Ex-Shrews star arrested after trouble at city bar
Nottingham, 03 oct 2009: Former Shrewsbury Town star Luke Rodgers has been arrested in connection with a violent incident in a bar.
The striker now plays for the club’s League Two rivals Notts County.
He was arrested in Nottingham following an incident at the Tantra bar in the city’s Victoria Street in the early hours of Wednesday.
Israel releases Palestinian women
Tel Aviv, 03 oct 2009: Nineteen female Palestinian detainees have been released from an Israeli prison in return for a videotape of a soldier captured by Gaza fighters in June 2006.
A 20th female prisoner will be released, probably next week, the office of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from the occupied West Bank, said those freed on Friday were handed over to the Red Cross after their release from the Hasharon prison.
Hopes fade for trapped Indonesians
Jakartha, 03 oct 2009: Rescuers are continuing to dig through rubbles of collapsed buildings on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, several days after a deadly earthquake struck the region, but officials say hopes of finding survivors alive were rapidly diminishing.
Up to 4,000 people are believed to be trapped under the rubble following Wednesday’s earthquake, the United Nations estimates.
Man arrested, charged in pair of sexual assaults
Police have arrested a man suspected of a pair of sexual assaults within 12 hours of each other on Monday.
John Ambrose Seward, 21, was arrested late Wednesday morning in Roger Creek Park, the scene of the first assault.
Calif. authorities: 1981 triple murder was hit job
Los Angeles, 02 Ot 2009: California authorities believe an unsolved 1981 triple murder at the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians was a hit job orchestrated by a tribal casino director, financial adviser and others to cover up illegal activity, and state officials are seeking to have the main suspect extradited to California.
James “Jimmy” Hughes, the founder of a Miami-based Christian ministry, was arrested Saturday at Miami-Dade International Airport on a fugitive warrant and was being held in Miami, where he is fighting extradition to California.
Hills Star Jason Wahler Arrested – Again
He’s done it again. Onetime Hills star Jason Wahler is stewing in a Yakima County, Wash., jail after being nabbed in Seattle on assault and a related drinking charge on Sept. 25, RadarOnline reports.
Familiar words for those who remember his 30-day sentence for getting in a drunken brawl in 2007 in a Seattle hotel – or that incident in 2006, when he was sentenced to two months in jail for battery after punching a tow-truck driver and city employee while shouting ethnic slurs and boasting a blood-alcohol level of .22 percent.
Former French star Tauziat pursues defamation case
Paris, 02 Oct 2009: Former Wimbledon finalist Nathalie Tauziat indicated Thursday she will pursue a claim for defamation against the media and three former players, saying she has been falsely accused of keeping quiet over allegations of rape which led to the arrest of her former coach.
Tauziat’s former coach Regis de Camaret was arrested in 2007 after several players, including Isabelle Demongeot, accused him of sexually assaulting minors between 1977 and 1989, when he ran an academy at Saint Tropez.
Tens of thousands in Philippines flee new typhoon
Manila, 02 Oct 2009: Tens of thousands of villagers fled the likely path of a powerful typhoon bearing down Friday on the Philippines, as the government braced for the possibility of a second disaster just days after a storm killed more than 400.
Heavy rain drenched mountainous coastal regions in the northeast as Typhoon Parma tracked ominously toward heavily populated areas still saturated from the worst flooding in 40 years.
Desperate search for Sumatra victims
Jakartha, 02 Oct 2009: The number of people killed in the Sumatra earthquake has continued to climb, as rescue efforts gather pace in and around the devastated city of Padang.
According to the United Nations, latest figures suggest more than 1,000 people have died, although the Indonesian government’s own death toll is lower, at 777 confirmed killed and 440 seriously wounded.