Two men tried to behead a British soldier in a
"barbarous" killing on a London street, hacking at his body
"like a butcher attacking a joint of meat" after running him over, a
court was told on Friday.
A
mother jailed for 17 years for killing her six children in a house fire has
today lost a second bid to challenge the length of her sentence. |
| Amb Brewster Left with his "husband" |
Police in Dresden say they have
arrested a 55-year-old police officer on suspicion of murder after the body of
another man was found in the Erz Mountains in eastern Germany.
TOKYO/SEOUL (Reuters) -
Japanese and South Korean military aircraft flew through disputed air space
over the East China Sea without informing China, officials said on Thursday,
challenging a new Chinese air defense zone that has increased regional tensions
and sparked concerns of an unintended clash.
A Northern Cape (South Africa) man accused of raping of a
6-week-old baby in Galeshewe will appear in the Kimberley Magistrate's Court on
Thursday, police said.
A schoolgirl whose body was found in
woodland was so badly bullied because of her red hair it allegedly contributed
to her death.
A court in
Egypt has sentenced 21 female supporters of ousted President Mohammed Morsi to
11 years in prison.
Mali's ex-coup
leader has been charged with "murders and assassinations", the
justice ministry has said.
Premier League giants Manchester United experienced a scare
during their flight to Germany for their Champions League match against Bayer Leverkusen, this according to
several reports on Tuesday night.
Two British citizens have reportedly been arrested in by
anti-terror police in Kenya.
The veteran police chief who headed the investigation into Ian
Watkins's trail of sex abuse appealed today for other victims to come forward.
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Ryan Smith had
been in a coma for four months since the bike accident
Harare - A Zimbabwe
court on Tuesday dropped charges against a leading human rights lawyer who had
faced trial for obstructing police, after state prosecutors failed to present
evidence to support their case.
STOCKHOLM
(Reuters) - Sweden is investigating the disappearance of two Swedish
journalists who are missing in Syria, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday.
An Indian couple have been
convicted of murdering their daughter Aarushi Talwar and their Nepalese
servant, Hemraj.
A US man who shot and killed the doctor who
helped delivered him may have been motivated by anger over his birth defect.
IN his first interview since being released
from prison, Dr. Conrad Murray has said he and Michael Jackson were so close he
"held his penis every night."
Cheering crowds have welcomed home the Iranian negotiators
who secured a nuclear deal with world powers, while Israel called it a
"historic mistake".
Two people are dead and two
others missing, presumed dead, after an air ambulance crashed off the coast of
Florida.
A
Saudi court has sentenced a man to death and 19 others to prison terms of up to
25 years in connection with the 2004 armed assault on the U.S. Consulate in
Jiddah that killed five employees in an attack blamed on al-Qaida.
David Amaya Barrick was still a toddler when his Dad took him from his
birthplace in Chicago across the border to Mexico . And now, more than 30
years since they last saw each other, Barrick and his mother have
been brought back together in an emotional reunion .
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Fierce
fighting to the east of Damascus has killed more than 160 people in the past
two days as Syrian rebels struggle to break a months-long blockade by forces loyal
to President Bashar al-Assad, activists said on Sunday.
Despite humiliation, solitary confinement and having a gun held to his head during the U.S. Embassy crisis in Iran three decades ago, former hostage Bruce Laingen still favors diplomacy with Tehran.
Standing
in front of his congregation at a small Pentecostal church in Kentucky, Pastor
Jamie Coots held the long, sleek body of a poisonous snake, practicing what he
considers a holy Christian sacrament, but what others are calling a threat to
public safety.
Johannesburg - The husband of a woman who was found in bed with a
16-year-old boy, who later fell to his death from the sixth floor of a Hillbrow
building, has been released, Gauteng police said on Friday.
Ghana's
Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) has seized 400 kg of substance suspected to be
cocaine on a fishing vessel in the western waters of the country.
South Africa's state ombudsman on Wednesday hit out at an
"unprecedented" bid to stop the release of a probe into a
controversial upgrade to President Jacob Zuma's private home.
A 34-year old Kenyan woman was pronounced
dead on arrival at a Houston hospital Tuesday evening after being found in
critical condition in her apartment.
Thirty-nine government soldiers
accused of war crimes have gone on trial in eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo.
A court in Tanzania has
dismissed an appeal by popular singer Nguza Viking, known as Babu Seya, and his
son, sentenced to life in prison for rape.
A behemoth Boeing air freighter bound for
McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., landed Wednesday night at a nearby
smaller commercial airport by mistake, and officials scrambled to come up with
a plan to get it back in the air.
A judge in Senegal says there is insufficient evidence to convict four women accused of violating the country's law banning homosexual acts.
A man was arrested following the death of a teenager in Hillbrow,
Gauteng police said on Wednesday.
Ghana on Tuesday backed down on a proposed tax on imported condoms
after mooting increased levies on foreign-made goods as a way of cutting
government debt.
