Month: January 2011

DETROIT – A Michigan prosecutor defended her decision yesterday to file charges against a man accused of hacking into his estranged wife’s email after suspecting she was having an affair, saying the case is about […] […]

RIO DE JANEIRO – A bridegroom fatally shot his new wife, his best man and then himself after announcing to horrified guests that he had a “surprise” for them, authorities said Monday. Witnesses reported that […] […]

TEXAS – Police have apprehended one of the two masked people who took hostages while trying to rob a suburban Houston bank, but the other remains inside with two hostages. Pearland Police Lt. Onesmio Lopez […] […]

Jamaica – A 24-year-old Nigerian student accused of raping a five-year-old girl was yesterday denied bail when he appeared in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court. The Nigerian, who is reportedly in the island attending […] […]

Tornadoes fuelled by unusually warm air pummelled the South and Midwest United States on Friday, killing at least six people and injuring dozens more. Forecasters said storms could hit along a stretch from near Chicago […] […]

BAGHDAD—The latest bloody attack on Iraq’s Christians was brutal in its simplicity. Militants left a bomb on the doorstep of the home of an elderly Christian couple and rang the doorbell. When Fawzi Rahim, 76, […] […]

KINGSTON, Jamaica—Health officials in Jamaica say a dead baby found just outside the island’s largest maternity hospital was not a patient there. The chairman for the South East Regional Health Authority is disputing a police […] […]

SEOUL, South Korea—North Korea on Saturday welcomed the new year with a push for better ties with rival South Korea, warning that war “will bring nothing but a nuclear holocaust.” Despite calls in its annual […] […]