Month: September 2010

FRENCH police arrested a British man they suspect of accidentally killing his wife, burning her body and burying it in cement at the chateau where the couple lived. “There was a drunken argument with his […] […]

GUATEMALA CITY—Searchers on Monday pulled more bodies from a mud-covered highway where back-to-back landslides buried bus passengers and people trying to save them. Yet more mudslides helped raise Guatemala’s official death toll to 44 after […] […]

KINSHASA, CONGO—Survivors who swam to safety after their overcrowded boat capsized over the weekend said nearby fishermen refused to help drowning passengers in the dark of night, instead looting the goods aboard the burning vessel […] […]

The timing couldn’t have been worse. Jennifer Wong had finished moving her belongings into her new College St. apartment around 9 p.m. Sunday. Two hours later, a fire started in the building’s basement, quickly growing […] […]

LAKKI MARWAT, PAKISTAN—A Taliban suicide bomber detonated a car in an alley behind a police station in a strategically important town in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 17 police and civilians in an […] […]

A RUSSIAN teenager is facing castration after being severely beaten by police in the Volga river town of Kstovo. The doctors now treating the 17-year-old, Nikitin Kaftasev, “are not sure whether they will be able […] […]

A British politician who campaigned with Prime Minister David Cameron during the last election cried after his wife was exposed as a £70-an-hour ($150-an-hour) prostitute, according to the Daily Mail newspaper. Carla, the 39-year-old wife […] […]