ly, 43, and Lieutenant Vo Chi Thanh from the provincial Marine Police Department Thursday, said the...
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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...
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Supporters of self-exiled Prince Norodom Ranariddh said Friday they had not given up hope of a royal pardon over his conviction for breach of trust, which was upheld by his last avenue of appeal, the Supreme Court, last month.
Petitions to his half-brother King Norodom Sihamoni had flooded in from opposition groups and political...
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Almost 1,000 homosexual
protesters and their supporters marched in three main Indian towns on June 29, wishing to put an end to discrimination.
It is said that this was the
largest display of gay pride to happen in India. The activists marched in New Delhi, India’s
capital, for the first time, setting off on a...
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 Israel
announced yesterday that it had cut off 1% of the electricity to Gaza, and it will
continue to reduce the electrical power until the Palestinian militants cease
the attacks.
In response to that, Palestinian
fighters launched today 20 rockets into Israel, which reportedly did not
cause casualties. Hamas officials defiantly...
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 China's
parliament gave the executions sentence today to former delegate to the
National People's Congress, Duan Yihe.
Duan was executed today for killing his mistress with whom
he had been having an affair since 1993.
According to Chinese media, this has been the harshest
sentence given to a corrupt official.
Chen Zhi ,...
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday in London that he does not see security worsening in Afghanistan, even as the British death toll in the conflict rose to 124.
"Violence is not getting worse. It is the same level as it was for the past year or two. The whole effort is to make it better and to bring violence down,"...
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Amnesty International has called on the government of Afghanistan to repeal the death sentences against 111 people who are on death row.
In a statement released in London Thursday, to coincide with a visit to London of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Amnesty said it feared that the reported executions of nine people since last week...
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The head of the European Commission on Wednesday urged member states to work together to protect jobs and industry rather than be tempted by "populist" and "protectionist" measures.
"The global financial crisis is not an excuse for protectionism: trade barriers ship out prosperity and open the gates instead to...
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Unknown vandals have knocked over and, in some cases, destroyed 131 headstones in Bucharest's Jewish cemetery.
According to the Mediafax news agency on Friday, the vandals also smashed windows in the administrative offices of the cemetery in Romania's capital.
Some office equipment was also destroyed.
No anti-Semitic slogans...
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A youth leader of the Austrian right-wing Freedom Party was found guilty Monday of inciting religious hatred against Muslims, and received a suspended prison sentence.
As the leader of the Freedom Party's youth organization in Graz, Michael Winter, 20, had suggested in a newsletter last year that that Turkish Muslims were in the habit...
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The European Commission on Wednesday imposed a fine of nearly 1 billion dollars on nine business groups, including ExxonMobil and Total, it found guilty of fixing prices and market shares for paraffin wax.
The 676-million-euro (966-million-dollar) fine is the fourth-largest cartel punishment in EU history, and covers a cartel which...
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Banking shares dropped sharply in London Monday as the Bank of England injected an extra 5 billion pounds (8.97 billion dollars) into money markets following the collapse of Wall Street's Lehman Brothers.
In what traders quickly dubbed "meltdown Monday," the Financial Times Index was down by 4 per cent in early trading, with...
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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday Russia would take action to protect its citizens under siege by Georgian troops driving to re-assert control over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Medvedev did not specify what action Moscow might take.
"We will not let the deaths of our citizens go unpunished, the guilty...
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A new grim dimension was added Wednesday to a
long- running child abuse investigation in Britain's Channel island of
Jersey when police announced that some of the victims reported having
been subjected to 'serious sexual crimes' in a wartime German bunker.
'We have an allegation of serious sexual crimes having taken place in
the...
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Police on the British Channel island of Jersey
are expected to move their investigation in the long-standing child
abuse scandal to a second site - reported to be a German bunker dating
back to occupation of the island in World War II. Police are
expected to confirm the widening of investigations later Wednesday,
which have so far...
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 The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, was
criticized by his predecessor Lord Carey, for suggesting the acceptance of some
Muslim laws, BBC reports.
Lord Carey wrote in the News of the World that he cannot
share Dr. Williams’ view regarding the above mentioned issue.
“His conclusion that Britain will eventually have...
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 The government's sentencing advisory body announced on Wednesday
that motorists who kill while driving carelessly in Britain may not
automatically be sent to jail.
