…door and, with her hands still tied, got to the railway line before running to a nearby farm to raise the alarm. After William Jameson was arrested police searched his home and found he had more than 1,500 sickening films and pictures of violent sexual child abuse on his computer. William Jameson, of Finchampstead, Berkshire, pleaded guilty to rape, false imprisonment and ten counts of making ind…
Nov 1 2011 | Posted in
Europe News |
Read More » 
Andre Curry, a young father from Chicago, is now the subject of a police probe after a shocking photo of his daughter with her hands and feet bound was posted on Facebook. Andre Curry, 21, has generated intense internet backlash after he posted the photo in July. Last week, the shocking photo appeared on websites like TheDirty.com and The Smoking Gun. In the image, the tape holds the girl’s…
Dec 20 2011 | Posted in
U.S. News |
Read More » 
Israel has intercepted Estelle boat belonging to pro-Palestinian activists trying to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip. The Finnish-flagged Estelle left Naples on 7 October with some 20 people of eight different nationalities aboard. Israel imposed the blockade after the Islamist group Hamas seized control of the coastal sliver in 2007. An IDF spokesperson confirmed the navy had boarded the sh…
Abraxane plus gemcitabine achieved a median overall survival of 12.2 months in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, study reports. Patients with high-SPARC biomarker achieved significantly higher overall survival. Celgene International Sàrl announced on October 6 that results from a clinical study of Abraxane (paclitaxel albumin-bound particles for injectable suspension) in combinatio…
…a drone strike in Yemen on Sunday that killed AQAP leader Fahd al-Quso, the New York Times reported. Fahd al-Quso was wanted in connection with the bombing of the American destroyer USS Cole in Yemen 12 years ago. The US was offering a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture or death. US officials told ABC News that Fahd al-Quso had been planning an attack similar to the failed 2…
…dway,” said Jesse A. Myerson, a media coordinator for Occupy Wall Street who marched but was not arrested. A video on the YouTube page of a group called We Are Change shows some of the arrests. Around 1 a.m., the first of the protesters held at the Midtown North Precinct on West 54th Street were released. They were met with cheers from about a half-dozen supporters who said they had been waiting a…
Ford India has apologized for an advertisement showing former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in the boot of a car. The advert, showing three women bound and gagged in the boot of a Ford Figo, appeared on a website. Silvio Berlusconi was shown in the driver’s seat with a slogan: “Leave your worries behind with Figo’s extra-large boot.” The advert h…
Mar 25 2013 | Posted in
Asia News |
Read More » 
JWT India has decided to sack employees over a series of controversial Ford Figo advertisements, including one showing former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with a group of bound women in a car boot. The adverts were never commercially used but appeared on a website. JWT, a unit of the world’s biggest advertising group WPP, said the posters were “distasteful and contrary to standards…
Mar 27 2013 | Posted in
Business |
Read More » 
Gregg Blanchard, who was once house-bound due to his crippling 804 lbs weight, has lost 330 lbs in a single year. Gregg Blanchard, from Manchester, New Hampshire, was so morbidly obese, he could not move without crutches, or even take a shower, completely dependant on the help of wife Ann. Now, though, he has lost almost half of his former body weight, thanks to a new diet and exercise regime. Gr…
Oct 27 2012 | Posted in
Health |
Read More » 
George Washington’s personal copy of the US constitution has sold for almost $10 million, Christie’s auction house says. The book, with the first US president’s own annotations, was printed in 1789 – his first year in office. It had an estimated price of $2 million to $3 million but bidding boosted the price of the 223-year-old book. Historians say George Washington’…
…provides the first direct evidence of how alcohol makes people feel good.” The researchers used PET imaging (positron emission tomography) to observe the immediate effects of alcohol in the brains of 13 heavy drinkers and 12 matched “control” subjects who were not heavy drinkers. Scientists have discovered that drinking alcohol releases feel-good chemicals in an area of the human brain often ref…
…but the claim has not been independently verified. Meanwhile, Human Rights Watch has accused the government of President bashar al-Assad of dropping cluster bombs – which are banned by more than 100 countries – into populated areas. The group said there was a number of credible reports that the number of cluster bomb strikes had increased dramatically in recent days. Syria refuses to j…
The UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, has had talks in Turkey amid rising tensions between Ankara and Damascus. Lakhdar Brahimi met Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to hear Turkey’s perspective on the crisis. Several days of cross-border firing followed the killing of five Turkish civilians by Syrian shelling last week. Earlier this week, Turkey intercepted a Syria-bound plan…
