Month: November 2010

THE death toll from a Shanghai apartment block fire has risen to 53, as China’s top police official vowed to punish anyone found responsible for the disaster. The blaze raged for several hours yesterday, causing […] […]

WASHINGTON—An exploding star spotted 30 years ago in a nearby galaxy appears to be a newborn black hole, astronomers reported Monday. X-ray observations suggest the supernova, called SN 1979C, is a black hole in the […] […]

Paul and Rachel Chandler – the British couple held hostage by Somali pirates for 388 days – have been given the news that Paul Chandler’s father died while the pair was in captivity. The Chandlers […] […]

A Swedish woman on honeymoon with her British husband has been killed in Cape Town after being abducted by armed men, police in South Africa have said. Two hijackers ambushed the taxi she and her […] […]

A driver who’s serving a manslaughter sentence for striking and killing a 14-year-old boy is suing the victim’s parents, blaming them for their son’s death because they allowed him to ride his bike in the […] […]

A FILIPINA maid and her Bangladeshi lover will receive 100 lashes and be deported for having sex out of wedlock in Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, a newspaper said today. The Sharjah Sharia Court […] […]

NEW YORK, N.Y.—Deliberations at the first civilian trial of a Guantanamo detainee hit a snag on Monday when a juror told the judge she felt threatened by other jurors and asked him to be removed […] […]

BARRIE—It took a long time to get there. But now time is all she’s got. A lifetime in prison — with no parole eligibility for 25 years. On their seventh day of deliberation, after making […] […]

Just days after saying “I do” in a beach ceremony in Mexico, 33-year-old Malcolm Johnson left his new bride and one-year-old daughter to get a coffee in the lounge of the Grand Riviera Princess hotel. […] […]