Fourth typhoon leaves 14 dead in Philippines
Manila, 01 Nov 2009: A tropical storm roared towards Vietnam on Sunday after battering the Philippine capital and surrounding provinces, …
Eleven killed in Russian plane crash
Karachi, 01 Nov 2009: Eleven people on board a Russian interior ministry transport plane were killed on Sunday when it …
Six Canadian bikers guilty of murder
Ontario, 30 Oct.2009: Six Canadian members of the Bandidos motorcycle gang were found guilty of 44 counts of first degree murder and four counts of manslaughter in Ontario.
The seven-month trial ended Thursday in London, Ontario, after the jury deliberated for 14 hours, the London Free Press reported.
Saskatoon loses title as Canada’s murder capital
Saskatoon lost its dubious claim to the title of murder capital of Canada last year.
According to an annual report released this week by Statistics Canada, the city recorded four homicides in 2008, resulting in a per-capita rate of 1.55 for every 100,000 residents — lower than the overall national rate of 1.83, and less than half the 2007 rate of 3.6.
Jailed Wigan striker Marlon King will appeal against sexual assault conviction, claims agent
London, 30 October 2009: Marlon King is reportedly preparing
to appeal against his conviction and 18-month prison sentence
for sexual assault and actual bodily harm.
The Wigan striker was found guilty and jailed on Thursday
over an incident which took place in a London nightclub in
December while he was on loan at Hull.
Clean chit to 2 Air India pilots accused of sexual harassment
New Delhi, 30 October 2009: An Air India probe panel on Friday gave a clean chit to two pilots who were charged with sexual harassment by an airhostess in the wake of a mid-air scuffle between them during a flight from Sharjah earlier this month.
Gore Vidal calls Polanski’s sex victim a young hooker
London, 30 October 2009: Noted writer Gore Vidal has come under fire for calling Roman Polanski’s teenaged unlawful sex victim a ‘young hooker’.
Polanski is currently battling his extradition to the US after Swiss authorities in Zurich arrested him last month.
Accused Sex-for-Tickets Wife Cries Foul
Charged with Promoting Prostitution in Try for World Series Ducats, Susan Finkelstein Insists She Intended to Pay $$ for Them
Philadelphia, 30 October 2009: The Philadelphia woman charged with offering sex in exchange for tickets to the World Series contends police are swinging and missing.
Juveniles charged as adults in gang-rape case, more arrests likely
California, 29 October 2009: Police in Richmond, Calif., say as many as 10 young men may have assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the weekend gang-rape outside her school’s homecoming dance, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
Five people have already been arrested, including three juveniles charged as adults with rape.
Triple murder case solved; driver, two others arrested
Bangalore, 29 October 2009: The sensational triple murder case of a family here has been solved with the arrest of three persons including the driver of the victim and recovery of stolen valuables, police said today.