Month: October 2011

Four malnourished mentally disabled adults were found chained to a boiler in a locked basement room that was too small for an adult to stand up straight, police in Philadelphia say. Three people were arrested. […] […]

Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, whose political career was destroyed this year by two attempted rape claims, has hit out after reports linked his name to an illegal prostitution ring. The 62-year-old Socialist politician told […] […]

A NEW York City McDonald’s cashier savagely beat two women customers with a metal rod after they jumped the counter – a disturbing bashing caught on camera and posted to YouTube. “Stop it! Stop! Stop! […] […]

KENYAN troops and tanks have crossed the border into war-torn Somalia to attack Islamist al-Shabab rebels accused of kidnapping foreigners, who in turn have warned Kenya its soldiers face the “pain of bullets”. “We have […] […]

Illicit prescription drugs that can cause severe side effects if taken in the wrong dose are being sold to children on the streets of a major British city for 50 pence. Mano 10, a type […] […]

The attorney for the suspect in the Seal Beach, California, hair salon massacre has told a judge his client needs anti-psychotic medications and is not getting them in jail. Defendant Scott Dekraai made his first […] […]

PROSECUTORS say they’ll seek the death penalty for the man they call a “methodical and merciless killer” who stormed through a California beauty salon and killed eight people. Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said […] […]

IT has been the favourite establishment retreat for British judges, writers and actors for nearly 180 years – an escape from the “monstrous regiment of women”. But now that women have reached the senior ranks […] […]

BRITISH Defence Secretary Liam Fox resigned yesterday amid a spiralling scandal over his links to the best man at his wedding, becoming the first Conservative minister to quit the coalition government. Fox, who played a […] […]

POLICE say masked gunmen have opened fire on four luxury 4WDs as they left the parking lot of an airport in northern Honduras, killing six men and wounding another three. Police commissioner Julian Hernandez said […] […]