Month: June 2011

PETER Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in Columbo – one of the most iconic characters in police drama running over 30 years in primetime television – […] […]

HE was one of America’s most feared crime lords, a mob boss who had been on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list since 1999 and a man whose infiltration of America’s top crime-fighting agency would […] […]

GEERT Wilders, the outspoken Dutch MP who branded Islam a violent religion and called the Koran a fascist book, has been acquitted of all charges of hate speech and discrimination at a trial seen as […] […]

Supporters of Muammar Gaddafi rallied in Tripoli overnight after the Libyan leader lashed out at NATO over civilian casualties, calling the alliance “murderers” following an airstrike on the family home of a close associate. A […] […]

Two men have been arrested in a plot to attack a military recruiting station in the US city of Seattle with machine guns and grenades. Abu Khalid Abdul-Latif, also known as Joseph Anthony Davis, of […] […]

British police have charged a 19-year-old man with cybercrime offences, Scotland Yard said, following his arrest in connection with an international hacking group. Ryan Cleary will appear in court in central London on Thursday, local […] […]

SACRAMENTO police arrested a 29-year-old mother yesterday after an investigation found her baby had likely died from burns suffered inside a microwave oven. Ka Yang was being held without bail in Sacramento County Jail on […] […]

A THREE-year-old girl was brutally beaten and left to die by her mother’s boyfriend for refusing to eat her dinner, the New York Post reported today, citing authorities. The last hours of Enidalez Ortiz were […] […]