69 killings in 24 hrs: Mexico’s deadliest day in drug war
Mexico City: Mexico opened the new year with what could be its most dubious distinction yet in the 3-year-old battle against drug trafficking — 69 murders in one day.
The country resembled a grim, statistical dart board on Saturday as law enforcement and media reported the deaths from various regions, including 26 in Ciudad Juarez, 13 in and around Mexico City and 10 in the city of Chihuahua.
Israel, U.S. behind killing of nuclear scientist: Iran
Tehran: Iran’s state-run media has accused Israel and the United States of masterminding the assassination of its nuclear scientist with a remote controlled device attached to explosives planted on a stationary motorcycle.
Iran’s state-run Press TV reported that Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, who lectured on neuron physics at Tehran University, was killed in a booby-trapped motorbike blast on Tuesday.
China tests missile interception technology
Beiging: China on Tuesday said it had successfully tested a surface-to-air missile system designed to intercept other missiles.
The test on Monday of a “ground-based, mid-course missile interception technology” had “achieved the expected objective,” the official Xinhua news agency said.
‘Avatar’ has a racist message?
Philadelphia: Near the end of the film Avatar, the villain snarls at the hero, “How does it feel to betray your own race?” Both men are white — although the hero is portrayed as a blue-skinned, 9-foot tall, long-tailed alien.
Tobin murder police reopen unsolved cases
London: Detectives investigating the life of serial killer Peter Tobin said they would continue to examine dozens of other unsolved cases after his conviction yesterday for the murder of a teenage hitchhiker.
It took a jury just 15 minutes to find the 63-year-old handyman guilty of drugging and then strangling A-level student Dinah McNicol after she accepted a lift in his car on her way home from a music festival in 1991.
Droitwich gynaecologist denies sexual assault of patient
London: A Worcestershire gynaecologist, who is being sued by a female patient over an alleged sexual assault during an examination, …
Reggae star Buju Banton to fight drug charge
Sarasota: Grammy nominated Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton will fight a drug charge against him in Tampa instead of Miami.
Banton waived his bail hearing Wednesday in Miami federal court. His case is being prosecuted in Tampa, where he will be transferred.
US terror suspect Headley not our agent: CIA
Washigton: America’s Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Thursday strongly refuted reports that Pakistani-origin US national David Coleman Headley, charged for criminal conspiracy in the 26/11 terror attacks, was its agent at any point of time.
“I can’t comment on an ongoing investigation, but any suggestion that this individual worked for the CIA is flat wrong,” CIA spokesperson Marie E Harf said when specifically asked about Headley and his links with CIA.
U.S. to follow appeal in Knox murder case: Clinton
Washington, 08 Dec 2009: The United States will provide consular support for U.S. exchange student as she appeals her …
Senior teacher, 68, accused of sex assault on young woman
Toronto, 08 Dec 2009: A Toronto man who teaches French at a private Jewish high school has been charged with …