Japan pop star Sakai indicted on drug charges
TOKYO : Japanese pop star Noriko Sakai was indicted Friday on drug charges in a scandal that has shattered the singer-actor’s wholesome image, local media reported.
Sakai, 38, was charged with keeping a small amount of amphetamines at her apartment in Tokyo, Kyodo News and Jiji Press news agencies reported, quoting prosecutors.
Sakai was arrested on August 8, a week after her husband, pro-surfer Yuichi Takaso, 41, was arrested, with a bag of methamphetamines in Tokyo’s Shibuya entertainment district.
Kidnap suspect allegedly hoped to start his own ministry
New York, August 25: The convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and keeping her locked up in an elaborate hidden prison in his backyard in California for 18 years was convinced he could communicate telepathically and wanted to set up his own ministry of God, it has emerged following the victim’s dramatic release this week.
The extent of Phillip Garrido’s messianic beliefs emerged as his kidnap victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, was being reunited in a motel with her mother Terry Probyn. She had not been seen since she was snatched on her way to school on 10 June 1991.
Video shows style of extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka
A video clip received from Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) evidences the way extra-judicial killings are executed in the island. The video captured in January show the behaviour of Sri Lanka’s soldiers during the war that is claimed ‘humanitarian operation’ to rescue the Tamils, JDS reported Tuesday. The conversations of the killers are in Sinhala.
“From the casual nature of the conversations and from the fact that it is taking place in an open area in broad daylight – it can be surmised that these are not ordinary acts by rogue elements carried out without the permission from the top leadership.
South African bishop held for raping daughters
Johannesburg, Aug 28: A bishop was arrested Thursday for raping his three daughters aged nine, 17 and 18 at their home in the Vaal Triangle region of South Africa, police said.
‘It is alleged that he has been raping his children since 2006 and threatened to kill them if they reported him,’ a police spokesman told the South African news agency SAPA.
Enemy in Pakistan is far from defeated, says US
Washington, Aug.28: The Pakistan Army may have been claiming that it has forced the Taliban and other extremist groups to retreat in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), but the United States believes that the enemy in Pakistan is far from defeated.
Speaking at the 91st Annual American Legion Convention, ouisville, Kentucky, US Central Command chief General David Petraeus noted that the military operation in the Swat and Malakand Divisions has forced the extremists to move back, but highlighted they are not rooted out from the region.
Nude model busted at Met wishes prudish New Yorkers accept some bare skin
New York, August 28: A nude model, who was arrested on charges of public lewdness at the Met on Wednesday, has said that she wants New Yorkers to stop being so prudish, and start accepting some bare skin.
“I want people to have the freedom to express themselves. I want the city to drop the charges,” the New York Post quoted Kathleen Neill, 26, as saying.
Indian Australian woman killed her husband by setting his penis on fire
Adelaide , Aug.28: A jealous Indian Australian wife has been charged with killing her husband by setting his penis on fire.
She is expected to answer her murder charge in October.
Rajini Narayan appeared briefly in the Adelaide Magistrates Court today, charged with the murder of her husband.
Online female daters dumping casual sex for traditional marriage partners
London, Aug 28 : Girls dating online seem to prefer a long lasting relationship to one-night stands, a new survey has found.
Over a period of one year the percentage of women looking for “a night of passion” has apparently made a drastic decrease to just five percent from thirty.
Honoring winners
In this April 30, 1962 file photo, President John F. Kennedy, sitting with wife Jacqueline, look on as poet Robert Frost right and Mrs. Richard J. Walsh (Pearl Buck) exchange greetings in the East Room of the White House in Washington. The first family and their guests are gathered in the East Room to hear a dramatic reading by actor Fredric March after a dinner honoring winners of the Nobel Prize.
Long shadow of 1929 Hebron massacre
Wednesday, 26 August: Eighty years ago, violent Arab riots against Jewish immigration gripped British-ruled Palestine. The worst violence occurred in the city of Hebron where, on the 23 and 24 August, 67 Jews were murdered. Dina Newman reports on how memories of the bloody events of 1929 still linger in Hebron today.
A small museum in the Old City of Hebron, established by the Jewish settler historian Noam Arnon, displays evidence of the massacre eight decades ago – a photograph of a girl struck over the head with a sword with her brain spilling out; a woman with bandaged hands; people with their eyes gouged out.