Sri Lanka silencing voices

Sri Lanka: Avoid a Postwar Witch Hunt- Human Rights Watch Enforced disappearances and killings of people suspected of being LTTE supporters also occurred in association with the government's taking of...

Paul Baldwin arrested in Portsmouth for the 153rd time

Paul Baldwin from Portsmouth is setting a new record for the number of times arrested; he has now been taken into police custody for the 153rd time in his police 'career'. He punched a man in the face this time, but since 1984 he has been arrested 153 times, and he was only...

Canadian Student Foils Attack of U.K. School

Montreal's Concordia University student J.P. Neufeld was browsing the forum of technology website newgrounds.com on Tuesday when he came across the first of a string of alarming threads, along with a picture of a gas...

Octuplets' Mom Turns Down Offer of Home & Nursing Care

LOS ANGELES - Attorney Gloria Allred was on CBS' The Early Show this morning and said that Nadya Suleman has turned down the offer presented to her last week by Angels in Waiting for around the clock pediatric care...

Toronto: Mom loses Custody for Alienating Kids from their Dad

Toronto - In a rare and perhaps significant family law decision, a Toronto judge has stripped a mother of custody of her three children after the woman spent more than a decade trying to alienate them from their...

More on the Renee Pernice case- Missing | Kansas City MO

"Thursday, January 08, 2009 More on the Renee Pernice case From Glenn Rice: "Horse-mounted police this morning searched a wooded area in northeast Kansas City as part of their ongoing investigation of a missing 35-year-old Northland mother of three. No one has seen...

Charred Human Remains Found On Bronx Roof

" Charred Human Remains Found On Bronx Roof  Burned Victim Found Without Arms And Legs Jan 8, 2009 There was a shocking find in the Bronx late Wednesday night. The...

New Orleans: Ja'Shawn's Grieving Mom Shares Memories, Regrets

"He loved to watch "The Doodlebops" and football on television. When his mother cleaned, he would follow her, trying to help with the brooms and the dustpan.  Often, Ja'Shawn - a smiling, happy child - would...

Father Admits to Killing Son over Child Support

New Orleans - The father of a missing New Orleans boy led investigators to his son's body Saturday and admitted killing the boy to avoid paying child support, police said.  Danny Platt, 22, has been charged...

Trading Spaces Doug Wilson DUI Arrest

Designer Doug Wilson of TLC's Trading Spaces was arrested this morning on a DUI charge. " ‘Trading Spaces’ designer and ‘Moving Up’ host Doug Wilson was arrested early morning on December 31, 2008. After failing to yield to an emergency vehicle, Doug was pulled over...

Woman charged with murder of 81-year-old

"A woman has been charged with the murder of an 81-year-old woman at her home in the Northlast week.Maire Rankin was discovered by a relative on Christmas Day at the property on the Dublin Road, Newry. She suffered multiple injuries.A 42-year-old woman is expected to appear...

Certain Aspects Of Sharia Law To Be Legalised By Man

The greatest gift it is possible to give is to forgive one that has wronged you. So it says in the Quran, in the same chapter that deals with the law and punishment for crimes such as adultery. It is legal to get divorced in Islam, for all the terrible...

Torture Rife in Equatorial Guinea, UN Confirms

This is a small country, one many have never heard of, but torture as government must be opposedwhere ever it is found." The Equatoguinean opposition has all along maintained that the practise of torture remains...

Police Take Oakland Teenager In Custody After Threat

Oakland, CaliforniaOakland Police have taken into custody a teenage male .  Reports say after a search of the teens home seven loaded guns were found including a rifle and a shot gun."Police Take Oakland...

Armed men loot bank, escape with Rs4 mn

"Updated at: 1225 PST, Friday, November 14, 2008  KARACHI: Eight armed men looted Rs4 million from a commercial bank in Muaripur Road and fled with money after killing a policeman and a security guard on Friday, police officials said.They said eight armed...

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