Los Angeles residents have been turning out to watch the US space shuttle Endeavour as it inches through the city on a giant trolley, bound for a museum. The spacecraft that once reached 17,000 mph (28,160km/h) is trundling down the city’s famously low-level boulevards at a stately 2 mph. “It’s pretty neat to see a spaceship in the street,” a spectator told local TV. Endea…
Former London gangster Charlie Richardson has died at the age of 78. With his brother Eddie, Charlie Richardson led a criminal gang to rival the Kray twins and during the 1960s there were violent clashes between them. In 1967, Charlie Richardson was jailed for 25 years for fraud, extortion and assault, after a case known as the “Torture Trial”. Jurors heard how the gang would nail the…
Sep 20 2012 | Posted in
Europe News |
Read More » 
A jab that allows damaged hearts to heal themselves and could be given by paramedics in the back of ambulances is being developed at a British university. Scientists at Imperial College London hope that giving heart attack victims an injection of stem cells will trick the organ into repairing itself, saving lives and greatly cutting the odds of further ill health. Crucially, and unlike other tech…
Sep 24 2012 | Posted in
Health |
Read More » 
All Syrian planes have been banned from Turkish air space, Turkey’s foreign ministry has announced. The ban follows similar restrictions imposed by Syria, after a Syrian plane alleged to be carrying Russian munitions was intercepted by Turkey. Turkey’s ban came in on Saturday night and was communicated to Syria, but was only made public on Sunday. It applies to civilian aircraft, as militar…
porter as saying that black smoke was coming out of the tunnel and there appeared to be a fire inside. Pictures from closed circuit TV cameras inside the tunnel showed a section of the tunnel of up to 100 m (328 ft) that had caved in on the Tokyo-bound lanes on the Chuo Expressway in Yamanashi prefecture. Sasago tunnel has collapsed in Japan, trapping a number of vehicles and leaving seven people…
Belgian researchers have spotted a never-before-seen chemical effect in Vincent Van Gogh’s Flowers In A Blue Vase that is dulling the work’s vibrant yellows. It seems a layer of varnish added later to protect the work is in fact turning the yellow to a greyish-orange color. High-intensity X-ray studies described in Analytical Chemistry found compounds called oxalates were responsible….
Sep 16 2012 | Posted in
Arts & Culture |
Read More » 
The remains of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat have been exhumed to investigate allegations he was poisoned. The bodies of many well-known people have been dug up in the course of history, for myriad reasons. Here is a selection. 1. Oliver Cromwell The English soldier and statesman died in 1658, was embalmed, had a state funeral and was then buried in Westminster Abbey. After the Restoration, he…
Nov 27 2012 | Posted in
Education |
Read More » 
…p After her ordeal Maria Santos Gorrostieta remarried and ran for a seat in Mexico’s Congress of the Union, but failed to gain the backing she needed. Her family reported her missing on November 14 and her body was found three days later. A murder hunt has been launched and police are still searching for her missing husband. Mexico has been torn apart by murderous drug gangs since President…
Nov 26 2012 | Posted in
Americas News |
Read More » 
…f you can ignore the fact that you are miles from any ocean – or the tropics, for that matter. The gigantic hangar was built to produce transport zeppelins but after the company went bankrupt in 1992 the hangar fell into disuse. A Malaysian company saw the potential in the hangar, which is the world’s largest freestanding building, and Tropical Islands Resort opened in 2004. The Tropical Is…
Nov 23 2012 | Posted in
Travel |
Read More » 
Chanel Hula Hoop bag was the most talked-about item on the fashion house spring/summer 2013 catwalk creating a huge social media buzz when it was unveiled at the Grand Palais at Paris Fashion Week in October. Baffled fashion critics declared it completely ridiculous and unusable but Chanel supremo Karl Lagerfeld wasn’t fazed: “It’s for the beach!” he said, hoping to explain away its b…
Nov 16 2012 | Posted in
Fashion & Style |
Read More » 
…ralyzed from the neck down after suffering a stroke in 2005 and described his life as a "living nightmare" Tony Nicklinson’s family solicitor Saimo Chahal said he died at home at about 10:00 BST accompanied by his wife, Jane, and two daughters, Lauren and Beth. Saimo Chahal said: “Jane told me that Tony went rapidly downhill over last weekend, having contracted pneumonia.R…
Aug 22 2012 | Posted in
Europe News,
Health |
Read More » 
…hem. Il Giornale has repeatedly accused current Italian technocrat prime minister Mario Monti, of not doing enough to stand up to Germany, comparing him to Neville Chamberlain who famously declared in 1938 he had “secured peace in our time” after holding talks with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler only for war to break out the following year. In an interview with Germany weekly news magazine Der Spiegel…
Aug 6 2012 | Posted in
Europe News |
Read More » 
