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BBC NEWS – A London taxi driver jailed indefinitely for drugging and sexually assaulting female passengers in his black cab is launching an appeal against his sentence. John Worboys, 51, from Rotherhithe, London, was jailed […] […]

New Delhi police said they had today arrested the father and uncle of a girl found stabbed, gagged and electrocuted along with her boyfriend in an apparent gruesome case of “honour killing”. Asha Saini, 19, […] […]

PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN—An American armed with a pistol and a 40-inch sword was detained in northern Pakistan and told investigators he was on a solo mission to kill Osama bin Laden, a police officer said Tuesday. […] […]

A young Scottish woman has spoken of her relief to be reunited with her family after a 10-year ordeal as a hostage in Pakistan. Naheeda Bi, 28, was kidnapped by two men at Islamabad Airport […] […]

GARNETT Pellington, the businessman arrested in February’s gun and ammunition find at Munster Road in East Kingston, pleaded guilty to breaches of the Corruption Prevention Act when he appeared in Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court […] […]

BLOEMFONTEIN, South Africa — Keisuke Honda scored in the first half today to lead Japan to a 1-0 win over an uninspired Cameroon in Group E of the World Cup. The win is Japan’s first […] […]

Football experts and the public agree – the All Whites can come out of tonight’s match against Slovakia with a decent result. John Adshead, who coached the All Whites in their only other World Cup […] […]

A FORMER teacher at an exclusive Sydney boy’s school has been jailed for at least two years for sexually abusing young students more than two decades ago. In the NSW District Court today, Judge Colin […] […]

A 33-year-old single father of four has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years imprisonment for having sex with his 11-year-old daughter. The man, who cannot be named, committed the offences between December 2008 and June 2009, […] […]

THE FBI is investigating after four federal offices across the Pacific Northwest US received a suspicious white powder today. KOMO-TV in Seattle said the federal buildings included three in Washington State and one in neighbouring […] […]