Month: August 2010

VANCOUVER—She survived being stabbed by Robert Pickton, the man who would become Canada’s most prolific serial killer, and told her story in court. But the jury that convicted Pickton on six counts of second-degree murder […] […]

Supermodel Naomi Campbell told the war crimes trial of Charles Taylor today that she was woken in the night and given a pouch containing “small, dirty looking stones” after a charity dinner. Giving evidence to […] […]

THE daughter of former tough-on-crime New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been arrested for allegedly stealing makeup from an upmarket shop near her Upper East Side home in Manhattan. Police said Caroline Giuliani, 20, […] […]

THE French government is bracing for an increase of so-called “grey crimes” as more senior citizens are swapping their gardening gloves and bridge hands for guns and knives. The French Centre for Strategic Analysis said […] […]

UNITED NATIONS – An accomplished former US prosecutor has filed a grievance accusing Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon of blocking his hiring to the UN’s top investigative post because of discrimination based on gender and nationality. The […] […]

THE children of the woman who was fatally stabbed by Ian ‘Ching Sing’ Lloyd, who was later killed by police under questionable circumstances, claim their mother’s death is being treated as if her life was […] […]