Drivers would receive a community sentence rather than a
jail term if an accident was caused by a single, brief mistake and there were
no aggravating factors, such as...
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 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...
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 The British police officers who shot Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes will get away unpunished. They shot him seven times in the head on July 22, 2005, shortly after the attack on July 7 when four suicide bombers killed 52 victims in London.The Independent Police Complaints Commission said 11 “frontline firearms and...
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 Raffaello Follieri, Anne Hathaway’s ex-boyfriend was sentenced on Tuesday to spend 4 1 years in prison because he had cheated investors to give him millions of dollars after he had claimed he had connections with the Vatican that let him buy Roman Catholic Church property at a discount. Before he was sentenced, Follieri, 30, said that he...
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 Jurors for Britney Spears’ driving-without-a-license trial ended on Tuesday morning after three days of deliberations. On Monday the jurors couldn’t make up their minds whether the 26-year-old singer was guilty for what she had done or not. Still, the judge asked them to reconsider the case and find a solution. In the end, they couldn’t...
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 Two days after a judge denied Nick Bollea’s
attorneys’ request to adjust the conditions of his confinement because being in
solitary is allegedly causing him “unbearable anxiety,” Hulk Hogan’s son was
moved into a communal cell with three other juvenile inmates.
Hogan initially was segregated because he
is a minor. He was...
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 Hulk Hogan’s son, Nick Bollea, who is
serving an 8 months sentence for felony reckless driving, will continue to stay
in solitary confinement. A judge denied Nick Bollea’s attorneys’ request to adjust
the conditions of his confinement, because being in solitary is allegedly
causing him “unbearable anxiety.” They say he is spending 16...
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 The Bon Jovi guitarist entered a plea deal linked to a DUI
incident just a few hours after prosecutors had filed drunken driving charges
against him and escaped without severe punishment.
Consequently, a second charge, of driving under the
influence of alcohol was dismissed, as Farrah Emami, a district attorney
spokeswoman...
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 Luckily rapper Busta Rhymes avoided prison and a trial,
although they constituted the prosecutors’ recommendation.
Rhymes, whose real name is Trevor Smith, had a change of
heart about his plea. He initially pleaded innocent to assault, two driving
infractions and weapons possession and was scheduled to go on trial on
Wednesday....
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District Judge Jackie Glass was responded with OJ Simpson’s
second major “not guilty” plea. Facing life prison due to 12 counts including kidnapping
and armed robbery after the September 13 assault, Simpson hopes the same luck
that acquitted him in 1995 of the murder of his wife and her friend.
Simpson and two other members of...
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 OJ Simpson won’t be able to make us curious again with another
“If I Did It” question, as testimonies are clearly against him.
In the highly hyped case of the stolen memorabilia items
from the Las Vegas
hotel, another witness made what seems an irreversible turn in the case. Walter
Alexander, 46, of Mesa, Ariz., a long friend of...
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 After having pleaded no contest for the DUI charges via his
attorney Blair Berk, Kiefer Sutherland received a 48-day jail sentence, as the
latest incident occurred while the star was on probation for a 2004 driving
with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit of 0.08 percent.
The “24” star was caught in the small hours on...
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 Pregnant or not pregnant, the judge didn’t seem to care earlier today when he sentenced the "Simple Life" star to four days in jail for driving under the influence of alcohol and drugs.Just weeks after her co-star Paris Hilton served her time behind bars, 25-year-old Nicole Richie pleaded guilty to all charges and besides the...
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 Socialite Paris Hilton was released from prison at around 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, June 26th, ending her controversial and overhyped jail sentence. "This is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. I have had a lot of time to reflect, and have already learned a bitter, but important lesson from this experience," she said in a...
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 LA prosecutor Rocky Delgadillo, who put Paris Hilton in jail for her irresponsible drunk driving, faces embarassment and accusations of hipocrisy after it was found that his wife had escaped punishment after committing the same offense nine years ago.Ms Delgadillo was stopped by the Santa Monica police sometime in 1998 for driving with...
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 Socialite Paris Hilton checked out of prison 20 days early of her 23-day reduced prison sentence. At 2:09am on Thursday morning, Hilton, 26, was "reassigned" to the LA County probation department for medical reasons, and fitted with an electronic tag as part of her punishment, The Guardian reported.Hilton was transferred to her...
