Month: January 2011

A 20-year-old woman has been charged with the murder of her mother in the city’s third homicide of the year. The victim has been identified as 59-year-old Zaniffa Balkaran. Police confirmed Sunday that Annesair Balkaran, […] […]

HONG KONG—Hong Kong immigration officials have arrested eight people suspected of helping a Chinese passenger sneak into Canada disguised as an old man. Elly Au Yeung, an information officer for the Hong Kong Immigration Department, […] […]

NEW YORK, N.Y. —A celebrity Portuguese television journalist was found castrated and bludgeoned to death in a New York City hotel, and his companion, a male model who had recently been a contestant on a […] […]

AL-QAEDA-linked militants in war-torn southern Somalia have banned unrelated men and women from shaking hands, speaking or walking together in public, residents say. People who break the rules could be imprisoned, whipped or even executed. […] […]

TUCSON, Arizona – Law enforcement officials believe US congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was the intended target of an armed attack in Arizona early today. “I don’t have information about whether she was the first person shot, […] […]

XI’AN, China—The leaf-strewn median on Eternal Peace Road hides a grim secret: Numerous tiny fetuses lie in unmarked graves dug by women from the abortion clinic across the street. The staff at the small clinic […] […]

ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT—China is farther along in its development of a new stealth fighter jet than the U.S. had predicted, and that plane and other Chinese military advances are worrisome, U.S. Defense Secretary […] […]

ACAPULCO, Mexico—The bodies of 15 men, all but one of them headless, were found on a street outside a shopping center in Acapulco on Saturday as police reported 27 people slain in the Pacific resort […] […]