Month: September 2011

The Nazi war criminal who invented the mobile gas chamber and used it to murder thousands of Jews was recruited by West German intelligence after World War II and tried unsuccessfully to spy on Cuba’s […] […]

A Coronation Street storyline depicting the rape of character Carla Connor has led to an 800 per cent increase in calls to Britain’s major rape crisis centre. The flagship centre for Rape Crisis in south […] […]

Jurors at the trial of the doctor accused of killing Michael Jackson heard the pop star’s slurred words while he was on a powerful anesthetic, caught on tape weeks before his death. They also saw […] […]

FOR the 26 months that US man Josh Fattal was held captive in Iran, his mother and brother were ever-present voices calling for his release. But his father, Jacob Fattal, never said a word. It’s […] […]

A 1970s militant who escaped from a murder sentence in New Jersey and carried out one of the most brazen hijackings in US history has been captured in Portugal after more than 40 years as […] […]

A FRUIT vendor in northern China murdered his wife and eight others in a jealous rage because he feared she was cheating on him. Qin Changcheng, 32, has been arrested and confessed to killing his […] […]

BROKEN beams and mounds of clay lay in heaps where a four-story residential building collapsed in the Indian capital, killing at least seven people and highlighting the dangers of housing for the poor. Residents said […] […]

A STATION wagon packed with civilians struck a roadside bomb in western Afghanistan, killing 16, 11 of them children, officials said. The vehicle was travelling in Herat province’s Shindand district when it hit the bomb, […] […]

PROSECUTORS have told jurors that Michael Jackson was killed by the actions of his personal physician, who used a dangerous anesthetic without adequate safeguards and botched recovery efforts when he found the singer unconscious. Defence […] […]

A SAUDI woman has been sentenced to 10 lashes for defying a ban on women driving in the conservative kingdom, an activist says, while another woman has been arrested in the capital. Sheima Jastaniah was […] […]