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 Paris Hilton is apparently blaming her publicist for having been sentenced to jail. The man has been fired, while Paris is probably biting her nails at the thought of the cruelty of it all.
The young socialite is being given a lesson that even she can get in trouble for doing things the wrong way. Last September, the 26-year-old...
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 Professional partygirl Paris Hilton will finally get what's coming to her: a judge ruled on Friday that the 26 year old must go to jail for violating probation. She is to spend 45 days in jail, reportedly in a 12ft by 8ft cell with toilet, sink and a window 6" wide at the women's Century Regional Detention Centre in Lynwood,...
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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...
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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...
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 Keith Kennedy, the 25-year-old autistic man
was found alive Sunday night after spending seven days lost in the wilderness
south of Grantsburg, Wis. A group of St. Paul
and Maple Grove
firefighters found him at about 7 p.m. a mile west of Trade Lake Camp, lying
next to a stream, Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland said, according to...
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 The Federal Communications Commission might sanction Comcast for blocking traffic in what is supposed to be an arbitrary manner. The complaint was filed to the commission at the end of 2007 by the consumer group Free Press, which said that the internet service provider was blocking some users’ access to some peer2peer applications among...
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 A Florida judge has given a rather surprising sentence when he made the two YouTube pranksters upload a video apology on the same website that made them famous. As they thought what they did was hilarious, the two boys, aged 15 and 16, posted a video of themselves throwing a soft drink at a Taco Bell employee, at a restaurant in Merritt...
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Harare, ZIMBABWE – Presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has
returned to continue campaigning after being held for almost ten hours in the
police’s custody, in the country’s second main city.
According to a spokesman of Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party,
Tsvangirai and several other MDC leaders were held by police...
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 Hu Jia, 34, activist and dissident in the People’s Republic
of China,
was sentenced to three-and-a-half years on Thursday. The verdict was: guilty
of “inciting subversion of state power” for criticizing the Communist Party.
The United
States expressed an opposite opinion
regarding this issue and international...
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 Children whose parents spank them or use other aggressive
methods to punish them are more likely to have sexual problems as teenagers or
adults, according to a research made by a University of Hampshire
domestic abuse expert.
Professor Murray Straus concludes that children who are
spanked have a much higher risk in adulthood...
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 American television’s source of inspiration
for this summer is Japan,
Japanese game shows such as “Endurance,” “Hole in the Wall,” and “Human Tetris,”
to be more specific.
On Tuesday, ABC is airing premieres of “Wipeout”
and “I Survived a Japanese Game Show,” with a domestic edition of “Hole in the
Wall” coming this fall on Fox,...
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 Hot tempered TV news anchor Alycia Lane easily escaped punishment by
promising to behave in the next six months.
Lane was accused of punching a police officer in the face in
New York, but luck was in her favor on Monday when a judge decided to let her
free, on condition that she steer away from trouble in the following six
months....
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During his visit to Egypt on Tuesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas asked Hamas group to cease the rocket fire on Israel,
hoping that this would lead to Israel
lifting the embargo on Gaza Strip.
President Abbas told reporters
that he believes Israel is
using rocket attacks as a pretext to keep the siege on Gaza, Xinhua...
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Hamas asked the European Union on
Friday to pressure on Israel
to put an end to the economic and military blockade of the Gaza Strip. Gaza has been ruled by
Hamas Islamists since June, when Fatah forces loyal to Palestinian President
Mahmoud Abbas were expelled.
“We urge the European Union not
to limit its action to purely...
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A suicide bomb attack killed 80 people and wounded many more
Sunday in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar,
during a dog fighting, attended by 300 people, and also by some members of the
militia, Al Jazeera reports.
Assadulah Khalid, Kandahar’s
provincial governor, said that the bomb was detonated by a suicide attacker.
The...
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 Jordanian Foreign Minister Salah Bashir on Monday urged his Israeli
counterpart, Tzipi Livni, to end the Israeli blockade of the Gaza
Strip.
Bashir urged "a halt to all military operations and collective
punishment policies in the Gaza Strip," an official statement said.
A telephone conversation between Bashir and...
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 Israeli security officials said Monday evening that the military would
allow industrial diesel fuel to enter the Gaza Strip for one day only
on Tuesday, allowing the enclave's sole power plant to resume
operations following a four-day Israeli lockdown.
"On a one-time basis, Israel will allow in industrial diesel,"...
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 T-Mobile, the mobile phone division of the largest telecommunication company in Europe, Deutsche Telekom, announced on Tuesday that it would end its sponsorship of the high profile cycling team, as a result of a series of doping scandals.The decision was reportedly provoked by the latest accusations that their star rider, Patrik...
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 Chinese media reported on Monday that the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are gathering information on 28.000 foreign journalists, in their attempt to respect China’s promise to allow greater media freedoms.The database is expected to be a reference to the interviewees, so that they would not fall victim of blackmail and...
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 If you are a 6-year old that hasn’t heard of Harry Potter,
The Chronicles of Narnia or The Lord of the Rings, then you might enjoy The
Seeker: The Dark Is Rising, as you cannot make any comparison. Still, you if
you are 6 but you’ve seen at least one of enumerated titles, the latter might
ring a bell.
The only surprising aspect...
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 N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell has fined New England Patriots Coach Bill Belichick $500,000 yesterday, and the team will forfeit its first-round draft pick in 2008 if it makes the playoffs. The punishment was handed down for spying on opponents, after Sunday a Patriots staff member was discovered videotaping signals by Jets coaches...
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 Vick’s last two co-defendants pleaded guilty on Friday and stated that Atlanta Falcon’s quarterback not only financially supported the project but helped execute dogs that didn't perform well.Quanis Phillips of Atlanta and Purnell Peace of Virginia Beach, Va. entered the plea and both agreed to testify against Vick. The controversial...
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 Two more defendants that allegedly participated at the dog fighting which took place on Vick’s property are planning to enter the plea agreements. Their decision would leave the Atlanta Falcons quarterback as the single defendant to plead not guilty.The two defendants that have scheduled hearings for 16 and 17 August are Purnell Peace,...
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 Purdue Pharma L.P, the Stamford, Connecticut pharmaceutical company, and three of its executives were ordered by a federal judge on Friday to pay $634.5 million - one of the largest amounts ever paid by a drug company in a similar case - for misleading the public about their main product OxyCotin and especially about the painkiller's...
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 Sweden have been awarded by UEFA the a 3-0 victory after their Euro 2008 qualifier in Denmark on 2 June was abandoned when a fan ran on to the pitch and attacked the referee. The Danish Football Association was fined 100,000 Swiss Francs (about €61,000 or $81000) and will play their next four home Euro 2008 qualifiers at least 250 km...
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Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, raped and killed two Texas Girls in 1993. He had spent his life in jail since then, expecting to be executed. On Tuesday night Medellin was injected with the lethal injection, in spite of any objection. His last words were: "I'm sorry my actions caused you pain. I hope this brings you the closure that you...
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President George W Bush has approved what
would be the first execution by the US military since 1961, though
court appeals are likely to continue delaying the 20-year-old case
indefinitely, the White House said late Monday. A Bush
spokeswoman issued a statement saying that Bush had given the go ahead
for a sentence of capital...
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Kent Jermaine Jackson was executed by lethal
injection on Thursday at the Greensville Correctional Center in Jarratt,
Virginia. Jackson, 26, was convicted for the brutal killing of an elderly widow
who lived in his apartment building.
He died at 9:18 p.m. in Greensville Correctional
Center, after eight years in prison. Both...
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Mark D. Schwab, convicted child rapist and murderer, was
executed on Tuesday in Florida State Prison. This was the first death
conviction in Florida
since the careless execution of another man, 18 months ago, when the needle
missed his vein.
The last
execution, in December 2006, was painful and bungled, causing prolonged...
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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...
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 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...
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 A 17-second video posted on YouTube showed
two Marines joking and holding up a black-and-white puppy before one hurls the
puppy into a gully. The dog makes a yelping sound as it flies through the air.
“That’s mean. That was mean,” someone
off-camera is heard saying. YouTube removed the video a day after it was
posted, “due to...
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 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...
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 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.,...
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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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 After the debate on capital punishment and the Supreme Court’s
moratorium on death penalty, Georgia
may be the first state in the nation to execute an inmate. The US Supreme Court
decided to uphold Kentucky’s
lethal injection protocol, although there were voices claiming that lethal injection
violates the ban on “cruel an unusual...
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